Fanduel / Draft Kings Discussion

[trendon]

This guy Thabo Sefolosha is apparently going to start tonight and he seems to have been scoring well in his reserve role.

[Cnasty]

make sure you're looking thru the guys and not just basing it totally off the Basketballmonster #'s.

for example, Alec Burks is projected for like 24.4 or something. he hasn't scored that in like 7 straight games. not saying he's an 'awful play' given his price but he'll always be considered good value on basketball monster until they lower his inputs.

I have been and he is no world beater but needed a low cost guy to get better in other areas and he was a boom or bust type play but he is super cheap and made the leap.

[trendon]

PG Reggie Jackson OKC@Bos $6,500 swap out
SG Kobe Bryant LAL@NO $8,500 swap out
SF Carmelo Anthony Orl@NY $8,600 swap out
PF L. Aldridge Por@Den $8,900 swap out
C Chris Kaman Por@Den $3,500 swap out
G Jeremy Lamb OKC@Bos $3,900 swap out
F Derrick Favors Uta@Atl $6,900 swap out
UTIL Thabo Sefolosha Uta@Atl $3,000 swap out

Looks good to me, I guess. Anyone want to offer up any objections?

[DRiccio21]

This guy Thabo Sefolosha is apparently going to start tonight and he seems to have been scoring well in his reserve role.

no

just joking. he's not a usage player at all. but if you need the low price to fit the lineup, he might grab the value.

[Cnasty]

I was wondering how your lineup looked so stacked then I saw Sefolosha was only $3k

[DRiccio21]

unless there is an injury i'm not familiar with i'd be careful stating Kaman.

he plays like 15-20 mpg. one bad rotation for him and you're getting nothing.

but again, same thing, he's cheap and he does usually put up points in his short time out there.

i'd just rather have consistent players in a 50/50

[DRiccio21]

I was wondering how your lineup looked so stacked then I saw Sefolosha was only $3k

yup if he can get the value for Sef and Kaman, he'll have a good night.

i got 1.5 point from Dorrell Wright last night (he didn't end up starting) and i still came in the top 1/4 in almost all my 50/50's and won all of them

[Cnasty]

And that went back to my point of why not play all 50/50s versus running H2H but you explained it pretty well.

It just seems, again, small sample size, 50/50 seems like a more consistent level of success versus the randomness of H2H that can happen.

[trendon]

This guy Thabo Sefolosha is apparently going to start tonight and he seems to have been scoring well in his reserve role.

no

just joking. he's not a usage player at all. but if you need the low price to fit the lineup, he might grab the value.

I'll look again. I just saw starting and, obviously, my eyes light up, lol.

[trendon]

What the hell is this?

http://www.lineuplab.com/#/NBA/fanduel

[ReignOnU]

make sure you're looking thru the guys and not just basing it totally off the Basketballmonster #'s.

for example, Alec Burks is projected for like 24.4 or something. he hasn't scored that in like 7 straight games. not saying he's an 'awful play' given his price but he'll always be considered good value on basketball monster until they lower his inputs.

This is the due diligence part I was talking about. Check the box scores on some of the players that look like great values and make sure that those projections are realistic for them. Good call out Dave!

[The_Niddler]

What the hell is this?

http://www.lineuplab.com/#/NBA/fanduel

I assume this will be somewhat similar to this:
https://rotogrinders.com/projected-stat ... te=fanduel

[ReignOnU]

What the hell is this?

http://www.lineuplab.com/#/NBA/fanduel

I assume this will be somewhat similar to this:
https://rotogrinders.com/projected-stat ... te=fanduel

RG has their own algorithm for created optimal lineups. They have advanced stuff as part of their Grinders Incentives packages.

Lineup Lab is a pretty sweet concept. It uses NumberFire projections (they are good, that's who I used before BasketballMonster) and you pick a few people from each position that you like, it fills up the right side with those players. Then on the slider below that, you adjust the output of how many teams you'd like it to make. Then it switches around the players that you like to tell you some optimal lineups. Kind of crafty if you have a good idea on how to pick the players that you like.

[Cnasty]

What do you guys use for your injury updates like real time?

I found bleacher report team stream/fantasy alerts to be pretty reliable as well as NBAinjurynews on twitter but was wondering if any others.

So it looks like I am rolling with the lineup I posted unless some other changes come injury wise. I hope Alec lives up to the hype!

[DRiccio21]

twitter.

[Cnasty]

Ok, but what on twitter?

Who? what source?

[DRiccio21]

- all the beat writers for each individual team.

- rotoworld and all their writers

- basketball monster also puts out injury stuff real time on twitter

[Cnasty]

Thanks

[ReignOnU]

Yup Twitter... if someone is questionable, just toss their name in the search field.

[DRiccio21]

PGReggie Jackson$7,700OKC@BOS␡
PGJrue Holiday$7,300LAL@NO␡
SGWesley Matthews$6,300POR@DEN␡
SGThabo Sefolosha$3,500UTA@ATL␡
SFJeremy Lamb$5,500OKC@BOS␡
SFIman Shumpert$5,300ORL@NY␡
PFPaul Millsap$7,900UTA@ATL␡
PFAnthony Davis$11,200LAL@NO␡
CKelly Olynyk$5,300OKC@BOS␡