NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of April 4th and Final Grades
NBA DFS Picks & Grades
This concludes our NBA coverage for the season. Congrats to RotoGrinders Core Plays for being this season’s top NBA expert. Awesemo’s Building Blocks and DailyFantasyInsider round out the top-3. Our Consensus Cash plays had another great season finishing the year in 6th place. 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
| Expert | Tues | Rk | Wed | Rk | Thur | Rk | Fri | Rk | Avg |
| DailyFantasyInsider | 10.00 | 1 | 10.00 | 1 | 10.00 | 1 | 6.50 | 19 | 9.13 |
| Rotogrinders Core Plays | 6.67 | 14 | 10.00 | 1 | 6.50 | 3 | 10.00 | 1 | 8.29 |
| DFSArmy – Cheat Sheet | 10.00 | 1 | 8.00 | 7 | 4.75 | 17 | 8.25 | 5 | 7.75 |
| Awesemo – Building Blocks | 6.00 | 24 | 10.00 | 1 | 5.00 | 14 | 10.00 | 1 | 7.75 |
| Industry Consensus – Cash | 6.43 | 21 | 8.33 | 6 | 6.55 | 2 | 7.91 | 6 | 7.31 |
| Sportsline | 7.17 | 5 | 8.00 | 7 | 3.67 | 23 | 10.00 | 1 | 7.21 |
| DailyFantasyNerd | 6.86 | 9 | 7.63 | 11 | 5.88 | 6 | 7.00 | 15 | 6.84 |
| DailyRoto – Optimizer | 5.00 | 27 | 7.86 | 10 | 5.29 | 12 | 9.13 | 4 | 6.82 |
| DK Playbook – Targets | 7.90 | 4 | 6.89 | 15 | 4.50 | 19 | 7.90 | 7 | 6.80 |
| Rotogrinders NBA Grind Down | 6.40 | 23 | 6.75 | 18 | 6.27 | 4 | 7.11 | 13 | 6.63 |
| RunPureSports | 6.59 | 17 | 6.56 | 20 | 5.55 | 10 | 7.39 | 10 | 6.52 |
| FantasyPros | 6.79 | 10 | 6.44 | 21 | 5.00 | 14 | 7.56 | 9 | 6.45 |
| Awesemo – Cheat Sheet | 6.91 | 8 | 8.40 | 5 | 3.20 | 26 | 6.80 | 17 | 6.33 |
| DFSArmy – Domination Station | 6.57 | 18 | 5.86 | 25 | 5.88 | 6 | 7.00 | 15 | 6.33 |
| NumberFire – Daily Helper | 6.78 | 11 | 6.67 | 19 | 5.88 | 6 | 5.89 | 21 | 6.31 |
| FantasyLabs | 5.90 | 25 | 6.89 | 15 | 5.25 | 13 | 7.10 | 14 | 6.29 |
| NBC Sports Edge | 6.60 | 16 | 6.29 | 23 | 5.38 | 11 | 6.71 | 18 | 6.25 |
| DailyFantasySportsRankings | 6.50 | 19 | 5.80 | 26 | 4.83 | 16 | 7.67 | 8 | 6.20 |
| Rotowire | 8.00 | 3 | 6.30 | 22 | 4.45 | 20 | 6.00 | 20 | 6.19 |
| DFSArmy – Full Court Press | 6.70 | 13 | 8.42 | 4 | 4.62 | 18 | 5.00 | 23 | 6.19 |
| Rotowire – Optimizer | 6.71 | 12 | 6.88 | 17 | 3.63 | 24 | 7.38 | 11 | 6.15 |
| RotoGrinders Consensus | 6.42 | 22 | 6.26 | 24 | 5.90 | 5 | 5.45 | 22 | 6.01 |
| RotoGrinders Lineup Builder | 5.57 | 26 | 7.50 | 12 | 5.75 | 9 | 4.75 | 24 | 5.89 |
| Rotoballer | 6.63 | 15 | 7.00 | 14 | 2.80 | 27 | 7.13 | 12 | 5.89 |
| Industry Consensus – GPP | 6.50 | 19 | 8.00 | 7 | 4.00 | 21 | 4.13 | 28 | 5.66 |
| FantasyAlarm – Lineup Generator | 7.00 | 6 | 7.29 | 13 | 4.00 | 21 | 4.14 | 27 | 5.61 |
| FantasyAlarm – Playbook | 7.00 | 6 | 5.67 | 27 | 3.36 | 25 | 4.57 | 25 | 5.15 |
| NBC Sports Edge – Pivots | – | – | 4.29 | 28 | – | – | – | – | 4.29 |
| DK Playbook – Values | – | – | 3.67 | 29 | – | – | 4.25 | 26 | 3.96 |
Sleepers of the Week
Each week we’ll highlight players that scored an “A+” grade but were selected by only one expert.
Tuesday
- Markelle Fultz (DailyFantasyNerd)
- Jaren Jackson, Jr (DFS Army Full Court Press)
- Ignas Brazdeikis (DK Playbook Targets)
- Bruce Brown (FantasyLabs)
- Ish Smith (FantasyPros)
- Kevin Love (FantasyPros)
- Isaiah Roby (Rotoballer)
- Greg Brown (RG Grind Down)
- Chuma Okeke (Rotowire)
- Zach Collins (Rotowire Optimizer)
Wednesday
- Danilo Gallinari (FantasyPros)
- Vit Krejci (RunPureSports)
- Torrey Craig (RunPureSports)
- Bismack Biyombo (RunPureSports)
- Nickeil Walker-Alexander (RunPureSports)
Thursday
- Montrezl Harrell (FantasyPros)
- Gary Trent, Jr (NumberFire Daily Helper)
- Danny Green (NBC Sports Edge)
Friday
- Kevin Porter, Jr (DFS Army Full Court Press)
- Bojan Bogdanovic (DFS Alarm Playbook)
- Kelly Oubre, Jr (FantasyPros)
- Josh Christopher (FantasyPros)
- Montrezl Harrell (FantasyPros)
- Coby White (RunPureSports)
Value Tracker
- FantasyPros – 163
- DFS Alarm Playbook – 76
- RunPureSports – 61
- EliteFantasy – 35
- Rotowire – 24
- DFS Alarm Lineup Generator – 20
- DFS Army Full Court Press – 19
- NBC Sports Edge – 13
- NBC Sports Edge Pivots – 12
- NumberFire Daily Helper – 11
- DK Playbook Targets – 11
- DFS Karma Game Theory – 10
- RG Grind Down – 10
- FantasyLabs – 10
- DailyFantasySportsRankings – 9
- Rotowire Optimizer – 9
- RG Consensus – 8
- DK Playbook Values – 8
- Rotoballer – 7
- DFS Army Cheat Sheet – 4
- DailyRoto Optimizer – 4
- RG 6-Pack – 3
- Sportsline – 3
- DFS Army Domination Station – 2
- Awesemo Cheat Sheet – 1
- RG Lineup Builder – 1
- DailyFantasyNerd – 1
Overall Leaderboard
Our top-3 for the season is below. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 6.53)
#2) Awesemo Building Blocks (Score: 6.31)
#3) DailyFantasyInsider (Score: 6.28)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.89) finished in 6th place. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.96) finished in a tie for 24th place.
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 |
| 26 | 83.0% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 25 | 59.4% | N/A | N/A | 76.2% |
| 24 | N/A | 84.7% | 88.6% | 86.4% |
| 23 | 55.9% | 74.3% | 84.9% | 88.6% |
| 22 | 77.0% | N/A | 89.6% | 78.0% |
| 21 | 63.9% | N/A | 83.9% | 78.5% |
| 20 | 71.1% | 75.8% | 88.2% | 71.2% |
| 19 | 70.5% | 76.2% | 67.7% | 84.3% |
| 18 | 61.8% | 60.4% | 68.7% | 65.6% |
| 17 | 55.9% | 60.9% | 67.5% | 66.8% |
| 16 | 56.3% | 55.0% | 49.3% | 59.1% |
| 15 | 46.0% | 58.1% | 63.9% | 52.2% |
| 14 | 45.9% | 47.4% | 53.7% | 58.5% |
| 13 | 34.1% | 45.9% | 56.5% | 46.7% |
| 12 | 30.0% | 36.9% | 38.9% | 49.3% |
| 11 | 25.1% | 28.4% | 35.9% | 33.2% |
| 10 | 23.3% | 30.3% | 29.9% | 35.4% |
| 9 | 18.1% | 22.6% | 23.4% | 26.4% |
| 8 | 18.4% | 16.4% | 32.4% | 31.2% |
| 7 | 15.5% | 14.8% | 18.8% | 22.6% |
| 6 | 8.8% | 12.2% | 16.9% | 14.9% |
| 5 | 6.2% | 9.8% | 15.0% | 11.7% |
| 4 | 5.9% | 6.5% | 9.9% | 11.1% |
| 3 | 3.9% | 5.6% | 7.5% | 7.8% |
| 2 | 2.8% | 3.3% | 4.1% | 4.3% |
| 1 | 1.5% | 2.6% | 2.7% | 2.1% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 26 | 55.5% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 25 | 49.0% | N/A | N/A | 45.3% |
| 24 | N/A | 54.0% | 69.7% | 62.2% |
| 23 | 45.7% | 43.3% | 63.0% | 60.6% |
| 22 | 45.7% | N/A | 66.7% | 54.4% |
| 21 | 46.9% | N/A | 60.1% | 53.4% |
| 20 | 38.6% | 52.1% | 64.1% | 49.0% |
| 19 | 42.0% | 46.2% | 39.4% | 54.5% |
| 18 | 40.4% | 41.3% | 40.9% | 42.5% |
| 17 | 34.2% | 34.5% | 39.9% | 42.5% |
| 16 | 34.0% | 34.1% | 31.4% | 39.5% |
| 15 | 29.7% | 36.0% | 45.0% | 36.2% |
| 14 | 28.9% | 33.7% | 38.5% | 35.9% |
| 13 | 26.8% | 29.9% | 36.8% | 33.5% |
| 12 | 22.6% | 24.9% | 27.5% | 31.9% |
| 11 | 20.8% | 20.9% | 26.5% | 24.9% |
| 10 | 19.7% | 20.9% | 21.9% | 24.4% |
| 9 | 17.2% | 17.3% | 19.4% | 20.6% |
| 8 | 14.9% | 15.6% | 24.7% | 23.4% |
| 7 | 13.2% | 14.2% | 17.1% | 16.3% |
| 6 | 10.0% | 13.2% | 15.1% | 13.0% |
| 5 | 9.0% | 11.0% | 13.9% | 10.4% |
| 4 | 8.4% | 9.0% | 11.2% | 9.9% |
| 3 | 6.7% | 7.8% | 9.2% | 7.9% |
| 2 | 4.7% | 5.2% | 6.5% | 4.9% |
| 1 | 3.2% | 4.2% | 4.8% | 2.7% |
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.
