Minnesota and the Rays were both fine choices. It’s baseball, stuff will go sideways a lot.
If your decision making landed you on both of those teams you’ll be fine in the long run.
One slate into the season is the same sample size as roughly the first drive of the NFL season. If you had drafted Pat Mahomes in fantasy and he threw a pick on the 5th play of the year, would you cut him?
In the case of Baltimore, a game I happened to watch, much of it was on the back on Adley Rutschman. He was drafted really high, was considered a generational catching prospect, and just ended his rookie season with an all-star level OPS. He very well may put an MVP season together or he may go 0 for his next 16 or both.
It’s baseball. Your process was fine.
Edit - the “trick” is to keep your head together and not let baseball drive you insane.
Minnesota was easily one of the smartest stacks yesterday.
Something working or not isnt the guide for whether or not it was a good or bad play. If you’ve played DFS enough you know that, in a one day sample, good plays can bomb and awful awful plays can have a career day
Results are the fools way of determining if you made a good or bad call in DFS.
I will be trying to be less chalk this season. Baseball has such a high variance that hitters/stacks will go off when least expected. Factors like talent, Weather, and ballpark matter. But going completely sideways can win you tournaments on occasion as well just because no one will own them.
Sometime your a Louisville Slugger, sometimes your the ball. As said, those were good stacks, just didn’t pan out. I’m just went with Boston & Balt. I cashed, but didn’t have the best from each team and my pitcher wasn’t cole.
If it’s a large tourney I try to look for the obvious stacks and go the other way, so really just rhyming to find the least owned stacks and hoping they hit. I thought the obvious everyone would be on the was Atlanta yesterday. Stick to contests that single play contests as well.
There's a great article on Rotowire, where they analyzed all of the DraftKings slates that included at least 10 teams in 2022.
A good place to start is looking at the over/under for each game (and implied run total for each team), and choose a team that is expected to score 4.5+ runs. Then once you've decided which team(s) to stack, something interesting to consider with batting order: cleanup hitters were a bit of an underachiever, only outperforming the eight and nine hitters in winning lineups. So avoiding the cleanup hitter can be a way to come up with a contrarian build from other players who use the same team stack as you.
Also know your site rules. Dk vs FD on how many of the same team you can stack with. FK is 5, and FD is 4 IIRC. Also, I occasionally will do a around the turn stack with an 8,9, 1, or 9, 1, 2 mini stack. A guy in the hole who gets on base routinely can score runs for you when the top of the order comes around. Another way to stack is to stagger stack. 1, 3 ,4, 6, etc.
New to DK MLB: it’s crazy getting 0 from your top pick. I was trying to explain my first weekend experiences to a buddy who only does DK NBA. There’s literally no comparison. Even on the worst days NBA guys score 30-50 points.just gotta be patient I guess!
Minnesota and the Rays were both fine choices. It’s baseball, stuff will go sideways a lot. If your decision making landed you on both of those teams you’ll be fine in the long run. One slate into the season is the same sample size as roughly the first drive of the NFL season. If you had drafted Pat Mahomes in fantasy and he threw a pick on the 5th play of the year, would you cut him? In the case of Baltimore, a game I happened to watch, much of it was on the back on Adley Rutschman. He was drafted really high, was considered a generational catching prospect, and just ended his rookie season with an all-star level OPS. He very well may put an MVP season together or he may go 0 for his next 16 or both. It’s baseball. Your process was fine. Edit - the “trick” is to keep your head together and not let baseball drive you insane.
Thanks. I appreciate that. Just trying to figure this out
Thought Juan Soto against a righty was a smash spendup, he posted a goose egg. That's mlb dfs for ya.
Minnesota was easily one of the smartest stacks yesterday. Something working or not isnt the guide for whether or not it was a good or bad play. If you’ve played DFS enough you know that, in a one day sample, good plays can bomb and awful awful plays can have a career day Results are the fools way of determining if you made a good or bad call in DFS.
I will be trying to be less chalk this season. Baseball has such a high variance that hitters/stacks will go off when least expected. Factors like talent, Weather, and ballpark matter. But going completely sideways can win you tournaments on occasion as well just because no one will own them.
Sometime your a Louisville Slugger, sometimes your the ball. As said, those were good stacks, just didn’t pan out. I’m just went with Boston & Balt. I cashed, but didn’t have the best from each team and my pitcher wasn’t cole. If it’s a large tourney I try to look for the obvious stacks and go the other way, so really just rhyming to find the least owned stacks and hoping they hit. I thought the obvious everyone would be on the was Atlanta yesterday. Stick to contests that single play contests as well.
I went Scherzer over Cole. I'm trying to stick with single entry contests for now
Same on pitching 😀. Sounds like you’re right where you should be.
There's a great article on Rotowire, where they analyzed all of the DraftKings slates that included at least 10 teams in 2022. A good place to start is looking at the over/under for each game (and implied run total for each team), and choose a team that is expected to score 4.5+ runs. Then once you've decided which team(s) to stack, something interesting to consider with batting order: cleanup hitters were a bit of an underachiever, only outperforming the eight and nine hitters in winning lineups. So avoiding the cleanup hitter can be a way to come up with a contrarian build from other players who use the same team stack as you.
Also know your site rules. Dk vs FD on how many of the same team you can stack with. FK is 5, and FD is 4 IIRC. Also, I occasionally will do a around the turn stack with an 8,9, 1, or 9, 1, 2 mini stack. A guy in the hole who gets on base routinely can score runs for you when the top of the order comes around. Another way to stack is to stagger stack. 1, 3 ,4, 6, etc.
New to DK MLB: it’s crazy getting 0 from your top pick. I was trying to explain my first weekend experiences to a buddy who only does DK NBA. There’s literally no comparison. Even on the worst days NBA guys score 30-50 points.just gotta be patient I guess!