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NFL Sim Sports Picks for 6/26/20 on FanDuel

FanDuel's NFL Sim Sports slate gives us seven games to dig through. Which players are the best values?

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, D.J. Moore is projected to score 12.97 FanDuel points at a salary of $6,900 (1.88 FanDuel points per $1,000).

RankQBRBWRTE
1Teddy Bridgewater
(2.80)
Christian McCaffrey
(2.21)
D.J. Moore
(1.88)
Travis Kelce
(1.62)
2Patrick Mahomes
(2.69)
Clyde
Edwards-Helaire
(2.16)
Michael Thomas
(1.80)
Ian Thomas
(1.60)
3Russell Wilson
(2.46)
Jonathan Taylor
(2.08)
Calvin Ridley
(1.80)
Darren Waller
(1.46)
4Drew Brees
(2.43)
Dalvin Cook
(1.99)
D.K. Metcalf
(1.73)
Hayden Hurst
(1.46)
5Kirk Cousins
(2.43)
Joe Mixon
(1.96)
Mecole Hardman
(1.73)
Evan Engram
(1.42)
6Joe Burrow
(2.36)
Saquon Barkley
(1.95)
Adam Thielen
(1.72)
Jared Cook
(1.42)
7Matt Ryan
(2.35)
Josh Jacobs
(1.91)
Tyreek Hill
(1.71)
Noah Fant
(1.33)
8Derek Carr
(2.35)
Alvin Kamara
(1.89)
Courtland Sutton
(1.71)
Zach Ertz
(1.31)
9Drew Lock
(2.35)
Miles Sanders
(1.89)
Chris Godwin
(1.70)
Greg Olsen
(1.29)
10Carson Wentz
(2.30)
Todd Gurley
(1.87)
Mike Evans
(1.69)
Jack Doyle
(1.28)
11Daniel Jones
(2.29)
Chris Carson
(1.86)
Tyler Lockett
(1.69)
Dallas Goedert
(1.27)
12Tom Brady
(2.28)
Damien Williams
(1.78)
Julio Jones
(1.67)
Kyle Rudolph
(1.25)
13Philip Rivers
(2.28)
Melvin Gordon
(1.75)
Tyler Boyd
(1.62)
Rob Gronkowski
(1.21)
14Ryan Tannehill
(2.12)
Derrick Henry
(1.66)
A.J. Green
(1.61)
Jonnu Smith
(1.19)
15 Ke'Shawn Vaughn
(1.65)
T.Y. Hilton
(1.60)
Irv Smith
(1.09)




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.