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This article focuses primarily on 3-Man snake draft strategy. Reason being is that you can easily apply this information to H2H as well as widen up to 4-Man contests, which is the average size of the daily GPPs. I’m going to break down what I saw in 20-30 drafts today and how we can exploit our opponents using our tools over on DFS Army.
Quick Trends (20 game sample)
- One pitcher went first round 100% of the time
- Two pitchers went first round 90% of the time
- With only four game son the slate (since NYY/WAS already PPD), there was a huge core of players picked every time in nearly the same order.
- The top of BOS lineup was drafted 100% of the time
Draft Projections & Rankings
Here’s the default draft rankings by position in Draft for their top positions. While most of these would be solid plays, they are vastly different than our projections and grades we developed in house at DFS Army where take into account many different metrics that these do not. Combining our brand new Starting Lineups Page, Domination Station, Articles, and research station, you can quickly see where some players in absolute smash spots should be drafted higher than what’s on this list.
Did you miss my 2 part strategy piece on Play Draft? Find it here —> Draft Strategy Guide to Pitching and Hitting
Strategy
- BOS bats should be your main focus if you want them. I recommended Betts over Martinez simply because OF has more scarcity today than IF
- I think there’s three solid pitching options tonight. However, if you want to differentiate your pitching options, Sale and Verlander were averaging being picked in the first round 100% of the time. You’ll need to reach for one in order to get some hedging for your pitchers
- %15 of the time, people went for a full 4 bat BPS stack when they could. I’m never sold on a 4 bat stack in a cash style game personally.
- Markakis was mostly ignored, but according to our Trends page, he’s making a lot of contact recently. Coupled with Chatwood being on the mound, it could be a late round grab that wins you your contests tonight.
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