Starting Using Draftkings

[nosniboR11]

just opened an account at DK , trying to figure this out

[nosniboR11]

Alright, got a ticket to the $109 high roller multi tongith, the $27 big one, and going to use a few larger step tickets tonight. $200 buy ins apiece.

Help me out with some value plays if you got em.

good luck on the big buy ins ds, how many people are usually in the 200 buy ins

[DraftKingsJosh]

good luck on the big buy ins ds, how many people are usually in the 200 buy ins

Yes--good luck downsouth. Should be plenty of value plays available with lots of players out due to injury (Griffin, Young, Duncan etc.).

And nosniboR11, great to hear you're trying out the site! Please let me know if you have any questions. It'd be great if you could post them on the forum, but to you or anyone else that wants to ask me a question privately my email address is jlevinscherz@draftkings.com.

I believe that the $200 buy-ins that downsouth is referring to is part of our Steps Tournament. It's a special contest where you can buy-in for as little as $2 and work your way up the steps and cash out with $1,000. Or you could buy-in directly at the higher steps.

So if I'm guessing correctly, downsouth is at Step 5 (one step away from the last Step 6) and very close to cashing out big.

[nosniboR11]

Yes--good luck downsouth. Should be plenty of value plays available with lots of players out due to injury (Griffin, Young, Duncan etc.).

And nosniboR11, great to hear you're trying out the site! Please let me know if you have any questions. It'd be great if you could post them on the forum, but to you or anyone else that wants to ask me a question privately my email address is jlevinscherz@draftkings.com.

I believe that the $200 buy-ins that downsouth is referring to is part of our Steps Tournament. It's a special contest where you can buy-in for as little as $2 and work your way up the steps and cash out with $1,000. Or you could buy-in directly at the higher steps.

So if I'm guessing correctly, downsouth is at Step 5 (one step away from the last Step 6) and very close to cashing out big.

Thank you very much Josh, I will do that, I will have a few questions in the next few days.

[dynamite140]

Draftking is good but problem is contests are very long and take a while to finish.

[DraftKingsJosh]

Draftking is good but problem is contests are very long and take a while to finish.

Thanks for the feedback, dynamite140, but could you elaborate a little on what you mean? Our contests never take more than one-day, which is the shortest a fantasy contest can take. With some exceptions, we include all the games from whatever day you are playing on so that the player pools are large.

[gryfyn1]

I would suggest that DK adds the options to move players to different positions once they are on you team; at time you have a PF/C player and you want to move him from PF to C position just drag and dropping him in your lineup would be nice as opposed to having to drop him, go back to the proper game/position and reselecting him

[downsouth]

draftkings Josh,

I recently had my SBR store order cancelled due to having already made a deposit with your site.

Your product in the SBR store says it is no longer valid for people who have made an actual deposit. I thought the whole point of offering your product in the SBR store was to generate new deposits. So because I actually tried to help a site sponsor I can longer order cash with SBR points. Basically I am being screwed because I made a deposit trying to support a sponsor. I have the points I could have easily ordered $1000 cash but instead chose to show good faith and show you your efforts were working on some level or another.

So what this tells me is why would you support the site with deposits when you are better off just buying the free cash from sbr store as depositing will only prohibit you in the long run.

By no means am I your biggest player but I do play daily and put up a decent amount of volume.

Thanks

[DraftKingsJosh]

draftkings Josh,

I recently had my SBR store order cancelled due to having already made a deposit with your site.

Your product in the SBR store says it is no longer valid for people who have made an actual deposit. I thought the whole point of offering your product in the SBR store was to generate new deposits. So because I actually tried to help a site sponsor I can longer order cash with SBR points. Basically I am being screwed because I made a deposit trying to support a sponsor. I have the points I could have easily ordered $1000 cash but instead chose to show good faith and show you your efforts were working on some level or another.

So what this tells me is why would you support the site with deposits when you are better off just buying the free cash from sbr store as depositing will only prohibit you in the long run.

By no means am I your biggest player but I do play daily and put up a decent amount of volume.

Thanks

Hey downsouth, love that you showed support for us by depositing money directly and not just through the SBR Store.

I checked the records, and because you first deposited money before we changed our policy to "first-time depositors only", we'd be happy to honor your SBR Store purchase. That's my fault, as I didn't think things through before denying the request.

To everyone else, I hope you can understand our "first-time depositor only" policy moving forward as our goal is not only to make current users happy but to keep growing our overall base! This will enable to us to fund new features, great promotions, and new contests.

Downsouth, please allow until the end of the day to see your purchased credit.

[DraftKingsJosh]

I would suggest that DK adds the options to move players to different positions once they are on you team; at time you have a PF/C player and you want to move him from PF to C position just drag and dropping him in your lineup would be nice as opposed to having to drop him, go back to the proper game/position and reselecting him

That is a great idea, grysfyn1, I'm glad you brought it up. We've already started the process of implementing it--we're aiming for it to be similar to the drag and swap type feature familiar to those who play on Yahoo.

[downsouth]

Hey downsouth, love that you showed support for us by depositing money directly and not just through the SBR Store.

I checked the records, and because you first deposited money before we changed our policy to "first-time depositors only", we'd be happy to honor your SBR Store purchase. That's my fault, as I didn't think things through before denying the request.

To everyone else, I hope you can understand our "first-time depositor only" policy moving forward as our goal is not only to make current users happy but to keep growing our overall base! This will enable to us to fund new features, great promotions, and new contests.

Downsouth, please allow until the end of the day to see your purchased credit.

Thank you and appreciate your attention to this matter.

[nosniboR11]

Thank you and appreciate your attention to this matter.

do like how he is on here to help

[Grits n' Gravy]

Yeah, had put in Nash in a few in place of Conley (why I made entire lakers starting 5 comment when I posted lineup).

Bayless was on fire last night, cannot believe when they had ball last night in waning seconds they didnt find a way to get him the ball and instead let Darrell ARthur(played absolute awful game) get the ball and chuck up a three.

As for Bynum, I have definitely used him when I needed a plug in type player that could put up decent stats on the cheap.

Good luck

Bayless is a scoring machine. Played pickup with him a lot in Tucson and his ability to get to the rim is better than any of the AZ pgs. Should have spent another season in Tucson improving his D but he will put up big numbers if given playing time.

[downsouth]

Obviously small card so only played a few double or nothings(cheap ones at that). Just wanted to see how the lineups looked for others with such a small card

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 35th

YTP: 4

PMR: 352

PG	Steve Nash	46.0%	LAL 14 BOS 16 3:55 1st	1 REB, 2 AST	4.25
SG	Nate Robinson swap	--%	CHI 0 DEN 0 Thu 10:30PM		0
SF	Paul Pierce	66.0%	LAL 14 BOS 16 3:55 1st	1 REB, 1 AST, 6 PTS	8.75
PF	Earl Clark	86.0%	LAL 14 BOS 16 3:55 1st	2 REB, 1 BLK	4.5
C	Carlos Boozer swap	--%	CHI 0 DEN 0 Thu 10:30PM		0
G	Andre Miller swap	--%	CHI 0 DEN 0 Thu 10:30PM		0
F	Brandon Bass	22.0%	LAL 14 BOS 16 3:55 1st	3 REB	3.75
UTIL	Danilo Gallinari swap	--%	CHI 0 DEN 0 Thu 10:30PM		0
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 21.25

[Grits n' Gravy]

How did that lineup do? Faried at home is always a must. Look at his home/road splits.

[downsouth]

How did that lineup do? Faried at home is always a must. Look at his home/road splits.

It was a dud. Yeah, missing Faried on a night like this was killer. Also didnt help that none of my guys played the fourth quarter as both games were blow outs.

Had a shot to makeup progress in late game but everyone pulled at the end didnt score much from the bench.

Oh well, was a small day so didnt lose much and todays card looks like a full one.

[downsouth]

Somebody tell me what is wrong with this roster here. Think Im gonna go pretty heavy tonight.

Do you keep Asik, or would I be better off with Teague, Randolph, Gasol or Parsons?

Also would I be better served removing Vasquez for Lowry and instead of Asik taking Kobe or Paul George.

My Team

PG	Kyrie Irving	Orl@Cle	$8,100	40.0
SG	Greivis Vasquez	NO@Atl	$6,600	34.6
SF	Carmelo Anthony	NY@Min	$8,200	43.3
PF	Derrick Williams	NY@Min	$3,000	17.5
C	Carlos Boozer DTD	Chi@Uta	$4,900	32.6
G	Damian Lillard	Por@Hou	$6,900	34.8
F	Amar'e Stoudemire	NY@Min	$5,200	22.4
UTIL	Omer Asik	Por@Hou	$7,100	29.0

[Grits n' Gravy]

Don't know how you did but if Williams gets out of Minnesota he will put up strong numbers.

[downsouth]

Don't know how you did but if Williams gets out of Minnesota he will put up strong numbers.

Cannot complain, ran above lineup in the double or nothings and managed to cash them

And ran below in a few steps and won those as well

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 1st

YTP: 0

PMR: 0

PG	Kyle Lowry	50.0%	TOR 100 IND 98 Final	1 REB, 6 AST, 2 BLK, 1 STL, 2 TO, 2 PTS	17.25
SG	Stephen Curry	10.0%	GS 93 MEM 99 Final	5 REB, 4 3PM, 8 AST, 3 STL, 1 TO,32 PTS	57.75
SF	Nicolas Batum	30.0%	POR 103 HOU 118 Final	2 REB, 4 3PM, 3 AST, 3 BLK, 3 TO,24 PTS	37.5
PF	Carmelo Anthony	40.0%	NY 100 MIN 94 Final	9 REB, 2 3PM, 2 AST, 1 BLK, 1 TO,36 PTS	52.75
C	Carlos Boozer	60.0%	CHI 93 UTA 89 Final	5 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL, 19 PTS	30.25
G	Jameer Nelson	40.0%	ORL 108 CLE 119 Final	5 REB, 4 3PM, 13 AST, 2 BLK, 1 STL,6 TO, 15 PTS, 1 DDbl	47.25
F	Derrick Williams	20.0%	NY 100 MIN 94 Final	6 REB, 1 AST, 1 BLK, 1 STL, 19 PTS	32
UTIL	James Harden	10.0%	POR 103 HOU 118 Final	7 REB, 4 3PM, 11 AST, 1 STL, 3 TO,35 PTS, 1 DDbl	64.25
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 339.00

[downsouth]

Couple Different lineups today spread in different Double or nthings, single table and step tourneys and 2 lower buy in multis (16 and 5)

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 3rd

YTP: 7

PMR: 378

PG	Ty Lawson	20.0%	DEN 15 CLE 17 5:47 1st	1 3PM, 1 AST, 3 PTS	5
SG	Stephen Curry swap	--%	GS 0 DAL 0 Sat 8:30PM		0
SF	Nick Young swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
PF	Lavoy Allen swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
C	DeMarcus Cousins swap	--%	UTA 0 SAC 0 Sat 10:00PM		0
G	Jrue Holiday swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
F	Byron Mullens swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
UTIL	Charlie Villanueva swap	--%	DET 0 MIL 0 Sat 8:30PM		0
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 5.00

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 10th

YTP: 7

PMR: 377

PG	Kyrie Irving	51.5%	DEN 19 CLE 22 4:28 1st	3 AST, 1 3PM, 3 PTS	8
SG	Monta Ellis swap	--%	DET 0 MIL 0 Sat 8:30PM		0
SF	Nick Young swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
PF	Dirk Nowitzki swap	--%	GS 0 DAL 0 Sat 8:30PM		0
C	Al Jefferson swap	--%	UTA 0 SAC 0 Sat 10:00PM		0
G	Isaiah Thomas swap	--%	UTA 0 SAC 0 Sat 10:00PM		0
F	Gerald Henderson swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
UTIL	Spencer Hawes swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game		0
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 8.00

[Grits n' Gravy]

So basically with very limited fantasy experience you are doing better than the fatass mod of this forum that got fired?

[Monitor-Tan]

So basically with very limited fantasy experience you are doing better than the fatass mod of this forum that got fired?

[downsouth]

Couple Different lineups today spread in different Double or nthings, single table and step tourneys and 2 lower buy in multis (16 and 5)

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 3rd

YTP: 7

PMR: 378

PG	Ty Lawson	20.0%	DEN 15 CLE 17 5:47 1st	1 3PM, 1 AST, 3 PTS	5
SG	Stephen Curry swap	--%	GS 0 DAL 0 Sat 8:30PM
SF	Nick Young swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
PF	Lavoy Allen swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
C	DeMarcus Cousins swap	--%	UTA 0 SAC 0 Sat 10:00PM
G	Jrue Holiday swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
F	Byron Mullens swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
UTIL	Charlie Villanueva swap	--%	DET 0 MIL 0 Sat 8:30PM
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 5.00

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 10th

YTP: 7

PMR: 377

PG	Kyrie Irving	51.5%	DEN 19 CLE 22 4:28 1st	3 AST, 1 3PM, 3 PTS	8
SG	Monta Ellis swap	--%	DET 0 MIL 0 Sat 8:30PM
SF	Nick Young swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
PF	Dirk Nowitzki swap	--%	GS 0 DAL 0 Sat 8:30PM
C	Al Jefferson swap	--%	UTA 0 SAC 0 Sat 10:00PM
G	Isaiah Thomas swap	--%	UTA 0 SAC 0 Sat 10:00PM
F	Gerald Henderson swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
UTIL	Spencer Hawes swap	--%	CHA 0 PHI 0 Pre-Game
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 8.00

First lineup cashed in Double or nothings, won a few steps.

Second lineup was as bad as they get.

Ended up plus a few dollars in account (around 8). But won a increase step ticket or refund on a few.

And I and can equal our old fantasy mod because I only have one thread started for me to basically talk to myself. Hes got them everywhere.

[gryfyn1]

First lineup cashed in Double or nothings, won a few steps.

Second lineup was as bad as they get.

Ended up plus a few dollars in account (around 8). But won a increase step ticket or refund on a few.

And I and can equal our old fantasy mod because I only have one thread started for me to basically talk to myself. Hes got them everywhere.

I think Nick young got a lot of people; played just 17mins as he got benched for a guy the signed off the street the day before.....

[downsouth]

I think Nick young got a lot of people; played just 17mins as he got benched for a guy the signed off the street the day before.....

Yeah, was pretty brutal, but at least a lot of people had him. At least in the first lineup ALlen went off$3900) and villanueva had 40 ($3100)

Was one of those nights where a lot of high lineup percentage guys underperformed.

[downsouth]

Just got one lineup for now including the 1pm. May toss another one out later. Ran it in almost all the lower level Double or nothings up to $11, several single table tourneys, and a few steps of various levels (think 3 was the highest)

Salmons of course a big gamble but couldnt find anything else 3500 or under I really liked. Hope maybe high scoring game allows him to get to 20 and hit value. Barbosa and Bradley were in the running as well. If you dont like those guys I guess you could throw maybe a Chalmers in there and hope for a second miracle game in two games.

Thought Bargnani was good value at that price as probably only guy at that level who could go off and net you 30 if he got hot. Figure at worst he should make value scoring 10-14, picking up a few boards, maybe an assist or two and possibly a block/steal.

Hopefully dont end up kicking myself for not finding a way to force Harden into the lineup with the run he has been having. Will probably find a way if I decide to do later lineups(probably swipe out Vucevic for AMir and Cousins for Randolph and put him in Carmelo spot). Had to take Carmelo at his price point as hes capable of putting the numbers up of any of the big guys and didnt have quite the price tag.

LIVE SCORING


TEAM: Ugadawgs7769

RANK: 1st

YTP: 7

PMR: 378

PG	Jameer Nelson swap	--%	POR 0 ORL 0 Sun 6:00PM		0
SG	Greivis Vasquez swap	--%	NO 0 TOR 0 Sun 6:00PM		0
SF	Rudy Gay swap	--%	NO 0 TOR 0 Sun 6:00PM		0
PF	Andrea Bargnani swap	--%	NO 0 TOR 0 Sun 6:00PM		0
C	Nikola Vucevic swap	--%	POR 0 ORL 0 Sun 6:00PM		0
G	John Salmons swap	--%	HOU 0 SAC 0 Sun 9:00PM		0
F	DeMarcus Cousins swap	--%	HOU 0 SAC 0 Sun 9:00PM		0
UTIL	Carmelo Anthony	46.9%	LAC 15 NY 10 5:33 1st	1 REB, 1 3PM, 1 BLK, 1 STL, 2 TO, 6 PTS	10.75
TOTAL FANTASY POINTS: 10.75

[gryfyn1]

I have alot of the same player but went with Harden over Melo; and based on Melo's 1st half Im not sure that was the best idea,

[downsouth]

I have alot of the same player but went with Harden over Melo; and based on Melo's 1st half Im not sure that was the best idea,

Yeah, I really wanted Harden but just couldnt cut out the lineup parts to get him. Almost dropped Gay down to Parsons but Gay upside bigger and that game has a decent shot to not be real competitive with Sac blowing their wad last night.

Lucky of course now that Melo is going off but Harden probably gets 60 tonight way he has been playing and it game is still in question going into 4th.

[downsouth]

Looks like big day for the big names on draftkings.

Kobe and LEbron both appear to be heading over 50. Guy in first in a few of my steps has LEbron, Kobe and Carmelo. Hes plays almost every tourney on site and usually knows what he is doing. Curious to see how he rounded out his team.

[ttwarrior1]

So basically with very limited fantasy experience you are doing better than the fatass mod of this forum that got fired?

that would be a no

whats wrong grits. I owned you and now your upset like a little baby.
Just like your kind

[downsouth]

Man. Nothing like checking a few scores while out to dinner with wife. Seeing your guys having good games and thinking you might have a chance. Then come home and realize at last minute one of your guys (Bargnani) was pulled with flu.

Brutal as everyone else was having decent game and would have had Cousins and Salmons to make push for a good cash.

Usually check about 10 mins or so before game but wife (who is 7 months pregnant) insisted on going out to dinner.

[TheMoneyShot]

Thanks DS for the pts! Gave you 2 buy ins for free! Thanks again!

[vikingfan101]

Had the same thing happen to me South. Virtually same lineup too. Damn Bargnani.

[downsouth]

Had the same thing happen to me South. Virtually same lineup too. Damn Bargnani.

Yeah just brutal. Surprisingly still managed to cash all my double or nothings and got min cashes in multis so not a bad day. Didnt win additioanl step tourneys but did manage to get fourth or so and just get a redo. Salmons was nice enough to show up and help cover missing Barnani and almost everyone had cousins so him not playing the fourth didnt hurt as bad.

Good luck

[vikingfan101]

Definitely not my favorite lineup so not putting as much on it as I usually do with my lineups, but rolling out this one tonight.

PG	John Wall	Was@Mil 08:00PM EST	$7,000	Swap-Out
SG	O.J. Mayo	Atl@Dal 08:30PM EST	$7,100	Swap-Out
SF	Ersan Ilyasova	Was@Mil 08:00PM EST	$5,500	Swap-Out
PF	Carlos Boozer	SA@Chi 08:00PM EST	$4,800	Swap-Out
C	Samuel Dalembert	Was@Mil 08:00PM EST	$5,400	Swap-Out
G	Ricky Rubio	Min@Cle 07:00PM EST	$6,200	Swap-Out
F	Danny Green	SA@Chi 08:00PM EST	$5,200	Swap-Out
UTIL	Greg Monroe	NO@Det 07:30PM EST	$8,800