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[Wrist_Shot]

My preliminary lineup:

Holtby
Lehtonen

J.Carter
Coyle

Benn
Marleau
Hertl

Dumba
Braun

Don't care for those Dmen at all, but can't bring myself to cheap out in goal or on forwards. Open to suggestions here.

Who do you see as great value this round?

[JagrBomb]

My preliminary lineup:

Holtby
Lehtonen

J.Carter
Coyle

Benn
Marleau
Hertl

Dumba
Braun

Don't care for those Dmen at all, but can't bring myself to cheap out in goal or on forwards. Open to suggestions here.

Who do you see as great value this round?

can you check to see if you can edit your lineup before game start?

[Laendarian]

Is it jus me or is there no way to edit the lineup?

[Wrist_Shot]

I am still able to edit my lineup by clicking on "My Contests" and then the "Upcoming" sub menu.

[Eskimo Brother]

I'm still able to edit mine as well.
I have Spurgeon in mine as a cheap D option (He's a bit of a hunch on my part). Alzner is the other one I have in. He has a point or two so far and has been moving the puck well.

[Eskimo Brother]

To expand on the above. Had to pay a little more ($18) for my hunch on Spurgeon, and cheeped out on Raffl ($12) as a bit of a dice roll to make everything else work the way I wanted it to.

[Pengwin7]

I missed the weekend chatter... but let's talk today's games.

1. WAS @ PHI.
Hard to pick any Flyers in this game the way they've been playing. But I might. Have to revisit this.
The reason is... everybody and their grandma will be picking Capitals (-150). Do I want to be in a 90% pick-group if only the top 10% make the next round. Flyers may only have a 30% shot to win the game - but if they did, and I picked them, it'd be damn close assurance to move on.

2. DAL @ MIN.
See Flyers, Philadelphia. How do I bring myself to pick any Wild??? Dallas is the safer, odds-favourite pick (-130)... but not overwhelmingly, by the odds-makers.

3. LA @ SJ.
This is probably the 50-50 match. Yes, the Sharks (-125) have been playing well... but LA storms back when down.


Hmmm.... gonna have to think on this all day.
WAS & DAL seem like the consensus picks.

[lektrix]

Anyone have the player list with the prices?

[Instant Karma]

Lineup for Monday:

Holtby
Quick

Backstrom
Thornton

Chimera
Toffoli
Hertl

Klingberg
Oduya

[JagrBomb]

Anyone have the player list with the prices?

you should be able to view this:

https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantas...3794/setlineup

[Pengwin7]

Decided on my line-up.
First - whether it's a good one... or a bad one... you have to have a FULL-GAME strategy to win these limited-winner pools.
Decide what will happen - and hope to nail it.
To move on from this stage, you need to be top 10%.

You can go with the WAS or DAL route... but it means you are "in with the masses" and you better absolutely NAIL your peripheral picks.
I don't feel like missing the cut just because 20% of the total crowd made same picks as me and perhaps they pick Burakovsky (1G) where I pick J.Williams (0G)... that would stink.

So, studying game-by-game analysis.

1. WAS @ PHI. I don't really care who wins... but I'm going to decide that PHI scores 3+ goals. This means I don't touch Holtby and I go hard on PHI skaters. I believe 90% of the entrants won't touch PHI skaters... so I'll go with the <10% that do... because that's all that will advance: 10%.

2. DAL @ MIN. I don't believe Minnesota can outscore Dallas in a shoot-out. I do believe they can prepare to line-match them and try to eke out a low-scoring game.
I'm going to pick BOTH goalies here as a hedge for at least 1 win in what I hope is a very low-scoring match with no offense.
This also means that I don't touch any skaters, even though Charlie Coyle and Jason Zucker seems like a good value at $12.

3. SJ @ LA. To me, this is a 50-50 game regardless of SJ being up 2-0. I think somebody is lying if they think they know what shakes out here.
I don't want to be with the 50% of entrants that pick LA guys.
I don't want to be with the 50% of entrants that might pick SJ guys.
So I'm going to pick none of them... except for Brayden McNabb who got 3+min of PPTOI last game and is the only $12 defenseman not named Matt Dumba (see #2) that is getting decent PP time.


The line-up:
G1 Lehtonen (DAL) $33
G2 Dubnyk (MIN) $29 (*cheapest starting goalie option).

C1 Giroux (PHI) $23
C2 B.Schenn (PHI) $19

W1 Simmonds (PHI) $27
W2 Voracek (PHI) $21
W3 R.White (PHI) $12

D1 Gostisbehere (PHI) $24
D2 McNabb (LA) $12

The PHI stack + MIN/DAL bore-fest.
That's the plan.
If the PHI guns can put up 3+ goals.... and the MIN/DAL game is low-scoring... I'm in.

75% probably it doesn't happen.
But in the 25% probability it does happen... I'm into the final round... and that's what I'm playing for here... the overall odds.

[JagrBomb]

i went complete opposite approach of Peng, loading up on WAS/DAL. Gotta hope I pick the best combo!

Backstrom
Chimera
Oshie
Niskanen
Holtby

Benn
Eakin
Lehtonen

Streit

[Pengwin7]

My other team (wife's team) - DAL/SJ stack.

G M.Jones (SJ) & Lehtonen (DAL)
C Pavelski (SJ) & Eakin (DAL)
W Ja.Benn (DAL), Ward (SJ), Wingels (SJ)
D Klingberg (DAL), McNabb (LA* reqd 3rd team player)

[STONE.]

Happy with my lineup at the moment:

Holtby
Lehtonen
Kuznetsov
Kopitar
Williams
Nichushkin
Nieto
Niskanen
Carlson

[Wrist_Shot]

My team sucked, just as I suspected (finished about midpack). DFS is not for me and this just further confirmed it.

But anyway, good luck to the guys here that did make it through.