NBA – Expert Grading Recap – FINAL

NBA DFS Picks & Grades

We wrapped our NBA season up a couple weeks ago. RotoGrinders Core Plays finished the season on top of the leaderboard while our Consensus Cash plays finished in 3rd. 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!

Season in Review

Name	A+	A	B	C	D	F	total	DO score
Rotogrinders Core Plays	98	36	36	23	27	15	235	5.71
DFSArmy – Cheat Sheet	122	52	60	35	38	13	320	5.53
Industry Consensus – Cash	376	151	196	138	142	56	1059	5.21
RunPureSports	346	150	183	123	132	54	988	5.20
DK Playbook – Targets	168	59	78	56	58	39	458	5.19
DailyFantasyNerd	179	64	96	58	80	32	509	5.10
Stokastic – Cheat Sheet	289	112	145	98	118	63	825	5.09
DailyFantasyFuel	216	80	128	76	90	37	627	5.08
DFSArmy – Domination Station	219	72	120	79	93	43	626	5.05
RotoGrinders Lineup Builder	216	79	120	90	86	42	633	5.03
Sportsline	95	36	53	33	43	19	279	5.01
Rotowire – Optimizer	212	77	126	74	100	36	625	5.01
FantasyLabs	232	121	134	92	113	57	749	4.84
RotoGrinders Consensus	482	216	285	227	232	96	1538	4.84
Rotogrinders 6-pack	65	23	41	27	33	17	206	4.73
Rotoballer	115	42	60	57	56	33	363	4.71
Rotowire	248	143	150	129	123	67	860	4.68
Industry Consensus – GPP	184	105	140	102	124	57	712	4.37
FantasyGuru	451	256	351	311	265	145	1779	4.35
FantasyPros	400	158	291	185	269	172	1475	4.27
DK Playbook – Values	63	21	40	25	47	46	242	3.93

Overall Leaderboard

Our top-3 for the season is below. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.

#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 5.71)

#2) DFS Army Cheat Sheet (Score: 5.53)

#3) DO Consensus – Cash (Score: 5.21)

The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.21) finished in 3rd place. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.37) finished in 18th 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
20	NA	NA	NA	NA
19	NA	NA	NA	NA
18	NA	NA	NA	NA
17	NA	NA	NA	NA
16	NA	NA	NA	NA
15	81.5%	NA	87.8%	NA
14	77.6%	85.7%	82.4%	84.9%
13	81.6%	82.8%	76.6%	83.1%
12	75.8%	76.3%	81.4%	77.4%
11	62.0%	58.4%	69.8%	67.5%
10	61.0%	67.3%	65.9%	70.5%
9	44.3%	50.4%	57.4%	51.7%
8	26.9%	39.8%	51.5%	52.5%
7	24.4%	38.2%	47.4%	49.9%
6	17.7%	24.2%	36.1%	33.9%
5	13.1%	20.5%	24.3%	30.9%
4	7.8%	10.7%	18.3%	23.5%
3	5.1%	7.3%	12.7%	14.1%
2	2.5%	4.6%	5.9%	8.7%
1	2.2%	2.3%	3.7%	3.5%

GPP

Count	$9k+	$7k – $9k	$5k – $7k	$3k – $5k
20	NA	NA	NA	NA
19	NA	NA	NA	NA
18	NA	NA	NA	NA
17	NA	NA	NA	NA
16	NA	NA	NA	NA
15	54.6%	NA	70.0%	NA
14	51.5%	58.9%	59.7%	54.5%
13	54.4%	50.4%	52.8%	58.7%
12	42.2%	51.2%	59.4%	54.2%
11	39.3%	41.0%	46.8%	44.9%
10	38.4%	39.9%	42.8%	48.7%
9	31.0%	33.9%	38.6%	38.5%
8	25.3%	27.7%	34.8%	35.3%
7	20.7%	25.0%	33.4%	32.6%
6	17.0%	19.5%	27.9%	26.2%
5	14.7%	17.5%	21.2%	22.6%
4	10.6%	13.0%	17.9%	18.5%
3	8.5%	9.5%	13.8%	12.8%
2	5.6%	6.8%	9.5%	8.6%
1	4.4%	4.8%	6.3%	4.3%

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.