NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of February 22nd
NBA DFS Picks & Grades
Basketball keeps be-bopping down the road. As usual, our Cash Consensus plays had another good week but continues to sit just outside the top-3. A full, five-day 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
| Expert | Mon | Rk | Tues | Rk | Wed | Rk | Thur | Rk | Fri | Rk | Avg |
| Sportsline | 5.50 | 3 | 7.67 | 2 | 7.67 | 1 | 10.00 | 1 | 3.50 | 25 | 6.87 |
| Awesemo – Building Blocks | 5.20 | 5 | 6.60 | 10 | 5.60 | 4 | 9.00 | 4 | 4.20 | 19 | 6.12 |
| DFSArmy – Domination Station | 4.75 | 8 | 7.57 | 3 | 3.75 | 24 | 8.50 | 8 | 5.43 | 2 | 6.00 |
| DFSArmy – Full Court Press | 4.82 | 7 | 6.65 | 9 | 6.88 | 2 | 5.79 | 23 | 5.36 | 3 | 5.90 |
| Rotogrinders Core Plays | 5.50 | 3 | 6.50 | 12 | 4.67 | 13 | 10.00 | 1 | 2.25 | 34 | 5.78 |
| Rotogrinders NBA Grind Down | 3.50 | 26 | 7.22 | 5 | 4.67 | 13 | 8.60 | 7 | 4.55 | 15 | 5.71 |
| DFSArmy – Cheat Sheet | 5.71 | 2 | 5.75 | 19 | 4.00 | 17 | 8.20 | 9 | 4.50 | 16 | 5.63 |
| Industry Consensus – Cash | 3.82 | 22 | 6.78 | 8 | 4.60 | 15 | 7.36 | 12 | 5.29 | 4 | 5.57 |
| DailyRoto – Optimizer | 5.00 | 6 | 7.29 | 4 | 3.75 | 24 | 9.00 | 4 | 2.75 | 32 | 5.56 |
| RotoGrinders Lineup Builder | 4.25 | 13 | 5.25 | 25 | 5.00 | 8 | 8.86 | 6 | 4.38 | 17 | 5.55 |
| DailyFantasyNerd | 4.25 | 13 | 5.75 | 19 | 5.00 | 8 | 7.88 | 10 | 4.75 | 11 | 5.53 |
| DailyRoto | 4.09 | 19 | 6.53 | 11 | 5.33 | 7 | 6.23 | 20 | 5.14 | 7 | 5.46 |
| FantasyLabs | 4.67 | 9 | 6.90 | 7 | 4.00 | 17 | 6.36 | 18 | 4.67 | 12 | 5.32 |
| Rotowire | 4.00 | 20 | 5.91 | 16 | 5.73 | 3 | 5.30 | 28 | 5.50 | 1 | 5.29 |
| RotoGrinders Consensus | 4.42 | 11 | 5.50 | 22 | 4.74 | 11 | 6.50 | 16 | 4.32 | 18 | 5.10 |
| Rotoworld | 3.13 | 29 | 7.00 | 6 | 4.25 | 16 | 5.70 | 25 | 5.22 | 5 | 5.06 |
| RunPureSports | 4.13 | 17 | 6.00 | 14 | 3.87 | 23 | 6.29 | 19 | 5.00 | 8 | 5.06 |
| DailyFantasyInsider | 6.50 | 1 | 4.00 | 32 | 3.00 | 29 | 10.00 | 1 | 1.00 | 35 | 4.90 |
| FantasyAlarm – Lineup Generator | 2.88 | 32 | 6.00 | 14 | 5.50 | 5 | 5.63 | 26 | 4.14 | 20 | 4.83 |
| Industry Consensus – GPP | 4.14 | 16 | 4.69 | 28 | 5.35 | 6 | 5.19 | 29 | 4.67 | 12 | 4.81 |
| DK Playbook – Targets | 3.80 | 23 | 5.80 | 18 | 4.00 | 17 | 5.40 | 27 | 4.67 | 12 | 4.73 |
| DFSKarma – Game Theory | 3.47 | 28 | 5.20 | 26 | 4.93 | 10 | 6.93 | 15 | 3.00 | 28 | 4.71 |
| Rotowire – Optimizer | 4.63 | 10 | 4.63 | 30 | 3.75 | 24 | 7.50 | 11 | 3.00 | 28 | 4.70 |
| Awesemo – Cheat Sheet | 3.60 | 24 | 4.93 | 27 | 3.53 | 27 | 7.00 | 13 | 4.14 | 20 | 4.64 |
| DailyOverlay – Hot Sheet | 2.90 | 31 | 5.27 | 24 | 3.91 | 21 | 5.73 | 24 | 5.18 | 6 | 4.60 |
| EliteFantasy | 4.19 | 15 | 4.67 | 29 | 3.89 | 22 | 6.21 | 21 | 3.78 | 23 | 4.55 |
| NumberFire – Daily Helper | 3.50 | 26 | 5.33 | 23 | 4.00 | 17 | 6.40 | 17 | 3.20 | 27 | 4.49 |
| FantasyAlarm – Playbook | 4.11 | 18 | 5.63 | 21 | 3.52 | 28 | 5.10 | 30 | 3.89 | 22 | 4.45 |
| Rotogrinders 6-pack | – | – | 4.00 | 32 | – | – | – | – | 4.80 | 10 | 4.40 |
| DFSKarma – GPP Plays | 0.00 | 34 | 10.00 | 1 | 2.00 | 32 | – | – | 5.00 | 8 | 4.25 |
| FantasyPros | 4.33 | 12 | 4.28 | 31 | 2.84 | 30 | 5.89 | 22 | 3.65 | 24 | 4.20 |
| Rotoballer | 3.88 | 21 | 6.14 | 13 | 4.71 | 12 | 3.00 | 32 | 2.86 | 31 | 4.12 |
| DailyFantasySportsRankings | 2.91 | 30 | 5.82 | 17 | 2.56 | 31 | 5.10 | 30 | 3.00 | 28 | 3.88 |
| Rotoworld – Pivots | 3.60 | 24 | 4.00 | 32 | 1.60 | 33 | – | – | 2.43 | 33 | 2.91 |
| DK Playbook – Values | 1.00 | 33 | – | – | 1.25 | 34 | 7.00 | 13 | 0.75 | 36 | 2.50 |
Sleepers of the Week
Each week we’ll highlight players that scored an “A+” grade but were selected by only one expert.
Monday
- Duncan Robinson (Fantasy Alarm Playbook)
- Alex Caruso (FantasyLabs)
Tuesday
- Tyrese Haliburton (Fantasy Alarm Playbook)
- Enes Kanter (Fantasy Alarm Playbook)
- Terrence Ross (EliteFantasy)
- Derrick Rose (FantasyPros)
- Elfrid Payton (FantasyPros)
- James Johnson (FantasyPros)
- Svi Mykhailiuk (Rotowire Optimizer)
- Jalen Brunson (RunPureSports)
Wednesday
- Keta Bates-Diop (DailyRoto)
Tuesday
- Harrison Barnes (DailyRoto)
- Shake Milton (DailyRoto Optimizer)
- Boban Marjanovic (DFS Karma Game Theory)
- Bruce Brown (Fantasy Alarm Playbook)
- Taj Gibson (FantasyLabs)
- Dwight Howard (FantasyPros)
- Eric Bledsoe (NumberFire Daily Helper)
Friday
- Jimmy Butler (DailyRoto)
- Goran Dragic (DFS Army Domination Station)
Overall Leaderboard
Our top-3 for the season is below. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) DFS Army Full Court Press (Score: 5.53)
#2) Awesemo Building Blocks (Score: 5.42)
#3) Sportsline (Score: 5.39)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.30) stays in 4th place. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.44) is in 27th place after last week.
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 | 76.6% | N/A | N/A | 45.1% |
| 25 | N/A | 74.0% | N/A | 90.6% |
| 24 | 59.6% | 82.9% | N/A | 84.4% |
| 23 | 62.5% | N/A | N/A | 73.4% |
| 22 | 78.4% | 71.5% | 89.0% | 72.0% |
| 21 | 67.2% | 63.2% | 50.4% | 72.1% |
| 20 | 65.7% | N/A | 37.5% | 74.2% |
| 19 | 61.5% | 56.4% | 45.2% | 55.0% |
| 18 | 65.1% | 63.7% | N/A | 77.2% |
| 17 | 45.7% | 66.8% | 57.7% | 71.9% |
| 16 | 36.9% | 50.4% | 53.2% | 78.2% |
| 15 | 47.8% | 42.7% | 51.9% | 40.6% |
| 14 | 30.4% | 42.7% | 42.1% | 44.2% |
| 13 | 32.3% | 35.1% | 37.9% | 67.6% |
| 12 | 19.8% | 32.3% | 29.3% | 40.3% |
| 11 | 15.1% | 20.8% | 31.7% | 34.9% |
| 10 | 14.0% | 20.1% | 22.0% | 40.3% |
| 9 | 11.6% | 15.3% | 21.8% | 27.6% |
| 8 | 10.8% | 20.0% | 20.1% | 33.0% |
| 7 | 5.4% | 9.2% | 15.5% | 21.3% |
| 6 | 5.5% | 12.5% | 8.5% | 18.5% |
| 5 | 4.6% | 6.4% | 11.4% | 17.1% |
| 4 | 2.8% | 6.2% | 6.1% | 10.9% |
| 3 | 2.4% | 3.9% | 4.9% | 11.8% |
| 2 | 1.5% | 3.9% | 3.4% | 5.0% |
| 1 | 1.1% | 2.2% | 1.7% | 2.8% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 26 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 33.6% |
| 25 | N/A | 69.0% | N/A | 66.4% |
| 24 | 27.9% | 48.4% | N/A | N/A |
| 23 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 47.9% |
| 22 | 47.7% | 43.3% | 65.0% | 50.5% |
| 21 | 40.2% | 36.9% | 34.3% | 56.6% |
| 20 | 37.9% | N/A | N/A | 44.7% |
| 19 | 34.2% | 32.8% | 31.8% | 25.8% |
| 18 | 40.7% | N/A | N/A | 47.9% |
| 17 | 35.7% | 40.0% | 41.5% | 50.2% |
| 16 | 26.1% | 33.9% | 36.3% | 52.1% |
| 15 | 34.1% | 31.0% | 36.4% | 23.2% |
| 14 | 26.1% | 27.9% | 29.7% | 32.9% |
| 13 | 23.9% | 23.0% | 25.2% | 48.7% |
| 12 | 17.9% | 22.8% | 22.2% | 27.6% |
| 11 | 15.4% | 19.8% | 26.5% | 22.1% |
| 10 | 13.4% | 18.5% | 17.5% | 26.2% |
| 9 | 13.5% | 16.5% | 19.8% | 20.2% |
| 8 | 11.4% | 15.5% | 17.9% | 20.5% |
| 7 | 8.6% | 12.0% | 13.8% | 17.9% |
| 6 | 8.0% | 11.9% | 11.3% | 13.9% |
| 5 | 6.7% | 8.5% | 11.7% | 15.0% |
| 4 | 4.7% | 7.5% | 8.9% | 9.7% |
| 3 | 4.9% | 6.2% | 7.7% | 10.1% |
| 2 | 3.5% | 5.4% | 5.5% | 5.6% |
| 1 | 2.7% | 3.3% | 3.8% | 3.0% |
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.
