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NFL Sim Sports Picks for 6/23/20 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, JuJu Smith-Schuster is projected to score 12.56 FanDuel points at a salary of $7,000 (1.79 FanDuel points per $1,000).

RankQBRBWRTE
1Lamar Jackson
(2.57)
D'Andre Swift
(1.97)
JuJu Smith-Schuster
(1.79)
Mark Andrews
(1.46)
2Ben Roethlisberger
(2.49)
Ezekiel Elliott
(1.94)
Diontae Johnson
(1.77)
Blake Jarwin
(1.38)
3Deshaun Watson
(2.46)
James Conner
(1.82)
Marquise Brown
(1.74)
T.J. Hockenson
(1.29)
4Dak Prescott
(2.39)
Kenyan Drake
(1.78)
Terry McLaurin
(1.71)
Eric Ebron
(1.21)
5Jarrett Stidham
(2.36)
Derrius Guice
(1.76)
Kenny Golladay
(1.67)
Austin Hooper
(1.20)
6Kyler Murray
(2.34)
Sony Michel
(1.72)
Brandin Cooks
(1.67)
Nick Boyle
(0.95)
7Matthew Stafford
(2.28)
David Johnson
(1.70)
CeeDee Lamb
(1.67)
Jordan Akins
(0.86)
8Baker Mayfield
(2.13)
Leonard Fournette
(1.67)
Christian Kirk
(1.66)
David Njoku
(0.70)
9 Kareem Hunt
(1.66)
Michael Gallup
(1.63)
Darren Fells
(0.68)
10 Kerryon Johnson
(1.64)
DeAndre Hopkins
(1.60)
Maxx Williams
(0.67)
11 J.K. Dobbins
(1.61)
Jarvis Landry
(1.60)
Tyler Eifert
(0.66)
12 James White
(1.56)
Amari Cooper
(1.57)
Vance McDonald
(0.66)
13 Nick Chubb
(1.52)
Julian Edelman
(1.56)
14 Tony Pollard
(1.46)
N'Keal Harry
(1.55)
15 Duke Johnson
(1.19)
Larry Fitzgerald
(1.32)




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.