NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of February 20th
NBA DFS Picks & Grades
A short week post-All Star game last week. One flip flop in our season top-3. 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 | Thur | Rk | Fri | Rk | Avg |
| Rotogrinders 6-pack | 10.00 | 1 | 5.17 | 3 | 7.59 |
| Rotogrinders Core Plays | 10.00 | 1 | 3.50 | 11 | 6.75 |
| DFSKarma – Building Blocks | 7.67 | 9 | 5.33 | 2 | 6.50 |
| DFSArmy – Domination Station | 6.38 | 18 | – | – | 6.38 |
| DailyFantasySportsRankings | 8.29 | 6 | 4.22 | 7 | 6.26 |
| DK Playbook – Targets | 7.00 | 16 | 5.11 | 4 | 6.06 |
| Industry Consensus – GPP | 8.44 | 5 | 3.40 | 15 | 5.92 |
| Sportsline | 10.00 | 1 | 1.67 | 26 | 5.84 |
| Rotoballer | 7.14 | 14 | 4.25 | 6 | 5.70 |
| Industry Consensus – Cash | 7.75 | 8 | 3.50 | 11 | 5.63 |
| Rotowire – Optimizer | 7.57 | 10 | 3.63 | 10 | 5.60 |
| DFSArmy – Full Court Press | 7.91 | 7 | 3.11 | 18 | 5.51 |
| RotoGrinders Lineup Builder | 7.29 | 12 | 3.38 | 17 | 5.34 |
| RotoGrinders Consensus | 7.22 | 13 | 3.40 | 15 | 5.31 |
| DailyFantasyNerd | 6.86 | 17 | 3.50 | 11 | 5.18 |
| DFSArmy – Cheat Sheet | 8.56 | 4 | 1.75 | 25 | 5.16 |
| Rotowire | 5.82 | 22 | 4.36 | 5 | 5.09 |
| DK Playbook – Values | 4.00 | 26 | 6.00 | 1 | 5.00 |
| Rotogrinders NBA Grind Down | 6.00 | 20 | 3.87 | 8 | 4.94 |
| RunPureSports | 6.14 | 19 | 3.67 | 9 | 4.91 |
| FantasyGuru | 7.12 | 15 | 2.41 | 22 | 4.77 |
| FantasyLabs | 7.30 | 11 | 2.20 | 23 | 4.75 |
| FantasyAlarm – Playbook | 5.82 | 22 | 3.49 | 14 | 4.66 |
| Stokastic – Cheat Sheet | 5.87 | 21 | 2.67 | 21 | 4.27 |
| NumberFire – Daily Helper | 5.41 | 24 | 2.90 | 19 | 4.16 |
| FantasyPros | 4.15 | 25 | 2.89 | 20 | 3.52 |
| FantasyAlarm – Lineup Generator | 3.00 | 27 | 1.78 | 24 | 2.39 |
| DailyFantasyInsider | – | – | 1.50 | 27 | 1.50 |
Sleepers of the Week
Each week we’ll highlight players that scored an “A+” grade but were selected by only one expert.
Thursday
- Keon Johnson (DFS Army Cheat Sheet)
- Hamidou Diallo (FantasyPros)
- Alec Burks (FantasyPros)
- Tyrese Haliburton (NumberFire)
- Ochai Agbaji (NumberFire)
- Bennedict Mathurian (RunPureSports)
- Charles Bassey (RunPureSports)
- Caris Levert (Stokastic Cheat Sheet)
Friday
- Tre Mann (DK Playbook Values)
- De’Aaron Fox (DFS Alarm Playbook)
- Paul George (DFS Alarm Playbook)
- Onyeka Okongwu (FantasyPros)
- Gordon Hayward (NumberFire)
- Terrence Ross (Rotoballer)
- Delon Wright (Rotowire)
Value Tracker
- FantasyPros – 68
- NumberFire – 45
- DFS Alarm Playbook – 39
- RunPureSports – 39
- Rotowire – 19
- FantasyGuru – 18
- DK Playbook Values – 10
- DFS Alarm Lineup Generator – 9
- Rotoballer – 9
- DFS Army Full Court Press – 6
- Rotowire Optimizer – 5
- RG Consensus – 5
- Stokastic Cheat Sheet – 5
- RG Grind Down – 4
- DK Playbook Targets – 3
- DailyRoto Optimizer – 3
- DailyFantasySportsRankings – 3
- RG 6-Pack – 2
- FantasyLabs – 1
- DailyFantasyNerd – 1
- Sportsline – 1
- DFS Army Domination Station – 1
- RG Lineup Builder – 1
- DFS Army Cheat Sheet – 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: 6.31)
#2) DFS Army Cheat Sheet (Score: 5.82)
#3) DailyFantasyInsider (Score: 5.76)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.49) stayed in 9th place. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.83) is now in 22nd 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 |
| 25 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 24 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 23 | NA | NA | 94.3% | 85.9% |
| 22 | NA | 56.1% | 86.7% | 78.6% |
| 21 | 80.7% | 69.6% | NA | NA |
| 20 | 55.5% | 79.7% | 87.9% | 83.5% |
| 19 | 75.8% | 66.8% | 84.0% | 67.9% |
| 18 | 59.7% | 77.0% | 74.7% | 74.3% |
| 17 | 56.0% | 55.7% | 52.8% | 67.3% |
| 16 | 49.5% | 52.5% | 60.7% | 50.2% |
| 15 | 46.3% | 52.0% | 55.6% | 70.0% |
| 14 | 41.7% | 55.0% | 73.4% | 47.1% |
| 13 | 26.8% | 42.0% | 47.6% | 48.8% |
| 12 | 29.9% | 43.0% | 36.7% | 39.3% |
| 11 | 23.4% | 34.4% | 36.5% | 48.9% |
| 10 | 18.9% | 31.8% | 33.6% | 38.7% |
| 9 | 15.6% | 15.1% | 28.0% | 34.2% |
| 8 | 13.6% | 23.0% | 27.5% | 28.3% |
| 7 | 10.2% | 12.6% | 20.2% | 23.0% |
| 6 | 7.9% | 9.4% | 13.5% | 18.0% |
| 5 | 5.2% | 8.1% | 8.9% | 14.5% |
| 4 | 5.5% | 7.0% | 12.5% | 11.7% |
| 3 | 4.2% | 7.1% | 6.2% | 10.6% |
| 2 | 2.7% | 2.6% | 4.0% | 4.9% |
| 1 | 1.6% | 1.9% | 2.4% | 1.9% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 25 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 24 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 23 | NA | NA | 61.6% | 62.4% |
| 22 | NA | 43.7% | 57.7% | 50.4% |
| 21 | 48.4% | 46.6% | NA | NA |
| 20 | 30.7% | 43.4% | 62.7% | 55.2% |
| 19 | 47.5% | 38.7% | 54.7% | 43.5% |
| 18 | 39.6% | 44.8% | 49.3% | 44.0% |
| 17 | 33.2% | 34.0% | 36.3% | 45.5% |
| 16 | 32.1% | 34.8% | 33.5% | 37.9% |
| 15 | 28.3% | 28.8% | 35.6% | 39.1% |
| 14 | 28.2% | 30.2% | 40.7% | 34.6% |
| 13 | 23.7% | 26.4% | 33.6% | 30.0% |
| 12 | 22.3% | 26.4% | 26.2% | 31.7% |
| 11 | 17.8% | 20.8% | 25.1% | 32.3% |
| 10 | 16.1% | 21.4% | 23.4% | 26.3% |
| 9 | 13.9% | 15.4% | 18.7% | 22.0% |
| 8 | 13.1% | 16.7% | 19.4% | 19.1% |
| 7 | 11.0% | 11.8% | 15.1% | 17.8% |
| 6 | 10.1% | 11.7% | 14.2% | 14.5% |
| 5 | 7.7% | 9.0% | 10.3% | 13.0% |
| 4 | 6.9% | 8.6% | 13.1% | 10.7% |
| 3 | 6.5% | 7.4% | 8.3% | 9.4% |
| 2 | 4.3% | 5.1% | 6.2% | 5.1% |
| 1 | 3.1% | 3.6% | 4.2% | 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.
