Fanduel / Draft Kings Discussion

[ReignOnU]

I should really yank my money off of DK and switch it to FD so I can work with you guys on this.

I don't like Danny Green... not tonight... not ever. Keep in mind that the LAC pts against pos stat is based mostly on JJ Redick... who isn't starting (last I checked). Also, Green's recent surge of steals and blocks is a bit above his typical average, which may be skewing his value.

I don't have the values in front of me (I can look later), but moving out Green would be objective #1.

[ReignOnU]

Scola better be dirt cheap too... anything more than 7pts and 7reb would be surprising... he's set to get abused in the paint tonight.

[Cnasty]

Yes you should move to FD with us.

Mine for tonight:

Jrue Holiday
Kyrie Irving
Jimmy Butler-seems like this dude never leaves my lineup
Jamal Crawford
Chris Copeland
Gordon Hayward
Pau Gasol
Luis Scola
DeAndre Jordan

I also went Scola, only $4300, as he is projecting well on BM tonight for some reason which allowed me to get deeper at other positions.

[ReignOnU]

Yes you should move to FD with us.

Mine for tonight:

Jrue Holiday
Kyrie Irving
Jimmy Butler-seems like this dude never leaves my lineup
Jamal Crawford
Chris Copeland
Gordon Hayward
Pau Gasol
Luis Scola
DeAndre Jordan

I also went Scola, only $4300, as he is projecting well on BM tonight for some reason which allowed me to get deeper at other positions.

What is his stat projection?

I will say this... DK has improved a TON since I last played there. My only issue is the action on the site is really dominated by sharks and there interface doesn't make it easy to snipe quality match-ups. I waited for nearly 45min to try to find the right person to target for a H2H last night and the board barely moved. You have to refresh is manually to get quick updates. With that said, that late game roster adjustment is beautiful. That was something that was being discussed as a feature on Rotogrinders when I last played and it came in handy on Saturday night when Howard was a last minute scratch.

[shel311]

Scola is projected at 22, 52 ratio.

DK is so much better with functionality. The only thing is I haven't figured out how to view the user's profiles when looking at the H2H matchups. But otherwise, the site works so much better than FD IMO.

[ReignOnU]

What about Hayward out, Marion in... Scola out and dump the difference on PF upgrade?

[ReignOnU]

Scola is projected at 22, 52 ratio.

DK is so much better with functionality. The only thing is I haven't figured out how to view the user's profiles when looking at the H2H matchups. But otherwise, the site works so much better than FD IMO.

I don't believe you can... so instead, I opened a user profile in Fan Duel, then edited the web address to the DK profile to see if they had a profile there. After I did that, I put the profile name in Rotogrinders. If neither showed up... or limited information, then I tried google. I had a user, JGO99, that had 6 baseball games on FD, didn't look familiar at all and had no relevant google info. But someone swiped the game before I could grab it. There's also no way to apparently tie up the game while you're doing this research on DK.

[shel311]

What about Hayward out, Marion in... Scola out and dump the difference on PF upgrade?

Corey's lineup has Hayward, he's good on salary.

It's mine that has $1k left over.

[ReignOnU]

Another caveat about DK that I like... unique scoring. This is what separated good/great players on DraftStreet. Knowing these little elements or having them in the stat projections provides an advantage for the players that use these tools.

[ReignOnU]

If I were playing on FD tonight... without any breaking news considered:
Jrue Holiday NOR @ CLE PG 7400
Kyrie Irving CLE NOR PG 7400
Jimmy Butler CHI DET SG 7100
Jamal Crawford LAC SAS SG 6000
Chris Copeland IND UTA SF 5300
Kawhi Leonard SAS @ LAC SF 6200
Carmelo Anthony NYK ATL PF 8800
Derrick Favors UTA @ IND PF 7100
Enes Kanter UTA @ IND C 4700
60000

[Cnasty]

I was somewhat close.

[ReignOnU]

I was somewhat close.

There's some deviation in there from just using raw stats.

#1 - I don't trust Jordan to put up that projected stat line of 12pts, 15 reb, 3 blks, 1 stl, 1 ast
#2 - I am speculating a bit on Favors... but I love him... even more so with Luis Scola guarding him tonight. He's had 2 below average games and 3 great games... the 2 below average games were against Griffin/Jordan and Chandler. Understandable.
#3 - Because I don't love a lot of the centers, I'm going upside combo on Favors/Kanter. I wouldn't do this in a GPP, but I'm all over a move like this in a H2H. I fully expect 4.5+ value from the combo of Favors/Kanter tonight.

[Cnasty]

I went away from Favors for Jordan due to the inconsistency of his games lately but not knowing many more details regarding that. I did like him but was using that consistency piece we discussed.

I definitely am learning what you are meaning on those value/upside plays in certain matchups and when to pull the trigger with certain lineups. This makes sense.

[shel311]

Corey, check your texts.

[Cnasty]

Scola better be dirt cheap too... anything more than 7pts and 7reb would be surprising... he's set to get abused in the paint tonight.

Your purty good at this.

Luis Scola
UTA 86 @ IND 97 FINAL
$4300
SALARY
8P 8R 3A 1B

[trendon]

All right, I've found my wheelhouse. I'm probably going to win $400 for the second straight day following this plan: avoid all higer stakes games and just completely saturate the $1-$10 games. I am in 45 games

One $25 large-scale GPP
25 $1 larger top-half wins
10 $10 larger top-half wins
A few $20 top-half wins

It is virtually impossible to lose in the tiny stakes games if you use BM. Make sure your team has a projected 220 and you will crush all of the newbs. On Saturday, I joined every fucking thing I saw and I lost a few bucks because my lineup did not perform well and I lost all of the bigger games and won all of the small ones.

[trendon]

Just a quick snapshot of today; yesterday was exactly the same. Now, granted, this turned out to be a good lineup (even with Sloan sucking) but last week, I submitted two shitty lineups and I still placed in all of the low-stakes. It is as foolproof as it gets and I don't see how it will change with these sites supposedly signing up newbs left and right who probably start off in the small games.

[nick]

itchin for this shit man. fuck u guys

[Cnasty]

Is that DK?

[Cnasty]

Went 10-2 last night with 2 lineups. 6-0 with mine, 4-2 with reigns.

Only played $10 each with 5 h2hs and 1 50/50 each.

Really wanting to bump up the amount being played and think I have a pretty good grasp on how this works for the most part. Just need to be more consistent.