Like yesterday, I had an idea for a top pitcher and another player (in this case two) and wanted to see if I could build a lineup around them. I tried, but couldn't get it under budget given the cheapest starting second baseman was $2700. So I punted the position entirely - as in using a guy not in the starting lineup. That might be insane, but that's why this is "DFS Amateur Hour" and not "Learn DFS from the Pros."
Pos | $5 Rally | $ |
---|---|---|
P | Greinke | 11200 |
C | Gomes | 2300 |
1B | Santana | 3000 |
2B | Descalso | 2200 |
3B | Arenado | 5000 |
SS | Tulowitzki | 4400 |
OF | Raburn | 2300 |
OF | Marisnick | 2200 |
OF | Gose | 2400 |
Total | 35000 |
My idea was to use Greinke at home against the Phillies and both right-handed Rockies sluggers (Nolan Arenado and Troy Tulowitzki) at home against lefty Alex Wood. I was still able to stack three right-handed Indians (Carlos Santana, Ryan Raburn and Yan Gomes) who hit 4-5-6 in the order and face lefty Brett Oberholtzer. I rounded things out with Anthony Gose against right-handed Mike Pelfrey and Jake Marisnick facing Cody Anderson. But no matter how much I shuffled my OF around, there was no way to keep Greinke, the two Rockies and the Indians stack with a $2700 second baseman like Johnny Giavotella (vs. Felix Hernandez) or a $2900 Brandon Phillips (vs. Jose Fernandez.) So I went with an intentional zero in Descalso who I chose for the venue in the event he gets a chance to pinch hit.
Maybe that's an idiotic thing to do, but I've cashed before with zeroes, negative scores or fewer than one point from a couple spots in my lineup, and once I filled it out, it was worth $5 to me to run the experiment.