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Post Count: 98
Member Since: October 12th, 2012
Last Visit: March 29th, 2023

dean78904's Scouting Report

Dean Shavelson, aka dean78904 has been playing DFS since 2012 and is one of the most senior GrindersLive on-air hosts. He’s dominated the MLB CVR rankings winning top honors for both FanDuel and DraftKings in consecutive seasons and is consistently ranked as one of the best Grinders in the industry. The UCF grad provides NBA, MLB, and NFL written content for RotoGrinders and ScoresAndOdds.com. Follow him on Twitter @DFS_Almanac for questionable sports, movie, and TV takes.

dean78904's Trophies

  • 456

    RG Overall Ranking

  • Ranked #64

    RG Tiered Ranking

  • 2021 RG Season Long Champion: MLB

  • x2

    2017 CVR Baseball

  • x2

    2016 CVR Baseball

Most Recent Activity

Site Sport Date Buy In Rank Points
DraftKings NBA Mar 22nd, 2023 $5.00 434 / 5945 4.64
DraftKings NBA Mar 22nd, 2023 $4.00 4163 / 20808 3.3
DraftKings NBA Mar 22nd, 2023 $4.00 5095 / 20808 3.3
DraftKings NBA Mar 22nd, 2023 $4.00 1270 / 20808 4
DraftKings NBA Mar 22nd, 2023 $4.00 5033 / 20808 3.3
DraftKings NBA Mar 21st, 2023 $5.00 685 / 5925 4
DraftKings NBA Mar 21st, 2023 $5.00 985 / 5925 4
DraftKings NBA Mar 21st, 2023 $4.00 3404 / 29726 3.3

Biggest Scores

Site Sport Date Buy In Rank Points
DraftKings NBA Aug 10th, 2020 $6.00 1 / 8301 464.16
DraftKings MLB Jul 27th, 2022 $15.00 3 / 19607 464.16
DraftKings NBA Mar 21st, 2022 $4.00 1 / 29427 464.16
FanDuel MLB May 21st, 2021 $44.00 5 / 9680 330.19
DraftKings NBA Mar 21st, 2022 $6.00 1 / 4623 292.40
DraftKings NBA Jan 9th, 2023 $5.00 1 / 5945 292.40
DraftKings NBA Jan 9th, 2023 $6.00 1 / 5098 292.40
DraftKings NBA Feb 26th, 2019 $15.00 5 / 39215 292.40
  • *Contests held before we were able to collect prize amount won use our old rankings formula based on prize pool and place finished. This allows these contests to still appear in historic biggest scores, but they are not directly comparable to scores after Jan 2017.
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dean78904's Blog: The Almanac Predicts

Screen Names

Site Screen Name
DraftKings dean78904
FanDuel dean78904

Rankings Summary

Rank Points
Overall Ranking 456 / 40,518 17,600
TPOY Ranking 692 / 25,923 1,852
Monthly Ranking 653 / 12,963 575
Middleweight Ranking 64 / 6,930 17,409
NFL Leaderboard 640 / 36,745 4,598
NBA Leaderboard 227 / 20,033 4,715
NHL Leaderboard 695 / 2,813 82

Results Summary

Top 20% Scores Average Entrants Average Buy-In Average Tiered Buy-In
Last 365 Days 3,604 33,650.51 $10.10 $17.05
Last 30 Days 189 15,605.81 $9.22
Last 7 Days 2 13,376.50 $4.50

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