NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of February 24th
NBA Expert Recap and Grades for Week of February 24th
One expert is trying to run away from the competition and the gap widens between 1st place and everyone else. Our Consensus Cash plays did find their way back into the top-3 after a one week hiatus. Don’t forget that our Premium Content gets you all our PGA and NBA content along with our MLB content which will be kicking off shortly. 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 (February 24th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 4.90 (12th of 30)
Total Cash Plays – 10
GPP DO Score – 5.30 (11th of 30)
Total GPP Plays – 10
A+ – Seven of the 20 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Brandon Clarke, Mike Conley
Top Experts of the Day
#1) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 8.33) started the week with two “A+” grades and one “A”.
#2) Awesemo (Score: 6.00) scored an “A+”, an “A” and a “B” grade with three plays.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyInsider (7.10 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Jarrett Allen (DailyRoto)
A+ – Aaron Gordon (Fantasy Alarm)
Tuesday (February 25th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 7.55 (6th of 31)
Total Cash Plays – 11
GPP DO Score – 5.08 (27th of 31)
Total GPP Plays – 12
A+ – Twelve of the 23 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Serge Ibaka, Gordon Hayward
Top Experts of the Day
#1A) Awesemo (Score: 10.00) scored an “A+” with all three plays on Tuesday.
#1B) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 10.00) also hauled in three “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyInsider (6.38 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Kent Bazemore (Daily Overlay – Hot Sheet)
A+ – Dennis Schroder (DailyRoto)
A+ – OG Anunoby (DailyRoto)
A+ – Brook Lopez (DailyRoto)
A+ – Zach LaVine (DFS Army – Full Court Press)
A+ – Brandon Knight (DK Playbook)
A+ – Michael Porter, Jr. (FantasyPros)
A+ – Jerami Grant (FantasyPros)
Wednesday (February 26th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 4.10 (T-25th of 31)
Total Cash Plays – 10
GPP DO Score – 5.08 (11th of 31)
Total GPP Plays – 13
A+ – Seven of the 23 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Joel Embiid
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG 6-Pack (Score: 8.50) scored an “A+” with five of six plays on Wednesday.
#2) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 8.33) made three plays and scored two “A+’s” and one “A” grade.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG 6-Pack (7.18 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Terry Rozier (DailyRoto)
A+ – Donovan Mitchell (DailyRoto)
A+ – Marcus Smart (DailyRoto)
A+ – Malik Beasley (DailyRoto)
A+ – DeAndre Jordan (DailyRoto)
A+ – Larry Nance, Jr. (Fantasy Alarm)
Thursday (February 27th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 7.57 (7th of 28)
Total Cash Plays – 7
GPP DO Score – 5.88 (18th of 28)
Total GPP Plays – 8
A+ – Seven of the 15 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – None
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DailyFantasyInsider (Score: 10.00) scored two “A+” grades to take the top spot.
#2) RG Lineup Builder (Score: 8.50) scored “B” or better with all eight plays including six “A+” scores.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyInsider (8.25 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Alex Len (FantasyPros)
A+ – Dwight Howard (Rotowire)
Friday (February 28th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 6.00 (T-7th of 30)
Total Cash Plays – 12
GPP DO Score – 4.88 (T-22nd of 30)
Total GPP Plays – 16
A+ – Eleven of the 28 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Dennis Schroder, Larry Nance Jr.
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DFS Army – Domination Station (Score: 7.57) scored an “A+” with five of their seven plays to cap the week.
#2) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 7.29) completed the sweep for the optimizers as all seven of their plays scored “B” or better including four “A+” scores.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Rotoballer (6.23 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Bismack Biyombo (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – James Johnson (Fansided)
A+ – De’Andre Hunter (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Cam Reddish (FantasyPros)
A+ – Nemanja Bjelica (FullTimeFantasy)
A+ – Joe Ingles (FullTimeFantasy)
A+ – Terrence Ross (Rotoballer)
A+ – Seth Curry (Rotowire)
Overall Leaderboard
The NumberFire – Studs plays continue to widen the gap between them and the competition. Our Cash Consensus plays did hop back into the top-3 after spending one week in 4th place. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 6.10)
#2) DFS Karma (Score: 5.91)
#3) Daily Overlay Industry Consensus – Cash Plays (Score: 5.51)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.51) hops back into the top-3 after last week. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.33) moved up one spot into a tie for 30th 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 |
| 27 | 87.5% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 26 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 25 | N/A | 83.2% | 91.7% | N/A |
| 24 | 82.3% | 79.1% | N/A | N/A |
| 23 | 85.2% | #DIV/0! | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | 63.5% | 76.1% | N/A | 89.3% |
| 21 | 79.6% | 74.6% | N/A | N/A |
| 20 | 74.7% | 67.9% | 47.4% | 75.3% |
| 19 | 67.3% | 69.3% | 85.3% | 79.1% |
| 18 | 61.9% | 67.5% | 69.9% | 65.2% |
| 17 | 40.0% | 45.2% | 72.2% | 74.1% |
| 16 | 48.6% | 39.8% | 60.5% | 76.0% |
| 15 | 40.0% | 49.1% | 61.6% | 57.8% |
| 14 | 27.1% | 47.9% | 55.0% | 61.8% |
| 13 | 32.3% | 32.1% | 54.4% | 59.4% |
| 12 | 20.5% | 34.4% | 40.0% | 50.5% |
| 11 | 16.4% | 29.8% | 36.3% | 44.2% |
| 10 | 14.7% | 22.3% | 39.1% | 39.3% |
| 9 | 9.7% | 15.5% | 26.3% | 40.0% |
| 8 | 10.7% | 10.7% | 18.0% | 27.1% |
| 7 | 7.3% | 10.4% | 18.1% | 31.4% |
| 6 | 4.9% | 8.1% | 13.4% | 24.9% |
| 5 | 3.4% | 6.2% | 8.7% | 15.2% |
| 4 | 3.3% | 5.4% | 7.1% | 14.1% |
| 3 | 2.0% | 3.6% | 5.0% | 8.2% |
| 2 | 1.4% | 2.2% | 3.3% | 5.2% |
| 1 | 0.6% | 1.2% | 2.0% | 2.1% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 27 | 63.0% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 26 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 25 | N/A | 57.3% | 63.4% | N/A |
| 24 | 55.5% | 54.9% | N/A | N/A |
| 23 | 51.0% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | 36.7% | 43.3% | N/A | 58.1% |
| 21 | 55.8% | 51.3% | N/A | N/A |
| 20 | 46.3% | 46.3% | 37.8% | 50.4% |
| 19 | 46.4% | 44.2% | 56.9% | 56.7% |
| 18 | 39.9% | 45.8% | 41.1% | 43.1% |
| 17 | 32.5% | 33.5% | 44.6% | 48.3% |
| 16 | 30.9% | 29.0% | 35.7% | 50.2% |
| 15 | 28.6% | 31.6% | 38.6% | 32.6% |
| 14 | 24.4% | 33.3% | 34.3% | 39.0% |
| 13 | 28.3% | 25.5% | 35.6% | 37.9% |
| 12 | 19.6% | 25.4% | 28.1% | 32.3% |
| 11 | 16.0% | 22.4% | 27.0% | 29.7% |
| 10 | 14.8% | 20.3% | 27.5% | 25.5% |
| 9 | 12.0% | 15.4% | 20.5% | 26.1% |
| 8 | 12.8% | 12.8% | 17.0% | 19.5% |
| 7 | 11.4% | 11.8% | 16.8% | 21.2% |
| 6 | 7.6% | 9.3% | 13.4% | 18.7% |
| 5 | 5.9% | 8.3% | 10.3% | 12.0% |
| 4 | 5.8% | 7.6% | 9.1% | 11.3% |
| 3 | 4.6% | 6.0% | 7.4% | 8.0% |
| 2 | 3.7% | 4.2% | 5.4% | 5.4% |
| 1 | 2.2% | 2.7% | 3.7% | 2.7% |
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.
