Rise & Grind: Tuesday, September 20th
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Rise & Grind, your go-to article for the recap of Monday’s fantasy goodness and what today brings in the world of DFS. A busy Monday chock-full with both Major League Baseball and National Football League game(s).
In case you were stuck in a family occasion or something else you couldn’t get out of and missed it all, here’s a review of the who, what, where, and when.
Monday’s Big Winners
While everyone was watching the end of the Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles game, animalparty was counting his money. He outscored the second place finisher oneisthelonliestnumber by 14.8 points without having a soul in the Monday night game, which honestly is pretty impressive. Congratulations animalparty on taking home the big $200,000 prize in the $2M NFL Sunday Million contest on FanDuel.
GrindersLive Schedule: NFL, MLB & PGA
If Monday wasn’t busy enough on GrindersLive, we have got a quite the lineup setup for today. Not only do you get your NFL fix, but we have MLB and PGA on the docket as well. All the experts are on board to help you cash big tonight, so tune in, for your wallet’s sake.
GrindersLive
| Sport | Time (ET) | Hosts |
|---|---|---|
| NFL | 2:00 | BritDevine / BobbyFi |
| MLB | 4:30 | BoggsLite / BritDevine |
| MLB | 5:30 | Dean78904 / Derek Carty / Zach Miner |
| MLB | 6:30 | Chris Culosi |
| PGA | 8:00 | Devopoker / Gibbathy / STLCardinals84 |
- Remember all of these shows can be watched on demand after the original air date by visiting the GrindersLive homepage.
Upcoming Contests
MLB might be winding down, but these contests sure aren’t. Get your last licks in with these ginormous GPPs available for tonight’s MLB slate.
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| $500K Tue MLB Super Monster ($100K to 1st) | $300 | $100,000 |
| $125K Tue MLB Squeeze ($12.5K to 1st) | $3 | $120,000 |
| $110K Tue MLB Grand Slam ($12K to 1st) | $25 | $110,000 |
| $20K Tue MLB Rally ($20K Guaranteed) | $5 | $20,000 |
| $70K Tue MLB Slugger ($20K to 1st) | $1065 | $70,000 |
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| 500k Power Hitter 100k to First | $444 | $500,000 |
| 250k Super Slurve 50k to First | $4 | $250,000 |
| 150k Payoff Pitch 20k to First | $300 | $35,000 |
| $45k Gold Glove 12k to First | $1065 | $45,000 |
| $35K Warning Track 3-max 7.5k to First | $150 | $35,000 |
Know Your Host – Q&A with THE Derek Carty
I got a chance to sit down with Derek Carty, the creator of THE BAT, a sophisticated MLB DFS projection system that is now available exclusively at RotoGrinders. Derek also writes for ESPN and right here on RotoGrinders.
Celia: So Derek, let’s get all the boring stuff out of the way first; how did you first get into daily fantasy sports?
Derek: I first started when I was a freshman in college playing season long baseball and was very into the statistical part of it, ya know the nerdy stuff. Then DFS came along and I was like wow this is really cool cuz you can analyze it in ways you can’t analyze season long. Umpires matter, weather matters and ballparks matter, on a single day these things are important. Then I started writing for FanDuel, and a couple other places and fell in love with it.
Celia: How long have you been playing daily fantasy sports and when did you get serious about it?
Derek: I started playing DFS in 2011, but started to get serious about it around 2013.
Celia: Alright, enough of the boring stuff, let’s get into the meat of things. I see you getting trolled in chat a lot, and you’re one of the few hosts who actually interact with the chat in a rather flamboyant way. What’s your favorite troll comment you ever got in chat?
Derek: So there’s different types of trolls, like there’s the personal comments that could be really entertaining like “Derek looks like Ellen Degeneres”. Then there’s just stupid ones, like they’ll harp on one bad pick i made throughout the entire year and that’s their only evidence of why we don’t trust Carty. Or I’d be like you have to pay for the ace on the slate and then after the games start everyone goes “haha, Carty said to pay up for pitcher” those trolls are annoying.
Celia: Okay, now we’re gonna move on to everyone’s favorite topic when it comes to Derek Carty; it’s your hair. So from the moment you wake up, what goes into it, do you use a comb, are there any products or special shampoos you use? Give me the scoop of what goes on with the hairdo.
Derek: I’m asked all the time whether or not I have a barber. I do not have a barber. I have a stylist, and she’s the only one I trust to touch my hair. If I ever had to move away it would be a problem. Shampoo and conditioner, conditioner is a must of course, you can’t have long hair without conditioner. I use some expensive salon brand I don’t remember the brand but it was a hundred dollars a bottle. I do not use a hair straightener, but before I go on GrindersLive I brush it and make sure the parts right then add some hairspray. On ESPN someone came in and did my hair for me, so that was way easier.
Celia: For the finale, is there anything that you can tell us that a lot of people don’t know about you?
Derek: So people know by now that I used to be into pro wrestling a little bit, that Bam Bam Bigelow was giving out headlocks like they were candy at one of my birthday parties, that he brought me backstage at an ECW show to meet all the guys, but they don’t know that when I was really young, I was downright obsessed with it (as many young boys are). But I was a nerdy young boy, and so I took it a step further. I wasn’t content to just have the action figures or the cheap foam championship belts or the Titan Tron Live with real light-up stage and video screen featuring Steve Austin’s entrance music. No, I needed to make a website about wrestling to proclaim to all the world that the nWo was 2 sweet and the Four Horsemen were just four lame guys in tights. And it got really popular. Like, showing-up-in-Ask-Jeeves-ahead-of-the-official-WWF-site popular.
It was the early days of the internet, and it got so big that as part of a pro wrestling segment they were doing, the Maury Povich show (which is basically just a bastardized Jerry Springer show, for those who haven’t heard of it) reached out to me to be a special guest. Of course, because this is the internet, they had no idea that on the other side of their email was a nine-year-old kid that still wore Ninja Turtle tightie whities.
Needless to say, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, because what nine-year-old kid who has the gumption to hand-code a website about pro wrestling doesn’t want to go on television to talk about it? Alas… ‘twas not to be. My parents wouldn’t let me go on because, well, what responsible parent allows their child to go on the Maury Povich show? I mean, what happens if Maury tries to pull the old switcheroo and tells me that I passed the paternity test and I am a proud new baby daddy to some crazy-eyed woman who is now wagging her finger in my face because “she told me so”? The guy’s wily like that. So I didn’t get to go Maury, but I was mildly internet famous while I still had a nose-picking habit and before being internet famous was a thing.
I’d like to thank Derek for taking time out of his busy schedule to answer some fan mail. Hope you guys now know something you didn’t know prior to stumbling upon this Q&A.
Monday Night Football Swag Contest Winner
This morning I asked how many DraftKings points Jordan Matthews will finish with at the end of Monday Night Football.
“JMatt”, as the kids like to call him, finished with six receptions totaling for 71 yards and 13.1 DraftKings points.
Our winner is neverhold, who guessed 13.4.
Congratulations to neverhold for being our first contest winner, for the rest of you keep your eyes peeled for more swag contests like this one in the upcoming days.
Is there something else you’d like to see in this column? Questions or comments? Leave them below and we’d be happy to consider them. See you tomorrow!