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NBA Sim Sports Picks for 7/9/20 on FanDuel

During this downtime in the sports calendar, FanDuel has been innovating a lot of different ways to get some daily fantasy sports action.

One of those includes NBA Sim Sports, a format that looks pretty much identical to the usual FanDuel offering. The only twist is that the games won't be played live. Players will instead be assigned a random game from one of their top 25 historical comparisons based on numberFire's algorithm.

Late-scratches and other games missed by players won't come into effect. Scores roll out throughout the slate for a bit of a sweat.

The best part? It's free to enter.

Here are some potential standout picks.

Best Values

Because player similarities are tied to numberFire's player evaluations, it makes sense to dig into those efficiency metrics to uncover possible value.

Here are the best positional values based on a player's given FanDuel salary versus his nERD score. This includes only players with at least 15.0 FanDuel points per game in the simulated formats so far.

For the most part, this is going to be a list of studly, efficient players, but exercise caution with some lower-tier names who happen to pop in terms of efficiency.

RankPGSGSFPFC
1Damian
Lillard
James
Harden
Danilo
Gallinari
Daniel
Theis
Ivica
Zubac
2Chris
Paul
DeMar
DeRozan
Gordon
Hayward
Nerlens
Noel
Montrezl
Harrell
3Ben
Simmons
JJ
Redick
Tobias
Harris
Kawhi
Leonard
Hassan
Whiteside
4Kemba
Walker
Shai
Gilgeous-Alexander
Jaylen
Brown
Jayson
Tatum
Steven
Adams
5Shaquille
Harrison
Bradley
Beal
Paul
George
Al
Horford
Enes
Kanter
6Shake
Milton
Marcus
Smart
Brandon
Ingram
Daniel
Gafford
Jaxson
Hayes
7Patrick
Beverley
Lou
Williams
Rodney
Hood
LaMarcus
Aldridge
Joel
Embiid
8Russell
Westbrook
Jrue
Holiday
Danuel
House
Isaiah
Hartenstein
Derrick
Favors
9Derrick
White
Zach
LaVine
Thabo
Sefolosha
Zion
Williamson
Jakob
Poeltl
10Brad
Wanamaker
Alec
Burks
Marcus
Morris
Davis
Bertans
Thomas
Bryant
11Landry
Shamet
Dennis
Schroder
Chandler
Hutchison
JaMychal
Green
Robert
Williams
12Dejounte
Murray
CJ
McCollum
Matisse
Thybulle
Jeff
Green
Wendell
Carter




The author of this article has no involvement with the NBA Sim Sports simulations powered by numberFire and has no knowledge of the results of tonight’s contest.