Tuesday was less disastrous than most - actually had a positive day. My four FanDuel lineups had two cashes - the Chris Archer and Carlos Correa-led 50/50 squad scored 56.75 points, and my Tout Wars contest led by Madison Bumgarner and Correa scored 47.33 to cash. That's the good news. The bad news was that they were just a $5 50-50 and a $2 double-up. The $5 SXM contest scored 42.25 (good enough for a 50-50 or a double-up in most cases), but well off the cash threshold. My other 50-50 tanked for just 28.75 points, despite using Carlos Martinez (17 points) and Chase Headley (6.25 points). I sacrificed a lot elsewhere to get one lineup with Paul Goldschmidt in there, but the payoff obviously wasn't there.

But the big news was that I advanced to Day 2 in DK's Survivor Contest, scoring 165.25 points. I used MadBum, Martinez, Correa, Brett Gardner and super-cheap BvP hero Dustin Ackley to move on. It's a single bullet entry, so the odds are still against me. Looking ahead at tonight's pitching matchups, I have to decide whether to go against the crowd and not use Gerrit Cole against the Reds, knowing that he's almost certainly going to be universally-owned in a two-pitcher format. I don't know if I can afford that risk, given that I have a single entry. I'll post a lineup later tonight.