Thursday is sometimes a difficult day to play on. It’s quite common for Draftkings to split their contests into early, normal, and late game contests. When you have only nine games on the schedule to begin with, it can be really challenging to put a schedule together using the daily matchups method. In this case, there was only one (possibly two) pitcher that we could really take advantage of. I really don’t feel like starting the entire Chicago Cubs lineup just to hold to the strategy I’ve been playing all season.

So, like yesterday, we will look players that have been performing well over the past month and use that information to piece together a good lineup. It seemed to work well yesterday, so maybe it will work again today. Next time, we will get back to the business of looking at daily matchups.

Today, I’m playing in a Double Up! contest. 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.

Just a gentle reminder, that the first list is the lineup I will actually be playing today. The second is a list of reasonable alternatives at each position. The salaries will not add up to 50,000 like normal. It likely would be closer to 55,000, so you will have to mix and match accordingly.

My Lineup

A Reasonable Alternative