Back when I first got into fantasy baseball back in the late 80s/early 90s, I participated in a group that competed to assemble the worst lineup money could buy. You assembled a roster in regular fantasy fashion, but your goal was to pick guys as offensively inept and as strike zone-challenged as possible. To maximize your chances of winning your guys had to actually play - and stay in the lineup despite their ineptitude. You dreamed of picking a whole roster full of guys like Alvaro Espinoza vintage 1990 - .224 average, 2 HR, 20 RBI, 1 SB in 438 ABs.
I was thinking yesterday that this would be a fun concept for daily fantasy contests, and one which you could apply to each of the major sports. Where else could Cheikh Samb* be a potential team MVP?
This isn't a serious suggestion, because I'm sure it would be kind of a headache to program - you'd have to have a penalty of x number of points for guys who don't play at all - you're rewarding ineptitude, not bench warming - and you'd have to flip the payouts so low score wins. That and you'd have to have the right contest description - it would never do to have someone come in and pick Kobe and LeBron, put up 300 points and whine because they finished last.
* (I thought of Cheikh Samb because I was following the last quarter of the Blazers-Clippers game and the Clippers may have set an all time record for "who dat?"s on one roster)
Yesterday's results. I had good scores of 300+ points but my opponents generally had better. Except in the 10 player contest, in which I had my lowest score but still won. Goofy.
Monday results: 5 contests entered (1 - 10 max, 4 HU); 2 cashes (1, 1); amount risked: $16.70; amount won: $10.00; net: ($6.70); ROI: -40.1%
I was thinking yesterday that this would be a fun concept for daily fantasy contests, and one which you could apply to each of the major sports. Where else could Cheikh Samb* be a potential team MVP?
This isn't a serious suggestion, because I'm sure it would be kind of a headache to program - you'd have to have a penalty of x number of points for guys who don't play at all - you're rewarding ineptitude, not bench warming - and you'd have to flip the payouts so low score wins. That and you'd have to have the right contest description - it would never do to have someone come in and pick Kobe and LeBron, put up 300 points and whine because they finished last.
Anyway, I just believe it's an amusing idea. Carry on.
* (I thought of Cheikh Samb because I was following the last quarter of the Blazers-Clippers game and the Clippers may have set an all time record for "who dat?"s on one roster)
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Yesterday's results. I had good scores of 300+ points but my opponents generally had better. Except in the 10 player contest, in which I had my lowest score but still won. Goofy.
Monday results: 5 contests entered (1 - 10 max, 4 HU); 2 cashes (1, 1); amount risked: $16.70; amount won: $10.00; net: ($6.70); ROI: -40.1%
1 comments:
I would join that game. It would be fun. You could get points for making an out and lose points for getting a hit.
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