NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of December 9th
NBA Expert Recap and Grades for Week of December 9th
As we approach Christmas, our Consensus Cash plays continue to provide you with solid lineup plays on a daily basis. We’re winding down CFB and NFL coverage so we’ll continue to ramp up our NBA and PGA content. And don’t forget that our Premium Content gets you all our NFL, CFB, PGA and NBA content. A full five slate week is recapped below. 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 9th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 5.46 (12th of 30)
Total Cash Plays – 13
GPP DO Score – 4.07 (T-25th of 30)
Total GPP Plays – 15
A+ – Eight of the 28 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Andre Drummond, Blake Griffin, Lou Williams
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Daily Overlay – Hot Sheet (Score: 6.70) scored “A” or better with seven of 10 plays including five “A+” grades.
#2) RG Core Plays (Score: 6.67) scored an “A+” and two “A’s” with their three plays.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Awesemo (6.38 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Willie Cauley-Stein (DailyRoto)
A+ – Trevor Ariza (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Jordan Clarkson (FantasyPros)
A+ – Patrick Beverley (FullTimeFantasy)
A+ – Jayson Tatum (NumberFird DK Fantasy Helper)
A+ – Cory Joseph (Rotowire Optimizer)
Tuesday (December 10th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 3.75 (T-12h of 27)
Total Cash Plays – 12
GPP DO Score – 3.00 (T-20th of 27)
Total GPP Plays – 8
A+ – Four of the 20 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Kent Bazemore, Marcus Morris, Tyler Herro, RJ Barrett
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 7.67) scored two “A+’s” and one “B” with their three plays.
#2) Rotoworld (Score: 6.40) scored an “A+” with three of their five plays.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (7.64 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Duncan Robinson (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Bobby Portis (Rotowire Optimizer)
Wednesday (December 11th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 5.18 (11th of 31)
Total Cash Plays – 11
GPP DO Score – 5.47 (10th of 31)
Total GPP Plays – 15
A+ – Nine of the 26 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – De’Andre Hunter
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Awesemo (Score: 8.33) scored two “A+’s” and one “A” grade with three selections.
#2) DFS Karma (Score: 7.60) scored three “A+” grades out of their five plays on Wednesday.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Awesemo (7.78 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Jeff Teague (DailyRoto)
A+ – George Hill (DailyRoto)
A+ – Kevin Porter, Jr (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Jordan Clarkson (FantasyPros)
A+ – Denzel Valentine (FantasyPros)
A+ – Julius Randle (FantasyPros)
Thursday (December 12th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 4.50 (9th of 27)
Total Cash Plays – 12
GPP DO Score – 2.00 (26th of 27)
Total GPP Plays – 9
A+ – Four of the 21 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Jaylen Brown
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DailyFantasyInsider (Score: 10.00) scored an “A+” with their only play on Thursday.
#2) Awesemo, DFS Army – Full Court Press, RG Core Plays (Score: 6.00) all tied for the 2nd spot on Thursday.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyInsider (6.89 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Hassan Whiteside (Fantasy Alarm)
Friday (December 13th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 7.54 (3rd of 31)
Total Cash Plays – 13
GPP DO Score – 4.58 (25th of 31)
Total GPP Plays – 19
A+ – Thirteen of the 32 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Omari Spellman, Jonathan Isaac
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DFS Karma (Score: 9.17) scored five “A+” grades and one “A” with their six plays.
#2) Sportsline (Score: 7.88) scored five “A+’s” along with two “A’s” and a “B” with their eight plays to cap the week.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Rotoballer (6.61 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Brook Lopez (DailyRoto)
A+ – Jae Crowder (DFS Army – Domination Station)
A+ – Elfrid Payton (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – JaVale McGee (FantasyPros)
Overall Leaderboard
The DO Consensus Cash plays continue to score high. If you’re not already, you should be reading our Daily Consensus. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) DFS Karma (Score: 6.37)
#2) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 5.69)
#3) Daily Overlay Industry Consensus – Cash Plays (Score: 5.66)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.66) stays in the top-3. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.14) stayed in 31st 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 |
| 24 | N/A | 79.1% | N/A | N/A |
| 23 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | N/A | 75.0% | N/A | N/A |
| 21 | 78.5% | 69.8% | N/A | N/A |
| 20 | N/A | 53.7% | N/A | N/A |
| 19 | 71.7% | N/A | N/A | 84.7% |
| 18 | 67.8% | N/A | N/A | 89.0% |
| 17 | 46.2% | 55.3% | 75.5% | 74.1% |
| 16 | 55.9% | 40.8% | 67.7% | N/A |
| 15 | 42.9% | 41.8% | 73.6% | 40.1% |
| 14 | 33.2% | 59.6% | 61.2% | 74.9% |
| 13 | 33.5% | 44.8% | 60.7% | 63.9% |
| 12 | 12.7% | 38.0% | 47.0% | 45.2% |
| 11 | 17.6% | 28.1% | 43.3% | 42.4% |
| 10 | 13.2% | 21.4% | 39.2% | 25.3% |
| 9 | 10.3% | 16.6% | 32.5% | 38.7% |
| 8 | 9.4% | 13.2% | 20.0% | 26.4% |
| 7 | 9.6% | 9.3% | 19.1% | 33.4% |
| 6 | 2.8% | 9.4% | 13.4% | 22.0% |
| 5 | 3.2% | 5.7% | 8.1% | 17.5% |
| 4 | 1.7% | 4.8% | 7.3% | 16.0% |
| 3 | 2.0% | 3.4% | 4.9% | 7.6% |
| 2 | 1.4% | 1.7% | 4.0% | 5.6% |
| 1 | N/A | 1.1% | 1.8% | 2.1% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 24 | N/A | 54.9% | N/A | N/A |
| 23 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | N/A | 39.7% | N/A | N/A |
| 21 | 57.6% | 48.7% | N/A | N/A |
| 20 | N/A | 42.4% | N/A | N/A |
| 19 | 49.2% | N/A | N/A | 61.4% |
| 18 | 39.0% | N/A | N/A | 60.2% |
| 17 | 38.3% | 35.3% | 48.7% | 48.7% |
| 16 | 34.5% | 30.2% | 35.9% | N/A |
| 15 | 31.3% | 33.6% | 43.9% | 25.9% |
| 14 | 25.9% | 39.6% | 33.8% | 47.0% |
| 13 | 29.2% | 33.9% | 37.2% | 38.6% |
| 12 | 14.3% | 25.4% | 30.3% | 27.7% |
| 11 | 15.4% | 20.5% | 30.5% | 24.0% |
| 10 | 14.8% | 20.3% | 26.8% | 17.2% |
| 9 | 11.7% | 16.2% | 23.0% | 23.1% |
| 8 | 11.8% | 14.9% | 18.3% | 19.2% |
| 7 | 10.5% | 11.1% | 18.3% | 21.7% |
| 6 | 5.9% | 9.9% | 12.9% | 17.8% |
| 5 | 6.1% | 8.0% | 9.8% | 12.8% |
| 4 | 4.0% | 7.7% | 8.8% | 11.7% |
| 3 | 4.8% | 5.9% | 7.0% | 7.1% |
| 2 | 3.3% | 4.1% | 5.8% | 5.5% |
| 1 | N/A | 2.6% | 3.4% | 2.6% |
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.
