Every Saturday morning I post two Sunday DFS lineups on Medium and talk strategy. I don’t post them for you to copy player for player, I post them so that you can see my thought process and apply my strategies to your own lineups. Then, every Tuesday night, we recap the lineups and see what went right and went wrong and where we can improve.
If you listened to the podcast last week, you know I don’t believe in “picks.” Every DFS lineup should be a complete work — an oeuvre if you will. Google it, you illiterate fucks. So instead of giving you a bullshit, made-up “start em, sit em” list based on nothing except how I felt that day, I give you two cohesive lineups to drool over and study relentlessly.
Here are the results of this week’s lineups:
First, the bad. We struck out on Ed Dickson. I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen triple-zeros out of one of my players. But, like I said on the podcast, a bad game out of him didn’t kill us.
On to the good. Two relatively different lineups, finishing within ONE FUCKING PASSING YARD of each other. In darts and shooting, that’s called grouping and it demonstrates control.
If you simply copy and pasted my lineups (which I don’t condone) you would have doubled up easily in a 50/50 league and hit the money in most smaller tournaments. In the deeper tourneys on Yahoo, the lineups missed the cash by 2 points (or one AD garbage-time fumble… that motherfucker.)
I told you on the podcast that I HATE paying up for QBs. Looking at the two lineups, you can see why. Almost every week I can find a QB priced in the bottom tiers that can match a decent game by the top-tier options. If he doesn’t, I don’t care as much, since his low price allowed me to pay up at other positions. Wilson was priced at $37, Cutler at $21. That’s $16 in savings that allowed me to go up from Vernon Davis and Seattle to get Dez Bryant and Jacksonville. Even though the final result ended up nearly the same, don’t forget that Dez left the KCvsDAL game in the 4th quarter, before the game was in hand and Dak Prescott was still throwing. Had he not been injured, the Cutler lineup could have scored even higher.
The big take away from this week is that you don’t need a high-priced QB to score big points. And even though Jay Cutler’s chances of bringing home a Wilson-esque 40 point bonanza are near-nill, we still got good enough production to keep winning money. We’re gonna pay down this Sunday at QB again. Tune into the podcast Friday night to find out where we go next.
