Finally, a Fan Duel Tournament Win.

Got off the schneid in a big way on the Fan Duel side of things.
Turned $2 into $30 thanks to Carlos Gonzalez, Paul Goldschmidt, Chris Heston & Friends.

Swept my dailies there to even a trouncing of csuram88 (much less menacing without the capital letters).  Here's my winning lineup.

The coolest thing was the intentional walk in the bottom of the ninth to Robinson Cano jumped me from $30, after Austin Jackson's out dropped me to $20.

Won $13 bucks on Yahoo (A $5 & $2 50/50), and $8 in a $5 tournament on Draft Kings with similar lineups.

Visualize Awfulness

On Victiv, I thought I'd play it cute and use the Dodgers pitching staff versus a Mets team that considers Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson as hitting upgrades.  Use the savings to load the roster, play in a low dollar, high reward tournament.  The Dodgers Staff put up a -15.5; I wouldn't have thought the Mets would have scored 15 runs for the rest of the month. The visual of this is awesome.  They don't have a way to graph negative numbers. I think I came in last.

And then on Yahoo, I missed cashing in a similar tournament by 1 point and 4 places.  I ran Tommy Milone out instead of the unavailable Zach Lee.

You're not really enjoying this game if you can't laugh at yourself.

Quick Player Replace.

Fan Duel, why do yo do this to me?

Tonight, I had a player on every one my cash lineups on all sites I play on.  He's a Cuban hitter on the Dodgers with no fielding position to speak of, by the name of Alex Guerrero.  I can't shake him; the dude can hit; he's always cheap; I can't resist.  But today he was a late scratch.

I didn't have much time, and because of the locking rules on Fan Duel, I went there first. hit their Quick Player Replace but and put the first guy I could find who I knew was playing today, OF eligible and cost less than $2300.  I marked in Juan Lagares of the lowly NY Mets.

I then went to my Draft Kings account, because the only other dirt cheap option I was considering was Ryan Raburn of the Tigers.  I jumped over to Draft Day and swapped out my Alex Guerrero there.  I noticed that Tucker Barnhardt was cheap and thought he is playing in Colorado, if I go back to Fan Duel, swap Barnhardt in at Catcher, I could chose a better hitter than Lagares in the outfield. I swapped Nick Hundley out at Catcher and moved Scott Van Slyke into the Outfield, when I clicked submit, it gave me a message that because of the "processing time" and the individual nature of the replacement process, this transaction may not reflect on all of my lineups.

So I looked at my 4 matchups, and not only did this transaction not take place, but Alexander Guerrero, who is not playing tonight is still on every one of my rosters.  So I email the folks at Fan Duel.  Asking if they can manually make the changes.  They replied that I tried to do this after the games started:

So there's the lesson to be learned: On Fan Duel, Never trust quick player replace.  If you need to use it check and double check it.  And if you need to resubmit, don't do it, because they'll take the resubmit time and tell you to get lost.  On the plus side, they think I can' visits four websites, make complex decisions in the DFS games, make necessary changes, withing the same fraction of a second.