$200,000 Daily Fantasy Basketball Championship
There are no daily leagues at FanDuel tonight, with only one game on the NBA calendar.
Friday is a very special night, with a $10 Qualifier for the DFBBC, which stands for Daily Fantasy Basketball Championship. Each qualifier is a one-day tournament, limited to 1,900 entries, with $5,000 in cash prizes, including a thousand bucks for finishing second. First place wins a trip to Las Vegas for the $150,000 final on March 9, 2013. Finishing 15th and last in that event will be worth $1,500. There will be qualifiers every Friday until February 8, and you can’t win it if you’re not in it.
| FanDuel Fifteen | Nov. 2 |
| Stars | Over $7,000 |
| LeBron James | $9,900 |
| Josh Smith | $8,500 |
| Russell Westbrook | $8,500 |
| Paul Pierce | $7,400 |
| Kyrie Irving | $7,100 |
| Scrubs | Under $5,000 |
| Dion Waiters | $4,400 |
| Kosta Koufos | $4,700 |
| Enes Kanter | $4,200 |
| Omer Asik | $4,600 |
| Harrison Barnes | $4,000 |
| Starters | $5,000 to $7,000 |
| Gerald Green | $5,500 |
| Paul George | $6,200 |
| Carlos Boozer | $6,600 |
| Gordon Hayward | $5,800 |
| Nikola Pekovic | $6,600 |
Lineups can be changed until 7:00 EDT on Friday; if they closed right now, this is mine:
PG Russell Westbrook POR@OKC $8,500
PG Kyrie Irving CHI@CLE $7,100
SG Paul George IND@CHA $6,200
SG Gerald Green IND@CHA $5,500
SF Gordon Hayward UTA@NO $5,800
SF Paul Pierce MIL@BOS $7,400
PF Josh Smith HOU@ATL $8,500
PF Carlos Boozer CHI@CLE $6,600
C Enes Kanter UTA@NO $4,200
Yesterday I joined ten different leagues, and entered our Tournament three times, for a total of $19. At halftime of the 7:00 games, I was #2, #6 and #13 of 555 entries, mostly because I keyed on players from the IND @ TOR and DEN @ PHI matchups. Everyone else gradually caught up, then passed me.
Two of my leagues were designated Expert (a $50,000 salary cap instead of $60,000) which was kind of fun on a night with nine NBA games, but might be less interesting when there are only four or five games. I won money in both, finishing first in a $1 5-player league ($4.50) and 16th in a $1 50-player 50/50 pool ($1.80) — we’ll be revisiting that format for sure.
In my other Standard ($60K cap) leagues, the same lineup that finished out of the money in the SH tourney — you sharks — was good enough to earn $9 in a $5, 20-player 50/50 pool and win three other small prizes. After two days, the $100 Week 1 bankroll is now $113.77 and I’m doing well enough at the $1 and $2 levels to consider more $5 leagues.
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Bidding only against himself, the man who wears hand-made $1,200 shirts came up with a ridiculous $38 million for DeMar DeRozan yesterday. Doug Smith in the Toronto Star calls it “an unnecessary gamble” and Bruce Arthur in the National Post pulls no punches: “…he’s a wing who can’t shoot threes, doesn’t really rebound or pass well, and whose advanced numbers have either held steady or dropped since he was drafted.”
But DMDR *is* twice as good as Fields, so why not?
“Landry Fields (scoreless in 26 minutes) was a $20,000,000 mistake by overrated Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo.”
Who overrates Colangelo, Kent? Clearly not anyone with a rudimentary understanding of statistical analysis. I guess the idiot braintrust of MLSE are the only ones who overrate him, unless the metric is best dressed GM.