Our pitcher and hitter scoreboards remain tight at the top! Our in-house man, Brad, vaulted back in the top-3 on the hitter side with a massive week of plays. Should be a tight run to the finish as some experts will now turn their attention to NFL. As always, check out our MLB Expert Standings to make sure that you’re up to speed on who is making the grade. Enjoy!
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In this article, I will give a brief recap of each day we gathered and graded the experts, including how the Industry Consensus picks did, 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. We will also review the overall standings and highlight the top experts so far this season.
As a reminder, we are currently gathering selections and publishing the MLB Industry Consensus article each weekday during the season, so be sure to check back about an hour or so before the first pitch of the first game to get a look at the consensus picks and sample lineups for the day. As an added bonus in 2017, we will publish the Consensus on weekends when we have a writer available. To begin the 2017 season, we will grade 20 experts that provide pitcher selections and 21 that provide hitter selections daily.
Leaderboard
The top-3 for both pitchers and hitters are below. Be sure to check out the full MLB Expert Standings to see how your favorite experts check out.
Pitchers
#1) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 5.05) un-knotted the tie with a solid .03 gain for the week. It’s going to be tight down the stretch though!
#2) DailyFantasySportsRankings (Score: 4.99) came back to earth a bit after their surge last week. Where DFN had a .03 bump, DFSR took a .03 hit to their score.
#3) RotoGrinders Consensus (Score: 4.83) continued the game of leap frog with FTA. The RG Consensus put together a solid week of picks to reclaim the #3 slot.
Hitters
#1) RotoGrinders 6-Pack (Score: 3.06) took the slightest of hits with a .01 dip; however, his gap did widen a bit. Sounds as if this will be Beer’s last week of providing MLB plays.
#2) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 3.02) is now back to .04 behind Beer. Still time to make it up though, especially if Beer is done with MLB.
#3) Daily Overlay – On the Hill (Score: 2.90) had a huge week to put himself back in the top-3 for the first time in awhile. Brad will look to build off that momentum.
Week in Review
Monday (August 21st)
Industry Consensus Picks
Pitchers – 5.50 (4th)
Hitters – 2.31 (12th)
A+ – Chris Stratton, Wade Miley, Cole Hamels, Yonder Alonso, Jonathan Schoop, Ozzie Albies, Adam Jones, Michael Conforto
F – Twenty-one of the 43 selections finished with a failing grade (all failing grades were hitter selections).
Top Experts of the Day – Pitchers
#1A) DK Playbook (Score 10.00) started off the week strong with two “A+” grades.
#1B) Daily Overlay – Value Index (Score 10.00) nailed an “A+” with his lone pitcher selection on Monday.
Top Experts of the Day – Hitters
#1) RotoGrinders Lineup Builder (Score: 4.00) scored an “A” or better with four of their seven plays to start the week.
#2) Daily Overlay – On the Hill (Score: 3.36) notched a perfect “A+” with three of his eleven plays.
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Hanley Ramirez (DailyRoto)
Tuesday (August 22nd)
Industry Consensus Picks
Pitchers – 5.57 (9th)
Hitters – 2.56 (13th)
A+ – Chris Archer, Patrick Corbin, Danny Duffy, Gary Sanchez, Anthony Rizzo, Paul Goldschmidt, Scooter Gennett, Manny Machado, Nolan Arenado, JD Martinez, Aaron Hicks
F – Twenty-four of the 59 selections finished with a failing grade (all failing grades were hitter selections).
Top Experts of the Day – Pitchers
#1) RotoGrinders Lineup Builder (Score 10.00) took home the top spot with two “A+” grades.
#2) Daily Overlay – On the Hill (Score 7.33) also scored two “A+” grades but mixed in a “C” to drop his score a bit.
Top Experts of the Day – Hitters
#1) Daily Overlay – On the Hill (Score: 5.17) had another nice day with half of his 12 plays scoring an “A” or better including five “A+” grades.
#2) RotoGrinders Consensus (Score: 5.00) scored an “A” or better with eight of their 14 selections including five “A+” grades.
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Jedd Gyorko (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – Todd Frazier (DailyRoto)
A+ – Amed Rosario (FantasyGuruElite)
A+ – Kole Calhoun (RotoGrinders Lineup Builder)
A+ – Kyle Gibson (FantasyPros)
Wednesday (August 23rd)
Industry Consensus Picks
Pitchers – 5.17 (9th)
Hitters – 1.71 (T-16th)
A+ – Cory Kluber, Luke Weaver, Gary Sanchez, Rhy Hoskins, Didi Gregorius
F – Twenty-three of the 44 selections finished with a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day – Pitchers
#1) DailyFantasyNerd (Score 10.00) hauled home two “A+” grades to continue the perfect score streak atop the pitcher board this week.
#2) Sportsline (Score 7.50) made it a clean sweep for the optimizers with an “A+” and “A” grades.
Top Experts of the Day – Hitters
#1) Scout Fantasy (Score: 4.28) made a rare top-2 appearance on Wednesday. Ten of their 18 plays scored an “A” or better on the day. Scout was the lone expert to play Kolten Wong and Charlie Blackmon’s “A+” grades.
#2) DailyFantasySportsRankings (Score: 4.14) brought home five “A+” grades on Wednesday. DFSR was the lone expert site to play Robinson Chirinos and Luis Valbuena, both of which scored an “A+”.
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Robinson Chirinos (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – Luis Valbuena (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – Rich Hill (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Kolten Wong (Scout Fantasy)
A+ – Charlie Blackmon (Scout Fantasy)
A+ – Eduardo Nunez (FantasyPros)
Thursday (August 24th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Pitchers – 5.60 (6th)
Hitters – 0.89 (9th)
A+ – Jose Berrios, Jake Arrieta, Ian Happ,
F – Twenty-five of the 41 selections finished with a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day – Pitchers
#1) Sportsline (Score 10.00) scored two “A+’s” to take the honors for Thursday night.
#2) FantasyPros (Score 6.67) scored two “A+” grades and one failing one to find the top-2. FP was the only expert site to play Stephen Strasburg and his “A+” grade.
Top Experts of the Day – Hitters
#1) Sportsline (Score: 2.13) found the top spot with a bad score. Even with half of their picks scoring failing grades, they still managed an “A+” and “A”. They were the lone site to play Xander Bogaerts and his “A+” grade.
#2) RotoGrinders Lineup Builder (Score: 1.71) had a failing grade with five of their seven plays and still found the top-2!! Their lone “A+” came on their play of Drew Robinson.
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Anthony Rendon (DailyRoto)
A+ – Drew Robinson (RotoGrinders Lineup Builder)
A+ – Stephen Strasburg (FantasyPros)
A+ – Xander Bogaerts (Sportsline)
Friday (August 25th)
Industry Consensus Picks
Pitchers – 3.50 (8th)
Hitters – 2.45 (9th)
A+ – Jacob deGrom, Kenta Maeda, Paul Goldschmidt, Justin Smoak, Josh Bell, Francisco Lindor, Manny Machado, Giancarlo Stanton, Khris Davis, Jabari Blash
F – Twenty-seven of the 48 selections finished with a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day – Pitchers
#1) DailyFantasyNerd (Score 7.50) scored an “A+” and “A” with their two picks.
#2) Rotoballer (Score 6.00) scored an “A+” and “C” grade to end the week.
Top Experts of the Day – Hitters
#1) FantasyLabs (Score 3.75) scored an “A” or better with five of their 12 plays including four “A+” grades.
#2) Daily Overlay – On the Hill (Score 3.40) scored three “A+” grades with his ten picks on Friday.
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Jose Abreu (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Byron Buxton (Scout Fantasy)
A+ – Jared Eickhoff (FantasyPros)
A+ – Nick Martinez (DailyFantasyNerd)
A+ – Julio Teheran (FantasyGuruElite)
Ownership Percentage Tracking
Below is the current table showing the data we have tracked so far this season. Results are using DraftKings Double-Up or 50/50s for Cash and large field multi-entry tournaments for GPP. The Count column shows the number of times a player was selected by the experts for a given day. The Cash % chart shows the average ownership percentage of those players in a Cash game. The GPP % chart shows the average ownership percentage of those players in a GPP tournament.
Cash by Position
| Count | SP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | Total |
| 16 | 79.70% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 66.40% | N/A | 75.27% |
| 15 | 65.73% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 65.73% |
| 14 | 64.98% | 63.10% | N/A | N/A | 48.50% | 61.60% | 79.25% | 65.41% |
| 13 | 69.27% | N/A | 66.10% | N/A | 72.90% | 64.20% | 65.10% | 68.71% |
| 12 | 55.08% | N/A | 48.25% | 43.65% | 27.10% | 70.43% | 46.90% | 53.43% |
| 11 | 51.65% | N/A | 43.55% | 27.58% | 39.77% | 46.17% | 50.25% | 47.32% |
| 10 | 47.59% | 32.56% | 41.53% | 50.02% | 42.57% | 39.46% | 50.11% | 45.04% |
| 9 | 39.05% | 25.20% | 32.50% | 38.96% | 25.74% | 36.37% | 37.56% | 34.71% |
| 8 | 32.17% | 21.24% | 29.20% | 28.66% | 26.16% | 35.60% | 34.26% | 30.69% |
| 7 | 23.15% | 26.30% | 25.76% | 21.51% | 24.65% | 22.66% | 28.59% | 24.91% |
| 6 | 23.08% | 23.57% | 20.44% | 20.06% | 17.59% | 20.11% | 22.74% | 21.51% |
| 5 | 16.16% | 16.06% | 14.84% | 14.71% | 15.47% | 11.32% | 19.48% | 16.06% |
| 4 | 12.39% | 11.22% | 9.67% | 9.94% | 9.78% | 8.38% | 13.40% | 10.97% |
| 3 | 7.32% | 8.97% | 6.58% | 8.39% | 7.07% | 6.58% | 9.06% | 7.82% |
| 2 | 4.89% | 5.82% | 4.45% | 4.74% | 5.23% | 4.15% | 5.77% | 5.10% |
| 1 | 2.38% | 3.46% | 2.25% | 2.62% | 3.38% | 2.08% | 3.14% | 2.82% |
GPP by Position
| Count | SP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | Total |
| 16 | 52.65% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 46.50% | N/A | 50.60% |
| 15 | 38.13% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 38.13% |
| 14 | 40.16% | 40.40% | N/A | N/A | 27.30% | 42.30% | 50.90% | 40.85% |
| 13 | 43.76% | N/A | 31.93% | N/A | 36.40% | 19.20% | 27.30% | 40.66% |
| 12 | 34.90% | N/A | 23.00% | 24.35% | 27.10% | 36.03% | 31.00% | 32.67% |
| 11 | 31.78% | N/A | 21.05% | 22.10% | 26.17% | 23.89% | 27.36% | 27.65% |
| 10 | 30.90% | 21.30% | 21.30% | 31.44% | 27.41% | 18.18% | 26.80% | 26.85% |
| 9 | 29.81% | 18.73% | 21.17% | 20.27% | 18.63% | 19.71% | 23.50% | 23.78% |
| 8 | 25.41% | 17.72% | 19.50% | 17.81% | 17.95% | 19.92% | 21.32% | 20.60% |
| 7 | 20.87% | 18.59% | 15.62% | 14.46% | 18.71% | 15.75% | 17.96% | 17.66% |
| 6 | 21.40% | 15.86% | 13.54% | 13.97% | 14.09% | 14.16% | 15.07% | 15.99% |
| 5 | 16.56% | 12.68% | 10.71% | 11.78% | 11.41% | 10.37% | 13.64% | 12.77% |
| 4 | 13.89% | 9.73% | 8.49% | 8.63% | 10.09% | 8.19% | 11.05% | 10.15% |
| 3 | 9.90% | 8.41% | 6.63% | 7.51% | 7.32% | 7.14% | 8.58% | 7.94% |
| 2 | 7.70% | 6.17% | 5.23% | 5.34% | 5.89% | 5.32% | 6.26% | 6.04% |
| 1 | 4.55% | 3.91% | 3.24% | 3.59% | 3.81% | 3.33% | 3.94% | 3.77% |
