Our first five-day week in a long time is recapped below. Our leader in the clubhouse had a monster week and has a stranglehold on the top spot. That said, there is plenty of season remaining and time for the other experts to make a move. 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 (January 7th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.90 (T-12th of 22)
Total Plays – 40
A+ – Nineteen of the 40 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – Nemanja Bjelica, Ricky Rubio, Paul Millsap, D’Angelo Russell
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 10.00) scored three “A+” grades for their perfect score to start the week.
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 7.75) scored “A” or better with ten of their 12 plays including eight “A+” scores.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (6.38 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Josh Hart (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – Harry Giles (DailyRoto)
A+ – Al-Farouq Aminu (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Monte Morris (FantasyPros)
A+ – Zach Collins (FantasyPros)
Tuesday (January 8th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 3.66 (11th of 18)
Total Plays – 32
A+ – Russell Westbrook, De’Anthony Melton, Alec Burks, Dario Saric, Kawhi Leonard
F – There were on Consensus plays that scored a failing grade.
Top Experts of the Day
#1) FantasyLabs (Score: 5.00) continues their domination of the top-2 over the last few weeks on Tuesday.
#2) DailyFantasyNerd (Score: 4.71) scored “A” or better with three of their seven plays with two “A+” grades.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
Scout (5.33 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Jordan Clarkson (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Justin Jackson (FantasyCPR)
A+ – Jeremy Lin (FantasyPros)
Wednesday (January 9th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 5.57 (12th of 22)
Total Plays – 35
A+ – Thirteen of the 35 picks scored an “A+” grade.
F – Kyrie Irving
Top Experts of the Day
#1) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 9.00) scored four “A+” grades and an “A” to top the expert list on Wednesday.
#2) Sportsline (Score: 8.00) hauled in six “A+” grades with their eight selections in their optimizer lineup.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Lineup Builder (6.13 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Otto Porter Jr. (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – Luka Doncic (DailyRoto)
A+ – Kyle O’Quinn (DailyRoto)
A+ – Marcus Morris (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Ian Mahinmi (Fantasy Alarm)
A+ – Daniel Theis (Scout)
A+ – Frank Jackson (Rotoballer)
A+ – Aaron Gordon (Rotoballer)
A+ – Rodon Kurucs (Rotoballer)
A+ – Wesley Matthews (FantasyPros)
A+ – Harrison Barnes (FantasyPros)
A+ – JaMychal Green (FantasyPros)
A+ – Pau Gasol (FantasyPros)
Thursday (January 10th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 4.00 (T-10th of 18)
Total Plays – 23
A+ – Nikola Jokic, LaMarcus Aldridge, Paul George, Russell Westbrook, Bryn Forbes, Derrick White, Marco Belinelli
F – Reggie Jackson, Jakob Poeltl, Jaylen Brown, Justin Jackson
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 10.00) scored their second perfect score of the week with three “A+” grades.
#2) DailyFantasySportsRankings (Score: 7.63) scored six “A+” grades with their eight selections on Thursday to find the top-2. They were the lone expert site to recommend Malik Beasley and his “A+” score.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (6.74 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Malik Beasley (DailyFantasySportsRankings)
A+ – Bam Adebayo (DK Playbook)
Friday (January 11th)
Industry Consensus Picks
DO Score – 4.50 (14th of 21)
Total Plays – 34
A+ – Ten of the 34 plays scored an “A+” grade.
F – Seth Curry, Jeremy Lin, Luke Kornet, Dario Saric
Top Experts of the Day
#1) RG Core Plays (Score: 8.33) tops the list again on Friday with two “A+” grades and one “A” score.
#2) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 6.60) made five plays to cap the week and picked up two “A+” grades, two “A’s” and a “B” grade.
Top DK Pts/$1000 Expert of the Day
RG Core Plays (7.12 DKPts/$1000)
Sleepers of the Day
A+ – Ante Zizic (DailyRoto)
A+ – TJ McConnell (RG Grind Down)
A+ – Alec Burks (FantasyCPR)
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: 5.92) used a BIG week to take command of the overall leaderboard!
#2) FantasyLabs (Score: 5.69) bumped their score .07 but lost a lot of ground on the top spot.
#3) FantasyTeamAdvice (Score: 5.64) also had a big week with a .12 jump in score. They are gaining on the #2 slot.
#4) DFS Army (Score: 5.36) held steady at 4th. It’s the first week in a while that we haven’t had a flip-flop of the 4th and 5th experts.
#5) RG Consensus (Score: 5.29) maintains the 5th spot in the overall standings.
The Daily Overlay Industry Consensus picks (Score: 5.08) slipped .03 in score for the week. The Consensus also fell into 8th 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 | 69.45% | N/A | N/A | 84.87% |
| 15 | 70.95% | 76.40% | 69.00% | 0.00% |
| 14 | 58.39% | N/A | 72.50% | 58.97% |
| 13 | 34.33% | 50.13% | 52.40% | 63.77% |
| 12 | 30.74% | 42.82% | 51.88% | 65.33% |
| 11 | 36.97% | 39.88% | 42.71% | 42.12% |
| 10 | 23.36% | 30.54% | 35.69% | 37.84% |
| 9 | 16.27% | 25.16% | 29.15% | 42.33% |
| 8 | 11.94% | 19.76% | 28.62% | 32.88% |
| 7 | 10.41% | 18.70% | 22.65% | 30.94% |
| 6 | 10.82% | 15.01% | 16.94% | 22.37% |
| 5 | 6.43% | 8.32% | 11.52% | 11.94% |
| 4 | 4.35% | 5.88% | 8.68% | 12.58% |
| 3 | 2.60% | 4.70% | 5.43% | 6.54% |
| 2 | 1.79% | 2.80% | 3.34% | 4.28% |
| 1 | 1.64% | 1.75% | 2.43% | 1.79% |
GPP
| Count | $9k+ | $7k – $9k | $5k – $7k | $3k – $5k |
| 17 | 39.80% | N/A | 53.60% | N/A |
| 16 | 46.50% | N/A | N/A | 60.90% |
| 15 | 42.80% | 47.10% | 40.30% | 0.00% |
| 14 | 39.90% | N/A | 47.35% | 38.43% |
| 13 | 24.89% | 35.85% | 32.90% | 39.10% |
| 12 | 23.91% | 32.07% | 34.06% | 43.50% |
| 11 | 25.66% | 28.77% | 29.43% | 28.38% |
| 10 | 20.81% | 21.98% | 25.71% | 22.94% |
| 9 | 15.86% | 21.14% | 22.26% | 28.42% |
| 8 | 13.92% | 17.66% | 23.12% | 23.85% |
| 7 | 12.43% | 15.43% | 17.46% | 22.44% |
| 6 | 11.32% | 13.91% | 15.50% | 16.31% |
| 5 | 9.25% | 9.41% | 11.93% | 10.84% |
| 4 | 7.59% | 7.78% | 9.38% | 10.00% |
| 3 | 5.26% | 6.41% | 7.25% | 6.82% |
| 2 | 5.08% | 4.65% | 5.14% | 4.60% |
| 1 | 2.93% | 3.14% | 3.85% | 2.39% |
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.
