DFS Amateur Hour - Friday Night Lineups

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Published on June 19, 2015

I'm going on vacation for a couple weeks on Monday, so these are my last lineups until July. Accordingly, I set 20 of them - might as well have a last hurrah before I take off:

Pos	$25 HtoH	$	$25 50/50	$	$10 Rally	$	Tout Wars	$
P	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Sale	11000
C	Lucroy	3200	Molina	2700	Lucroy	3200	Perez	2500
1B	Votto	4000	Davis	3400	Smoak	2900	Votto	4000
2B	Cano	2200	Hill	2200	Hill	2200	Cano	2200
3B	Machado	3800	Carpenter	3400	Ramirez	3000	Frazier	5200
SS	Ramirez	2200	Segura	3200	Segura	3200	Ramirez	2200
OF	Yelich	3000	Brantley	3500	Braun	4600	Bruce	3300
OF	Bruce	3300	Yelich	3000	Gose	2500	Beltran	2300
OF	Beltran	2300	Gose	2500	Cabrera	2300	Cabrera	2300
	Total	35000	Total	34900	Total	34900	Total	35000

Pos	RWBC	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Gray	10100	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Sale	11000
C	Wieters	3400	Molina	2700	Castillo	2400	Perez	2500
1B	Davis	3400	Votto	4000	Teixeira	3700	Votto	4000
2B	Wong	2900	Wong	2900	Cano	2200	Cano	2200
3B	Machado	3800	Carpenter	3400	Headley	2300	Frazier	5200
SS	Hardy	2300	Peralta	3500	Gregorius	2200	Ramirez	2200
OF	Yelich	3000	Beltran	2300	Braun	4600	Bruce	3300
OF	Upton	3400	Cabrera	2300	Beltran	2300	Beltran	2300
OF	Kemp	2600	Kemp	2600	Springer	4300	Cabrera	2300
	Total	34900	Total	34700	Total	35000	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Sale	11000
C	Martinez	3100	Hundley	3100	Castillo	2400	Montero	2800
1B	Cabrera	5400	Paulsen	3100	Goldschmidt	5800	Rizzo	4300
2B	Kinsler	3200	Cano	2200	Hill	2200	Hill	2200
3B	Headley	2300	Headley	2300	Sandoval	2700	Bryant	4100
SS	Ramirez	2200	Tulo.	4600	Bogaerts	2500	Ramirez	2200
OF	Gose	2500	Gonzalez	4000	Tomas	3000	Fowler	3300
OF	Kemp	2600	Cabrera	2300	Betts	2900	Kemp	2600
OF	Beltran	2300	Beltran	2300	Gose	2500	Gose	2500
	Total	34600	Total	34900	Total	35000	Total	35000

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Sale	11000	Gray	10100
C	Lucroy	3200	Lucroy	3200	Navarro	2200	Wieters	3400
1B	Abreu	3600	Davis	3400	Morrison	2300	Davis	3400
2B	Dozier	4100	Hill	2200	Cano	2200	Wong	2900
3B	Plouffe	2700	Ramirez	3000	Arenado	4300	Machado	3800
SS	Ramirez	2200	Segura	3200	Tulo.	4600	Hardy	2300
OF	Garcia	2700	Braun	4600	Gonzalez	4000	Yelich	3000
OF	Buxton	2300	Rios	2200	Pagan	2200	Upton	3400
OF	Rosario	2600	Parmalee	2200	Parmalee	2200	Kemp	2600
	Total	34400	Total	35000	Total	35000	Total	34900

Pos	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$	$5 Rally	$
P	Lyons	6700	de la Rosa	7000	deGrom	10800	deGrom	10800
C	Castillo	2400	Wieters	3400	Lucroy	3200	Grandal	3000
1B	Encarn.	3900	Davis	3400	Abreu	3600	Gonzalez	3100
2B	Cano	2200	Hill	2200	Hill	2200	Hill	2200
3B	Donaldson	4600	Machado	3800	Ramirez	3000	Ramirez	3000
SS	Reyes	3700	Flores	2800	Segura	3200	Castro	2600
OF	Yelich	3000	Jones	3400	Murphy	2200	Puig	4000
OF	Bruce	3300	Braun	4600	Braun	4600	Pederson	3700
OF	Bautista	5100	Springer	4300	Parmalee	2200	Kemp	2600
	Total	34900	Total	34900	Total	35000	Total	35000

As usual, I went heavy on the chalky starter - Chris Sale is in 14 of the 20 lineups. I used two with Sonny Gray, two with Jacob deGrom and one each with Tyler Lyons (a -195 favorite according to Vegas) and Rubby de la Rosa (maybe he'll strike out eight or nine Padres at home.)

For the hitters, I stacked as many plausible upside teams as I could and filled in with some anchor players I thought were good values like Robinson Cano (of course, he's worth $2,200), Aaron Hill (has crushed James Shields in their head-to-head matchups over 36 at-bats), Ryan Braun vs. a lefty at Coors (he's also crushed de la Rosa historically), and the usual suspects, Melky Cabrera and Carlos Beltran. Beltran's had a tough time with Justin Verlander, but I don't make much of that because they guy against whom he struggled doesn't exist anymore.

Finally, I played a heads-up contest for $25 against some guy whose handle is 007_fan. It's the first time I've done a heads-up contest - I'm probably a big underdog.