NHL DFS: The Point Shot – 9/19 Pre-Season
*Note – These write-ups will be more detailed during the regular season as skater lines, data, and other factors are more clearcut. Games on the Slate Philadelphia Flyers at New York Rangers Tampa Bay Lightning at Carolina Hurricanes Pittsburgh Penguins
NFL Pre-season Week 2: Friday Picks
Cheatsheet for tonight’s NFL Pre-season Slate. Five Games Giants @ Lions Chiefs @ Falcons Dolphins @ Panthers Bills @ Browns Cardinals @ Saints Highest Total: Cardinals @ Saints … This game will be one of three games in
Saturday Night Dongers Club – 7/28
Saturday night special with Steve Renner and the Dongers Club
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MLB Dongers Club – Monday, July 23rd
Updates below in red For those of you who have not looked at the DataLabz from FantasyBum, I highly encourage you to use it as a good baseline during the second half of the season. The data typically becomes a
Sunday Dongers Club – 6/24
— update … per my rant, you can get Sale and Cole on FD. It looks like many are fading Sale for Cole, so I dont hate the idea of using Sale and hoping he is angry — FD only… And just like that we are back to different sized main slates. The only difference is that once again DK has the Coors Field game on it’s Sunday slate. It’s a HUGE Sunday slate with 11 games on FanDuel and the 12th on DK, so let’s dive in. Begin FanDuel Rant There’s two “stud” pitchers going today. And by “stud” I mean guys who are priced really high — has nothing to do with actual talent or matchup or potential … Sale and Cole … As many of you know, I am not a “stack/stack” guy. Meaning, I am not a fan of going in and just trying to stack two teams together because I feel that I can do better optimally picking the players who are the right plays at each position and avoiding being in the tournaments with 10K+ entries in them I don’t need to worry about having some crazy lineup stack that shoots to the moon. Pairing contest selection + picking good plays for that day is how I approach DFS, but there are times I have to be humble and admit when a spade is a spade….. The skill in picking a pitcher to me is finding the player who is going to return the best ROI for his price. It’s literally the ONE position in Fantasy Baseball that I would use the value term to evaluate how the player did. Outside of the exceptions like Trout or Arenado, most hitters are simply binary results for me. 0 or 1. Did you do well or not? With hitters I don’t care too much what the price is as there’s always players in that mid/low range who will perform and thus when I say value doesn’t matter in baseball for hitters it’s because the $ difference between a 3800 player and a 2700 player is so minimal compared to the overall cap that it really doesn’t matter that much. However, a 6700 pitcher who gets a 40 should be far superior to a 11k pitcher who gets a 45. Half the price and nearly the same result. You should take the 6700 pitcher every time if this is a true skill game right??? Not on FanDuel. Why? Because on FanDuel we can simply take a potentially “worst case scenario” outing from that 11k pitcher and still get hitters who are in PREMIUM spots. And by hitters I mean actually GOOD hitters. How about Eddie Rosario and the Twins against Bartolo Colon in 80+ degree temps? Yes, you can do that. How about Jose Abreu and the White Sox against Paul Blackburn (sure, the White Sox aren’t exactly leading the league in hitting, but still) … Yes, you can do that. Take a look …. The Minnesota Twins — who are pretty good at home and pretty good in day games … face off against Bartolo Colon and the Rangers….. Joe Mauer – 2600 Eddie Rosario – 3300 … This is a joke. Dude is 5200 on DK. Eduardo Escobar – 3300 … Really? I think he leads the league in doubles Logan Morrison – 2300 … Just your average clean up hitter at 2300 Brian Dozier – 3600 … So the worst guy on the team is the most expensive. Gotcha Max Kepler – 2300 Ariana Grande – 2100 etc… So you want to play FanDuel today? OK. Here’s a lineup that you can start with if you are doing MME So what FanDuel is doing here is they are removing any skill from selecting pitcher today. This is a huge reason why we say there isn’t much skill in MME. I can go in and I can say, you know what, I am going to definitely get 40 points from Sale or Cole today, one of them will hit 40. And the Twins are my favorite stack of the day because for those prices they’re going to likely pay off against Colon and the Rangers in ideal hitting conditions. So let me mix and match as many lineups as I can with these combinations and roll from there. You HAVE to do better FanDuel if you want to be considered a skill site. There’s no reason for the Twins or the White Sox to be this low nor for Sale and Cole to be that low either to be honest. If you wanna play on FanDuel today, you gotta decide first are you avoiding a Sale/Cole + WhiteSox/Twins play or not…. /end mini rant. WEATHER The worst game happens to be the Coors Field game. Caleb Smith versus German Marquez. So a quick glance and this game is a no for me on DK today, plenty of other good options and we can fade a sub 70 degree Coors game with a little rain in it. Game should play though. See full notes at the bottom in the “Afternoon Games” section as this is the only write-up for today. PITCHING Here’s my analysis — mostly focused on DK because of the fucktardism on FanDuel…. Jose Berrios … The best on this slate IMO. Give me Berrios over Sale and Cole given the price savings. Domingo German … It’s Domingo on a Sunday version 2018 (sadly Domingo Santana was demoted to AAA yesterday, hopefully the Brewers will finally trade him). His DK price is a little tempting to fade if he appears to be chalky — which I do think is a good chance there — but this should be another low scoring game here and the Yankees might actually wake up and win it despite being a bunch of overrated Mark Reynolds’. SNEAKY / SP2 Trevor Williams … Don’t mind if I do slide in here and quietly
Dongers Club – Thu May 31st
Thursday, May 31st, 2018 … Weather today seems alright, slight chance of rain in Baltimore as it will be raining all day but it should fade out before the game starts — but as always between 6pm and 7pm, just
MLB DFS Dongers Club – Thu 5/3 Early
WEATHER Toronto @ Cleveland – Will have some slight overcast/showers here but game should play Detroit @ Kansas City – Light Rain, game should play Pittsburgh @ Washington – Very warm and breezy out to center field Atlanta @ New
Dongers Club: Fri 4/27
WEATHER Tampa @ Boston only PPD risk in my mind. PITCHING Dominant slate for pitching tonight as we have a TON of affordable mid range guys which makes these high priced studs a little less tempting. That said, there’s also
MLB DFS Cash Cheat Sheet
MLB DFS Cash Cheat Sheet The MLB cash cheat sheet will be done on slates that are considered the ‘Main’ Slates. These are always going to be the most common plays with a couple one off pivots. If you are