Friday Night on Fanduel

[Edwards Kings]

If you haven't done this yet, you should dive in. It is NFBC only (for now) so it is like a mini-Main Event. Usually 72 players (I think) and the carrot is a 2015 Main Event entry ($1,600 or so). Greg will typically give us notice Thursday or Friday and there is a scramble to fill it up before the evening slate of baseball games begin. I am trying to get a little interest going early so it is not such a squeeze to fill it up. Personally, I would like to see these continue to be successful and for those who have not done it, it is really easy (budget of $35,000 to fill nine slots: SP, C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF). I haven't won, but feel they have added a little extra spice to Friday night (can you tell I have been married nearly 23 years).

Again, just trying to generate a little interest via conversation. We got some good advice from David Anthony (Rockitsauce) last week BEFORE he won!

"I have no idea why this doesn't fill up in a few hours. $25 to save $1600, and all you hafta do is beat about 70 other teams....certainly not impossible. Guys you don't hafta be condia, headchopper, or primetime420 to win in daily action and since this competition is all your fellow NFBC it's not like a huge FD tourney (like say the $25 Strikeout) filled w/ multi-wiseguy entries. YOU HAVE A GREAT SHOT AT THIS.

As Todd mentioned you have until the very last SECOND before the game starts to edit your l/u's...believe me I have been there..many times.

Here is my advice on DFS -

1. bare minimum - go to rotogrinders dot com, good strategy articles, injuries, weather, lineups...all you need really.

2. twitter - i follow a List of MLB beat writers to make sure i'm the 1st to know of late scratches (about 30 min's ago I swapped out Jaso b/c he's out tonight)

3. weather - you can just avoid any place that looks like weather may be a problem, but in the past I've benefited from doing my own research.

4. HR's & K's - get those get $"

Here are the starting pitchers for Friday, 5/30, as slated right now (first game at 7:05 ET):

Juan Nicasio - Col (5-2, 3.61) @ Corey Kluber - Cle (5-3, 3.10)
Ricky Nolasco - Min (2-5, 6.12) @ Vidal Nuno - NYY (1-1, 5.49)
Colby Lewis - Tex (4-3, 5.10) @ Stephen Strasburg - Was (3-4, 3.42)
Rafael Montero - NYM (0-2, 4.96) @ A.J. Burnett - Phi (3-4, 3.51)
Jason Vargas - KC (4-2, 3.55) @ J.A. Happ - Tor (4-1, 3.34)
David Price - TB (4-4, 4.42) @ Brandon Workman - Bos (0-0, 3.18)
Julio Teheran - Atl (4-3, 1.77) @ Tom Koehler - Mia (4-4, 3.10)
Ian Kennedy - SD (3-6, 3.59) @ John Danks - ChW (3-4, 4.90)
Travis Wood - ChC (5-4, 4.35) @ Marco Estrada - Mil (4-2, 3.98)
Miguel Gonzalez - Bal (3-3, 4.35) @ Dallas Keuchel - Hou (6-2, 2.55)
Madison Bumgarner - SF (6-3, 3.15) @ Adam Wainwright - StL (8-2, 1.67)
Mike Leake - Cin (2-4, 2.79) @ Bronson Arroyo - Ari (4-3, 4.15)
Garrett Richards - LAA (4-1, 3.00) @ Drew Pomeranz - Oak (4-2, 1.38)
Justin Verlander - Det (5-4, 4.04) @ Hisashi Iwakuma - Sea (3-1, 2.39)
Francisco Liriano - Pit (0-5, 5.06) @ Josh Beckett - LAD (3-1, 2.43)


It is going to be interesting to see who the big buck pitchers will be this week. I am guessing Verlander (don't know why), Bumgarner and Wainwright (good luck predicting that win), Price and Teheran. Deadheadz favorite Koehler might be a sleeper going against the contact-challenged Braves! Games in Houston, Arizona, Chicago (W. 35th Street version), Philly, and Boston could generate some runs.

I will be in. Let's talk it up.

[Captain Hook]

Well today is the 28th and its not Friday AND some of those pitchers are Wrong

[Edwards Kings]

Thanks Perry. Corrected the date. Those were the SP on the NFBC site and of course are subject to change. Like David said, checking for late line-up changes is a good strategy.

[Blowinmudd]

Dont forget to check out rotowire.com.
They list lineups asap,weather(percent of rain),wind,over and unders for the game.
Good Luck.

[ToddZ]

Gratuitous plug alert.

No question -- Rotogrinders is the industry standard.

For subscription daily content (and some free stuff) the Fantistics/Fantasy Fix is great.

Then there's a site where a fledgling daily player is sowing his oats -- http://www.FantasyAlarm.com.

I've got strategy essays and my projections fuel a tool that generates the expected fantasy points for several DFS sites (including Fanduel) and pulls the salary for that day so you can get a bang for the buck calculation. We also have weather and lineups as well as advice from other daily players.

[rockitsauce]

Thanks Wayne...(enjoying the blog as always, your sharp insight along w/ pics of Shemp, Danica, & passed out drunk canines just a winning combo)

I guess I took my own advice, but I meant it. If you are reading these words you know enough to win a contest on Fanduel, let alone the small one on Fri nights fighting it out w/ 70 of your closest NFBC pals. I brought up rotogrinders cuz its free, but to each his own...whatever site gives you the info you need than fine. You certainly don't need a ton of time. Once Greg has posted the link for the contest I set a prelimin. lineup, knowing full well that almost none of those players will make the final cut.

For a contest that has over 10K entries like the $2 squeeze on FD, you need to get goofy and think outside the box for sure...taking cheap Raburn vs a LHP ain't enough, everyone is doing that. You need to take a flier on someone that has potential to do damage, but will not be highly owned for whatever reason.

Our NFBC contest is tiny in comparison so I don't recommend trying to throw the hail mary so to speak here, but if I can take a SP that I believe will be under-owned I like to do that. If you have a guy that half the contest does you got no edge and if he DOES get rocked you're toast...like Kershaw vs AZ a few starts back.

btw I've seen some OF that cost more than Miggy in my 3 yrs competing on FD but never another 1B/3B til today....Edwin Encarnacion is 4900, Miggy is 4700 what's the world coming to

Not even a month ago George Springer was the minimum salary of 2200, today he is 4100...FD is abit slow, but eventually they move the prices up/down. I don't have Springer on a single team, but he is one of my fav players...

https://www.fanduel.com/contest/2007431 ... 006357943/