Friday, September 8, 2017

Breaking Down Week 1

Disclaimer: This blog is primarily advice for FanDuel, and while the player analysis will typically hold true, the strategy may not due to the various pricing of other sites.

We are finally here for week one, and I am extremely excited to have another great year with you guys. Lineup analysis will be posted tonight/tomorrow as I have some more work to do to break this down further.


Starting Bankroll- $10,000
You maybe asking yourself why I am using $10,000 as my bankroll. The reality is that you do not need a bankroll anywhere close to $10,000 to find this blog valuable, but it is a nice round number that you can make similar decisions as what I am doing. Regardless of what your bankroll is, it is easy to scale down appropriately.

Week One Bankroll Advice-
We will get into it in the next post, but for cash games this week, we need to be careful. The reason that we need to be careful is due to the number of overlap that will be in the lineups this week. It is going to be extremely popular in cash games to start both Le'Veon Bell and David Johnson at the running back position this week, which is something that I will be doing as well. If you're playing GPPs I suggest playing head to head games rather than 50/50's and double ups especially for week one as you still have some inexperienced players playing who may go away from Bell/Johnson and try to take another running back.

What this does present itself with is a nice GPP opportunity. We have ownership projections here which are free for week one if you sign up for a free account. Looking at these, Bell and Johnson in GPPs are projected to be 42% and 39% owned. Going with a wide receiver heavy strategy in GPPs this week is not a bad way to be contrarian as there are some concerns with Bell coming off of essentially no preseason to immediately be a starter.

I typically hover between 90% cash games and 10% GPPS most weeks but this week I am likely going to go with 80% cash games and 20% GPP and likely do 100% Bell/Johnson in cash and just play Johnson in GPP going with different running backs other than Bell.

Full lineup advice to come later in the day.

1 comment:

  1. New to FBG. Will be following you for FD Bankroll. How do I get to the FBG channel on Sleeperbot?

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