DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Lineups

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Published on July 17, 2015

I set only six lineups tonight, two of which are $25 entries into the $500K Super Grand Slam and one of which is a $25 heads up against csuram88. The others are a $5 MLB Rally entry and two free rolls, one for the Tout Wars contest and one with a $1000 grand prize.

Pos	$25 Super GS	$	$25 Super GS	$	$25 Heads Up	$
P	Fernandez	10500	Gray	9900	Fernandez	10500
C	Jaso	3000	Norris	2300	Posey	4400
1B	Loney	2400	Carter	3000	Morrison	2500
2B	Forsythe	2800	Gyorko	2200	Gyorko	2200
3B	Longoria	2900	Prado	2700	Seager	2500
SS	Desmond	2300	Correa	3600	Desmond	2300
OF	Trout	5400	Kemp	3200	Upton	2700
OF	Kemp	3200	Upton	2700	Trout	5400
OF	Polanco	2300	Trout	5400	Polanco	2300
	Total	34800	Total	35000	Total	34800

Pos	$5 Rally	$	Tout Wars	$	Free Roll	$
P	Fernandez	10500	Fernandez	10500	Fernandez	10500
C	Posey	4400	Posey	4400	Gomes	2200
1B	Carter	3000	Carter	3000	Davis	3500
2B	Odor	2800	Cano	3000	Odor	2800
3B	Duffy	3300	Longoria	2900	Machado	4300
SS	Correa	3600	Kang	2600	Hardy	2400
OF	Pence	2900	Upton	2700	Murphy	2200
OF	Pagan	2300	Kemp	3200	Braun	4600
OF	Murphy	2200	Schwarber	2600	Gose	2500
	Total	35000	Total	34900	Total	35000

I thought about using Noah Syndergaard, who was cheap, but thought he'd be too heavily owned, and the Cardinals are actually favored with Lance Lynn against a terrible Mets offense. So I wound up with five Jose Fernandez lineups and one Sonny Gray. Gray is probably the savvier play given both games had O/Us of 6.5, and both the A's and the Marlins were about equally favored. But FanDuel scoring tilts so heavily toward high-strikeout pitchers, I paid up for the chalk.

You can pretty much ignore the free roll on the bottom right column - FanDuel sent notice of that in an email, and I filled the lineup out yesterday, trimming it at the last second for players who were scratched. Of the five lineups I took seriously, I had multiple shares of the following: Buster Posey (3), Chris Carter (3), Justin Upton (3), Matt Kemp (3) and Mike Trout (3), Jedd Gyorko (2), Gregory Polanco (2), Evan Longoria (2) and Carlos Correa (2).

I also stacked Rays against Drew Hutchison, Padres against Jorge de la Rosa and Giants against Robbie Ray.