Had a post in the nfl dfs thread that spawned some nice helpful responses, so figured I'd try it here too. Im a pretty bad nba dfs player but I enjoy doing it/watching it. Used to be more along the lines of negative overall but with some good nights in tournaments that made the sweat fun, but over the past yearish I've been much worse and typically am just fighting for min cashes in them.
I'd love to hear any thoughts on blatantly obvious incorrect things I'm doing (either with lineup construction in general or specific spots that i'm throwing money away etc) in an effort to stop donating pennies each night and sometimes get some fun sweats.
Tonight my GPP lineup on DK was:
Chris Paul
Harden
Kawhi
Casspi
Dwight
Satoransky
Frye
Miles
and
Harden
Caldwell-Pope
Bron
Casspi
Howard
Satoransky
Ariza
Miles
My overall thinking was that Casspi filling in for Gay being out at $3k and Satoransky filling in for Wall at $3.5k were value plays that were going to get more minutes than normal and also opened up the ability to use more expensive players.
I thought Frye would get some run in a blowout (13.5 spread) at min price, while also being someone that's gotten 15.5-16.5 FPS (5x) in his other 3 games so it seemed like a reasonable floor from a pt/$ perspective too.
Miles had been doing well in Stuckey's absence and had between 7-9x in the two games since then without the price making any massive jumps.
Dwight looked to be in a good spot in an uptempo game projected to be close against Houston so I grabbed him for both.
I picked KCP because I thought SG was a good position to attack Denver on, but Drum ate them up and the game was a blowout.
Harden, Paul, Kawhi, and Bron are just superstars that I spent the money on where I had it with the value found from the casspi/satoransky/frye slots.
Ariza was another uptempo, close game situation where the DvP matchup looked good to me (19th vs SF)
Anyways, I'm 100% certain these lineups are bad. I just don't know exactly why, and I appreciate any responses I do end up getting from them. Just trying to not suck so bad