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2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Daily Fix– August 13th, 2014

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. I started writing this daily fix last night as is usually my pattern, but then a series of unfortunate events seemed to follow. To make a long story short, my primary computer crashed and will not turn on. I suppose these things happened. I planned to wake up early this morning and publish the piece on time, but the primary machine still was not working. So, I dusted off the moth balls and brought out the backup computer.

So, we will consider this the no frills edition of the daily fix. I am playing in the MLB $1 50/50 competition with the games beginning at 7:05 EST. That will cut out a few early games today, so if there are some big names missing from the lineup you will see why. Please remember to shift your balance from Draftstreet.com if you have not already and go over to our new partner Draftkings.com.  Football season is coming up soon, so now is as good as a time as any to get that done.

Like with Draftstreet, Draftkings gives you a salary cap to fit in all of your players. Salaries are based on average fantasy points per game (FPPG) and on the opposing pitcher (or team). They have mathematicians and statisticians that do this stuff for them, but there are occasional points of inefficiency that we can exploit. As usual, I will give you my lineup and a reasonable alternative.

   

Salary

Opposing SP

FPPG

C Wilson Ramos

3,500

Bartolo Colon

6.3

1B Ryan Howard

3,900

Jered Weaver

7.0

2B Anthony Rendon

4,100

Bartolo Colon

8.9

3B Carlos Santana

4,100

Vidal Nuno

7.6

SS Jhonny Peralta

3,800

Nathan Eovaldi

6.7

OF Mike Trout

5,400

A.J. Burnett

10.5

OF Giancarlo Stanton

5,300

Justin Masterson

9.9

OF Michael Brantley

5,000

Vidal Nuno

9.4

P Jason Vargas

7,100

Oakland Athletics

14.8

P Bartolo Colon

7,500

Washington Nationals

16.5

 

   

Salary

Opposing SP

FPPG

C Caleb Joseph

3,700

Michael Pineda

5.3

1B Anthony Rizzo

4,900

Kyle Lohse

8.7

2B Ian Kinsler

4,100

Vance Worley

8.1

3B Aramis Ramirez

4,300

Tsuyoshi Wada

7.3

SS Jimmy Rollins

3,600

Jered Weaver

7.8

OF Carlos Gomez

4,800

Tsuyoshi Wada

9.5

OF Ryan Braun

5,100

Tsuyoshi Wada

9.0

P Kyle Lohse

8,000

Chicago Cubs

16.5

P Jered Weaver

8,200

Philadelphia Phillies

16.0

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