DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Night

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Published on May 22, 2015

I went a little crazy today with the two free-rolls (RotoWire and Tout Wars) and eight other entries into the $5, $115K MLB Rally. There are a lot of high-end pitching options tonight, and I used three of them (Max Scherzer, Zack Greinke and Gerrit Cole) spread out over nine of my 10 entries, varying the hitting stacks around them. The one exception was Henderson Alvarez in whom I have zero faith, but he was the cheapest of the pitchers who was likely to have a decent game and get a win, so I rolled him out, using an expensive, hybrid Cubs/Indians stack. I don't expect much from that entry, but it's got uniqueness on its side.

In any event, here are the lineups:

Free Rolls

Pos	RotoWire	$	Tout Wars	$
P	Scherzer	11700	Scherzer	11700
C	Posey	4600	Molina	2300
1B	Davis	3100	Freeman	3300
2B	Cano	2900	Peterson	2800
3B	Seager	2900	Headley	2500
SS	Miller	2800	Tulowitzki	4500
OF	Smith	2300	Maybin	2600
OF	Cabrera	2400	Markakis	2500
OF	Guyer	2300	Beltran	2800
	Total	35000	Total	35000

$115K MLB Rally

Pos	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$
P	Scherzer	11700	Scherzer	11700	Greinke	9900	Greinke	9900
C	Posey	4600	Molina	2300	Posey	4600	Molina	2300
1B	Davis	3100	Freeman	3300	Belt	3900	Morrison	2800
2B	Cano	2900	Peterson	2800	Cano	2900	Cano	2900
3B	Seager	2900	Headley	2500	Seager	2900	Ramirez	3100
SS	Miller	2800	Tulowitzki	4500	Miller	2800	Miller	2800
OF	Smith	2300	Maybin	2600	Gonzalez	3300	Braun	4400
OF	Cabrera	2400	Markakis	2500	Cabrera	2400	Gomez	4200
OF	Guyer	2300	Beltran	2800	Smith	2300	Davis	2500
	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	34900

Pos	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$
P	Greinke	9900	Cole	9400	Cole	9400	Alvarez	6300
C	Perez	2500	Hundley	3000	Castillo	2200	McCann	2800
1B	Davis	3100	Belt	3900	Abreu	3500	Rizzo	4400
2B	Paredes	3300	Cano	2900	Cano	2900	Kipnis	4600
3B	Machado	3600	Seager	2900	Seager	2900	Bryant	4000
SS	Escobar	2600	Tulowitzki	4500	Miller	2800	Castro	3000
OF	Jones	3400	Gonzalez	3300	Braun	4400	Brantley	4700
OF	Gordon	3200	Markakis	2500	Gomez	4200	Soler	2800
OF	Cain	3100	Davis	2500	Davis	2500	Murphy	2300
	Total	34700	Total	34900	Total	34800	Total	34900

I have a lot of Mariners in Toronto against Marco Estrada. I expect they'll be heavily owned, but it was hard to pass up all those cheap lefties hitting high in the lineup against a pitcher who gives up a lot of home runs. If he deals today, I could easily lose my entire investment. The other team I bankrolled was the Brewers, facing a left-handed Eric Stultz (I won't repeat the Fast Times at Ridgemont High/Pulp Fiction joke, but know that I'm thinking it.) I actually preferred the original starter, Alex Wood, who was scratched due to an illness, because I expect that stack to be much more heavily used now.