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DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Night Lineups

I'm going on vacation for a couple weeks on Monday, so these are my last lineups until July. Accordingly, I set 20 of them - might as well have a last hurrah before I take off:

Pos$25 HtoH$$25 50/50$$10 Rally$Tout Wars$
PSale11000Sale11000Sale11000Sale11000
CLucroy3200Molina2700Lucroy3200Perez2500
1BVotto4000Davis3400Smoak2900Votto4000
2BCano2200Hill2200Hill2200Cano2200
3BMachado3800Carpenter3400Ramirez3000Frazier5200
SSRamirez2200Segura3200Segura3200Ramirez2200
OFYelich3000Brantley3500Braun4600Bruce3300
OFBruce3300Yelich3000Gose2500Beltran2300
OFBeltran2300Gose2500Cabrera2300Cabrera2300
Total35000Total34900Total34900Total35000
PosRWBC$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PGray10100Sale11000Sale11000Sale11000
CWieters3400Molina2700Castillo2400Perez2500
1BDavis3400Votto4000Teixeira3700Votto4000
2BWong2900Wong2900Cano2200Cano2200
3BMachado3800Carpenter3400Headley2300Frazier5200
SSHardy2300Peralta3500Gregorius2200Ramirez2200
OFYelich3000Beltran2300Braun4600Bruce3300
OFUpton3400Cabrera2300Beltran2300Beltran2300
OFKemp2600Kemp2600Springer4300Cabrera2300
Total34900Total34700Total35000Total35000
Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PSale11000Sale11000Sale11000Sale11000
CMartinez3100Hundley3100Castillo2400Montero2800
1BCabrera5400Paulsen3100Goldschmidt5800Rizzo4300
2BKinsler3200Cano2200Hill2200Hill2200
3BHeadley2300Headley2300Sandoval2700Bryant4100
SSRamirez2200Tulo.4600Bogaerts2500Ramirez2200
OFGose2500Gonzalez4000Tomas3000Fowler3300
OFKemp2600Cabrera2300Betts2900Kemp2600
OFBeltran2300Beltran2300Gose2500Gose2500
Total34600Total34900Total35000Total35000
Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PSale11000Sale11000Sale11000Gray10100
CLucroy3200Lucroy3200Navarro2200Wieters3400
1BAbreu3600Davis3400Morrison2300Davis3400
2BDozier4100Hill2200Cano2200Wong2900
3BPlouffe2700Ramirez3000Arenado4300Machado3800
SSRamirez2200Segura3200Tulo.4600Hardy2300
OFGarcia2700Braun4600Gonzalez4000Yelich3000
OFBuxton2300Rios2200Pagan2200Upton3400
OFRosario2600Parmalee2200Parmalee2200Kemp2600
Total34400Total35000Total35000Total34900
Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PLyons6700de la Rosa7000deGrom10800deGrom10800
CCastillo2400Wieters3400Lucroy3200Grandal3000
1BEncarn.3900Davis3400Abreu3600Gonzalez3100
2BCano2200Hill2200Hill2200Hill2200
3BDonaldson4600Machado3800Ramirez3000Ramirez3000
SSReyes3700Flores2800Segura3200Castro2600
OFYelich3000Jones3400Murphy2200Puig4000
OFBruce3300Braun4600Braun4600Pederson3700
OFBautista5100Springer4300Parmalee2200Kemp2600
Total34900Total34900Total35000Total35000

As usual, I went heavy on the chalky starter - Chris Sale is in 14 of the 20 lineups. I used two with Sonny Gray, two with Jacob deGrom and one each with Tyler Lyons (a -195 favorite according to Vegas) and Rubby de la Rosa (maybe he'll strike out eight or nine Padres at home.)

For the hitters, I stacked as many plausible upside teams as I could and filled in with some anchor players I thought were good values like Robinson Cano (of course, he's worth $2,200), Aaron Hill (has crushed James Shields in their head-to-head matchups over 36 at-bats), Ryan Braun vs. a lefty at Coors (he's also crushed de la Rosa historically), and the usual suspects, Melky Cabrera and Carlos Beltran. Beltran's had a tough time with Justin Verlander, but I don't make much of that because they guy against whom he struggled doesn't exist anymore.

Finally, I played a heads-up contest for $25 against some guy whose handle is 007_fan. It's the first time I've done a heads-up contest - I'm probably a big underdog.