As we creep towards MLB season, we’ll begin to wrap up our NBA coverage towards the end of the month. Those last couple weeks of NBA are usually injury filled and full of tanking teams. RotoGrinders continues to control the top-5 with their Core Plays enjoying a runaway at the top of the standings. 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
Monday (February 25th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 7.04 (4th of 21)
Total Plays – 26
A+ – Sixteen of the 26 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – No Consensus players received a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 8.00) scored five “A+” grades and two “B’s” with their seven plays on Monday.
#2) Rotowire (Score: 7.71) also hauled home five “A+” scores with their seven selections to start the week.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (6.59 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Wayne Selden Jr. (DailyRoto)
A+ – Patrick Beverley (RG Lineup Builder)
A+ – Avery Bradley (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Brandon Ingram (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Montrezl Harrell (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Robin Lopez (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Dorian Finney-Smith (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Trae Young (Scout)
A+ – Bam Adebayo (Scout)
A+ – Draymond Green (FantasyPros)
A+ – Moe Harkless (FantasyGuruElite)
Wednesday (February 27th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 4.61 (9th of 20)
Total Plays – 28
A+ – LeBron James, Nicolas Batum, Karl-Anthony Towns, Derrick Favors, Trae Young, Julius Randle, Dirk Nowitzki
F – Marvin Bagley III
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DailyFantasySportsRankings (Score: 5.70) scored an “A+” grade with half of their 10 plays.
#2) DK Playbook (Score: 5.50) scored “A” or better with half of their 10 selections including four “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Sportsline (5.97 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Dwyane Wade (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Harrison Barnes (Sportsline)
A+ – Otto Porter Jr (FantasyCPR)
A+ – DeAndre’ Bembry (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Klay Thompson (Scout)
A+ – Trevor Ariza (Scout)
A+ – Nikola Mirotic (FantasyPros)
Thursday (February 28th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.03 (12th of 19)
Total Plays – 30
A+ – Ten of the 30 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – Jae Crowder, Tyus Jones
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 10.00) scored an “A+” with both of their plays to take the top spot.
#2) Rotowire (Score: 7.00) scored “A+” with five of their eight plays for Thursday evening.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DK Playbook (6.46 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Cory Joseph (DailyRoto)
A+ – Mason Plumlee (DailyRoto)
A+ – Alonzo Trier (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Goran Dragic (FantasyPros)
A+ – Taj Gibson (FantasyPros)
A+ – Noah Vonleh (FantasyPros)
Friday (March 1st)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 4.82 (4th of 18)
Total Plays – 22
A+ – Willie Cauley-Stein, Zach Lavine, LeBron James, Harry Giles, Rajon Rondo, Trae Young, Otto Porter Jr, Lauri Markkanen
F – No Consensus plays scored a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 10.00) topped the list again on Friday by scoring two “A+” grades.
#2) RG Consensus (Score: 5.21) made it a clean sweep for RotoGrinders as eight of their 19 plays scored an “A+” grade.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (9.42 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Landry Shamet (DailyRoto)
A+ – CJ McCollum (DailyRoto)
A+ – Dewayne Dedmon (Rotowire)
A+ – Alex Len (FantasyPros)
Overall Leaderboard
RG Core Plays continues to run away with things! You can view the full NBA Overall Standings here.
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 6.14) continues with their stranglehold on the top spot. It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that they’ll be taking home the season-long crown.
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 5.56) maintains a slim lead for the #2 spot with a few weeks remaining.
#3) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 5.53) is still hot on the heels of FantasyLabs. There is still time to make one last push.
#4) RG Consensus (Score: 5.27) remains comfortably in the 4th spot. Barring a collapse, they should finish the year in the top-5.
#5) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 5.19) has the slimmest of leads for the 5th and final top-5 spot. Should be a battle down the stretch for that #5 spot.
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus picks (Score: 5.05) jumped .02 in score. The Consensus is now in an 8th place tie for the season.
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 | 84.70% | NA |
| 16 | 70.30% | N/A | N/A | 79.25% |
| 15 | 75.40% | 76.40% | 64.65% | 49.20% |
| 14 | 66.02% | 64.60% | 52.70% | 70.74% |
| 13 | 41.59% | 46.46% | 51.80% | 76.86% |
| 12 | 39.92% | 37.83% | 49.78% | 63.77% |
| 11 | 35.27% | 34.02% | 43.33% | 44.81% |
| 10 | 26.02% | 31.60% | 39.44% | 43.77% |
| 9 | 17.06% | 19.79% | 30.63% | 45.82% |
| 8 | 13.53% | 20.15% | 24.86% | 33.85% |
| 7 | 11.52% | 17.73% | 20.04% | 29.34% |
| 6 | 8.96% | 14.74% | 14.95% | 22.22% |
| 5 | 6.54% | 8.37% | 11.34% | 14.00% |
| 4 | 4.41% | 6.02% | 8.07% | 13.31% |
| 3 | 3.35% | 4.62% | 4.87% | 7.15% |
| 2 | 1.84% | 2.52% | 3.49% | 4.32% |
| 1 | 1.84% | 1.58% | 2.09% | 1.67% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 17 | 39.80% | N/A | 53.87% | N/A |
| 16 | 45.33% | N/A | N/A | 54.88% |
| 15 | 47.90% | 47.10% | 38.70% | 32.03% |
| 14 | 44.15% | 40.30% | 37.70% | 49.57% |
| 13 | 29.28% | 33.53% | 36.10% | 50.34% |
| 12 | 27.98% | 30.87% | 33.53% | 41.08% |
| 11 | 26.30% | 26.82% | 31.80% | 32.40% |
| 10 | 21.71% | 23.69% | 26.59% | 27.64% |
| 9 | 16.59% | 18.74% | 23.97% | 29.80% |
| 8 | 14.99% | 18.23% | 21.57% | 24.34% |
| 7 | 13.53% | 16.00% | 17.00% | 21.23% |
| 6 | 10.59% | 13.63% | 14.90% | 16.65% |
| 5 | 9.44% | 9.57% | 11.70% | 11.78% |
| 4 | 7.53% | 7.97% | 9.13% | 10.41% |
| 3 | 6.18% | 6.64% | 7.08% | 7.37% |
| 2 | 5.49% | 4.41% | 5.25% | 4.57% |
| 1 | 3.25% | 3.02% | 3.68% | 2.33% |
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.
