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DFS Amateur Hour - Tuesday (With Lineups Added)

It wasn't just a losing week in DFS - it was a losing week in life.

My stocks, starting with TWTR*, got crushed, my season-long teams all seemed to slump at once, and I went from virtually break-even in DFS to down $93. And that's not counting my Tout Wars and RotoWire DFS pools in which I had been doing decently before Friday's debacle.

It could be worse, though - for example this dude (NSFW, graphic violence, possible spoiler alert if you're behind.)

For now, I'll list a few guys I like at their respective prices, and once the official MLB lineups come out, I assemble some contest lineups and add them at the bottom of the post:

SP$C$1B$2B$3B$SS$OF$
S.Stras.9,500Molina2,200C.Carter2,600Altuve4,800Bryant3,500Tulo5,100Dickerson4,800
Miller8,700Chirinos2,300Abreu3,600Wong2,600A.Rod.3,300Castro3,100Ellsbury4,400
Richards8,600Grandal2,600Fielder3,400Drew2,200Y.Tomas3,000Owings2,800Blackmon4,300
Porcello7,800Morales2,600 Walker2,700Harrison2,500Rollins2,600Harper4,200
Salazar7,700LaRoche2,500Al.Ram.2,500Trumbo4,100
Locke6,700I.Davis2,200Springer3,900
C.Gonz.3,800
McCutch.3,800
Pollock3,700
Moss3,300
Soler3,100
Beltran2,400
Me.Cab.2,500
Burns2,300

* While I arguably know even less about stocks than I do about DFS, I still believe in Twitter as a company/product and am in it for the long haul.

Lineups:

PosPlayer$Player$Player$Player$
PSalazar7,700Strasburg9,500Locke6,700Miller8,700
CY.Molina2,200McCann3,200Grandal2,600Y.Molina2,200
1BC.Carter2,600P.Alvarez3,000Abreu3,600Abreu3,600
2BAltuve4,800Walker2,700Altuve4,800Altuve4,800
3BK. Bryant3,500A.Rod.3,300K. Bryant3,500K. Bryant3,500
SSCastro3,100J.Kang2,600A.Ramirez2,500Castro3,100
OFSoler3,100M.Cabrera2,500M.Cabrera2,500M.Cabrera2,500
OFMcCutchen3,800Ellsbury4,400Trout5,400McCutchen3,800
OFHarper4,200Gardner3,800A.Garcia2,800Markakis2,700
Total35,00035,00034,40034,900
PosPlayer$Player$Player$
PPorcello7,800Salazar7,700Salazar7,700
CY.Molina2,200Y.Molina2,200Cervelli2,200
1BC.Carter2,600C.Carter2,600C.Carter2,600
2BAltuve4,800Altuve4,800Altuve4,800
3BK. Bryant3,500K. Bryant3,500K. Bryant3,500
SSCastro3,100Castro3,100Castro3,100
OFSoler3,100Soler3,100Soler3,100
OFMcCutchen3,800McCutchen3,800McCutchen3,800
OFSpringer3,900Marte4,000Marte4,000
 Total34,80034,80034,800

Going in order from left to right, starting with the upper lineups, the first one is a $3 large-field tournament (hence the gamble with Harper despite the rain), as is the second (hence the gamble with Strasburg.) The third is a $10 large-field tournament, the fourth a $10 Double Up, the fifth a $3 large tournament, the sixth a $10 tournament and the seventh a $5 tournament. So I have $44 in play tonight.

My ideal large tournament lineup is the first one with a stack of right-handed Cubs against Tyler Lyons, an underpriced McCutchen at home against a weak pitcher, a mini-right-handed Astros stack against Wandy Rodriguez, a dirt-cheap Molina and a high-upside strikeout pitcher in Salazar (albeit against a tough team to strike out.) I also love Harper against the current version of Latos if it's not rained out.

In the second lineup, I stacked Pirates against Mike Lorenzen and Yankees against Marco Estrada, but I'll need Strasburg to pitch. The third was a White Sox stack against Shane Greene, the fourth was a chalky, "safe" Double Up lineup with no stacks. The fifth, I stacked Cubs and Astros, the sixth Cubs, Pirates and Astros and the last one I swapped out Molina for Cervelli to complete my Pirates stack, though honestly I had intended to change up more than just that, but for some reason forgot.