DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Night

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Published on May 15, 2015

I was running low on time, so the Double Ups had to go. I usually like having 2-3 of them to increase my chances of a win, and tonight would have been a good time for them given I like Kershaw, but I'm aiming for a bigger score. So it's just the RotoWire and Tout Wars tournaments, for which I submitted the same lineups and which don't count toward my bankroll, five $3 large-field tournament entries and one $5 because the $3 one filled up before I could get my last lineup in, and I got superstitious that it would be "the one" if I didn't play it.

Here are the lineups:

RotoWire/Tout Wars:

Pos	Player	$
P	Kershaw	11,000
C	Posey	3800
1B	Belt	2700
2B	Panik	2600
3B	Beltre	3100
SS	Andrus	2600
OF	Cabrera	2500
OF	Holliday	3800
OF	Granderson	2900
	Total	35,000

$3 Tournament

Pos	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$
P	Kershaw	11,000	Kershaw	11,000	Kershaw	11,000
C	Molina	2300	Molina	2300	Soto	2400
1B	Lind	3100	Lind	3100	Davis	3600
2B	Gennett	2200	Gennett	2200	Paredes	3500
3B	Beltre	3100	Beltre	3100	Machado	3700
SS	Peralta	2900	Andrus	2600	Ramirez	2600
OF	Gomez	4100	Gomez	4100	De Aza	2500
OF	Braun	3900	Braun	3900	Garcia	3000
OF	Bourjos	2300	Blanks	2700	Cabrera	2500
	Total	34,900	Total	35,000	Total	34,800

Pos	Player	$	Player	$	Player	$*
P	Phelps	6,900	Phelps	6,900	Rodon	5,800
C	Gattis	3200	Gattis	3200	Martin	3600
1B	Carter	2800	Carter	2800	Encarnacion	4200
2B	Altuve	4300	Altuve	4300	Cano	3400
3B	Seager	3100	Seager	3100	Donaldson	3800
SS	Miller	2600	Miller	2600	Andrus	2600
OF	Springer	3900	Springer	3900	Bautista	4500
OF	Trout	5200	Trout	5200	Stanton	4600
OF	Granderson	2900	Garcia	3000	Cabrera	2500
	Total	34,900	Total	35,000	Total	35,000

*$5 Tournament Entry.

My strategy was pretty simple: Kershaw everywhere, a cheap David Phelps in a couple places and one Carlos Rodon even though he's likely to be heavily owned. And then just stack against pitchers that could blow up, but who people won't necessarily attack. In the Rodon one, for example, I stacked right-handed Blue Jays in the event of a big Dallas Keuchel correction. I also stacked Brewers (a terrible offensive team thus far) against Bartolo Colon, again, on the chance he has a correction to his monster start.

More conventional stacks include the Astros against R.A. Dickey, the Rangers against Bruce Chen and the Cardinals against Shane Greene.