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So someone here had posted about daily fantasy sites last week, and I ended up checking out FanDuel, which advertises on the local sportsradio station here. I thought it looked great, what the hell, let's give it a shot.
When you sign up for FanDuel, they give you a free entry into a beginners 10-team league, with the top 5 teams winning $2. You get a salary cap and need to buy a pitcher and 8 hitters, and they get (or lose) points for IP, Ks, HRs, Hits, etc. You guys know the drill.
With my first crack on Opening Day with the free team, I finished 4th out of 10 and won $2. I parlayed the $2 into the largest $2 league yesterday, a 2,900 entry league with payouts to the Top 250. I build my lineup and tinkered with it during the day -- I swapped out Marco Estrada for Ryu, needed to make changes elsewhere, so I drop Kemp for Morse and used the extra dough to go from Altuve to Kinsler.
Around 10pm, I'm midpack but many of my guys had just started. By 10:30pm, I was 500th. Then 100th. Then CarGo hits a bomb and I'm 50th. Morse hits a dinger at 11pm, now I'm 25th. A few more hits and and a couple of HRs, and at 11:30, I was 15th. My wife goes to sleep, I'm watching the Dodger game with Ryu on MLB Network. Many of the top teams had Darvish, so I figured, eh nice run, but I'm cooked. I check again around midnight, and I'm 2nd! Now I'm exhausted and drunk but I can't look away! Ryu is mediocre, but you only get dinged for ERs, not HA. Bumgarner pitches a gem, but other teams that had him don't catch up.
At 12:30, Kyle Seager hits an RBI double (3 pts) and I jump into 1st! I picked 3 Mariners (go figure!) and at 12:45, Kendry and then Morse come up. Kendry goes down, but my man Morse smacks his 2nd HR of the night! The A's come up in the bottom of the 9th and go down in order -- I refresh my screen to see if anyone had Iwakuma (or if that mattered), and then finally -- FIRST PLACE out of 2,900 teams!! My first money league on this site using $2 in house money, and I come home with $700!!
What a load of fun. I'm hooked!!
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When you sign up for FanDuel, they give you a free entry into a beginners 10-team league, with the top 5 teams winning $2. You get a salary cap and need to buy a pitcher and 8 hitters, and they get (or lose) points for IP, Ks, HRs, Hits, etc. You guys know the drill.
With my first crack on Opening Day with the free team, I finished 4th out of 10 and won $2. I parlayed the $2 into the largest $2 league yesterday, a 2,900 entry league with payouts to the Top 250. I build my lineup and tinkered with it during the day -- I swapped out Marco Estrada for Ryu, needed to make changes elsewhere, so I drop Kemp for Morse and used the extra dough to go from Altuve to Kinsler.
Around 10pm, I'm midpack but many of my guys had just started. By 10:30pm, I was 500th. Then 100th. Then CarGo hits a bomb and I'm 50th. Morse hits a dinger at 11pm, now I'm 25th. A few more hits and and a couple of HRs, and at 11:30, I was 15th. My wife goes to sleep, I'm watching the Dodger game with Ryu on MLB Network. Many of the top teams had Darvish, so I figured, eh nice run, but I'm cooked. I check again around midnight, and I'm 2nd! Now I'm exhausted and drunk but I can't look away! Ryu is mediocre, but you only get dinged for ERs, not HA. Bumgarner pitches a gem, but other teams that had him don't catch up.
At 12:30, Kyle Seager hits an RBI double (3 pts) and I jump into 1st! I picked 3 Mariners (go figure!) and at 12:45, Kendry and then Morse come up. Kendry goes down, but my man Morse smacks his 2nd HR of the night! The A's come up in the bottom of the 9th and go down in order -- I refresh my screen to see if anyone had Iwakuma (or if that mattered), and then finally -- FIRST PLACE out of 2,900 teams!! My first money league on this site using $2 in house money, and I come home with $700!!
What a load of fun. I'm hooked!!
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- Wonderboy
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