DFS Amateur Hour - Saturday Lineups

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Published on August 29, 2015

I set eight lineups in a rush last night, and I got what was coming to me: a single $12.50 cash on a $60 investment. That brings my bankroll down to $1,408.61. It wasn't that I didn't like the players or pitchers I used - I had Clayton Kershaw in three, Raisel Iglesias in two and Aaron Nola in one - it was my impatience to put together anything that fit. The problem - if you can call it that - was I had to head out to Heather's aunt's house in Malibu, and I didn't get there until 3:20 PT (45 minutes before lineup lock) and occasionally had to speak to everyone (including my three-and-a-half year old, Sasha, who was earnestly showing me her artwork as though it were the seminal masterpiece of our era) while I was finalizing my choices. There are worse reasons to screw up your lineups, so I'm not especially upset about it.

Today, I had some time on my hands, and set four lineups:

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Severino	5300	Severino	5300	Severino	5300	Happ	6900
C	Norris	3000	Cervelli	2700	McCann	3400	McCann	3400
1B	Goldschmidt	4600	Abreu	4100	Goldschmidt	4600	Howard	3400
2B	Gyorko	2600	Gyorko	2600	Gyorko	2600	Dozier	3200
3B	Machado	3900	Ramirez	2800	Machado	3900	Sano	4500
SS	Kang	3500	Kang	3500	Gregorius	2200	Kang	3500
OF	Kemp	3900	McCutchen	5000	Ellsbury	3300	Altherr	2700
OF	Upton	4000	Harper	5000	McCutchen	5000	Brown	2400
OF	Jones	3500	Upton	4000	Pollock	4500	McCutchen	5000
	Total	34300	Total	35000	Total	34800	Total	35000

Three of them have a cheap Luis Severino, with various pieces of Yankees, Padres, Diamondbacks and Pirates stacks. I set a fourth just now at the last minute with a Phillies/Twins/Pirates stack, but couldn't spend all the money, so I subbed in J.A. Happ for Severino.

Commonly owned players include: Severino (3), Jedd Gyorko (3), Jung-Ho Kang (3) and Andrew McCutchen (3).