Memorial Day and Major League Baseball have shared a connection for a long time, both as a checkpoint during the regular season as well as a day to commemorate and respect the nature of the holiday. The former is less applicable to DFS players, where we aren’t interested in how a team has performed in the standings to date — we only care about what is expected to happen in a single, specific slate of games. That’s where the latter comes into play. Memorial Day is treated like a weekend in terms of scheduling, and we have our main slate for Monday in the afternoon.
Be careful, though. This column will use the “main slates” from DraftKings and FanDuel as they are listed on the respective websites, but they differ slightly from each other. The matchup between Chicago and Cleveland — which is a seven-inning game as the first part of a doubleheader — is included in DraftKings’ main slate, but not for FanDuel, while FanDuel has the game between Washington and Atlanta included, but DraftKings does not. I will make it a point to indicate this difference if I list any player or teams from these two games in the body of this article.
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