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Subject: Private FREEROLL contest for RotoGuru & DBD
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 13:23
OK - time to roll free!A Draft$treet freeroll contest exclusively for users of RotoGuru and DailyBaseballData.com has been launched! Click here to enter this free contest. The contest uses the standard Draft$treet weekly format, including games from Friday, June 3 through Thursday, June 9. Entries are open until 7:05pm ET Friday. One entry per person. The prize pool is $250, with the top 6 winning a prize ranging from $90 (1st) through $15 (6th). The full payout schedule appears on the contest entry page. When you click on the contest link in the paragraph above, you'll first have to either register (if you are not yet registered at Draft$treet) or login (if you are). You'll then be forwarded to the private contest page. You can make revisions to your entry at any time up until the first games on Friday evening, at which time all rosters will be locked for the duration of the contest. To assist you in your player analysis, the sortable stats are now loaded with the contest player salaries and position. These are the same salaries that are used for all of Draft$treet's weekly contests starting on Friday. Come on down! The more, the merrier! |
| 1 | Nuclear Gophers
ID: 5951214
Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 15:02
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I will try it.
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| 2 | JeffG
Dude
ID: 01584348
Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 13:55
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I'm in too. I mean, it is free!
Guru's daily blurbs this week talking about strategy and tips definitely caught my interest.
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| 3 | weykool
ID: 343561414
Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 14:27
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Fingers crossed, eyes closed, and darts thrown.
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| 4 | Nuclear Gophers
ID: 5951214
Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 14:34
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Since I am a bow hunter, I went that route. lol
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| 5 | R9
ID: 2854239
Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 21:46
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Tossed a few darts myself. 52nd of 78th so far, going well! ;)
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| 6 | filthy
ID: 47421515
Sat, Jun 04, 2011, 07:11
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I like this game. I've started out hot, and I get to own Bautista. I could see getting hooked on these short term leagues.
As for strategy, gotta get 2 start pitchers it seems? Find 2-3 cheap players you like and you can take your pick from whoever you want to fill out the rest of the team.
I like the pricing. It's like inheriting an $80 million dollar smallworld team, with unlimited trades. Can't quite construct the perfect roster, but you're choosing from stars still. Limited enough for the rosters to deviate.
Also there are pools where you pick just based on home runs for the week, and probably many other cool ones. This might have all been around for awhile, but it's new to me, and I like it. Very cool site.
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| 7 | weykool
ID: 53446220
Sat, Jun 04, 2011, 10:59
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I like the pricing. It's like inheriting an $80 million dollar smallworld team, with unlimited trades.
You need 85 million for the ideal roster.....at least that's what I read somewhere......
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| 8 | JKaye
Leader
ID: 01372359
Sat, Jun 04, 2011, 21:01
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I will try this (though missed tonight's deadline) Guru's comment in the blurb on a daily $5 team reminds me of creating a ladder of CD's. Kind of cool if you can re-create the daily experience.
Hopefully it leads to a gradual expansion of the length of the contest - even just 2 or 4 weeks would be pretty cool.
(After all I always checked L15 and L30 for Sortables, but never L7).
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| 9 | weykool
ID: 343561414
Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 14:06
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Played in a couple of the $5 daily contests.....so far 2-0.
One was h2h and the other 3 player.....so up a few bucks so far.
Damn you Guru.....now I'm hooked.
But my guess is that was the plan behind the "free roll".
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| 10 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 14:15
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Bwu-ha-ha-ha-ha....
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| 11 | JeffG
ID: 47112621
Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 22:33
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69th out of 78 half way through the contest. None of my 1-start starters panned out so will be very tough to pull out of the basement.
Trying a free public 'HR Derby' contest, only 6 entries should better my odds :)
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| 12 | astade
ID: 78462922
Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 22:40
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this is the first time i've ever been 1st in anything :)
fun game! i'm ready for the free fall
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| 13 | filthy
ID: 47421515
Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 07:57
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Nice JeffG! and astade!
My hot start has turned into 41st.
I had the same thought with a six person homerun derby, but I am in 5th. The last place team didn't submit a valid lineup.
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| 14 | astade
ID: 78462922
Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 22:42
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thanks filthy...it was fun while it lasted :)
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| 15 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Fri, Jun 10, 2011, 12:40
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From today's blurb: The RotoGuru/DBD Draft$treet weekly freeroll is over. Congrats to Vegasreno49, whose score of 421.2 was almost 10% better than the second place team. This roster showed good balance, producing about 3.8 points/$k on pitching and 4.4 pts/$k on hitting. The winning score of 421.2 was the only score over 400 pts. I think this may have been the best possible roster:
| Pos | Player | Salary | Points | % rosters |
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| C | Miguel Olivo | $5,311 | 32.8 | na | | 1B | Prince Fielder | $8,270 | 57.3 | 2% | | 2B | Ben Zobrist | $5,511 | 25.1 | 5% | | 3B | Mark Reynolds | $4,051 | 30.7 | 3% | | SS | J.J. Hardy | $4,950 | 29.1 | 2% | | OF | Matt Kemp | $8,716 | 60.0 | 20% | | OF | Brennan Boesch | $6,701 | 46.7 | na | | OF | Jacoby Ellsbury | $7,555 | 43.9 | na | | UT | Albert Pujols | $6,239 | 56.5 | 25% | | UT | Carlos Quentin | $8,314 | 43.4 | 6% | | SP | Matt Cain | $6,336 | 53.0 | 6% | | SP | Justin Verlander | $8,962 | 45.5 | 25% | | SP | Alexi Ogando | $7,694 | 41.5 | 10% | | RP | Kyle Farnsworth | $1,951 | 25.0 | 14% | | P | Derek Holland | $5,379 | 41.0 | na | | P | Jason Vargas | $4,052 | 33.5 | na | | Totals | $99,992 | 665.0 |
Curiously, the winning team had only one player on this list – Justin Verlander. Note that players listed as being on “na” rosters doesn’t mean that they weren’t on any rosters – but they weren’t on any of the top 20 rosters, and I couldn’t look beyond that. Thanks to everyone who participated, and congrats to the prize winners. I hope some of you continue to play in other contests. Maybe I’ll try setting up a private rotoguru contest at some point.
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