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DFS Amateur Hour - Saturday Lineups

I set eight lineups in a rush last night, and I got what was coming to me: a single $12.50 cash on a $60 investment. That brings my bankroll down to $1,408.61. It wasn't that I didn't like the players or pitchers I used - I had Clayton Kershaw in three, Raisel Iglesias in two and Aaron Nola in one - it was my impatience to put together anything that fit. The problem - if you can call it that - was I had to head out to Heather's aunt's house in Malibu, and I didn't get there until 3:20 PT (45 minutes before lineup lock) and occasionally had to speak to everyone (including my three-and-a-half year old, Sasha, who was earnestly showing me her artwork as though it were the seminal masterpiece of our era) while I was finalizing my choices. There are worse reasons to screw up your lineups, so I'm not especially upset about it.

Today, I had some time on my hands, and set four lineups:

Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PSeverino5300Severino5300Severino5300Happ6900
CNorris3000Cervelli2700McCann3400McCann3400
1BGoldschmidt4600Abreu4100Goldschmidt4600Howard3400
2BGyorko2600Gyorko2600Gyorko2600Dozier3200
3BMachado3900Ramirez2800Machado3900Sano4500
SSKang3500Kang3500Gregorius2200Kang3500
OFKemp3900McCutchen5000Ellsbury3300Altherr2700
OFUpton4000Harper5000McCutchen5000Brown2400
OFJones3500Upton4000Pollock4500McCutchen5000
Total34300Total35000Total34800Total35000

Three of them have a cheap Luis Severino, with various pieces of Yankees, Padres, Diamondbacks and Pirates stacks. I set a fourth just now at the last minute with a Phillies/Twins/Pirates stack, but couldn't spend all the money, so I subbed in J.A. Happ for Severino.

Commonly owned players include: Severino (3), Jedd Gyorko (3), Jung-Ho Kang (3) and Andrew McCutchen (3).