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Pretty solid. But if you could get a better pass catcher than Hill, it would be perfect.

"Undisputed wrote:

Pretty solid. But if you could get a better pass catcher than Hill, it would be perfect.

I was thinking that too. Maybe Matt Forte. The thing I love about Forte, no matter what, he has value in that bears offense. If you're ahead, he can grind. If you're behind, he can catch. There's always possibilities for points with him.

I'm trying out Draftkings for the first time this year. I'm pretty excited to see how it all works and where I place each week. I feel pretty confident in my Fantasy Football knowledge but optimizing the line up under the cap was harder than I expected week 1.

I'm trying out fanduel really for the first time.

Since we're all new to daily fantasy, lets track our results throughout the year.

"Boik14 wrote:

I'm trying out fanduel really for the first time.

me too.

"Clark Kent wrote:

I'm trying out Daily fantasy this season. I'm stick w/$1-$2 dollar contests while I acclimate myself to the format. Trying out Yahoo's since they were offering 200% bonuses.

I have 4 $1 lineups entered into tournament play. Scoring is .5 PPR. $200 dollars per team. I've got 1 GB packers stack (Rodgers, Lacy, Cobb, Adams), 1 Dolphin stack (Tannehill, Miller, and Landry), and one balanced team. No splashy super stars, just all around solid players at every position. I also have a wildcard team.

EDIT: New Wildcard team.

QB: Tyrod Taylor ($20)
RB: Lamar Miller ($27)
RB: Matt Forte ($33)
WR: Dez Bryant ($32)
WR: AJ Green ($28)
WR: John Brown ($17)
TE: Martellus Bennet ($20)
Flex: Tyler Lockett ($10)
Def: Seattle ($13)

Miller's match-up scares me a little this week so I personally steered clear. I'm starting small, too- 10 bets from a $15 bankroll.

I did one upside bet with Tyrod Taylor.....

QB- Tyrod
RB- Lacy
RB- Abdullah
WR- Julio
WR- Dez
WR-ODB
TE- Eifert
K- McMannus
D- Tenn

WTF, there's one dude on Fan Duel with 200 bets on the 250k Sunday Blitz, 100$ entry.

There's another player named zzzImSleeping with 24,000 wins since last April...... 82,000 wins total.

"ToddPhin wrote:

WTF, there's one dude on Fan Duel with 200 bets on the 250k Sunday Blitz, 100$ entry.

There's another player named zzzImSleeping with 24,000 wins since last April...... 82,000 wins total.

I aspire to win 82000 times lol

"Boik14 wrote:

I aspire to win 82000 times lol

The thought of you... sitting in your dusty old recliner at the old folks home... oxygen tank on full output... stomping your cane on the floor for that one last victory needed to reack 82k before the hourglass runs out. :lol:

If I don't finish in the green today on Fan Duel with the 7 lineups I have, then these other guys are a bunch of ringers and I've got no business gambling on fantasy football ever again. :burp:

All I have to say is that my 3 teams on Draft kings today were an complete embarrassment. Unless Julio puts up about 100 fantasy points tomorrow.

fuggin' Dez. :pity:

.... and fuggin' ODB, A.J Green, and Calvin Johnson, too. I built my teams around those guys going off and putting me over the top, and then they all sh** the bed when it looked like I was set to cash in heavily on bets.

I'm up $24 dollars at the moment... Nice. Mostly from the $10 entry, 1 million dollar kickoff I decided to enter into, right now, I'm making money in every contest I entered expect 1 (3/4). .That could change tomorrow as I'm sure a lot of people are playing players from the two Monday night games... As am I though. Jordan Matthews is on 2/3 teams. And Vernon Davis is on one. Hopefully, it all works out.

Players who were huge for me today:
Eifert: The cheapest TE ($13) who had the highest upside and best match up. Glad I went w/him on a couple of teams.
Ingram: Decided to flex him on one team. Had an overall good day.
Forte: Great day. About to CJ Anderson the league in his contract year.
Ivory: Cheap ($17) and had a good matchup. 2 TD's FTW.
Hill: Might be my favorite RB this season in terms of production.

Players who I hate:
Lamar Miller: Or Bill Lazor more accurately.
Matthew Stafford. You have a WR nicknamed after a ****ing evil transformer because he's such a monster, being covered by a 5'9" CB and you target him 4 times? **** you, Stafford. Lots of big-time WR were disappointing today. Beckham, Megatron, Dez, all did jack ****. Cobb luckily got a TD or else he would have done jack **** too.

The Top half of my roster really **** the bed. I ran with Tannehill(12.74) thinking he was poised for a huge day.. we all know how that turned out. Forsett(9.6) didn't have a great day, and Davante Adams(9.9) wasn't as productive as I thought he might be.

Julio has yet to play, Landry (20.7), Witten (26), Stevie Johnson(20.2), Dolphins DST(15) are really holding me up right now.
I'm 13 points behind the money mark but other teams have players tomorrow also so I don't think i'll be able to catch up this week.

Well, I 'm ranked 446th out of 15000 on FanDuel, which translates to $100. but I expect to drop further after the MNF games tonight.

lineup:
QB Tom Brady
RB Eddie Lacy
RB Latavius Murray
WR Markus Wheaton
WR Jarvis Landry
WR Davante Adams
TE Rob Gronkowski
K Dan Carpenter
D Miami Dolphins

I'm going to start playing more H2H games to win the small bucks each week (easier IMO) which will pay for the bigger contests. currently up 123 to 88 in my H2H contest and he has 1 WR playing and I have DeMarco Murray playing tonight

H2H lineup:

QB Tyrod Taylor
RB Eddie Lacy
RB DeMarco Murray
WR Dez Bryant
WR DeAndre Hopkins
WR Davante Adams
TE Travis Kelce
K Mason Crosby
D Miami Dolphins

"Ohio Fanatic wrote:

Well, I 'm ranked 446th out of 15000 on FanDuel, which translates to $100. but I expect to drop further after the MNF games tonight.

lineup:
QB Tom Brady
RB Eddie Lacy
RB Latavius Murray
WR Markus Wheaton
WR Jarvis Landry
WR Davante Adams
TE Rob Gronkowski
K Dan Carpenter
D Miami Dolphins

I'm going to start playing more H2H games to win the small bucks each week (easier IMO) which will pay for the bigger contests. currently up 123 to 88 in my H2H contest and he has 1 WR playing and I have DeMarco Murray playing tonight

H2H lineup:

QB Tyrod Taylor
RB Eddie Lacy
RB DeMarco Murray
WR Dez Bryant
WR DeAndre Hopkins
WR Davante Adams
TE Travis Kelce
K Mason Crosby
D Miami Dolphins

What dollar amounts are you betting?

I'm at 95.8 pts in the Million Dollar Rush /[$5] and 99 points in the 100k Sunday Rush [$2] with Bradford, Julio Jones, and Jordan Matthews still to play. If they have strong games, I could conceivably finish with 160-175 pts.... and possibly reach 150 pts in 2 other leagues.

Something you might find interesting
Avg minimum winning score in 50/50 Leagues: 111.2
Avg Best Score: 159.8

Avg minimum winning score in Head-to-Head: 120.4
Avg Best Score: 171.53

Avg minimum winning score in FanDuel Leagues (typically 10-20 teams): 125.8
Avg Best Score: 160.5

Avg minimum winning score in Multipliers (triple-ups, quadruple-ups, quintuple-ups): 123.8
Avg Best Score: 164.6

Avg minimum winning score in FanDuel Tournaments: 121.9
Avg Best Score: 177.4

Avg minimum winning score in Satellites: 140.3
Avg Best Score: 183.7

"ToddPhin wrote:

What dollar amounts are you betting?

I'm at 95.8 pts in the Million Dollar Rush /[$5] and 99 points in the 100k Sunday Rush [$2] with Bradford, Julio Jones, and Jordan Matthews still to play. If they have strong games, I could conceivably finish with 160-175 pts.... and possibly reach 150 pts in 2 other leagues.

Something you might find interesting
Avg minimum winning score in 50/50 Leagues: 111.2
Avg Best Score: 159.8

Avg minimum winning score in Head-to-Head: 120.4
Avg Best Score: 171.53

Avg minimum winning score in FanDuel Leagues (typically 10-20 teams): 125.8
Avg Best Score: 160.5

Avg minimum winning score in Multipliers (triple-ups, quadruple-ups, quintuple-ups): 123.8
Avg Best Score: 164.6

Avg minimum winning score in FanDuel Tournaments: 121.9
Avg Best Score: 177.4

Avg minimum winning score in Satellites: 140.3
Avg Best Score: 183.7

Nice. I bet $25 on the 350K pool and $5 on the H2H game.

fuuuuuuuuk!!! :tantrum: Philly not challenging the apparent Jordan Matthews TD where it looked like he got the ball inside the pylon just cost me about $300. 6 pts deprived from Matthews and 4 pts from Bradford.

I'm up $105 on my initial $15 startup, winning 6 of 7 entries. Gonna roll it all into next week.

https://dailyfantasynerd.com/optimizer/yahoo/nfl?week=1

These stats are super ****ing interesting/awesome... All the work I put into this week and I had about the same score as this guys optimal lineup. I didn't sign up for a premium account (I might though...), but even if that doesn't interest anyone, his stats are free and are worth checking out. Invaluable in terms of saving time. I did a lot of leg work (and some educated guessing, based on players I like this season) for nothing this week lol. It was ALL right there. The legend/ley is the "?" mark on the right of his stat database. Complete w/projections and a value rating. Going to try his optimal lineup this week (you get one free) when his projections come up Wednesday. My other teams will be my own. Will make sure to put up all my teams this week and show which is which.

Has Fanduel, draftkings, and yahoo projections FYI

well, lost my two fantasy leagues I care about with my friends but did pretty well in my four FanDuel and Draft Kings leagues. even won one I thought I had lost

FanDuel - weekly: $80 ($25 entry)
FanDuel - H2H: $9 ($5 entry)
DraftKings - weekly: $22 ($5 entry)
DraftKings - MNF lineup: $7 ($3 entry)

also won $40 for first place in my office league pickem pool

going to roll it all over to next week as well

Ended up taking $23 from my 3 draft kings lineups. And came 101st out of top100 payout for the third lineup lol. Pretty happy for first time.

Week 2. Looking @ yahoo cost values for players, this week looks tougher to predict than week 1.

It's early. All is subject to change based on a number of variables. It's only Tuesday... BUT guys I like this week.

-QB-

1. Philip Rivers $32): Before his severe rib and back injuries in 2014, Rivers was on pace for 4600 hundred yards, 40 TD's/10 INT, 70% completion through 8 games last year. I've ALWAYS been on the Rivers bandwagon, back when he was a prospect and before he jumped up the boards, I wanted Miami to draft him in 2004 w/our 20th pick. I feel he's very underrated because of "his" W/L record, despite not having much talent on the oline, WR's, RB's, since the mid-2000's. There truly is a Dan Marino comparison to be made for Rivers in terms of what their career trajectory looked like. Both guys had talent on offense entering the league, both had some success (Marino more than Rivers, obviously), and a few years into their careers, their talent deteriorated/left town and their W/L records starting evening out. Agree or disagree w/me on that subject, I like Rivers and for $32 bucks? Yes please. Already has a 400 yard game. Running game can't be relied on, and is weapons are pretty good this year. Best Value + Talent. Even though Cinci's D is decent enough, Rivers will have great fantasy numbers if for no other reason than volume. He will be on at least one of my DFS teams.

2. Drew Brees ($43): Home game vs. Tampa. Tampa made Mariota look like Aaron Rodgers. Played well (355 yards 1TD/1INT) on the road vs. a good Arizona defense. That TD/INT ratio should look more like 3:1 or 4:1. But Mark Ingram got a ton of RZ attempts in NO last year... That could lower this number.
3. Carson Palmer ($34): Looked good. W/o Ellington this week, but the Johnson RB's should be servicable. Bears D really shocked me in week 1 in terms of D play... Legit or not?
4. Sam Bradford ($42): Home v. Dallas. Likes to throw and I don't think Dallas is capable of stopping this offense on the road.
5. Ryan Tannehill ($39): Scared off after week 1? Fair enough, I guess. Strong matchup @ Jax. Tannehill has pretty bad road stats, however... Low floor, high ceiling.
6. Matt Stafford ($37): High potent offense, especially if Ebron is the real deal. Very rarely do TE's have good rookie years. Gronk was the Dan Marino of rookie TE's.
7. Nick Foles ($29): Cheapest legit QB 1. Risky because his weapons are suspect (Tavon, Bailey, Cunningham, Cook) in terms of consistency. Can they keep it up? Vs. Seattle, he played pretty well. Washington isn't Seattle, despite Washington having a good/underrated front 7.

I didn't get to see the Viks @ 49ers. Did Minnesota's defense look good or did SF offense/QB look bad? Zimmer is a good defensive coach and they've got young talent, but I'm not sure how to rate Minnesota's defense at this point. Certainly, that will factor in my Stafford opinion.