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DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Lineups

Another four $5 Rally lineups failed to cash Thursday, dropping my bankroll down to $1456.11. Here are the lineups for tonight:

Pos$25 GS$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PKershaw13000Kershaw13000Scherzer11500Kershaw13000
CJaso2300Gomes2600Wieters2200Gomes2600
1BZimmerman3300Cron2500Cron2500Gonzalez3100
2BUtley2400Rendon3500Utley2400Dozier3200
3BTurner3000Urshela2200Urshela2200Headley2600
SSAybar2300Aviles2200Marte3400Tulowitzki3800
OFTrout4300Trout4300Cruz5000Crawford2200
OFCrawford2200Murphy2400Gutierrez3300Moss2200
OFMoss2200Raburn2300Jackson2500Ethier2300
Total35000Total35000Total35000Total35000
Pos$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$$5 Rally$
PIglesias8000Scherzer11500Iglesias8000Nola6000
CMartinez2600Martinez2600Vogt2400Gomes2600
1BGonzalez3100Cabrera5500Cabrera5500Pujols3600
2BUtley2400Schoop2600Rendon3500Rendon3500
3BDonaldson6000Urshela2200Valencia3300Castellanos3400
SSTulowitzki3800Mercer2200Tulowitzki3800Tulowitzki3800
OFTrout4300Martinez3900Reddick2600Trout4300
OFCrawford2200Moss2200Canha3000Werth2800
OFEthier2300Ethier2300Werth2800Harper5000
Total34700Total35000Total34900Total35000

I set eight lineups total, one $25 Grand Slam and seven $5 Rallys. I'm not thrilled with these - I was rushed to get them done before the deadline, so I have bits and pieces of what I wanted to do, but didn't think them out well enough. For example, I have a Mariners stack against John Danks, but it's only in one place and attached to Max Scherzer who was probably my third or fourth favorite choice among pitchers.

All told, I used four pitchers: Clayton Kershaw (3), Scherzer (2), Raisel Iglesias (2) and Aaron Nola. Other heavily used players include: Troy Tulowitzki (4), Mike Trout (4), Yan Gomes (3), Chase Utley (3), Anthony Rendon (3), Giovanny Urshela (3), Andre Ethier (3), Brandon Moss (3) and Carl Crawford (3).