The Basketball Diaries March 13
Well another big Wednesday in the books and now it’s time for a 1 day break to refresh yourself. While you’re taking a break I put together some reading material on my Fanduel cash game lineup last night along with the roster of the guy who won the $100, 22 man double up. Really a low scoring night in general as 280 doesn’t normally cash, but did last night.
Top 10 Fanduel Fantasy Performers for Wednesday Night
| Player | $Salary | Fantasy Points |
|---|---|---|
| Blake Griffin | $9600 | 55.5 |
| Anthony Davis | $9900 | 53 |
| Carmelo Anthony | $10300 | 49.8 |
| Chris Paul | $9300 | 47.6 |
| Kyrie Irving | $8500 | 45.8 |
| Nikola Vucevic | $7500 | 45.7 |
| Henry Sims | $3800 | 43.5 |
| Rudy Gay | $7700 | 42.9 |
| Ty Lawson | $8900 | 39.6 |
| Al Jefferson | $9500 | 39.5 |
Top 10 scorers were a pretty stout, non-surprising list minus HENRY SIMS. I don’t know where that came from but I don’t think we see another game like that from Henry Sims in his career. That’s just my opinion but I’m fading him next game while others will be riding him.
Overlapping Players
J.R. Smith
Amir Johnson
DeMarcus Cousins
With the lack of flexibility on Fanduel, it made for 2 types of people on Wednesday- Those who rostered Demarcus Cousins, and those that threw caution to the wind and faded him. I couldn’t do it. Those that faded him for Vuc won tournaments. The other 80% of us just hoped our cash games actually cashed.
Truth be told, Reggie Evans was in Amir’s spot all day. Then when the news broke that Derrick Williams was starting I got Reggie out. Easy play would have been to plug in Derrick. But since this was a cash game, I had no desire to roster Williams. Did not believe in him at all. I was looking forward to Reggie getting a dozen rebounds for minimum salary. So I needed to get the nearest upgrade at PF. It was Amir in a revenge game against Detroit. It worked BUT before you chalk it up to success and blind luck, the move actually didn’t pay off as I will explain later.
Hits
Blake Griffin
Rudy Gay
Shaun Livingston
Monta Ellis
Blake was a monster against David Lee. This is not a surprise. There was too much value, for me, to spend on this position. Obviously not a great move on my part.
Rudy Gay scoring big on Philadelphia is also not a shocker.
The shocker play for me was his hit on Shaun Livingston. $3900 is near min salary so I get that. When I went back and looked at the game log for Livingston I did notice his recent spike in production. Perhaps it was buoyed by the Garnett/AK47 injuries, but this is a valid play. He also had a huge game against Miami earlier this year as a starter. This is why analyzing after the game is over is so good. It opens your eyes to a guy like Livingston that was not on my radar at all.
Misses
Michael Carter-Williams
Gordon Hayward
That move earlier to get Amir on my team over Reggie Evans Derrick Williams look so good on the surface, until you realize that to free up the extra money I had to lower my original spending on PG’s. The MCW roster spot was Chris Paul and an inconsequential downgrade on JR Smith. MCW is totally untrustworthy right now. I thought maybe he was turning the corner recently, but reverted back to his bad ways in this game.
Gordon Hayward is usually a decent option, but Monta Ellis plays better defense than what people think and Hayward has already struggled to put up good fantasy points on him this year.
