A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks but things remain steady atop our season-long leaderboard. Apologies about last week as life got in the way and the recap never got up. RotoGrinders continues to hold down two of the top-5 spots with another one sitting just outside the top-5. Enjoy!
In this article, I will give a brief recap of each day we gathered and graded the experts, including how the Industry Consensus picks performed, highlighting which experts were at the top for the day and which players were only called out by one expert, but produced an “A+” grade. I also list the top DraftKings Points per $1000 experts for each day. Finally, I will also review the overall standings and highlight the top experts so far this season. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
As a reminder, we are currently gathering selections and publishing the NBA Industry Consensus articles on all weekdays that feature at least four games during the NBA season, so be sure to check back about an hour or so before the first game tips off to get a look at the industry expert’s consensus picks for the day.
On to the grades!
Week in Review
Monday (December 10th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 6.38 (6th of 21)
Total Plays – 32
A+ – Sixteen of the 32 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – Alec Burks, Otto Porter Jr, Jimmy Butler
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Sportsline (Score: 7.63) nailed it to start the week with six of their eight plays scoring an “A+” grade.
#2) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 7.25) scored “B” or better with all eight of their selections including four “A+” scores.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Rotoballer (5.76 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Jonathon Simmons (DailyRoto)
A+ – Tobias Harris (DailyRoto)
A+ – Dwight Powell (DailyRoto)
A+ – Eric Bledsoe (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Brook Lopez (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Josh Jackson (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Justise Winslow (Daily Overlay – Hot Sheet)
A+ – Dario Saric (FantasyPros)
A+ – Dwyane Wade (FantasyGuruElite)
Wednesday (December 12th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 4.57 (13th of 22)
Total Plays – 30
A+ – Joel Embiid, Larry Nance Jr, Paul George, Anthony Davis, Luka Doncic, Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Knox, Trae Young
F – Jalen Brunson, Stephen Curry
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 8.25) scored three “A+” grades and a “B” with their four plays.
#2) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 6.75) hauled in five “A+” grades with their eight selections on Wednesday. DFN was the only expert site to recommend Langston Galloway and John Wall with their “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyNerd (6.37 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Marvin Bagley III (RG Grind Down)
A+ – CJ McCollum (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Kelly Olynyk (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Marcus Smart (Rotowire)
A+ – Nemanja Bjelica (FantasyPros)
A+ – Dario Saric (FantasyPros)
A+ – Langston Galloway (DailyFantasyNerd)
A+ – John Wall (DailyFantasyNerd)
Thursday (December 13th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.48 (5th of 18)
Total Plays – 25
A+ – Ten of the 25 picks scored an “A+” grade.
F – De’Anthony Melton
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Rotowire (Score: 7.00) topped the list for Thursday with five of their eight selections scoring an “A+” grade.
#2) DFS Army (Score: 6.80) scored three “A+” grades and two “C’s” to find the top-2.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DFS Army (5.56 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – DJ Augustin (Scout)
A+ – Trevor Ariza (Scout)
A+ – Mo Bamba (FantasyPros)
Friday (December 14th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 6.71 (4th of 22)
Total Plays – 31
A+ – Seventeen of the 31 plays scored an “A+” grade!!
F – Furkan Korkmaz
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DK Playbook (Score: 8.25) finished the week with a big day! Ten of their 12 plays scored “A” or better including nine “A+” grades. DK Playbook was the lone expert site to recommend Matthew Dellavedova and his “A+” score.
#2) RG 6-Pack (Score: 7.33) scored an “A+” with four of his six plays to cap the week.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Rotoballer (6.37 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Kevon Looney (DailyRoto)
A+ – Willie Cauley-Stein (Scout)
A+ – Matthew Dellavedova (DK Playbook)
Overall Leaderboard
FantasyLabs continued their heater to place some distance between themselves and the rest of the competition. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 5.95) sits atop the standings now with a really solid score approaching 6.0.
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 5.58) still sits in the top-2 with plenty of time to make up some ground.
#3) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 5.35) slipped a spot into 3rd but still has a comfortable cushion in the top-5.
#4) RG Consensus (Score: 5.19) is holding on to the 4 spot and is maintaining the RG dominance toward the top of the leaderboard.
#5) DFS Army (Score: 5.17) is closing in on the #4 spot and the RG Consensus. That said, they don’t have much cushion between themselves and DailyFantasyNerd who sits .05 behind.
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus picks (Score: 5.02) continue to fill in the 8th slot in the standings. It’s been a nice year so far for the Consensus and you should definitely be reading our daily articles to help yourself out.
Ownership Percentage Tracking
A part of daily fantasy sports strategy is understanding ownership percentages and being able to predict ownership percentages prior to entering contests especially for GPP tournaments where you might want to be contrarian by selecting lower owned players or fading highly owned players depending on the payout structure and size of the contest.
Below are the tables showing the actual data collected so far this season. Results are using a DraftKings Double-Up for Cash and single entry tournament for GPP. The Count column shows the number of times a player was selected by the experts for a given day. The salary columns show the average ownership percentages for all players that were recommended by the given number of experts for the salary range provided.
Cash
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 17 | N/A | N/A | 86.90% | N/A |
| 16 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 84.50% |
| 15 | 70.95% | N/A | 69.00% | 0.00% |
| 14 | 51.52% | N/A | 72.50% | 63.30% |
| 13 | 25.78% | 61.80% | 44.70% | 57.00% |
| 12 | 33.50% | 48.16% | 50.81% | 72.18% |
| 11 | 34.37% | 43.59% | 44.18% | 54.90% |
| 10 | 25.12% | 33.15% | 35.85% | 42.58% |
| 9 | 18.35% | 27.72% | 26.68% | 42.53% |
| 8 | 12.30% | 18.88% | 28.64% | 32.74% |
| 7 | 10.33% | 19.35% | 22.49% | 28.31% |
| 6 | 11.61% | 16.28% | 18.44% | 22.63% |
| 5 | 7.11% | 8.35% | 12.36% | 12.17% |
| 4 | 4.97% | 6.00% | 8.69% | 13.15% |
| 3 | 2.42% | 5.39% | 5.15% | 6.54% |
| 2 | 1.88% | 2.88% | 3.50% | 4.15% |
| 1 | 1.58% | 1.99% | 2.61% | 1.60% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 17 | N/A | N/A | 53.60% | N/A |
| 16 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 57.80% |
| 15 | 42.80% | N/A | 40.30% | 0.00% |
| 14 | 37.20% | N/A | 47.35% | 44.60% |
| 13 | 20.63% | 38.55% | 28.47% | 33.65% |
| 12 | 25.04% | 35.12% | 33.44% | 44.48% |
| 11 | 23.42% | 30.02% | 30.40% | 33.03% |
| 10 | 21.74% | 23.93% | 26.05% | 25.81% |
| 9 | 16.61% | 22.63% | 20.65% | 28.53% |
| 8 | 13.52% | 17.40% | 23.57% | 23.60% |
| 7 | 12.43% | 15.60% | 16.95% | 20.49% |
| 6 | 11.92% | 14.64% | 16.42% | 16.05% |
| 5 | 9.73% | 9.54% | 12.44% | 10.82% |
| 4 | 7.59% | 7.76% | 9.18% | 10.14% |
| 3 | 5.56% | 6.99% | 7.10% | 6.88% |
| 2 | 5.32% | 4.92% | 5.15% | 4.49% |
| 1 | 2.87% | 3.33% | 4.00% | 2.23% |
We continue to track this over the course of the season as we provide projected ownership percentages for players on each slate in our NBA Weighted Consensus article.
