NBA – Expert Recap and Grades – Week of November 22nd
NBA DFS Picks & Grades
As the leaderboard begins to take shape, it looks like we’re going to have a tight season in NBA. There were a ton of guys in the Value Tracker this week. A four-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 | Fri | Rk | Avg |
| Rotogrinders Core Plays | 10.00 | 1 | 5.00 | 11 | 5.00 | 5 | 7.50 | 2 | 6.88 |
| Awesemo – Building Blocks | 7.33 | 5 | 7.67 | 1 | 5.00 | 5 | 4.00 | 22 | 6.00 |
| FantasyAlarm – Lineup Generator | 3.43 | 29 | 7.25 | 2 | 5.63 | 2 | 5.71 | 6 | 5.51 |
| FantasyPros | 7.71 | 2 | 6.81 | 3 | 3.08 | 24 | 4.06 | 20 | 5.42 |
| FantasyLabs | 4.90 | 20 | 6.11 | 6 | 3.00 | 25 | 7.60 | 1 | 5.40 |
| NBC Sports Edge – Pivots | 6.40 | 8 | – | – | 4.29 | 13 | 5.50 | 7 | 5.40 |
| DailyFantasyInsider | 7.50 | 4 | 0.00 | 28 | 5.67 | 1 | 7.50 | 2 | 5.17 |
| DFSArmy – Cheat Sheet | 3.33 | 30 | 6.33 | 4 | 5.00 | 5 | 5.75 | 5 | 5.10 |
| DailyFantasyNerd | 4.88 | 21 | 6.33 | 4 | 4.14 | 14 | 5.00 | 9 | 5.09 |
| Rotowire | 6.91 | 6 | 4.00 | 18 | – | – | 4.27 | 18 | 5.06 |
| DFSArmy – Domination Station | 4.38 | 25 | 4.17 | 17 | 5.13 | 4 | 6.50 | 4 | 5.05 |
| Awesemo – Cheat Sheet | 5.75 | 14 | 5.00 | 11 | 4.40 | 11 | 4.93 | 10 | 5.02 |
| Industry Consensus – Cash | 5.36 | 18 | 5.89 | 7 | 4.67 | 9 | 3.71 | 25 | 4.91 |
| RunPureSports | 5.95 | 13 | 5.28 | 10 | 3.18 | 23 | 4.68 | 16 | 4.77 |
| NumberFire – Daily Helper | 6.22 | 10 | 4.75 | 13 | 3.22 | 21 | 4.88 | 11 | 4.77 |
| Sportsline | 4.14 | 27 | 5.43 | 9 | 4.50 | 10 | 4.80 | 12 | 4.72 |
| DFSArmy – Full Court Press | 4.79 | 22 | – | – | 5.26 | 3 | 4.06 | 20 | 4.70 |
| Rotogrinders NBA Grind Down | 4.31 | 26 | 5.86 | 8 | 5.00 | 5 | 3.63 | 27 | 4.70 |
| RotoGrinders Lineup Builder | 5.57 | 15 | 3.86 | 21 | 4.00 | 15 | 4.71 | 14 | 4.54 |
| DK Playbook – Targets | 6.80 | 7 | 3.50 | 23 | 3.20 | 22 | 4.17 | 19 | 4.42 |
| FantasyAlarm – Playbook | 6.09 | 12 | 4.18 | 16 | 3.48 | 17 | 3.81 | 24 | 4.39 |
| EliteFantasy | 5.07 | 19 | 4.00 | 18 | 3.60 | 16 | 4.73 | 13 | 4.35 |
| Rotowire – Optimizer | 6.38 | 9 | 3.00 | 25 | 3.25 | 19 | 4.50 | 17 | 4.28 |
| DFSKarma – Game Theory | 4.70 | 24 | 3.30 | 24 | – | – | 4.70 | 15 | 4.23 |
| RotoGrinders Consensus | 5.56 | 17 | 3.79 | 22 | 3.35 | 18 | 3.85 | 23 | 4.14 |
| NBC Sports Edge | 7.57 | 3 | 1.75 | 26 | 1.75 | 29 | 5.25 | 8 | 4.08 |
| Industry Consensus – GPP | 6.21 | 11 | 3.88 | 20 | 2.11 | 28 | 3.71 | 25 | 3.98 |
| DailyRoto – Optimizer | 3.88 | 28 | 4.71 | 14 | 3.25 | 19 | 3.29 | 28 | 3.78 |
| DailyFantasySportsRankings | – | – | 4.22 | 15 | 4.33 | 12 | 2.33 | 30 | 3.63 |
| Rotoballer | 5.57 | 15 | 1.50 | 27 | 3.00 | 25 | – | – | 3.36 |
| DK Playbook – Values | 4.75 | 23 | – | – | 2.75 | 27 | 2.50 | 29 | 3.33 |
Sleepers of the Week
Each week we’ll highlight players that scored an “A+” grade but were selected by only one expert.
Monday
- Derrick White (DailyRoto Optimizer)
- Alperen Sengun (DK Playbook Values)
- Furkan Korkmaz (DFS Alarm Playbook)
- Devin Vassell (DFS Alarm Playbook)
- Cameron Payne (FantasyPros)
- Chris Duarte (FantasyPros)
- Jaden McDaniels (FantasyPros)
- Chuma Okeke (FantasyPros)
- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (FantasyPros)
- KJ Martin (FantasyPros)
- Aleksej Pokusevski (FantasyPros)
- Ja Morant (NumberFire Daily Helper)
- JaVale McGee (Rotwire)
- LaMarcus Aldridge (Rotowire Optimizer)
- Jarred Vanderbilt (NBC Sports Edge)
- Jarrett Allen (NBC Sports Edge Pivots)
- Brandon Clarke (RunPureSports)
Tuesday
- Tyler Herro (DFS Alarm Playbook)
- Luka Doncic (DFS Alarm Lineup Generator)
- Anfernee Simons (FantasyPros)
- Nasir Little (FantasyPros)
- Dorian Finney-Smith (FantasyPros)
- Maxi Kleber (FantasyPros)
- Robert Covington (FantasyPros)
- Facundo Campazzo (RunPureSports)
Wednesday
- James Harden (DFS Army Full Court Press)
- Damian Lillard (DFS Army Full Court Press)
- Herbert Jones (DFS Alarm Lineup Generator)
- Anthony Edwards (Rotoballer)
- Jusuf Nurkic (NBC Sports Edge Pivots)
- Trey Lyles (RunPureSports)
Friday
- Gordon Hayward (EliteFantasy)
- Monte Morris (EliteFantasy)
- LeBron James (FantasyLabs)
- Naz Reid (FantasyPros)
- Buddy Hield (NBC Sports Edge Pivots)
- Marvin Bagley III (NBC Sports Edge Pivots)
- Cameron Payne (RunPureSports)
Value Tracker*****
- FantasyPros – 55
- DFS Alarm Playbook – 18
- RunPureSports – 14
- DFS Army Full Court Press – 9
- EliteFantasy – 6
- NBC Sports Edge Pivots – 6
- DFS Alarm Lineup Generator – 4
- DK Playbook Targets – 3
- Rotowire – 3
- DailyFantasySportsRankings – 2
- Rotowire Optimizer – 2
- DK Playbook Values – 2
- NumberFire Daily Helper – 2
- Sportsline – 1
- Awesemo Cheat Sheet – 1
- DFS Army Domination Station – 1
- RG Lineup Builder – 1
- RG Consensus – 1
- DFS Karma Game Theory – 1
- DailyRoto Optimizer – 1
- NBC Sports Edge – 1
- Rotoballer – 1
- FantasyLabs – 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: 6.57)
#2) DailyFantasyInsider (Score: 6.42)
#3) Awesemo Building Blocks (Score: 5.77)
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus Cash Plays (Score: 5.38) stayed in 8th place. The Consensus GPP Plays (Score: 4.65) moved up a spot to 25th 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 | N/A | N/A | 62.9% |
| 24 | N/A | N/A | 85.2% | N/A |
| 23 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | 66.8% | N/A | 89.1% | N/A |
| 21 | 84.0% | N/A | 87.4% | N/A |
| 20 | 41.3% | N/A | N/A | 59.0% |
| 19 | N/A | 71.4% | 71.2% | 85.2% |
| 18 | 71.3% | 36.9% | 58.0% | 87.6% |
| 17 | N/A | N/A | 66.7% | 74.3% |
| 16 | 35.8% | 51.2% | 37.1% | 71.0% |
| 15 | 39.7% | 46.3% | 53.9% | 59.7% |
| 14 | 58.5% | 34.1% | 64.2% | 46.6% |
| 13 | 38.2% | 38.6% | 50.0% | 36.8% |
| 12 | 36.6% | 39.8% | 30.5% | 54.0% |
| 11 | 22.9% | N/A | 43.3% | 33.9% |
| 10 | 31.6% | 27.8% | 43.3% | 28.5% |
| 9 | 16.4% | 20.7% | 23.4% | 32.2% |
| 8 | 17.9% | 14.2% | 29.6% | 33.0% |
| 7 | 14.9% | 17.3% | 16.5% | 20.9% |
| 6 | 8.8% | 16.7% | 17.4% | 19.0% |
| 5 | 5.9% | 7.3% | 11.2% | 14.3% |
| 4 | 5.2% | 5.3% | 8.5% | 7.5% |
| 3 | 3.5% | 6.2% | 8.5% | 8.4% |
| 2 | 2.0% | 3.9% | 4.3% | 3.6% |
| 1 | 2.2% | 2.8% | 3.1% | 1.6% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 25 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 34.8% |
| 24 | N/A | N/A | 64.5% | N/A |
| 23 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | 41.0% | N/A | 68.0% | N/A |
| 21 | 54.4% | N/A | 67.5% | N/A |
| 20 | 18.4% | N/A | N/A | 39.6% |
| 19 | N/A | 48.2% | 49.9% | 58.8% |
| 18 | 34.5% | 31.3% | 32.4% | 54.2% |
| 17 | N/A | N/A | 43.1% | 51.4% |
| 16 | 26.1% | 32.0% | 31.0% | 44.2% |
| 15 | 25.1% | 29.6% | 25.3% | 44.5% |
| 14 | 36.3% | 23.7% | 53.2% | 27.8% |
| 13 | 23.4% | 29.7% | 33.7% | 25.6% |
| 12 | 24.2% | 28.2% | 25.9% | 33.4% |
| 11 | 20.3% | N/A | 22.3% | 27.4% |
| 10 | 21.7% | 19.2% | 25.0% | 19.9% |
| 9 | 16.7% | 14.7% | 19.7% | 23.3% |
| 8 | 15.5% | 14.6% | 25.2% | 24.2% |
| 7 | 12.3% | 15.2% | 15.9% | 15.4% |
| 6 | 10.3% | 16.6% | 15.2% | 11.5% |
| 5 | 8.0% | 9.5% | 12.7% | 11.8% |
| 4 | 6.9% | 8.1% | 9.4% | 8.9% |
| 3 | 5.4% | 8.0% | 9.3% | 7.8% |
| 2 | 4.1% | 4.6% | 6.3% | 4.4% |
| 1 | 3.1% | 4.4% | 4.8% | 2.1% |
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.
