The Daily Spin – DraftKings Preview – AT&T Pebble Beach

Some weeks, the column leaps off of my fingertips and I’m in bed before midnight. Well, 2 or 3am, maybe. Other weeks, when the field is a little softer, it takes hours for me to labor over the player pool. Just tonight in trying to build my cash line I think I spent 2.5 hours trying to go through different lines and I still have not found one that fits my eye. With DJ withdrawing on Monday night, this event really opened up in terms of possibilities. It is both a joy and a pain. It’s pain in that I likely would have buckled and rolled DJ in cash this week had he showed up and then jumped into the $7k range to fill the rest with everyone else. It’s joy in that now there are a lot more ways to build a cash line which means that we will not see a 70-80% owned DJ, but it also gets complicated since there are not a lot of compelling value plays for cash games in the lower range. We had options last week down to James Hahn at $6800, but there really are not really any standouts on the low end this week.

We are entering a great stretch of golf here over the next month….starting in a week. It is a shame that we do not get a better field for this event, though I think much of that usually has to do with the fact most of the top golfers generally like to avoid Pro Am events (no Pro Am this year due to COVID) with a bunch of different courses, and it is also a natural week to take off with a loaded field next week at Riviera followed by the first WGC event of the season the following week in Florida which leads us up to some really fun events in March including the Match Play event and the Players Championship. Also, Pebble Beach can be cold, wet and rainy this time of year which seems to be the case this weekend with temperatures hovering around 50 degrees. Most players do not like putting up with that sort of weather unless it revolves around playing for The Open Championship.

Announcements

Be sure to tune in to Sirius/XM Fantasy Sports Channel today between 1-3pm for the Fantasy Sports Writers Association (FSWA) awards announcements. Both Jeff and myself have received nominations for Golf Writer of the Year so we’re very excited to hear if either of us will be taking home some hardware. Jeff won the award for his work back in 2015, but this marks my first nomination.

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