NFL Sim Sports Picks for 5/18/20 on FanDuel
The NFL season is on its way here, but in the meantime, FanDuel has you covered for some fantasy football action with simulated games throughout the season.
You can join in on a free-to-play contest that will revolve around a small slate of games simulated out using numberFire's Sharpstack tool.
This means that the teams and players will have correlations with one another. If a receiver goes off for two touchdowns, his quarterback will have some passing scores. If a running back scores three times, his passing offense will probably be lacking in the touchdown department.
This means that simple projections won't really cut it for identifying the best correlations and lineups, but we can at least dig into numberFire's weekly projections. This at least helps show us, in general, how matchups and usage are expected to shake out in the simulations more often than not. It'll still be on us to compile the best correlated lineups we can.
Best Values
Again, using nothing but numberFire's weekly projections, here are value rankings for each position. (Value refers to projected FanDuel points divided by a player's salary and then multiplied by 1,000. Value is best viewed relative to other players at the same position.)
For example, George Kittle is expected to score 13.19 fantasy points at a salary of $8,000 (1.65 FanDuel points per $1,000 in salary). That's easily the best mark for a tight end but subpar compared to other positions.
| Rank | QB | RB | WR | TE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Jones (2.44) | Alvin Kamara (2.14) | Michael Thomas (1.89) | George Kittle (1.65) |
| 2 | Jimmy Garoppolo (2.42) | Ezekiel Elliott (2.00) | JuJu Smith-Schuster (1.87) | Evan Engram (1.41) |
| 3 | Drew Lock (2.42) | Kenyan Drake (2.00) | Courtland Sutton (1.79) | Noah Fant (1.31) |
| 4 | Jared Goff (2.41) | Saquon Barkley (1.99) | Chris Godwin (1.77) | Blake Jarwin (1.27) |
| 5 | Dak Prescott (2.39) | Raheem Mostert (1.88) | Amari Cooper (1.75) | Tyler Higbee (1.21) |
| 6 | Ben Roethlisberger (2.39) | James Conner (1.68) | Robert Woods (1.75) | Eric Ebron (1.21) |
| 7 | Tom Brady (2.37) | Ke'Shawn Vaughn (1.68) | Mike Evans (1.71) | Jonnu Smith (1.15) |
| 8 | Kyler Murray (2.34) | Cam Akers (1.67) | Jerry Jeudy (1.71) | Jared Cook (1.13) |
| 9 | Drew Brees (2.30) | Derrick Henry (1.65) | DeAndre Hopkins (1.67) | Rob Gronkowski (0.98) |
| 10 | Ryan Tannehill (2.18) | Melvin Gordon (1.58) | A.J. Brown (1.66) | O.J. Howard (0.88) |
| 11 | Ronald Jones (1.45) | Deebo Samuel (1.66) | Gerald Everett (0.81) | |
| 12 | Tevin Coleman (1.36) | Sterling Shepard (1.65) | Taysom Hill (0.75) | |
| 13 | Phillip Lindsay (1.35) | Michael Gallup (1.64) | Vance McDonald (0.68) | |
| 14 | Latavius Murray (1.30) | CeeDee Lamb (1.64) | Maxx Williams (0.64) | |
| 15 | Darrell Henderson (1.17) | Cooper Kupp (1.60) | Anthony Firkser (0.60) |
The author of this article has no involvement with the NFL Sim Sports simulations powered by numberFire and has no knowledge of the results of the upcoming contest.
