I bought in for $40 and cashed for $20, meaning I'm down to $1005.60. That's a lot of lineup setting and blogging over the last two months for $5.60.

I also left Buster Posey in four of my eight lineups tonight, and about 10 minutes after the early games started (and the tournament locked) I realized he wasn't playing. I haven't done that often - left in a sitting player - but it's bound to happen now and then because the late lineups often come out only 20-30 minutes before the early games start, the tournament locks and I'm busy blogging/posting at that time. It only potentially cost me a few dollars tonight - only one of the four lineups was on the cusp of cashing, but I would have been aghast if the other catchers I might have used went off, and it was the difference between say $100 and $1000.

Overall, the task feels like it's getting easier though. Pick a few pitchers and stacks, put them in one tournament and hope you connect with the flop. One area in which I can improve is being bolder with my choices in big tournaments, especially for slates like tonight when the starting pitching is weak. I knew stacking Braves against Tim Lincecum was a good idea, as was stacking Dodgers against Michael Wacha, but I didn't do it. On a short slate with no aces, it seems like a lower score can win, and that's when the oddball stacks make more sense. In fact, tonight the guy who won $7000 had just 52.75 points.