FanDuel's Dinger Tuesday Guide: Tips and Strategies 2024
by Tyler Doty | by Tyler Doty
How to Bet FanDuel Dinger Tuesdays
FanDuel’s Dinger Tuesdays promotion can prove to be very lucrative if you pick the right game. First up, you need to opt-in to participate in the promotion and place a single wager in the ‘To Hit a Home Run’ market.
Your wager must be $25 or more to qualify. Only your first wager on a game will be part of the promotion. If you place a qualifying bet, you will receive $5 in bonus bets for each homer hit in the game (by both teams).
So, if there are five total homers, you will pocket $25 in bonus bets even if the player you’ve backed doesn’t record a home run.
- For example, if the Dodgers are playing the Giants and you wager on Shohei Ohtani to hit a homer, you will receive $5 in free bets if Freddie Freeman hits a homer, even if Ohtani doesn’t. If a Giants player homered, you would also receive a $5 bonus bet.
Good Dinger Tuesday Strategies
The key to a successful Dinger Tuesday strategy is identifying the games where multiple home runs are likely. This means looking at powerful offenses against subpar starting pitchers, or even just starters who have trouble keeping the ball in the yard.
- Ballpark: It’s also vital to consider the ballpark. Any game at Coors Field is likely to provide home runs, while a cold night game with the wind blowing in at Oracle Park is going to favor pitchers considerably.
- Advanced Stats: Stats are your friend when it comes to building a Dinger Tuesday strategy. Baseball Savant is a must-use site. Hard-hit rate, xwOBA, and launch angles are all informative when trying to predict if a player will hit a homer. You can also dive into the data to see how many of their recent home runs would have gone over the fence in a given ballpark. Could a lefty-heavy lineup be poised for a big game at Yankee Stadium? Do teams with a high flyball rate tend to rake at Coors?
- Pitchers' Form: We would always explore the pitcher’s recent numbers, too. It’s best to stay away from the Aces in general, but there will be occasions when they are at risk of giving up a couple of homers.
Look beyond the outcome stats. Some pitchers might have better results than the contact they have allowed suggests. Others don’t give up a huge quantity of hard contact, but when they make mistakes, it tends to be very loud. These arms are prime to give up a couple of homers, even in a decent start.
Finding the Best Dinger Tuesday Bets
If you’re looking to find the best Dinger Tuesday bets, it’s important you look into recent home run trends. Which pitchers tend to give up the long ball? Which offenses have been hitting the ball hardest recently? What is the weather like?
While this promotion can be rewarding, you should also make sure to focus on your main home run wager. After all, this requires a $25 stake to qualify. Picking a good value home run bet is the starting point when choosing your Dinger Tuesday wagers – these picks will often align with the best matchups for the promo.
This promo is about more than one player’s plate appearances, of course. You want to look at the game as a whole and find two lineups with the potential to go yard multiple times.
If you’ve got two of the offenses that hit the most homers going head-to-head, there is clearly an opportunity for bonus bets via Dinger Tuesday. The same goes for a particularly weak starting pitching matchup, especially if those teams have some below-average middle relievers.
Finding the best Dinger Tuesday bets requires similar research to betting the over. Instead of looking at overall run production and runs conceded, we advise tailoring your analysis towards homers. Home run rate and expected slugging are two key stats for hitters and pitchers when taking advantage of this FanDuel promotion.
