Today has been absolutely insane. As I posted, around 4 o'clock I had a Bortles/Robinson/Hurns stack that after hovering around the top 10 for an hour or so, moved into first place on FantasyDraft for their large $5, $12, and $25 tournaments with prize pools of $50k, $100k, and $250k respectively. I had a nice lead after the early games and still had Gronk and Fitzgerald to play. The game flows were horrible for both those guys with their teams going up early but thankfully Fitz got a TD and Gronk was able to pull in a few catches. What almost killed me was that Edelman long TD. It pushed lots of people into contention and I had to be cheering against a Gronk TD at the end in fear that a Brady-Gronk-Edelman stack would pass me.
But even after less than stellar performances from those two, I was sitting in first in each of the contests with a double digit cushion. I had an idea on what I needed to avoid for the two remaining games, but stacks can always come out of nowhere. And tonight, any Eli-Beckham stack was killer. Beckham finished as the #1 WR and Eli was the #2 QB. All game, those stacks just kept creeping and creeping. All the way to the final Eli TD that brought stacks to within a point of me, but thankfully still behind.
For each of those tournaments, my lineup sits in first place at 216.72. That score would have won 3 of the first four weeks this season, but depending upon tomorrow night, scores may be a bit higher this week.
My main competition across the contests are the following:
Antonio Gates down by 15
Danny Woodhead down by 16
Vick + Bell down by 30
Bell down by 28+ (couple here)
And the crazy part is that Woodhead lineup is actually one of the guys in our crew so we're talking about a potential equity split. I've got to take into account the upside potential of Woodhead, his expected point total being around 16-20, but the additional possibility that if Woodhead underperforms, that lineup finishes outside the top 10 while my floor is probably around 5th.
Tomorrow night is gonna be pretty crazy.