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Leveraging and the See-Saw Effect

Fantasy Football
May 12, 2017

Every so often a MLB slate will arise where a very important game theory situation presents itself. Last night, White Sox pitcher Derek Holland faced off against the Minnesota Twins, and Holland had a fairly good situation as he was both cheap on DraftKings and had somewhat of a good matchup against the Twins who are capable of striking out a fair bit. This led to inflated ownership of him in GPPs, since people like both cheap value and good matchups. By going Holland, this also made it easy to roster at least one team playing in Coors Field, a dream scenario for most tournament players. While this strategy was ideal for maximizing overall value per salary cap dollar, there was a very good antidote for it, and it’s one that works quite well until enough people start doing it. LEVERAGING (THE SEE-SAW EFFECT) AGAINST A GOOD BUT NOT GREAT PITCHER Imagine a see-saw, a child’s game where two kids sit on a wooden plank and one goes up and the other goes down. In MLB DFS terms, instead of children we are using the Minnesota Twins hitters and Derek Holland. As the Twins go up on the see-saw in

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