eSports Picks!

League of Legends Worlds edition!

Esports has erupted into the mainstream more and more. For me, it was during the Covid sports shut down that I began to pay attention. My partner Chris has been killing the game as a top-50-in-the-world player on Draftkings. After only a few hours with him, I managed to take down 2 GPPs on a subject I had known nothing about prior to him introducing me to it. Follow him on this folks, it’s fun and I will be going full time with him on it after this season ends. I encourage you to watch a broadcast and challenge you not to get hooked.
Speaking of Worlds, they continue tomorrow morning at 4am Eastern Time so if you want in on the action get to it NOW!

For Draftkings you build a team just like you would for the NFL Showdown slates. You have positions to fill with a salary cap. Chris goes into details in some videos we’ve done and articles we’ve posted before but it’s too late for basics! All you need to know before tomorrow is you find the Teams you figure will win and stack them together in a 4/3 split between players from winning teams. You have a Captain slot that is worth more but also costs more just like NBA or NFL Showdowns and you need a player from each game position as well as an over-all team, kinda like a team Defense in NFL.

Step #1 go to https://www.bovada.lv/sports/esports/league-of-legends to get an idea of where Vegas has these games. You want tough fought games that will get deep and not necessarily the overwhelming favorites that might win too fast to accumulate GPP winning totals. But you do most often need both sides you bet on to win! Looking at the Spreads below you can see that Top Esports is the biggest favorite on the board. I tend to stay away from those players as the risk to dominate too quickly can be too high. But you could use their Team Slot as a play if you have the salary to spare in a game they should handily win. Of the favorites that Chris liked the most when I spoke to him, he was on DragonX and also liked JD Gaming in a close match as underdogs. So let’s start there. A good example is to drop Deft (ADC) for DragonX into the Captain Slot for $11,700 and that forces you to put Loken for JD Gaming into your ADC slot. From here since I have the DRX player in my captain spot I want JGD in the Team Slot. With these two teams salaries combined not being extremely high you can fit almost any combo into the rest of the slots so mess around with what feels best for you. But I like to have 3 other members from the team I used in the CPT slot and 2 other members from the team I used for the TEAM slot. So an example might look like this:
CPT: Deft – DRX (ADC)TOP: Zoom – JDGJNG: Pyosik – DRXMID: Chovy – DRXADC: Loken – JDGSUP: Keria – DRXTEAM: JD Gaming – JDG
As you can see, the optimal format of Team split 4/3 between two teams you like!
Follow along soon for more details and lineup building technique when the next season boots up and Chris, Mark, and I dig into it!

PrizePicks LOL

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Here we are looking at individual players and their projected totals of Kills plus Assists. Using what we know about the Vegas odds and scoring props we look at these guys individually by looking at their projected team totals and if they will most likely win and plan accordingly. Looking at https://lol.gamepedia.com/World_Championship clicking on the team name you want to see and you can look at each players average kills and assists. That is a great place to start and the basics say if you expect their team to win, they will go slightly over their average and if you think they lose they will likely go under.

Of course a ton of variables exist and matchups matter and game flow against particular opponents… but that is a ton to get into right now and look for more skills building articles to come in the next season…..

You Parlay players where you pick 2, 3, or 4 guys you get paid when you are right! The 3 and 4 player picks have the flex option that allows you to miss one pick and still win a portion of your bet!

For now our favorite Prize Pick plays are:
Unders -Broken Blade (7.5)Finn (9)Kramer (8.5)PowerOfEvil (7)
Overs -Gadget (4.5)Deft (9.5)Nuguri (9)Knight (13)
Good luck friends!

– Jonny Danger