Snapdraft NBA Basketball Scoring and Strategy

For the record, $28 of hockey contests yesterday with no wins. I picked up a few more 2nd place finishes, but with both of my lineups scoring in the high 30s didn't really do well enough to be able to expect any wins.

Although I haven't been playing in te NBA basketball contests at Snapdraft, I do have some thoughts on how to approach them. First, here is the scoring system:

2 points - 2 Pt. Field Goal
3 points - 3 Pt. Field Goal
1 point - Free Throw
1 point - Assist
1 point - Rebound
2 points - Steal
2 points - Blocked Shot

Compared to traditional fantasy basketball, this scoring system places a lot of emphasis on points scored. While the scarcity of other categories makes each individual event worth more in traditional (rotisserie) scoring, here each event is worth the same amount. Your opponents may not fully appreciate how valuable the one-dimensional scorers can be in this format.

Close But No Cigar

Close by no cigar yesterday. I entered $21.60 of contests and didn't win any. I was really close though. I used the same lineup in all contests and scored 41.10 points, which was good for 2nd place in 5 contests. If either of my goalies had held their opponent to three goals or less, I would have won all of those.

Because my basic strategy is kind of feast or famine (looking for high variance combinations of players), I'm going to try to start hedging by using more than one lineup when I can find additional combinations of players that I'm comfortable with. For today's games I've found two lineups that I like, so I'll probably split my contests about half and half between the two.

It's also worth mentioning that I'm playing in the multiplayer contests on Fantasy Sports Live. I won't be updating my results from that site quite as frequently, since they don't fill as many multiplayer contests.

Perfect Record at Snapdraft Hockey

Yesterday I had an almost unbelievable perfect record at Snapdraft hockey. I entered $12.40 of contests (all between 10-25 players) and finished DEAD LAST in every single one. That's not easy to do. Note to self: it's REALLY important to figure out which goaltenders are playing each day. I managed to get both of them wrong yesterday, which went a long way toward explaining my results.

Snapdraft Hockey

I hadn't expected to be playing much on Snapdraft until baseball season, but I'm confident enough in the strategy I've got for multiplayer hockey contests, that I'm giving that a shot. I entered about $10 of contests yesterday, and it looks like I won most of them. While that's not going to happen every day (or even most days), it's always nice to get off to a good start. I'll be posting various thoughts on Snapdraft hockey strategy an my results over the next few months, and hope to have a new post up every few days.

Snapdraft Football Results

So the strategy I used for Snapdraft football yielded terrific results. Total entry fees: $68. Total prizes: $300. While things did work out almost perfectly for me with New Orleans and Indianapolis meeting in the Super Bowl, I was 'hedged' so that I would have had a good chance of coming out at least slightly ahead in at least 80% of the potential matchups.