The Consensus article absolutely crushed last week! It’s all the way up to the 6th place in the overall standings. As football winds down, be sure you’re checking out the Consensus daily! 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 (December 17th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 6.00 (T-2nd of 20)
Total Plays – 19
A+ – Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, Devin Booker, Lauri Markkanen, Giannis Antetokounmpo, James Harden, Tobias Harris, Damian Lillard, TJ Warren
F – Nemanja Bjelica, Bogdan Bogdanovic
Top Experts of the Day
#1) FantasyLabs (Score: 6.45) scored “A” or better with seven of their 11 plays including six “A+” grades.
#2A) Daily Overlay Consensus (Score: 6.00) scored nine “A+” grades with their 19 plays on Monday.
#2B) RG 6-Pack (Score: 6.00) hauled in “A+” grades with half of his six picks to kick off the week.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG 6-Pack (5.67 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Rudy Gobert (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Stanley Johnson (Sportsline)
A+ – Garrett Temple (FantasyPros)
A+ – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (FantasyLabs)
Tuesday (December 18th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 4.92 (5th of 18)
Total Plays – 24
A+ – LeBron James, Nikola Jokic, Monte Morris, Trevor Ariza, Jamal Murray, Luka Doncic, Larry Nance Jr.
F – John Wall, Torrey Craig
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 6.29) scored an “A+” with four of their seven plays on Tuesday.
#2) Rotoballer (Score: 6.20) scored two “A+’s”, an “A” and two “B” grades with their five selections.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Rotoballer (6.08 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
There were no players on selected by one expert that scored an “A+” grade.
Wednesday (December 19th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 7.20 (4th of 22)
Total Plays – 25
A+ – Fifteen of the 25 picks scored an “A+” grade!!
F – Cheick Diallo
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DFS Army (Score: 8.10) scored “A” or better with nine of their 10 plays including seven “A+” grades.
#2) RG Consensus (Score: 7.47) hauled home 12 “A+” grades with their 19 plays!
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Consensus (6.17 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Robert Covington (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Reggie Bullock (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Darius Miller (FantasyCPR)
Friday (December 21st)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.62 (12th of 20)
Total Plays – 26
A+ – Eleven of the 26 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – Derrick Rose, Robert Williams, Rodney Hood
Top Experts of the Day
#1) FantasyLabs (Score: 7.73) scored eight “A+” grades out of their 11 plays to cap the week.
#2) DFS Army (Score: 7.10) found the top-2 again on Friday. Seven of their 10 plays scored “A” or better including six “A+” scores.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (5.46 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Evan Fournier (DailyRoto)
A+ – Jordan Clarkson (DailyRoto)
A+ – Evan Turner (DailyRoto)
A+ – DeMarre Carroll (DailyRoto)
A+ – Buddy Hield (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Garrett Temple (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Joe Ingles (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Robert Covington (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Ricky Rubio (FantasyPros)
A+ – Jaylen Brown (FantasyPros)
A+ – Alex Len (FantasyPros)
A+ – Guillermo Hernangomez (FantasyPros)
A+ – Marvin Williams (FantasyGuruElite)
Overall Leaderboard
FantasyLabs continued their heater to place some distance between themselves and the rest of the competition. You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 5.88) still maintains the top spot in the standings.
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 5.70) closed the gap between themselves and the top spot last week.
#3) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 5.39) saw a slight increase of .01 in score and holds onto the #3 slot.
#4) DFS Army (Score: 5.28) had a solid week and jumped up one spot to 4th place.
#5) RG Consensus (Score: 5.27) also had a nice week but fell into 5th place overall.
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus picks (Score: 5.09) crushed it last week! The Consensus hopped up into 6th 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 |
| 17 | 57.60% | N/A | 86.90% | N/A |
| 16 | 53.30% | N/A | N/A | 84.87% |
| 15 | 70.95% | N/A | 69.00% | 0.00% |
| 14 | 51.52% | N/A | 72.50% | 63.10% |
| 13 | 25.78% | 61.80% | 44.70% | 57.00% |
| 12 | 27.46% | 48.50% | 52.88% | 64.12% |
| 11 | 34.50% | 42.11% | 44.18% | 54.90% |
| 10 | 25.13% | 33.15% | 37.00% | 42.58% |
| 9 | 18.19% | 25.16% | 27.11% | 45.33% |
| 8 | 12.05% | 18.51% | 27.99% | 32.74% |
| 7 | 10.69% | 18.84% | 22.66% | 30.39% |
| 6 | 10.58% | 15.67% | 18.57% | 22.60% |
| 5 | 6.95% | 9.06% | 12.06% | 11.93% |
| 4 | 5.04% | 6.13% | 9.22% | 12.80% |
| 3 | 2.11% | 5.09% | 5.62% | 6.73% |
| 2 | 1.83% | 2.94% | 3.50% | 4.15% |
| 1 | 1.63% | 1.79% | 2.53% | 1.74% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 17 | 39.80% | N/A | 53.60% | N/A |
| 16 | 40.00% | N/A | N/A | 60.90% |
| 15 | 42.80% | N/A | 40.30% | 0.00% |
| 14 | 37.20% | N/A | 47.35% | 41.25% |
| 13 | 20.63% | 38.55% | 28.47% | 33.65% |
| 12 | 22.08% | 36.35% | 34.43% | 41.68% |
| 11 | 23.47% | 29.68% | 30.40% | 33.03% |
| 10 | 21.62% | 23.93% | 26.54% | 25.81% |
| 9 | 16.59% | 21.03% | 20.85% | 31.64% |
| 8 | 13.27% | 16.93% | 23.17% | 23.60% |
| 7 | 12.65% | 15.43% | 17.22% | 21.93% |
| 6 | 11.16% | 14.38% | 16.50% | 16.34% |
| 5 | 9.74% | 9.88% | 12.18% | 10.60% |
| 4 | 7.95% | 7.84% | 9.67% | 10.06% |
| 3 | 5.04% | 6.65% | 7.36% | 6.92% |
| 2 | 5.10% | 4.85% | 5.16% | 4.48% |
| 1 | 2.92% | 3.11% | 3.93% | 2.35% |
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.
