NHL DFS: Point Shot Cheat Sheet – 8/16
Today’s slate locks at 6:30 PM EST CENTERS WINGS DEFENSE TOP $ Bo Horvat (VAN) William Karlsson (VGK) Max Pacioretty (VGK) Patrick Kane (CHI) Shea Theodore (VGK) Shea Weber (MTL) MID $ Jonathan Toews (CHI) Brendan Gallagher (MTL) Jonathan Marchessault (VGK) Brock Boeser (VAN) Quinn Hughes (VAN) Jeff Petry (MTL) Nate Schmidt (VGK) VALUE $ Nick Suzuki (MTL) Kirby Dach (CHI) Dylan Strome (CHI) Alex Debrincat (CHI) Jonathan Drouin (MTL) Duncan Keith (CHI) Justin Faulk (STL) Chris Tanev (VAN) Favorite Line Stacks *Note: Lines are subject to change depending on morning skate lines. Revert to the chat and/or look for updates here for any impact they may have. Montreal Canadiens Tatar – Suzuki – Gallagher Vegas Golden Knights Marchessault – Karlsson – Smith Vancouver Canucks Miller – Pettersson – Boeser Value Line Stack Montreal Canadiens Drouin – Kotkaniemi – Armia Vancouver Canucks Pearson – Horvat – Eriksson Top Goalies Carey Price (MTL) – As the playoffs roll on and this series continues, Price comes in off a 30-save shutout last time out and he looked like he could’ve stopped 50 if given the chance. Pure dominance from Price and with a friendly salary still, I look for his strong play to continue. Jacob Markstrom (VAN) – Speaking of confidence, Markstrom has been solid between the pipes winning two in a row against the defending cup champions. On the other side, St. Louis has all kinds of questions going on in their net and doesn’t look like the same team we saw come on last season. GOOD LUCK!!
The Dongers Club – Sun, August 16th
SLATE INTRO So here’s something you don’t see every day. It looks like DK might have hired FD people to run their site because they only went with 8 games on the MAIN slate today (I have a theory on
The Dongers Club – Sat, August 15th
SLATE INTRO I’ll spare you the entire rant I have about the incompetence we see daily with DK and FD and just say that FD at least made right by their users with full refunds due to site outages yesterday. They still have 100 other issues that are just inexcusable but at least they did right there. 7PM lock (one of my big gripes for today) with only a few games on it. WEATHER I just want to point out KC and MIN could have very easily played last night. That is all. Washington @ Baltimore – Large PPD Risk here. This slate sucks and off last night and all the issues I outlined above (which was only 50% of them) I am almost tempted to not even play this horrific slate of games. Fear not, I am playing… Walker Buehler Walker is VERY close to breaking out with a huge game and I have already looked ahead at his next projected start. We will be 100% on Buehler then. But today I don’t think he has a smash game, however he’ll be good relative to the rest of the arms going on this slate. James Paxton Boston has more dangerous hitters vs LHP for the first time in a while — but that’s mostly due to their team sucking offensively. Paxton had great velocity in his last start and so naturally he’ll probably die somewhere in the third inning tonight and go on the IL. But if he manages to not injure himself, he’s gotta be on your radar. Outside of the Box Asher Wojciechowski There’s not much in the way of getting weird tonight and lots of the Nationals should be chalky if the game plays. This is a leverage pivot where I don’t see Washington doing much outside of Soto/Thames being logical plays for obvious reasons. Guys I am not using Patrick Corbin … Like the Os to win. Cristian Javier … Too shaky. Oakland Athletics Matt Chapman, Matt Olson, Mark Canha, Khris Davis Park is playing better for homers this season and mid-day game should help that out as well. Gausman is coming off a really good start but the Athletics hammer split finger pitches, specifically Canha-Olson-Chapman and Piscotty. Like Khris Davis as a good value HR play. San Diego Padres Fernando Tatis, Manny Machado, Wil Myers San Diego has to be a top betting play today. They got shut down last night in what was a very snooze-fest type game but it’s Tatis-Machado-Myers who are mashing LHP this season and should have a great game in a park where you simply don’t see LHP do well. Houston Astros Jose Altuve, George Springer, Alex Bregman Looks like at home they have their heads out of their behinds and are beating up on the lowly Mariners. Seattle has a terrible pen and Margevicius is a profile Houston has done well against. 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It means that the prize for 1st Place which everyone obsesses with is 10x the entry fee. So yeah, that means a $10 contest pays out $100 to first. Or my favorite $100 pays out $1000. You are thinking what’s the point? These type of contests usually aren’t as common and they’re a waste of time, I want my 50x to first!! Well, guess what. You will find that you win these 10x to first contests far often and that type of boost is way better than any other you will find. They’re smaller and usually have folks who are late registering their contests in them. Find these. Play these. Less than 1,000 Users: Very simple rule. Avoid contests that have too many users. A big misconception is that MME is hard to beat and you cant beat someone with a single lineup if they have maxed out the limits on a contest. Not true. The more lineups they are putting in the chances are more bad lineups as well. It comes down to the TOTAL number of users you have to beat. Fewer is better. Get out of the $1 and $3 and $5 contests: If you are living here, you aren’t about making money. Sorry. Play a 3-man to bust a slump: Yes, they are full of what folks call Sharks. No, they are not invincible. When you’re in a slump, play one of these. Matt Chapman – 3B – Athletics – Chairman of the Dongers Club Trevor Story – SS Joey Gallo – OF Wil Myers – OF Jose Altuve – 2B George Springer – OF Renato Nunez – 1B Austin Hedges – C BONUS ……………….. Cody Bellinger – OF
MLB DFS DarkHorse 8/15/2020
The dark horse is a pitcher that few are looking at but has some potential data points to look at which could deliver a nice value play into your lineups on FanDuel and DraftKings. Nathan Eovaldi (Boston Red Sox) vs NY Yankees The Red Sox are with out Chris Sale this year which makes Eovaldi the #1. He has done fairly well going at least 5 innings in each start and threw right around 90 pitches. He throws heat at 97+ and generates a decent amount of strike outs (10 in last game vs the Jays). He has solid command and the potential is there each night if he can limit the home runs. Tonight he gets another chance to pitch against one of his former teams the Yankees. The Yankees have a right handed heavy lineup that is missing two of the top power bats(Stanton and Judge). Eovaldi has been solid vs RHH’s producing a 50% ground ball rate along with 23% K rate and has limited he long ball. The Yankees lineup has a few players that are striking out at over a 20% clip this year vs RHP with a few over 30%. I don’t think he gets out of this game clean. Either Brett Gardner or Mike Taucman will take him deep. Eovaldi throws mostly 97+ mph fastball, cutters and splitters and most of the Yankee bats don’t hit these pitches well. It will be a cooler night in New York with 10 mph winds blowing in which will help Eovaldi out. I am looking at him to go 6 innings get around 7-8Ks and allow a run or two. I don’t see many looking at him today as most don’t use pitchers vs Yankees.
NHL DFS: Point Shot Cheat Sheet – 8/15
Today’s slate locks at 3:00 PM EST CENTERS WINGS DEFENSE TOP $ Nathan MacKinnon (COL) William Karlsson (VGK) Mark Stone (VGK) Patrick Kane (CHI) Jonathan Marchessault (VGK) Shea Theodore (VGK) MID $ Pierre-Luc Dubois (CBJ) Paul Stastny (VGK) Oliver Bjorkstrand (CBJ) Phil Kessel (ARI) Seth Jones (CBJ) VALUE $ Boone Jenner (CBJ) Kirby Dach (CHI) Clayton Keller (ARI) Alex Tuch (VGK) Nick Foligno (CBJ) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (ARI) Connor Murphy (CHI) Brayden McNabb (VGK) Favorite Line Stacks *Note: Lines are subject to change depending on morning skate lines. Revert to the chat and/or look for updates here for any impact they may have. Vegas Golden Knights Pacioretty (check on status, if OUT, Chandler Stephenson should replace) – Karlsson – Stone Arizona Coyotes Hall – Stepan – Keller Value Line Stack Columbus Blue Jackets Texier – Dubois – Bjorkstrand Top Goalies Joonas Korpisalo (CBJ) – Everyone is going to go Tampa and Vegas on this slate. On such a short slate, being different is going to be paramount and in this case, Korpi and the Jackets are playing with a ton of confidence right now after a big win in game two and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Columbus comes in ready to roll. Robin Lehner (VGK) – We’re not getting Lehner at any kind of discount here as DK has priced him up to $8400. With that said, I don’t think Chicago has what it takes on the ice or behind the bench to come back in this series against an, in my opinion, far superior Golden Knights unit. GOOD LUCK!!
The Dongers Club – Fri, August 14th
SLATE INTRO I consider yesterday a great success. You know why? We got the dumb Mookie 3 HR game out of the way on a spot where nobody cared because everyone in the world had a gazillion points. Even those
NHL DFS: Point Shot Cheat Sheet – 8/14
Today’s slate locks at 2:00 PM EST CENTERS WINGS DEFENSE TOP $ Mathew Barzal (NYI) Elias Pettersson (VAN) Alex Ovechkin (WSH) Brendan Gallagher (MTL) Vladimir Tarasenko (STL) Shea Weber (MTL) Alex Pietrangelo (STL) MID $ Ryan O’Reilly (STL) Nazem Kadri
The Dongers Club – Thu, August 13th
SLATE INTRO Thursday’s are the worst. Today only has six games scheduled for all of MLB, largely due to the Cardinals being morons in regards to COVID but also because MLB built today in as a day off for everyone
NHL DFS: Point Shot Cheat Sheet – 8/13
CENTERS WINGS DEFENSE TOP $ Patrice Bergeron (BOS) Brayden Point (TB) Max Pacioretty (VGK) David Pastrnak (BOS) Shea Theodore (VGK) Victor Hedman (TB) Seth Jones (CBJ) MID $ Pierre-Luc Dubois (CBJ) Tyler Seguin (DAL) Brad Marchand (BOS) Jonathan Marchessault
The Dongers Club – Wed, August 12th
SLATE INTRO Mid week shorter slate with only 8 games on the docket tonight. For those who want the early slate action of Royals-Reds, Coors Field and the Blue Jays in Buffalo, go time travel back to 3PM and set