Baseball is back! And so is our MLB Weighted Consensus Rankings! The Opening Day rankings list will be free but will be part of our Premium Content going forward. Today’s consensus is based on the DraftKings eight-game “main” slate and will use last season’s standings to generate the weighting for the DFS experts.

The Weighted Consensus for the MLB is where we publish an in-depth version of rankings every day that considers each expert’s current DailyOverlay score to generate a Weighted Consensus ranking.  To calculate the Weighted Rank Score, each expert’s DailyOverlay score for hitters and pitchers is weighted on a sliding scale from 1 to 5 with the top expert in the current standings being weighted with a five while the last place expert is weighted with a one. This method gives the higher rated experts picks more weight when compiling the overall player rankings for the day. We will include all players that generate a Rank Score of at least 6.0.

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Scroll to the bottom of the article for the “Top Stacks” section that lists out the teams with the most hitters being recommended by the experts today. Also, be sure to check each team’s lineup when it is released and watch the weather before finalizing your lineups.

Let’s play ball!

SP

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Chris Sale SP BOS  $ 12,200 47% 31% 32.64
Garrett Richards SP LAA  $   6,800 26% 22% 24.25
Danny Duffy SP KC  $   7,700 21% 19% 20.54
Luis Severino SP NYY  $ 10,600 12% 14% 12.35
Chase Anderson SP MIL  $   8,100 12% 14% 10.75
Chris Archer SP TB  $   8,500 9% 11% 10.17

 

C

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Evan Gattis C HOU  $   3,300 24% 17% 20.38
Gary Sanchez C NYY  $   4,700 16% 12% 15.55
Welington Castillo C CWS  $   3,400 9% 8% 10.53
Jorge Alfaro C PHI  $   2,900 9% 8% 8.24

 

1B

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Lucas Duda 1B KC  $   3,800 28% 18% 29.05
Jose Abreu 1B CWS  $   4,600 11% 9% 11.53
Logan Morrison 1B MIN  $   4,100 11% 9% 10.76
Freddie Freeman 1B ATL  $   4,800 7% 7% 8.67
Albert Pujols 1B LAA  $   3,700 7% 7% 8.35

 

2B

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Jose Altuve 2B HOU  $   5,200 23% 16% 21.84
Jonathan Schoop 2B BAL  $   4,100 11% 9% 13.49
Ozzie Albies 2B ATL  $   3,600 8% 7% 9.25
Neil Walker 2B NYY  $   3,000 8% 7% 9.18
Whit Merrifield 2B KC  $   4,300 8% 7% 7.87

 

SS

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Carlos Correa SS HOU  $   4,900 11% 9% 14.69
Tim Beckham SS BAL  $   3,800 7% 8% 10.05
Marwin Gonzalez OF/SS HOU  $   3,800 6% 6% 8.25
Tim Anderson SS CWS  $   3,600 7% 8% 8.02

 

3B

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Mike Moustakas 3B KC  $   3,800 41% 21% 33.42
Manny Machado 3B BAL  $   4,800 18% 13% 21.16
Alex Bregman 3B HOU  $   4,600 9% 9% 14.25

 

OF

Name Pos Team  Price Cash % GPP % Rank Score
Giancarlo Stanton OF NYY  $   5,300 40% 24% 27.58
Aaron Judge OF NYY  $   5,100 29% 18% 25.15
Mike Trout OF LAA  $   5,400 24% 16% 19.16
George Springer OF HOU  $   4,900 19% 13% 18.53
Ryan Braun OF MIL  $   4,300 14% 11% 13.42
Eddie Rosario OF MIN  $   3,500 14% 11% 11.67
Jon Jay OF KC  $   3,300 10% 9% 9.51
Domingo Santana OF MIL  $   3,900 6% 6% 8.51

 

  • Positions and Price based on DraftKings

Top Stacks of the Night

  • Astros (5) – Altuve, Gattis, Springer, Bregman, Gonzalez
  • Yankees (4) – Stanton, Judge, Sanchez, Walker
  • Royals (4) – Moustakas, Duda, Jay, Merrifield
  • Orioles (3) – Machado, Schoop, Beckham
  • White Sox (3) – Abreu, Castillo, Anderson

Hope you find the right combination to cash!