NFL Sim Sports Picks for 6/26/20 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, D.J. Moore is projected to score 12.97 FanDuel points at a salary of $6,900 (1.88 FanDuel points per $1,000).
Rank | QB | RB | WR | TE |
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1 | Teddy Bridgewater (2.80) | Christian McCaffrey (2.21) | D.J. Moore (1.88) | Travis Kelce (1.62) |
2 | Patrick Mahomes (2.69) | Clyde Edwards-Helaire (2.16) | Michael Thomas (1.80) | Ian Thomas (1.60) |
3 | Russell Wilson (2.46) | Jonathan Taylor (2.08) | Calvin Ridley (1.80) | Darren Waller (1.46) |
4 | Drew Brees (2.43) | Dalvin Cook (1.99) | D.K. Metcalf (1.73) | Hayden Hurst (1.46) |
5 | Kirk Cousins (2.43) | Joe Mixon (1.96) | Mecole Hardman (1.73) | Evan Engram (1.42) |
6 | Joe Burrow (2.36) | Saquon Barkley (1.95) | Adam Thielen (1.72) | Jared Cook (1.42) |
7 | Matt Ryan (2.35) | Josh Jacobs (1.91) | Tyreek Hill (1.71) | Noah Fant (1.33) |
8 | Derek Carr (2.35) | Alvin Kamara (1.89) | Courtland Sutton (1.71) | Zach Ertz (1.31) |
9 | Drew Lock (2.35) | Miles Sanders (1.89) | Chris Godwin (1.70) | Greg Olsen (1.29) |
10 | Carson Wentz (2.30) | Todd Gurley (1.87) | Mike Evans (1.69) | Jack Doyle (1.28) |
11 | Daniel Jones (2.29) | Chris Carson (1.86) | Tyler Lockett (1.69) | Dallas Goedert (1.27) |
12 | Tom Brady (2.28) | Damien Williams (1.78) | Julio Jones (1.67) | Kyle Rudolph (1.25) |
13 | Philip Rivers (2.28) | Melvin Gordon (1.75) | Tyler Boyd (1.62) | Rob Gronkowski (1.21) |
14 | Ryan 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.