Your complete guide to tomorrow morning’s two-game, best-of-three LoL slate on DraftKings.
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My projections for the two-game slate are already loaded into the EliteFantasy.com LoL optimizer and lineup builder. Let’s get to work!
Optimizer Settings
Some settings I like to use when MME’ing on these 2-game slates:
- 4-3 builds are best for 2 game slates.
- Offensive players vs. TEAM pos – 0 players
- Randomness around 10-15%
- Players from Game MAX – 4
- Limit Opposing Players – 0
- Stack CAPT with at least 2 TOP/JNG/MID/ADC/SUP from same team
- Have at least one 4-player stack
- No TEAM CAPT (ADC or MID are best-suited for CAPT)
Slate Preview
This slate features two best-of-five matches:
Suning (-950) vs. LGD Gaming (+500)
- Projected kills per game (per my model): Suning 14.9 – LGD 7.3
Bilibili Gaming (+265) vs. Royal Never Give Up (-385)
- Projected kills per game (per my model): Bilibili 11.0 – RNG 16.3
Player Rankings
With that in mind, here are my player rankings by position – these are value rankings based on point per dollar:
- CAPT: Gala (RNG – ADC), huanfeng (SN – ADC), Cryin (RNG – MID)
- TOP: Xiaohu (RNG), bin (SN), Biubiu (BLG)
- JNG: WEI (RNG), Meteor (BLG), SofM (SN)
- MID: Cryin (RNG), Angel (SN), Zeka (BLG)
- ADC: Gala (RNG), huanfeng (SN), Aiming (BLG)
- SUP: Ming (RNG), ON (SN), Jwei (BLG)
- TEAM: LGD Gaming, Royal Never Give Up, Suning
GPP Tips
The chalk will be Suning and Royal Never Give Up.
This isn’t a slate to put too much money at risk. Both teams are big favorites in the sportsbooks and my model agrees. With two game slates, you really need a 4-3 combo to take down a big GPP. If you want to take the chance of putting together the right mix of players from the favorites, be my guest.
As you can tell, Royal Never Give Up is my preferred 4-man stack and I’d want my CAPT from that team, as well. Unfortunately, I see them as the most likely of the two favorites to be upset, as well. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but Bilibili has a much better shot at it than LGD.
Be careful out there tonight.
Good luck!
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