🌃 Night Slate Playbook (8:40 ET · 2 games): Top Plays, the Smart Fades & Exactly How I Start Each Build

⏱ 12-minute playbook · TOR@SD (8.4 total) + ARI@LAD (9.2). Forty players, four starting arms, and one truth: on a 2-gamer the field piles onto the same cheap seats — ownership is the whole game tonight. Every rank below blends projection, ceiling (p95) AND ownership — not just points. Slate is live in the builder (🌃 NIGHT toggle) with all six real contests loaded, and the hand-builder.

Article by James at CourtEdge · Sat 7/11 · 8:40 ET lock · CourtEdge Analytics · Proprietary Models

The free look: LAD is the only real offense on the board (5.6 implied, next best 4.3) and the field knows it — but the market is paying the WRONG Dodgers. Ohtani at 42% is correct chalk; Teoscar Hernández at 14% ownership for $4,400 is the same offense at one-third the crowd. And the night's biggest trap wears a Toronto uniform.

⏱ 20-minute combined playbook · The nightcap is a REMATCH — Arizona jumped this same Dodgers team 9-3 last night, and the seat that won the contest was the 11%-owned ARI arm. Tonight the field re-adjusts back to LA (5.5 implied behind Yamamoto), which sets up the day's most interesting captain math: the highest bat ceiling of the entire day sitting at 5.5% ownership.

Article by James at CourtEdge · ARI @ LAD Showdown — Sat 7/11 · 9:10 ET lock · CourtEdge Analytics · Proprietary Models

The game: 9.1 total, lopsided — LAD 5.5 implied, ARI 3.6 against Yamamoto. And one structural quirk that changes construction completely: there are no punt bats on this slate. The cheapest useful hitters start in the mid-$4Ks and the only $4,000 fills are relievers who project ~2 points. Every seat costs real money — which makes the captain choice worth MORE here than on any other slate today.

The free look:

Behind the paywall: the full captain board with exposures, the E-Rod-echo seat the field refuses to click twice, five flex locks, the no-punt construction rule, and the yesterday's-hero fade. All three of today's showdowns are loaded in the Showdown Lab — toggle at the top.