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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 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 (January 28th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 3.36 (15th of 22)
Total Plays – 25
A+ – Patrick Beverley, Tobias Harris, Shabazz Napier, Al Horford
F – Taurean Prince
Top Experts of the Day
#1A) Rotoballer (Score: 5.00) scored an “A+” with two of their five plays to finish in a 1st place tie on a pretty unimpressive day from the experts.
#1B) DailyFantasySportsRankings (Score: 5.00) scored “A” or better with half of their 10 selections including four “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Rotoballer (5.79 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Andre Iguodala (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Marcus Smart (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Jaylen Brown (FantasyLabs)
Tuesday (January 29th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 7.92 (8th of 20)
Total Plays – 25
A+ – Eighteen of the 25 plays finished with an “A+” grade!
F – No Consensus plays scored a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Consensus (Score: 9.15) scored “B” or better with all 20 plays including 17 “A+” grades.
#2) Sportsline (Score: 9.13) crushed with seven of their eight plays scoring an “A+” grade.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DK Playbook (6.56 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Patty Mills (DailyRoto)
A+ – Alec Burks (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Jonathan Isaac (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Jerami Grant (FantasyCPR)
A+ – George Hill (FantasyPros)
A+ – Zach Lavine (FantasyPros)
A+ – Dennis Schroder (FantasyPros)
A+ – Larry Nance Jr. (FantasyPros)
A+ – PJ Tucker (FantasyPros)
A+ – JaVale McGee (FantasyPros)
A+ – Mikal Bridges (FantasyGuruElite)
Wednesday (January 30th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 3.55 (T-8th of 21)
Total Plays – 29
A+ – Nikola Jokic, Jerryd Bayless, Jaylen Brown, Darius Miller, Terry Rozier, Damian Lillard
F – De’Aaron Fox, John Collins, Will Barton, Willie Cauley-Stein, Myles Turner, Darren Collison, Justin Holiday
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 5.00) scored an “A+” and an “A” with two of their three selections.
#2) FantasyGuruElite (Score: 4.29) picked up six “A+” grades with their 21 plays for the day.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
DailyFantasyNerd (5.75 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – There were no players only selected by one expert that scored an “A+” grade.
Thursday (January 31st)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.65 (10th of 19)
Total Plays – 23
A+ – Ten of the 23 plays scored “A+” grades.
F – Aaron Gordon, Kyle Lowry, Davis Bertans
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 10.00) topped the experts for the day with three perfect scores.
#2) RG Lineup Builder (Score: 7.50) scored “A+” with four of their six plays on Thursday.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (7.50 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Lance Stephenson (DailyRoto)
A+ – Rodions Kurucs (DailyRoto)
A+ – DJ Wilson (DailyRoto)
A+ – Jarrett Allen (DailyRoto)
A+ – Myles Turner (DailyRoto)
A+ – Eric Bledsoe (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Ben Simmons (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Jonathan Isaac (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Devin Harris (Scout)
A+ – Jalen Brunson (Scout)
A+ – Dwight Powell (FantasyLabs)
Friday (February 1st)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.96 (13th of 20)
Total Plays – 25
A+ – Twelve of the 25 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – Tyler Johnson
Top Experts of the Day
#1) DailyFantasySportsRankings (Score: 7.88) capped the week by scoring an “A+” grade with six of their eight plays.
#2) Sportsline (Score: 7.75) scored “A” or better with seven of their plays in their optimized lineup.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG 6-Pack (5.91 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Kyle Korver (DailyRoto)
A+ – Bam Adebayo (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Dewayne Dedmon (FantasyCPR)
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: 6.21) continues to obliterate the competition. I’ve made it my starting place for lineup construction daily.
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 5.61) now holds the slimmest of leads for the #2 slot.
#3) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 5.60) fell out of the 2nd place tie from last week but still has plenty of time left to hop FantasyLabs.
#4) RG Consensus (Score: 5.33) climbs back into the top-5 as they slide up to 4th place.
#5) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 5.32) sits barely ahead of DFS Army for the final top-5 spot.
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus picks (Score: 5.07) jumped .01 in score for the week. The Consensus remains in 9th place 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 | 86.90% | N/A |
| 16 | 70.30% | N/A | N/A | 79.25% |
| 15 | 75.40% | 76.40% | 69.00% | 49.20% |
| 14 | 64.10% | 64.60% | 72.50% | 69.50% |
| 13 | 39.89% | 46.74% | 49.10% | 74.53% |
| 12 | 34.91% | 37.83% | 47.83% | 61.80% |
| 11 | 37.60% | 37.34% | 43.08% | 39.74% |
| 10 | 25.45% | 30.64% | 36.73% | 43.25% |
| 9 | 15.10% | 21.10% | 29.52% | 45.02% |
| 8 | 13.84% | 21.30% | 26.07% | 36.89% |
| 7 | 10.76% | 16.84% | 20.83% | 29.11% |
| 6 | 10.37% | 14.31% | 15.58% | 22.60% |
| 5 | 6.66% | 8.15% | 11.46% | 14.23% |
| 4 | 4.43% | 5.69% | 8.08% | 13.12% |
| 3 | 2.58% | 4.98% | 5.18% | 7.20% |
| 2 | 1.70% | 2.66% | 3.29% | 4.52% |
| 1 | 1.84% | 1.71% | 2.33% | 1.90% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 17 | 39.80% | N/A | 53.60% | N/A |
| 16 | 45.33% | N/A | N/A | 54.88% |
| 15 | 47.90% | 47.10% | 40.30% | 32.03% |
| 14 | 43.51% | 40.30% | 47.35% | 49.40% |
| 13 | 28.36% | 34.80% | 34.07% | 47.97% |
| 12 | 25.94% | 30.87% | 32.52% | 41.20% |
| 11 | 27.10% | 27.41% | 31.65% | 29.53% |
| 10 | 21.46% | 22.77% | 26.00% | 26.85% |
| 9 | 15.98% | 19.88% | 23.85% | 30.52% |
| 8 | 15.14% | 18.73% | 22.13% | 26.13% |
| 7 | 12.64% | 15.54% | 17.50% | 21.41% |
| 6 | 11.56% | 13.42% | 14.98% | 16.61% |
| 5 | 9.66% | 9.38% | 11.81% | 12.06% |
| 4 | 7.90% | 7.75% | 9.19% | 10.19% |
| 3 | 5.45% | 6.77% | 7.20% | 7.30% |
| 2 | 5.24% | 4.52% | 5.20% | 4.72% |
| 1 | 3.22% | 3.17% | 3.80% | 2.50% |
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.
