DFS Amateur Hour - Tuesday Lineups

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Published on August 25, 2015

I lost another $30 last night thanks to six lineups with Jacob deGrom and Hisashi Iwakuma. That brings my bankroll down to $1556.11. (For some odd reason, I feel so much better about my losses once I've written them down and subtracted them from my bankroll.)

Looking at tonight's lineups (I peeked and realized I'm already drawing dead in four of the nine thanks to Ivan Nova coughing up five runs in the first inning. The Astros are all or nothing, and obviously I mis-timed the play.)

Pos	$25 GS	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Strasburg	10000	Strasburg	10000	Strasburg	10000
C	Cervelli	2600	Phegley	2700	Posey	3100
1B	Santana	3100	Goldschmidt	4700	Belt	3400
2B	Wong	2200	Wong	2200	Wong	2200
3B	Ramirez	2800	Lawrie	2900	Duffy	3100
SS	Peralta	2400	Flores	2700	Crawford	3100
OF	McCutchen	4900	Puig	2700	Trout	4600
OF	Marte	4000	Canha	3000	Conforto	2700
OF	Puig	2700	Braun	4100	Puig	2700
	Total	34700	Total	35000	Total	34900

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Strasburg	10000	Nova	6500	Nova	6500
C	Montero	2800	Lucroy	2800	Wieters	2200
1B	Morse	2200	Abreu	4100	Encarnacion	5200
2B	Castro	2200	Kipnis	3200	Wong	2200
3B	Bryant	4100	Seager	3300	Donaldson	6200
SS	Aybar	2200	Ramirez	2800	Peralta	2400
OF	Schwarber	4200	Trout	4600	Puig	2700
OF	Puig	2700	Cabrera	3400	Bautista	5100
OF	Trout	4600	Braun	4100	Ozuna	2500
	Total	35000	Total	34800	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally
P	Nova	6500	Nova	6500	Syndergaard	10800
C	Lucroy	2800	Gomes	2900	Martinez	2700
1B	Cron	2600	Fielder	3300	Paulsen	2800
2B	Dozier	3200	Odor	3300	Wong	2200
3B	Machado	3700	Beltre	3200	Arenado	4200
SS	Tulowitzki	3800	Tulowitzki	3800	Reyes	3000
OF	Martinez	3400	Trout	4600	Blackmon	4000
OF	Trout	4600	Choo	3100	Puig	2700
OF	Braun	4100	Braun	4100	Ozuna	2500
	Total	34700	Total	34800	Total	34900

As you can see, I entered nine lineups, eight of which were $5 Rallys and one a $25 Grand Slam. I used three pitchers, Stephen Strasburg, Nova (who's toast) and Noah Syndergaard. I actually didn't mean to use Syndergaard, but must have clicked on him accidentally when intending to use Strasburg.

It reminds me of a story I heard in college about Samuel Beckett taking dictation from a then-blind James Joyce for one of Joyce's books. Apparently Joyce was dictating, Beckett typing, and someone came into the office, exchanged some words with Joyce and left. A few minutes later, Beckett realized he had typed the exchange into the book and told Joyce about his mistake. Joyce thought for a second, then told him to leave it in.

If it's good enough for literary greats, it's good enough for a $5 DFS entry.

Otherwise, my most commonly owned players are: Yasiel Puig (6),Mike Trout (5), Kolten Wong (5) and Ryan Braun (4).