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DFS Amateur Hour - Tuesday Lineups

I'm working on NFL columns this week, and I got sick - looks like it was just a 24-hour bug - so I intended to set only a handful of lineups today. But somehow I got carried away and set 16.

Here are the lineups:

Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PHamels10600Kershaw13700Gray4900Anderson5400
CPosey3500Arencibia2700Lucroy3300Gomes2500
1BGoldschmidt4300Belt3100Cabrera4400Cabrera4400
2BRendon3400Walker2400Kinsler3900Kinsler3900
3BFrazier2300Frazier2300Longoria3000Longoria3000
SSTulowitzki3500Tulowitzki3500Tulowitzki3500Tulowitzki3500
OFMoreland2300Van Slyke2200Martinez3500Martinez3500
OFMahtook2300Altherr2900Braun4800Braun4800
OFGordon2800Buxton2200Pollock3700Betts3900
Total35000Total35000Total35000Total34900
Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PGray10200Nola6100Igesias8400Nola6100
CLucroy3300J. Salty2500Posey3500Molina2400
1BGoldschmidt4300Howard3100Goldschmidt4300Encarnacion4800
2BForsythe3400Dozier3100Gosselin2600Schoop2300
3BLongoria3000Frazier2300Duffy2900Donaldson5800
SSSegura2600Tulowitzki3500Crawford2500Tulowitzki3500
OFGuyer2400Bautista5500Pollock3700Bautista5500
OFMoss2600Braun4800Peralta3300Van Slyke2200
OFAltherr2900Gonzalez4000Martinez3500Guyer2400
Total34700Total34900Total34700Total35000
Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PNola6100Nola6100Kazmir9700Wacha9500
CLucroy3300Posey3500Wieters2400Lucroy3300
1BOrtiz4600Ortiz4600Cabrera4400Howard3100
2BKipnis3200Forsythe3400Castro2200Pedroia3200
3BLongoria3000Longoria3000Frazier2300Frazier2300
SSBogaerts3400Tulowitzki3500Segura2600Segura2600
OFBetts3900Bautista5500Braun4800Braun4800
OFBradley4300Moss2600Moss2600Davis3200
OFDavis3200Gordon2800Gonzalez4000Ellsbury3000
Total35000Total35000Total35000Total35000
Pos$5 Rally$$10 H H$$5 Rally$5 Rally$
PNola6100Nola6100Gray10200Walker6700
CLucroy3300Lucroy3300Arencibia2700Arencibia2700
1BOrtiz4600Ortiz4600Cabrera4400Encarnacion4800
2BForsythe3400Forsythe3400Holt2600Dozier3100
3BLongoria3000Longoria3000Longoria3000Shaffer2600
SSSegura2600Segura2600Segura2600Beckham2400
OFBraun4800Braun4800Braun4800Braun4800
OFDavis3200Davis3200Mahtook2300Guyer2400
OFGonzalez4000Gonzalez4000Guyer2400Bautista5500
Total35000Total35000Total35000Total35000

I used the RotoWire Optimizer and the Inside Edge Optimizer for one lineup each. The former is the Kershaw one, the later the Hamels one. With 16 lineups, I figured I could burn two on the algorithms just to test them out. Actually, they both had Russell Martin (who was scratched) originally, and I made all the suggested changes in the Inside Edge one. For the RotoWire one, I just subbed in J.P. Arencibia (because the extra $100 was available in the budget) rather than changing around the entire thing.

I have one duplicate lineup - the $10 Happy Hour is a copy of the lineup to the left of it. I thought it was one of my best and worth using in both formats.

I used 10 different pitchers - which is too many - but I liked a lot of the options. Interestingly, I didn't like Kershaw - I used him only in the RotoWire Optimizer one. Not only is he $13,700, he's pitching against a right-handed-heavy Angels team on the road. I think he'll be fine, but this wasn't one of those matchups where you use him irrespective of cost.

My big pitcher was a $6,100 Aaron Nola home against the Braves - I used him in six lineups. I also used a cheap $4,900 Jonathan Gray in two. Other players in whom I'm heavily invested are: Ryan Braun (9), Evan Longoria (8), Troy Tulowitzki (7), Jean Segura (6), Todd Frazier (5), Jonathan Lucroy (6), Miguel Cabrera (4), David Ortiz (4), Carlos Gonzalez (4), Jose Bautista (4), Logan Forsythe (4), Brandon Guyer (4), Khris Davis (4), J.D. Martinez (3), Buster Posey (3), J.P. Arencibia (3), Paul Goldschmidt (3) and Brandon Moss (3).

Incidentally, I won $70 on a $30 investment yesterday (I added a Happy Hour contest last night in which I didn't cash), so my bankroll is now up to $1468.11.