MLB – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of September 6th
MLB DFS Experts Grades
We will have one final weekly recap next week as this will be the last week that we grade. We had a couple of experts pop into the top-3 this week that were previously sitting just outside. A small, two-day week is recapped below. Enjoy!
Check out the top experts on the Overall Leaderboard and as always you can check out the full MLB Expert Standings to make sure that you’re up to speed on who is making the grade. Also, review how all the MLB DFS analysts fared this past week with a day-by-day breakdown of each scored and ranking for the day and the week. I will also post the Ownership Percentages by position by count which are used to help project player ownership in our Weighted Consensus article every day.
As a reminder, we are currently gathering selections and publishing the MLB Industry Weighted Consensus article each weekday during the season, so be sure to check back about an hour or so before the first pitch of the first game to get a look at the consensus picks for the day. We’d love to add more so let us know in the comments the experts that you’re trusting daily.
Leaderboard
The top-3 for both pitchers and hitters are below. Be sure to check out the full MLB Expert Standings to see how your favorite experts check out.
Pitchers
#1) Daily Overlay Consensus Core 5 (Score: 5.92)
#2) RG 6-Pack (Score: 5.44)
#3) RG Lineup Builder (Score: 5.40)
Hitters
#1) RG 6-Pack (Score: 2.90)
#2) RG Consensus (Score: 2.84)
#3) NumberFire (Score: 2.80)
Week in Review
Pitchers
| Expert | Tues | Rk | Fri | Rk | Avg |
| NBC Sports Edge | 7.50 | 2 | 10.00 | 1 | 8.75 |
| DFSArmy-DominationStation | 7.50 | 2 | 10.00 | 1 | 8.75 |
| RotoGrinders-Lineup Builder | 7.50 | 2 | 10.00 | 1 | 8.75 |
| DailyFantasyNerd | 7.50 | 2 | 6.00 | 7 | 6.75 |
| DailyRoto-Optimizer | 7.50 | 2 | 6.00 | 7 | 6.75 |
| Rotowire – Optimizer | 7.50 | 2 | 5.00 | 15 | 6.25 |
| Industry Consensus – Core 5 | 10.00 | 1 | 2.00 | 20 | 6.00 |
| DK Playbook | 5.50 | 10 | 6.00 | 7 | 5.75 |
| Awesemo | 5.33 | 11 | 6.00 | 7 | 5.67 |
| FantasyAlarm | 3.80 | 18 | 6.75 | 5 | 5.28 |
| Industry Consensus | 3.33 | 20 | 6.71 | 6 | 5.02 |
| DailyRoto | 5.00 | 12 | – | – | 5.00 |
| FantasyLabs | 4.25 | 14 | 5.50 | 12 | 4.88 |
| Rotowire | 5.67 | 9 | 4.00 | 19 | 4.84 |
| Sportsline | 2.33 | 22 | 7.33 | 4 | 4.83 |
| DailyFantasySportsRankings | 7.50 | 2 | 2.00 | 20 | 4.75 |
| DFSArmy-CheatSheet | 5.00 | 12 | 4.40 | 17 | 4.70 |
| NumberFire | 4.00 | 17 | 5.00 | 15 | 4.50 |
| RotoGrinders-MLBGrindDown | 3.44 | 19 | 5.17 | 14 | 4.31 |
| RotoGrinders-Consensus | 4.25 | 14 | 4.25 | 18 | 4.25 |
| FantasyAlarm – Lineup Generator | 2.50 | 21 | 6.00 | 7 | 4.25 |
| FantasyPros | 2.00 | 23 | 5.50 | 12 | 3.75 |
| EliteFantasy | 4.25 | 14 | 1.00 | 22 | 2.63 |
| Rotoballer | 1.00 | 24 | – | – | 1.00 |
Hitters
| Expert | Tues | Rk | Fri | Rk | Avg |
| FantasyAlarm – Lineup Generator | 2.57 | 10 | 5.67 | 1 | 4.12 |
| RotoGrinders-Lineup Builder | 5.71 | 1 | 1.50 | 15 | 3.61 |
| RotoGrinders-Consensus | 3.92 | 4 | 2.71 | 3 | 3.32 |
| DFSArmy-DominationStation | 4.00 | 2 | 2.38 | 9 | 3.19 |
| FantasyLabs | 3.78 | 5 | 2.33 | 10 | 3.06 |
| EliteFantasy | 3.46 | 6 | 2.52 | 7 | 2.99 |
| DFSArmy-CheatSheet | 3.40 | 7 | 2.26 | 11 | 2.83 |
| NumberFire | 4.00 | 2 | 1.42 | 16 | 2.71 |
| DK Playbook | 1.73 | 17 | 3.50 | 2 | 2.62 |
| Awesemo | 2.19 | 13 | 2.44 | 8 | 2.32 |
| FantasyAlarm | 1.91 | 14 | 2.68 | 4 | 2.30 |
| Industry Consensus | 2.42 | 12 | 1.77 | 14 | 2.10 |
| DailyRoto-Optimizer | 3.29 | 8 | 0.86 | 18 | 2.08 |
| RotoGrinders-MLBGrindDown | 1.50 | 19 | 2.65 | 5 | 2.08 |
| FantasyPros | 1.18 | 23 | 2.57 | 6 | 1.88 |
| DailyFantasySportsRankings | 1.78 | 16 | 1.90 | 12 | 1.84 |
| NBC Sports Edge | 2.46 | 11 | 0.54 | 20 | 1.50 |
| Rotoballer | 1.50 | 19 | – | – | 1.50 |
| Rotowire | 1.08 | 24 | 1.83 | 13 | 1.46 |
| Industry Consensus – Core 5 | 1.50 | 19 | 0.75 | 19 | 1.13 |
| DailyFantasyNerd | 1.86 | 15 | 0.38 | 21 | 1.12 |
| Sportsline | 1.60 | 18 | 0.00 | 22 | 0.80 |
| DailyFantasyInsider | 1.50 | 19 | 0.00 | 22 | 0.75 |
| Rotowire – Optimizer | 0.38 | 25 | 1.00 | 17 | 0.69 |
Sleepers of the Week
In the “Sleepers of the Week” section, I’ll highlight the players that were selected by only one expert and scored an “A+” grade. These are the sites to look at when you’re squeezing in some cheap bats.
Tuesday
- Jordan Lyles (DailyRoto)
- Jose Altuve (DFS Army Cheat Sheet)
- Steven Duggar (EliteFantasy)
- Ian Happ (Fantasy Alarm)
- Alex Bregman (Fantasy Alarm Lineup Generator)
- Tyler O’Neill (RG Lineup Builder)
- Wade Miley (RG Grind Down)
Friday
- Bobby Dalbec (DK Playbook)
- Yadier Molina (EliteFantasy)
- Tom Murphy (EliteFantasy)
- Luis Urias (DFS Army Cheat Sheet)
- Francisco Lindor (Fantasy Alarm)
- Jonathan Schoop (RG Grind D0wn)
- Tylor Megill (RG Grind D0wn)
- Jose Abreu (RG Grind D0wn)
- Matt Olson (RG Grind D0wn)
Value Tracker
- RG Grind Down – 90
- EliteFantasy – 65
- FantasyPros – 56
- Fantasy Alarm – 40
- DFS Army Cheat Sheet – 20
- Awesemo – 19
- Fantasy Alarm Lineup Generator – 18
- DK Playbook – 18
- DailyRoto – 17
- FantasyLabs – 16
- NumberFire – 15
- DFS Karma Game Theory – 13
- NBC Sports Edge – 12
- Rotowire – 10
- DailyFantasySportsRankings – 10
- Daily Overlay On the Hill – 9
- Rotoballer – 9
- DFS Army Domination Station – 7
- GoingFor2 – 6
- RG Lineup Builder – 6
- DailyRoto Optimizer – 3
- DailyFantasyNerd – 3
- RG Consensus – 2
- DailyFantasyInsider – 2
- RG 6-Pack – 1
- Rotowire Optimizer – 1
Ownership Percentage Tracking
Below is the current table showing the data we have tracked so far this season. Results are using DraftKings Double-Up or 50/50s for Cash and large field multi-entry tournaments for GPP. The Count column shows the number of times a player was selected by the experts for a given day. The Cash % chart shows the average ownership percentage of those players in a Cash game. The GPP % chart shows the average ownership percentage of those players in a GPP tournament.
Cash by Position
| Count | SP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | Total |
| 25 | 89.7% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 89.7% |
| 24 | 79.0% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 79.0% |
| 23 | 84.3% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 84.3% |
| 22 | 74.6% | N/A | N/A | N/A | 70.1% | N/A | N/A | 74.1% |
| 21 | 78.4% | N/A | 73.7% | N/A | 75.8% | N/A | 78.7% | 78.0% |
| 20 | 68.4% | N/A | 65.0% | 57.2% | 56.7% | 69.1% | N/A | 66.3% |
| 19 | 67.0% | N/A | 52.4% | N/A | 69.0% | 40.1% | 60.0% | 63.0% |
| 18 | 62.9% | N/A | 64.3% | N/A | 42.6% | 55.0% | 62.2% | 59.5% |
| 17 | 62.9% | 64.1% | 25.0% | 49.5% | 57.8% | 84.1% | 66.5% | 61.4% |
| 16 | 51.0% | N/A | 56.7% | 48.9% | 46.5% | 32.6% | 58.8% | 50.8% |
| 15 | 54.9% | 56.9% | 58.4% | 55.2% | 47.7% | 41.4% | 52.6% | 51.9% |
| 14 | 45.1% | 68.5% | 38.9% | 50.1% | 49.7% | 36.9% | 48.5% | 45.6% |
| 13 | 47.4% | 46.6% | 36.8% | 36.7% | 28.1% | 45.0% | 47.4% | 41.8% |
| 12 | 37.3% | 31.9% | 29.3% | 31.6% | 39.7% | 30.2% | 43.1% | 36.7% |
| 11 | 30.8% | 35.8% | 26.6% | 28.7% | 29.1% | 29.1% | 39.2% | 31.7% |
| 10 | 22.2% | 24.0% | 26.7% | 28.2% | 21.5% | 24.0% | 29.6% | 25.7% |
| 9 | 24.5% | 25.2% | 22.5% | 23.6% | 22.4% | 22.5% | 28.5% | 24.5% |
| 8 | 17.7% | 22.3% | 20.7% | 16.4% | 16.6% | 12.4% | 21.2% | 18.3% |
| 7 | 15.0% | 20.5% | 15.5% | 16.5% | 15.6% | 14.8% | 17.6% | 16.4% |
| 6 | 11.6% | 16.6% | 11.5% | 11.3% | 10.2% | 13.2% | 15.9% | 13.3% |
| 5 | 8.9% | 12.8% | 9.3% | 9.8% | 10.6% | 8.8% | 11.7% | 10.4% |
| 4 | 5.8% | 8.0% | 6.7% | 7.5% | 7.2% | 7.3% | 9.8% | 7.7% |
| 3 | 5.3% | 9.3% | 5.8% | 5.5% | 4.5% | 6.1% | 8.2% | 6.7% |
| 2 | 3.4% | 5.2% | 3.4% | 4.4% | 4.5% | 3.2% | 4.6% | 4.2% |
| 1 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 1.4% | 2.4% | 1.7% | 1.9% | 2.1% | 2.0% |
GPP by Position
| Count | SP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | Total |
| 25 | 66.3% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 66.3% |
| 24 | 55.9% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 55.9% |
| 23 | 62.6% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 62.6% |
| 22 | 52.9% | N/A | N/A | N/A | 34.0% | N/A | N/A | 51.1% |
| 21 | 53.4% | N/A | 38.9% | N/A | 47.5% | N/A | 46.1% | 51.8% |
| 20 | 46.2% | N/A | 33.2% | 34.9% | 31.9% | 32.1% | N/A | 41.0% |
| 19 | 45.9% | N/A | 31.4% | N/A | 30.4% | 37.0% | 29.8% | 39.9% |
| 18 | 39.8% | N/A | 35.0% | N/A | 25.6% | 35.4% | 36.8% | 36.8% |
| 17 | 42.6% | 50.8% | 26.1% | 28.8% | 31.8% | 54.3% | 38.8% | 38.4% |
| 16 | 38.0% | N/A | 25.6% | 26.4% | 26.9% | 21.4% | 36.0% | 32.7% |
| 15 | 38.6% | 35.9% | 30.1% | 27.7% | 24.1% | 24.6% | 30.5% | 31.6% |
| 14 | 35.0% | 39.3% | 22.5% | 24.6% | 29.4% | 20.8% | 27.3% | 28.2% |
| 13 | 33.0% | 22.3% | 22.7% | 23.0% | 20.0% | 22.7% | 24.6% | 25.7% |
| 12 | 31.2% | 23.5% | 18.1% | 19.6% | 22.3% | 18.0% | 24.2% | 24.2% |
| 11 | 28.2% | 18.9% | 17.0% | 17.2% | 19.8% | 17.7% | 21.5% | 21.4% |
| 10 | 23.5% | 18.3% | 17.1% | 20.8% | 17.3% | 17.9% | 19.2% | 19.5% |
| 9 | 23.3% | 17.3% | 16.0% | 15.1% | 15.5% | 15.3% | 19.7% | 18.1% |
| 8 | 18.5% | 14.8% | 13.4% | 13.8% | 15.2% | 11.5% | 16.0% | 15.1% |
| 7 | 17.1% | 14.0% | 12.6% | 13.2% | 12.3% | 12.4% | 13.2% | 13.5% |
| 6 | 14.0% | 13.2% | 10.2% | 10.3% | 10.2% | 11.3% | 13.1% | 11.9% |
| 5 | 13.0% | 10.7% | 8.5% | 9.0% | 9.8% | 8.8% | 10.9% | 10.1% |
| 4 | 9.5% | 8.0% | 7.4% | 7.7% | 8.3% | 7.7% | 9.9% | 8.4% |
| 3 | 8.4% | 7.7% | 5.8% | 6.9% | 6.0% | 6.8% | 8.3% | 7.2% |
| 2 | 6.5% | 5.7% | 4.5% | 5.3% | 5.5% | 4.5% | 5.4% | 5.3% |
| 1 | 3.4% | 4.0% | 2.6% | 3.4% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.3% | 3.3% |
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