Daily Fantasy Sports Handicapping

We are playing 2 ten team tournaments today on FSL.  Both tournaments are 7 player, 210 point cap games.

There were several good ways to build a team today.  The two best ways were either with Dwight Howard or LeBron James.  I’m taking Lebron and pairing him with Kendrick Perkins at center.  The other option was to pair up Howard and Luis Scola to make the salary cap work.  Play Kendrick Perkins ($14) at center.  I haven’t paid much attention to Perkins and neither has anyone else, as I haven’t seen him played in any tournaments over the last couple of weeks.  He has put up four double doubles in a row and barely missed a fifth.  If he can just give us 18-20FP today I’ll be happy.  His only real purpose for being on the team is to allow us  enough salary cap to play LeBron.

Put LeBron James ($48) at forward.  I don’t normally like paying a quarter of my total budget for one player, but when that player consistently puts up a quarter of your total day’s points, you have to make an exception.  I have found myself losing lately to the teams who are playing LeBron.  On those nights when he puts up 50+FP, you just can’t make up the difference no matter what other players you have on your team.  Corey Maggette ($30) gets a forward spot.  He is the Clippers primary scoring option and he gets a matchup with a Heat team that is just playing out the season.    The last forward spot goes to Hedo Turkoglu ($30).  It was a tough decision between Turkoglu and Richard Jefferson, but Turk has the home game against a softer team.

At guard, I’m going with T. McGrady ($32) and R. Alston ($23).  This is one of those rare occasions where I’ll put two players from the same team on my roster.  They are working well together and usually account for about 60-65% of Houston’s scoring on most nights.  Alston’s low salary was needed today since we are playing with a 210 point cap rather than the normal 220 points.  The last forward spot was a tough decision between Joe Johnson and Manu Ginibili.  I’m going with Johnson since he has been on a real hot streak.  He should get 40 minutes as the Hawks will be trying desperately to keep up with Orlando.  D. Howard isn’t going to allow Atlanto to score inside, so Johnson should be bombing away from the perimeter.  I don’t think you could go wrong with Ginobili either, but his decrease in minutes scares me.