Tilt Time With The Beaver: Breaking The Golden Rule
“Typical Beaver…” That’s what anyone who knows me will be saying when they see this, and rightfully so. It really is just typical Beaver…
For those of you that don’t know there are 2 main types of contests in daily fantasy: tournaments and cash games. Cash games pay out the top 50% of the field. They can consist of as little as 2 entries (known as head-to-head), to as big as tens of thousands of entries. Everybody who finishes in the top 50% gets paid the same amount, double their buy-in.
To put it in context, a 51st percentile lineup in that particular contest pays the same as a 99th percentile lineup. Tournaments are quite the opposite. They're usually very top heavy in the pay scale, paying out the top 12-20%. To get a significant ROI you need to finish in the top 1-5% of the field.
THEE golden rule of daily fantasy sports is to ALWAYS, under any circumstances, put your cash game lineup into at least one tournament in case you run into the nuts (the perfect lineup). I don’t care if you're on your way to the bathroom at 12:57 on Sunday and realize you forgot to do it. You race back to your computer and you shit yourself as you jam that bitch into a tourney. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.
Since I started playing both cash and gpp together, I’ve had a recurring nightmare where I hit the nuts in cash and forget to put it into a tourney. Well my friends, thanks to Harrison Bryant and my impulsive need to jam 5,000 tournament lineups in every Sunday morning, this nightmare became a reality. I FORGOT TO PUT IT IN A TOURNAMENT.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking at a 99th percentile cash game score that’s not been entered into a tourney is like walking in on your parents having sex. It's something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.
“Luckily” I did remember to throw it in some boosters (I always do this to bake in some upside) One in particular was a $4 booster with 7,431 entries where the top 250 win $100. I got first :(
You can do the math on what that would have paid if it were a tournament. I then checked all of the smaller field single entry stuff that I had tournament teams in to see where this lineup would have finished. It would have been top 10 in all of them, even shipping a few. It wasn't the legit nuts but it was more than enough for a 5 figure payday. I swept the board and won all 80 of my H2Hs scoring 241.5 DK points and I only returned a little more than double my investment. Sad day, tough scene, whatever man.
I played Harrison Bryant at 0.7% in cash like a sick fucking fish and was more worried about filling my cat’s waterbowl and playing grabass with my girlfriend than double checking my game selection.
So did I really deserve a 5-figure payout? Hell no. It's an absolute grind in the 2020 cash game streets and there is no room for feeding your cat before lock, so it is what it is. Guess I’ll just have to play Darnell Mooney this week and get it all back.
Oh, and I almost forgot, in the 4pm only slate on Fanduel I played Jeff Wilson for reasons I still cannot explain. Something just came over me when I clicked that button. I even looked at my buddy Dave and said “There's no value on this slate. Frig it. I'll just play Jeff Wilson.”
He came in at 0.4% owned in the big gpp. Kyle Shanahan randomly decided to rest Jerrick Mckinnon and Wilson rushed for over 100 yards and 3 scores. He did this in 2.5 quarters before exiting with an injury which also sucked balls but at that point he had already lapped the field by 15 points.
At .04% he was legitimately the best tournament play I had ever made. I was in first winning 50k for over an hour before the 45% owned Kansas City Chiefs decided to score 2 TDs and about 57 sacks en route to a 24 point performance. I played the Chargers at the same price who scored 7 and it was curtains from there. The guy that won it had Wilson, Chiefs D, and a buncha trash. The rest of my team was infinitely better than his but without the chiefs D I didn't stand a chance. I guess when a great D is playing a JV quarterback in the snow with all of his weapons out and half his offensive line ya just have to go full galaxy brain and fade it… typical Beaver.
