DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Lineups

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Published on July 24, 2015

I played a rare Thursday night slate yesterday only because Clayton Kershaw was going, and it was the right call - at least insofar as he was concerned. My hitting wasn't great, so I wound up taking in $57.50 on $65 worth of lineups for a net of minus $7.50. My bankoll was 1317.60, now it's $1310.10.

As for the two heads ups, I won the $25 won against 1ucror and lost the $10 one (barely) against maxdalury, putting me at 4-2 against the pros. Let's take a look a tonight's slate:

I played six $5/$100K MLB Rallys, one $25/$200K MLB Grand Slam, one $25 heads up against csuram88 and the free Tout Wars entry. The Tout entry is duplicated in one of the MLB Rallys as I'd hate to put up 75 points in a contest where the upside is $60.

Pos	$25 GS	$	$25 H to H	$	Tout	$
P	Scherzer	12000	Cashner	7300	Tillman	6300
C	Lucroy	3200	Lucroy	3200	Martinez	3300
1B	Singleton	2300	Votto	4500	Pujols	4300
2B	Flores	2200	Flores	2200	Odor	4000
3B	Sano	2500	Longoria	2500	Longoria	2500
SS	Segura	2800	Desmond	2500	Aybar	2700
OF	Braun	4400	Trout	5200	Trout	5200
OF	Davis	2900	Martinez	4300	Calhoun	4000
OF	Rasmus	2500	Puig	3200	Hamilton	2700
	Total	34800	Total	34900	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Cashner	7300	Cashner	7300	Cashner	7300
C	Gomes	2500	Gomes	2500	Lucroy	3200
1B	Paulsen	2500	Votto	4500	Fielder	4100
2B	Flores	2200	Flores	2200	Odor	4000
3B	Arenado	4800	Frazier	4900	Turner	3400
SS	Peralta	3300	Desmond	2500	Correa	3800
OF	Gonzalez	4700	Bruce	4100	Choo	3300
OF	Dickerson	4500	Byrd	3100	Hamilton	2700
OF	Byrd	3100	Holliday	3400	Puig	3200
	Total	34900	Total	34500	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Kluber	11000	Scherzer	12000	Tillman	6300
C	Gattis	3400	Gomes	2500	Martinez	3300
1B	Morrison	2300	Goldschmidt	4700	Pujols	4300
2B	Altuve	4500	Owings	2400	Odor	4000
3B	Seager	2800	Longoria	2500	Longoria	2500
SS	Correa	3800	Rollins	2300	Aybar	2700
OF	Rasmus	2500	Inciarte	2600	Trout	5200
OF	Raburn	2200	Pollock	3800	Calhoun	4000
OF	Gose	2500	Trumbo	2200	Hamilton	2700
	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	35000

I did something unusual (for me) today: I used Andrew Cashner in four of nine lineups. Normally, I almost always use an ace for the bulk of my entries, but I didn't love Max Scherzer at Pittsburgh, and Corey Kluber has been erratic outside of a few monster starts a couple months ago.

Cashner will probably tear a triceps muscle in the third inning, but a home start against the Marlins is about as good as it gets.

I also have two Scherzer lineups, two Chris Tillman ones (the one I duplicated for Tout) and one Kluber.

Players in whom I have big shares are: Evan Longoria (4), Wilmer Flores (4), Jonathan Lucroy (3), Yan Gomes (3) and Josh Hamilton (3). I didn't intend to use Anthony Gose or Mark Trumbo, but they were last-second panic subs when I realized Alex Guerrero wasn't playing.