That's a good strategy and the same one I will be using this year. Last year I ended the game with all my lifelines -- not good and I finished in 15th. That's sort of like keeping all your timeouts -- they are useless if you don't use them. The only thing is, you can fall further and further behind going for longshots if they don't come in. In fact, just using a shoe means you didn't get any points that day. If your longshot never comes in, you either run out of shoes or you don't win the tiebreaker. That's what I don't like about it -- It's not really about who you think will finish in the money -- it's about who you think will finish in the money most of the time, with a few lucky bombs thrown in for tiebreakers. If I don't get a longshot to come in at this rate I'm projected to finish around 300th. If there were no shoes it would all be about picking winners, in fact that could be the tie breaker if necessary. Still a fun game though, I'm grateful for the complimentary opportunity.
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