The Biogenesis scandal has shaken the baseball world. That coupled with the passing of the non-waiver deadline has sports fans looking forward to football. It’s easy to get lost in the hope of another fantasy football season. Some of us have been out of the playoff running for a couple of months now. Draftkings offers you the opportunity to win every single day. Is your traditional team bringing up the rear? Register for Draftkings and rekindle your enthusiasm again.

If the prospect of winning every day wasn’t enough, Draftkings is offering one last enticement to get you on the bandwagon. They are running one more huge contest and this one only cost two dollars to qualify. The $100K Sweet Spot will run on August 23rd. Unlike many of the other contests, this one is very affordable. So, don’t give up on fantasy baseball quite yet.

Today, I’m playing in a Double Up! contest again. They range anywhere from a dollar to ten dollars, but each works the same way. If you finish in the top half you get almost twice as much as you put in. Naturally, DraftKings gets their cut because they have to pay their employees, the light bill, and make a little for their trouble. That being said, they are very generous to those that start playing as they will give you a deposit bonus you can access here.

The new format on the site is easy to work with. It gives you the opportunity to search based on price or fantasy points per game. It also gives you the amount of money left over and the average price per player remaining. It really helps you strategize where to spend your money.

My Lineup

Twitter Question of the Day

My colleagues and I got a doozy of a question via twitter. I love twitter as a means of communication, but it does not allow for comprehensive analysis. One of our more frequent visitors asked us to pick between Jeremy Guthrie, Scott Kazmir, or Tony Cingrani. The most important thing to consider when adding any player is that you are adding him for what he will do moving forward and not what he has done previously. At any rate, here is a look at where each is at in some key statistical categories. Let’s do this via the Player A, B, and C test.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .FIP. . . . .BABIP. . . . .HR/9. . . . .SO/9. . . . .BB/9

Player A. . . . ..3.61. . . . .246. . . . . . .1.09. . . .  .10.56. . . . .3.81

Player B. . . . ..3.93. . . . .284. . . . . . .1.14. . . . . . .8.11. . . . .3.00

Player C. . . . ..5.10. . . . .271. . . . . . .1.40. . . . . .4.94. . . . .2.99

I think we can safely eliminate player C simply because of the very pedestrian strikeout numbers. His fielding independent pitching is evidence that he will likely be faltering. Jeremy Guthrie is Player C and he simply cannot keep up his level of competence for very long. That leaves us with a choice between Tony Cingrani (Player A) and Scott Kazmir (Player B).

I choose Cingrani on Twitter and I stand by that decision. His relatively low BABIP is worrisome, but his high strikeout rate and relatively low home run rate make him a better bet than Kazmir. Plus, Kazmir has been relatively inconsistent all season. If I want to add a pitcher at this point, I want to add someone that is going to be relatively stable. I think Cingrani will only get better from here on out.