DFS Amateur Hour - Sunday Lineups

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Published on August 30, 2015

I'm bleeding away bankroll like a lottery winner sucked dry by extended family and various hangers-on. I lost another $20 on four $5 Rallys last night to drop my bankroll to $1388.61.

For today I set four $5 Rally lineups, but then doubled up on them in a $2 MLB Squeeze because it looked like there might be overlay. And in fact it turned out there was: 3307 entries at $2 per equals $6614 taken in, but there are $7,000 in prizes.

I did modify one of the lineups just to get another stack in, so all told, I set five unique ones among the eight:

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Asher	3000	Strasburg	10100	Syndergaard	10900	Strasburg	10100
C	Posey	3000	Lucroy	3300	Wierers	2200	Vogt	2400
1B	Encarnacion	5200	Votto	4500	Zimmerman	3400	Fielder	2900
2B	Wong	2300	Gyorko	2500	Rendon	3400	Rendon	3400
3B	Donaldson	5900	Frazier	2700	Frazier	2700	Lawrie	3100
SS	Tulowitzki	3700	Semien	2900	Desmond	3400	Semien	2900
OF	Moss	2300	Bruce	2600	Bruce	2600	Bruce	2600
OF	Bautista	5500	Trout	4100	Moss	2300	Reddick	2500
OF	Braun	4100	Moss	2300	Braun	4100	McCutchen	5100
	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	35000

Pos	$2 Squeeze	$	$2 Squeeze	$	$2 Squeeze	$	$2 Squeeze	$
P	Syndergaard	10900	Strasburg	10100	Strasburg	10100	Strasburg	10100
C	Wierers	2200	Lucroy	3300	Vogt	2400	Lucroy	3300
1B	Zimmerman	3400	Votto	4500	Fielder	2900	Rizzo	4200
2B	Rendon	3400	Gyorko	2500	Rendon	3400	Wong	2300
3B	Frazier	2700	Frazier	2700	Lawrie	3100	Bryant	3900
SS	Desmond	3400	Semien	2900	Semien	2900	Segura	2400
OF	Bruce	2600	Bruce	2600	Bruce	2600	Schwarber	4100
OF	Moss	2300	Trout	4100	Reddick	2500	Moss	2300
OF	Braun	4100	Moss	2300	McCutchen	5100	Davis	2300
	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	34900

I went with Stephen Strasburg in five of eight lineups, Noah Syndergaard in two and Alec Asher (for $3000) in one. I'll probably get burned starting so many A's and Cardinals - lineups locked before the teams' lineups were published, but in big tournaments, that's often a gamble worth taking because I assume most people stayed away.