Hunter Stokes (Chief Writer/Part Owner) 

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One of the biggest blunders made by many gamblers is betting against themselves.  We are going to simplify the process, so if you win, you can really win – none of this barely break even nonsense.

Our new Draft Strategy is now here.  Please read after the post.  You can use our formula for your own wanted and given stacks and pitchers.  This process wheels them all in alignment.

Now here is what we are going to do for today’s MLB DFS FanDuel style.

We Will Give You – Daily

3 – 7 team stacking options ( We are going to draw most of our players from these squads).

3 – 5 Pitching candidates (High level, midlevel and budget). 

We enter another 4 days before the  ALL Star Break where we have 4 straight slates that will carry Coors Field on them.  We are always going to advise doing a bunch of team stacks wheeled with each other, including Colorado, and we are also recommending you enter all single entry (or low entries max tournaments.)

You at least have a fighting chance to won some money playing FanDuel, with a heavy emphasis on HRs and pitcher wins.  Forget about playing against all of the sharps and rosters on DraftKings. Below we have a full write up on Coors Field for you to read.

Read our latest article about playing against Coors Field nights.

If you decide to play, we have you covered. 

July 8, 2016: All 15 Games on the main slate (We Don’t Advise Playing Coors Field Slates In Either FanDuel or DraftKings for just a few rosters in GPP’s, and if you want to avoid the sharps, please head to www.fanpicks.com – and use the PROMO CODE: HELP25  – to start playing against normal players that are just looking to play a few dollars)

Stacking Options  – Todays Rankings

Colorado Rockies vs Vincent Velasquez

Philadelphia Phillies vs Jon Gray

Toronto Blue Jays vs Mike Pelfrey

Boston Red Sox vs Chris Archer

Miami Marlins vs Dan Straily

Chicago White Sox vs Matt Wisler

San Diego Padres vs Scott Kazmir

5 Pitchers to use

We believe the Jake Arrieta (who has owned the Bucs) and Chris Sale will be vying to be the AL and NL Starters Tuesday and throw great games on Friday night.  Since we are playing 7 team stacks – and need some cheap options, we are also implementing Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma and Andrew Cashner to help pay for those bats.  This will be our first ever 7 team stacks and 5 pitchers wheeled rosters for 105 total entries.

We are also fading Stephen Strasburg and Noah Syndergaard, as we think they both will cancel each other out, and both have battled minor injuries of late, while the other guys have a much easier task to pick up that all important Win for 12 FPP.

Jake Arrieta, CHC @ PIT, $11, 300 (NLWC game last year, and this year combined,  has only allowed 2 ERA in his last 4 GS vs Pittsburgh over his last 4 starts).)

Chris Sale, ATL @ CWS, $11, 000 ( A club that has the worst record in the Majors, vs a flamethrowing LHP, that is 14 – 2.)

Jeff Samardzija, ARI @ SF, $9100 (Samardzija always throws a lot of innings, and the Giants have the best record in baseball, which is a perfect recipe for this mid-tier pitcher)

Hisashi Iwakuma, SEA @ KC, $8500 (The Royals couldn’t hit Marcus Stroman the other night, and are barely putting out a representative offense with the injuries they have currently.

Andrew Cashner, SD @ LAD, $6300 (The play here is to use this guy, but also have Adrian Gonzalez face him in several of your 105 rosters.  AG has crushed 4 HRs and walked 5 times – with a 1.182 OPS vs the Padres RHP.  At $6300, and San Diego scoring a lot of runs of late, and killing LHP, this is your best cheap option.)

Team Stacks will most likely have 3 – 4 players on each club and is preferred if they are in order of the batting lineup.  In some case ministacks of 2 – with them back to back in the Batting Order can be used in expensive player picks.

COL/PHI ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

COL/TOR ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

COL/BOS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

COL/MIA ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

COL/CWS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

COL/SD ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

PHI/TOR ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

PHI/BOS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

PHI/MIA ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

PHI/CWS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

PHI/SD ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

TOR/BOS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

TOR/MIA ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

TOR/CWS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

TOR/SD ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

BOS/MIA ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

BOS/CWS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

BOS/SD ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

MIA/CWS ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

MIA/SD ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

CWS/SD ( Jake Arrieta, Chris Sale, Jeff Samardzija, Hisashi Iwakuma, Andrew Cashner, = 5 Rosters per 2 team stack)

These are just 5 of the 105 Lineups we will construct for the night (7 team stacks wheeled x 5 pitchers, in the end, each of the 7 teams will have 30 rosters, so each player will be listed a lot of (12  – 15 ) times each.  If you like the conventional way of selecting players. we refer you to dailyrotohelp.com (our partner website for a great list of player to select from, that isn’t exclusive to team stacks).

Sample Lineup 1

P  – Jake Arrieta, CHC @ PIT, $11, 300

C  –  Derek Norris, SD @ LAD, $2600

1B – Wil Myers.  SD @ LAD, $3300

2B – Dustin Pedroia, TB @ BOS, $3400

3B –  Aaron Hill, TB @ BOS, $3000 (With the trade over to the Red Sox, I would be surprised if he wasn’t in the lineup Friday, Martin Prado, CIN @ MIA, $2800 as backup.)

SS –  Carlos Correa, OAK @ HOU, $2900 ( Not sure who is sleeping at the wheel at FanDuel, but this is the bargain of the night.  He will probably be owned (with Springer, on about 35% of the rosters, but this is great salary relief)

OF  – George Springer, OAK @ HOU, $3100 ( Not sure who is sleeping at the wheel at FanDuel, but this is the bargain of the night.  He will probably be owned (with Correa, on about 35% of the rosters, but this is great salary relief)

OF – Matt Kemp, SD @ LAD, $3300

OF –  Bryce Brentz, TB @ BOS, $2100

$35, 00, 000 ($0 left)

Sample Lineup 2

P  – Chris Sale, ATL @ CWS, $11, 000

C  – Nick Hundley, PHI @ COL, $3400

1B – Jose Abreu. ATL @ CWS, $2800

2B –  Brett Lawrie. ATL @ CWS, $3100

3B – Martin Prado, CIN @ MIA, $2800

SS – Adeiny Hechavarria,  CIN @ MIA, $2800

OF  – Christian Yelich, CIN @ MIA, $3200

OF – Giancarlo Stanton, CIN @ MIA, $3600

OF – Adam Eaton, ATL @ CWS, $3100

$35, 000, 000 ($0 left)

Sample Lineup 3

P –  Jeff Samardzija, ARI @ SF, $9100

C  – Sandy Leon, TB @ BOS, $2600 (Matt Wieters, LAA @ BAL, $2600 as backup.)

1B – Jose Abreu, ATL @ CWS, $2800

2B – Cesar Hernandez, PHI @ COL, $3000

3B – Maikel Franco,  PHI @ COL, $4000

SS –  Troy Tulowitzki, DET @ TOR, $3200

OF  – Michael Saunders, DET @ TOR, $3900

OF –  Ezequiel Carrera,  DET @ TOR, $3200

OF –  Cody Asche,  PHI @ COL, $3200

$35, 000, 000 ($0 left)

Sample Lineup 4

P – Hisashi Iwakuma, SEA @ KC, $8500

C  – J.T. Realmuto, CIN @ MIA, $3400

1B – Chris Johnson, CIN @ MIA, $2400

2B – DJ Lemahieu, PHI @ COL, $3700

3B – Nolan Arenado, PHI @ COL, $4700

SS –  Trevor Story, PHI @ COL, $3500

OF  – Marcell Ozuna, CIN @ MIA, $3600

OF – Eddie Rosario, MIN @ TEX, $2000 (Lots of $2000 OF should be available to us if NS Friday night on 15 game slate)

OF – Brandon Barnes, PHI @ COL, $3200 (Cody Asche in the same game at same Price, but for Philly, as backup)

$35, 000, 000 ($0 left)

Sample Lineup 5

P –  Andrew Cashner, SD @ LAD, $6300

C  – Cameron Rupp, PHI @ COL, $3500 (Or Carlos Ruiz at $3300)

1B – Mark Reynolds, PHI @ COL, $3700

2B – Devon Travis, DET @ TOR, $2700

3B – Pedro Alvarez, LAA @ BAL,  $2700 (should play here vs Matt Shoemaker as the DH, with not playing during the Interleague series vs Dodgers.  otherwise Hernan Perez, $2600 STL @ MIL)

SS –   Trevor Story, PHI @ COL, $3500

OF  – Peter Bourjos, PHI @ COL, $3800

OF – Charlie Blackmon. PHI @ COL, $4100

OF  – Odubel Herrera, PHI @ COL, $4200

$35, 000, 000 ($0 left)

If you’re not familiar with the points breakdown, here’s the format utilizing a $35 million salary cap.  

Scoring System: https://www.fanduel.com/spring-training?t=lobby

1 Starting Pitcher (SP)

1 Catcher (C)

1 First Baseman (1B)

1 Second Baseman (2B)

1 Third Baseman (3B)

1 Short Stop (SS)

3 Outfielders (OF)

Game Types: https://www.fanduel.com/how-it-works

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