DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Lineups

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Published on June 12, 2015

I put in another 16 today, 12 of which were $5 MLB Rally entries, one each for the Tout Wars and RotoWire contests and two $25 50/50s. While I typically prefer tournaments, the 50/50s should get more interesting if I risk more money. Here are the lineups:

Pos	RWBC	$	Tout Wars	$	$25 50/50	$	$25 50/50	$
P	Kershaw	12000	Hernandez	11800	Kershaw	12000	Kershaw	12000
C	Zunino	2200	Gomes	2500	Lucroy	2600	Gomes	2500
1B	Ortiz	2400	Alvarez	2800	Abreu	3800	Ortiz	2400
2B	Franklin	2300	Cano	2400	Cano	2400	Dozier	3900
3B	Sandoval	2200	Longoria	3100	Longoria	3100	Longoria	3100
SS	Escobar	2300	Bogaerts	2500	Ramirez	2200	Semien	2300
OF	McCutch.	4800	Marte	3800	Cain	2500	Cruz	3600
OF	Marte	3800	Polanco	3000	Marte	3800	Cuddyer	2500
OF	Polanco	3000	Jackson	2800	Yelich	2500	Calhoun	2700
	Total	35000	Total	34700	Total	34900	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Kershaw	12000	Kershaw	12000	Kershaw	12000	Kershaw	12000
C	Zunino	2200	Cervelli	2800	Zunino	2200	Gomes	2500
1B	Ortiz	2400	Alvarez	2800	Abreu	3800	Ortiz	2400
2B	Franklin	2300	Cano	2400	Cano	2400	Cano	2400
3B	Sandoval	2200	Harrison	3100	Sandoval	2200	Prado	2600
SS	Escobar	2300	Flores	2500	Ramirez	2200	Ramirez	2200
OF	McCutch.	4800	Trumbo	2900	Harper	5500	Stanton	5200
OF	Marte	3800	Jackson	2800	Cabrera	2200	Yelich	2500
OF	Polanco	3000	Cruz	3600	Yelich	2500	Ozuna	3200
	Total	35000	Total	34900	Total	35000	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Kershaw	12000	Kershaw	12000	Kershaw	12000	Hernandez	11800
C	Gomes	2500	Martin	3500	Zunino	2200	Zunino	2200
1B	Abreu	3800	Ortiz	2400	Vargas	2300	Abreu	3800
2B	Forsythe	2800	Franklin	2300	Dozier	3900	Cano	2400
3B	Longoria	3100	Sandoval	2200	Plouffe	2700	Sandoval	2200
SS	Ramirez	2200	Bogaerts	2500	Escobar	2300	Ramirez	2200
OF	Guyer	2200	Bautista	5100	Hunter	3100	Harper	5500
OF	Garcia	3100	Colabello	2800	Cruz	3600	Cabrera	2200
OF	Souza	3300	Guyer	2200	Jackson	2800	Yelich	2500
	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	34900	Total	34800

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Hernandez	11800	Hernandez	11800	Hernandez	11800	Bumgarner	10600
C	Lucroy	2600	Zunino	2200	Gomes	2500	Gomes	2500
1B	Abreu	3800	Fielder	3700	Alvarez	2800	Abreu	3800
2B	Forsythe	2800	Cano	2400	Cano	2400	Cano	2400
3B	Longoria	3100	Seager	3400	Longoria	3100	Longoria	3100
SS	Ramirez	2200	Andrus	2600	Bogaerts	2500	Ramirez	2200
OF	Guyer	2200	DeShields	3300	Marte	3800	Harper	5500
OF	Garcia	3100	Choo	3300	Polanco	3000	Yelich	2500
OF	Souza	3300	Guyer	2200	Jackson	2800	Cabrera	2200
	Total	34900	Total	34900	Total	34700	Total	34800

Notes:

I used only three pitchers - Kershaw in 10, Hernandez in five and Bumgarner in one lineup.

For one of the $25 50/50s, I put in Kershaw and Longoria as my "locks" and let the RotoWire Optimizer pick the rest (it's the one with Ortiz and Dozier at the far right of the top table.) It's the first time I've used any kind of formula or algorithm for these picks.

I have Cano in nine lineups against lefty Brett Oberholtzer because Cano's cheap, and Oberholtzer for some reason has more trouble with lefties than righties. Other heavily used players include: Alexei Ramirez (7), Longoria (7), Zunino (6), Yan Gomes (5), Yelich (5), Sandoval (5) and Ortiz (5).