NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of January 6th
NBA Expert Recap and Grades for Week of January 6th
Things are getting tighter atop the leaderboard as our leader dropped below the 6.0 score threshold. Our Cash Consensus plays continue to kill it! Don’t forget that our Premium Content gets you all our NFL, PGA and NBA content. A four 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 (January 6th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 5.64 (12th of 29)
Total Cash Plays – 11
GPP DO Score – 4.57 (22nd of 29)
Total GPP Plays – 14
A+ – Eight of the 25 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Richaun Holmes
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Sportsline (Score: 8.50) put together a nice optimizer lineup on Monday. All eight plays scored “B” or better including six “A+” grades.
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 7.60) scored “A” or better with nine of ten selections including six “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (7.11 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Markelle Fultz (DailyRoto)
A+ – Steven Adams (DailyRoto)
A+ – Terry Rozier (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Ish Smith (EliteFantasy)
A+ – Kevin Huerter (EliteFantasy)
A+ – Rudy Gay (FantasyPros)
A+ – Trevor Ariza (Rotowire Optimizer)
A+ – E’Twaun Moore (Sportsline)
Tuesday (January 7th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 7.70 (10th of 28)
Total Cash Plays – 10
GPP DO Score – 3.67 (16th of 28)
Total GPP Plays – 12
A+ – Nine of the 22 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Anthony Davis, Christian Wood
Top Experts of the Day
#1A-C) RG Core Plays, DailyFantasyInsider, Awesemo (Score: 10.00) all made two plays and scored “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyInsider (6.40 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Ja Morant (DailyRoto)
A+ – JaVale McGee (FantasyPros)
A+ – Svi Mykhailiuk (FullTimeFantasy)
A+ – Bruce Brown (FullTimeFantasy)
A+ – Mike Muscala (FullTimeFantasy)
A+ – Jaren Jackson Jr. (NumberFire – DK Daily Helper)
Wednesday (January 8th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 6.58 (7th of 32)
Total Cash Plays – 12
GPP DO Score – 5.23 (20th of 32)
Total GPP Plays – 13
A+ – Eleven of the 25 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Michael Porter Jr, Mitchell Robinson
Top Experts of the Day
#1A) Fansided (Score: 8.33) scored four “A+” grades and two “A’s” with their six plays.
#1B) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 8.33) scored two “A+” grades and one “A” with their three selections.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Fansided (6.69 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Ben McLemore (Daily Overlay – Hot Sheet)
A+ – Troy Brown Jr. (DFS Army – Domination Station)
A+ – Miles Bridges (EliteFantasy)
A+ – Malik Monk (FantasyPros)
A+ – Jerami Grant (FantasyPros)
Thursday (January 9th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 3.64 (6th of 28)
Total Cash Plays – 11
GPP DO Score – 1.33 (28th of 28)
Total GPP Plays – 12
A+ – ONE of the 23 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – James Harden, Kent Bazemore, Carmelo Anthony, PJ Tucker
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Awesemo (Score: 6.00) made three plays and scored one “A+,” one “A” and one “B” grade.
#2) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 5.33) scored one “A+” and two “B” grades with three plays.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DFS Karma (6.42 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – None
Friday (January 10th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Cash DO Score – 4.43 (8th of 32)
Total Cash Plays – 14
GPP DO Score – 4.24 (12th of 32)
Total GPP Plays – 25
A+ – Eight of the 39 total plays scored an A+ grade.
F – Kevin Knox II
Top Experts of the Day
#1) Sportsline (Score: 5.50) scored “A” or better with five of eight plays including three “A+” grades.
#2) Fansided (Score: 5.33) scored “B” or better with five of six plays including two “A+” scores.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Sportsline (5.94 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Khris Middleton (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Cam Reddish (FantasyPros)
A+ – Doug McDermott (Rotoballer)
A+ – Dillon Brooks (Rotowire)
Overall Leaderboard
The race for the top spot is getting tighter. Our Cash Consensus plays stay consistent still sitting in 3rd place. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) DFS Karma (Score: 5.97)
#2) NumberFire – Studs (Score: 5.88)
#3) Daily Overlay Industry Consensus – Cash Plays (Score: 5.56)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.56) continue to sit in the top-3. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.27) 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 |
| 25 | N/A | 83.2% | N/A | N/A |
| 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% | 70.2% | N/A | N/A |
| 20 | 74.0% | 67.9% | N/A | 75.9% |
| 19 | 65.9% | 65.0% | 83.1% | 83.0% |
| 18 | 61.1% | 58.3% | 69.9% | 84.2% |
| 17 | 40.0% | 56.0% | 74.5% | 70.9% |
| 16 | 54.7% | 37.6% | 67.7% | N/A |
| 15 | 41.5% | 44.4% | 64.0% | 52.6% |
| 14 | 32.7% | 55.1% | 48.4% | 65.0% |
| 13 | 31.1% | 31.6% | 64.2% | 61.6% |
| 12 | 19.7% | 35.4% | 43.3% | 46.1% |
| 11 | 17.1% | 30.2% | 39.5% | 51.2% |
| 10 | 13.4% | 19.9% | 38.8% | 36.5% |
| 9 | 9.8% | 15.0% | 30.9% | 36.9% |
| 8 | 10.3% | 11.7% | 17.7% | 27.1% |
| 7 | 8.0% | 9.4% | 21.5% | 34.5% |
| 6 | 5.8% | 9.1% | 13.9% | 26.6% |
| 5 | 2.6% | 6.2% | 8.7% | 17.9% |
| 4 | 2.9% | 5.7% | 8.1% | 15.5% |
| 3 | 2.0% | 3.2% | 4.9% | 7.7% |
| 2 | 1.4% | 2.0% | 3.9% | 5.4% |
| 1 | 0.0% | 1.2% | 1.9% | 2.0% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 25 | N/A | 57.3% | N/A | N/A |
| 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% | 52.0% | N/A | N/A |
| 20 | 43.1% | 46.3% | N/A | 48.9% |
| 19 | 46.5% | 50.3% | 58.5% | 58.7% |
| 18 | 37.5% | 37.3% | 41.1% | 56.8% |
| 17 | 32.5% | 37.7% | 48.8% | 45.7% |
| 16 | 33.3% | 28.8% | 35.9% | N/A |
| 15 | 29.5% | 30.1% | 40.8% | 29.5% |
| 14 | 25.9% | 36.8% | 32.0% | 42.7% |
| 13 | 27.4% | 26.6% | 39.4% | 39.3% |
| 12 | 19.4% | 25.6% | 29.3% | 28.3% |
| 11 | 16.1% | 22.0% | 29.0% | 28.9% |
| 10 | 14.6% | 20.0% | 27.9% | 24.0% |
| 9 | 11.7% | 15.2% | 23.1% | 23.8% |
| 8 | 12.2% | 14.0% | 17.4% | 20.4% |
| 7 | 11.2% | 11.6% | 19.3% | 22.2% |
| 6 | 7.2% | 9.8% | 13.5% | 19.6% |
| 5 | 5.8% | 8.6% | 10.4% | 13.0% |
| 4 | 4.6% | 7.5% | 9.4% | 11.6% |
| 3 | 5.2% | 5.9% | 7.0% | 7.6% |
| 2 | 3.3% | 4.1% | 5.7% | 5.4% |
| 1 | 0.3% | 2.8% | 3.5% | 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.
