The Dongers Club – Wed, May 8th
Eight game main slates tonight on both sites. The Cubs game got moved up to 7:35 so it should play despite bad weather rolling in tonight. Colorado doesn’t look as optimistic for their game today and is once again an
MLB DFS: The Daily Diamond – 5/8
*All pricing references are based on DraftKings unless otherwise noted This article is designed to give you a head start/a brief look at the top pitchers and hitters on the slate from a cash game and single entry contest point
The Dongers Club – Tue, May 7th
A heads up. This article is being done on Monday night and I will be completely tied up and not able to make any updates on Tuesday. There’s even a good chance I don’t really have a lineup or much
The Dongers Club – Mon, May 6th
Couple brief updates Joe West is the HP ump in LA. Less than ideal for Walker B, which downgrades him a bit. He’s still my guy for better or worse on FanDuel but w/ Pearce, Nunez value and chalk there
MLB DFS: The Daily Diamond – 5/6
*All pricing references are based on DraftKings unless otherwise noted This article is designed to give you a head start/a brief look at the top pitchers and hitters on the slate from a cash game and single entry contest point
Dongers Club Members Meeting – May
I wanted to take some time to cover a few items that I felt needed their own article to discuss with you all. So pull up a chair and check your Membership cards at the table as we gather around for a May 6th Dongers Club Monthly Meeting. Items on the Agenda for this Months Meeting Include: Re-Certifying your MLB DFS Lineup Construction Process A preview of the weeks slate ahead An announcement Airing of the Grievances Agenda Item #1: MLB DFS Lineup Construction – Re-Ceritifcation This is honestly the main topic that I wanted to bring up and it applies to most of you out there as well as me personally. And that is a focus on making sure that we are re-evaluating the process we use to construct a MLB DFS lineup each and every day that we play. When I say the lineup construction, I specifically am referring to the actual players we put into your lineup, hitting save and then letting it play out for that afternoon, evening or whatever slate we are on. There’s other things that go into playing MLB DFS which are not part of this re-certification but they are still extremely important and they include Contest Selection Research Best Practices Selecting Trusted Advisors Each one of the items above needs to be fine tuned as well to ensure that they have consistent and reliable methods to enable success in any DFS sport but they are not the focal point of this article specifically, but I will touch on them briefly as a refresher. Contest Selection speaks to making sure that you are entering contests that align with your goals and expectations. Your expectation should be that you can achieve your goals with the approach you are using but also be realistic. If you expect to win on a weekly basis in MLB DFS and you are only playing 1-3 lineups a night then you should be on 3 entry max or less tournaments or just playing a main lineup in cash and tournaments. If your expectation is to win once a month and you are playing 20-30 lineups a day then you should be playing those in the larger field tournaments and also being using an approach that is consistent and tested with multi-entry methods. Please note, I’m not that guy to help you with that and it’s a completely different mindset than what I focus on, which is gonna be 10 lineups or less per night and in most cases 1-3 main lineups to win Single Entries, 3 entry max or mid to higher $ tournaments that are less than 1k users. Research Best Practices speaks specifically to what data are you looking at, how are you analyzing the trends in MLB and how are you determining your own thoughts and picks on who you like on a given daily basis. I honestly expect everyone that is reading my article by early May has done some of their own research on their own and has a feel on a daily basis who they like and who they do not like. After all, my articles come out roughly 2-3 hours before lineup lock and there’s a good chance you’ve already glanced at the slate quickly or will do so at some point (even if its after reading my article). And whatever methods you are using and beliefs you have should hold true. Maybe you value wOBA, ISO, Batting Avg, WHIP, ERA or maybe you are into hard hit rates and more of the stat cast and expected type data, maybe you value pitch types, or maybe you simply focus on players who only hit when they eat pancakes the morning of a game — whatever it is, have something you will rely upon and trust. Selected Trusted Advisors … Basically if you are reading my article then you are valuing me as a Trusted Advisor. Can you have more than one? Yes. Should you have 5? No. You should have selected advisers that you rely upon and will consistently help you out. If someone is the master of mid range pitchers and thats what you want to use, then great — Use them. If someone nails all the mid range bats, then by all means have them as well. Just keep your circle tight and make sure that you are analyzing the analysts to determine what is good and what is bad out of their mouths. Don’t simply respond when a play goes south and say “that pick sucked”, understand why they mentioned it and determine where you want to trust them or not. Someone said to me via DM the other day .. “How much of your picks is based on data and how much is gut feel….” He asked because he didn’t always see #’s to back up the picks and wasn’t sure if that was just the writing style or if that was because it was an out of left field (perception) gut feel on a team. And when he strays from my gut feels they usually go off. The answer on this was within his own question. He was seeking if he should be trusting my pick on the San Francisco Giants that night vs the Cincinnati Reds and Sonny Gray who was being recommended in some spots. But he answered his own question by saying when he strays away from those they usually go off. He had already seen data regarding MY gut plays in this scenario to show that it was going to be a viable play. Now the real answer to his question was that it’s a mix. I do look at lots of data, I do trust lots of data and lots of my picks will have that as a foundation. But data is free and open to everyone else and data is also wrong 50% of the time believe it or not. Folks like to say that it’s 100% accurate or feel
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