Today’s May 8th MLB slate is of modest size at only 7 games. Vincent Velasquez, Dylan Bundy, and Cristian Javier take the lead in the DFS Army KScore category as the only pitchers carrying a numbers over 525. But note, even Velasquez is topping out at only 560 and few pitchers carry a 500+ KScore. It’s not a dominant pitching slate setup even if we do see dominant performances from someone. Our bottom-feeders are plenty with at least 5 pitchers priced below $6000 on Fanduel. We can easily plan to stack against all of them in some fashion and scrape the bottom of the talent pool offered on this slate.
The DFS Army crew has you covered today with tools and content all day long. Starting with our Full Count slate breakdown, grabbing an overview of the slate has never been faster.
Our Leverage Stacks and Ownership Report rank the best offenses to stack.
And, the detailed notes in our MLB Cheatsheets show you exactly where to gain leverage over the field in your big money tournaments.
Oct 27, 2019; Washington, DC, USA; Houston Astros left fielder Yordan Alvarez (44) celebrates with shortstop Carlos Correa (1) and first baseman Yuli Gurriel (10) after hitting a two run during the second inning against the Washington Nationals in game five of the 2019 World Series at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports
MLB DFS Tournament Winning Power Picks
Baseball is a streaky, volatile sport. Choosing those hot hitters often comes down to matchups and short sample statistics pointing out batters currently on a tear. Below is a list of players hitting for high wOBAs and ISOs over a 14-day stretch. Look into these hitters tonight when constructing your lineups. Some are obviously chalk, while others will be flying well under public radars…
Arizona Diamondbacks – Josh Rojas
Atlanta Braves – Ozzie Albies, William Contreras
Boston Red Sox – Xander Bogaerts, JD Martinez, Kevin Plawecki
Baltimore Orioles – Austin Hays, Cedric Mullins, Freddy Galvis
Houston Astros – Yordan Alvarez, Yuli Gurriel
Anaheim Angels – Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani
Los Angeles Dodgers – Chris Taylor, AJ Pollock
New York Mets – Michael Conforto, Kevin Pillar
Philadelphia Phillies – Bryce Harper
Texas Rangers – Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Willie Calhoun
Toronto Blue Jays – Marcus Semien
These above names are hitting over .400 wOBAs and over .200 ISOs over the last two weeks. I want more of these players in my lineups, and as a result, I will boost/adore every name above in our Domination Station Optimizer as part of my daily process.
Team Offenses with MLB Tournament Winning Upside Tonight!
Correlation is king in MLB DFS, especially when it comes to winning a big tournament. Stacking up multiple hot hitters from the same team is by far the most common technique to leverage fantasy points. Which formations work best on tonight’s slate? We back-tested over two years worth of slates and put together a hyper-simple graphic showing the optimal MLB stacking formations.
Arizona Diamondbacks – 733
Atlanta Braves – 717
Houston Astros – 697
Texas Rangers – 681
LA Dodgers – 650
Above are the top 5 WScores combining a pitcher’s tendency to give up production and an opposing offense’s ability to create production. These teams are in position to potentially unload tonight.
Top Chalk Offenses to Consider Fading
MLB DFS is the ultimate contrarian sport. The goal to winning a life-changing tournament is NOT to build the optimal lineup like so many sites try to teach you. The goal to win life-changing money is to score the most points! That sounds the same, but it is quite different. In baseball, we often build sub-optimal lineups that have similar chances to scoring the most points in a given night to dodge the popular “chalk.” The chalk fails in MLB DFS more than any other sport, which leaves us tremendous opportunity in taking a road slightly less traveled for the nights we are right and the sinking Titanic drags large chunks of the population to the bottom of the ocean with it as it sinks.
Atlanta Braves – 156
Houston Astros – 100
Texas Rangers – 82
But, don’t forget the huge slates really disperse ownerships. It’s not hard to get “unique” on large slates, and you can even get away with hardly worrying about it at all.
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