NFL Sim Sports Picks for 6/29/20 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, Keenan Allen is projected to score 11.41 FanDuel points at a salary of $6,700 (1.70 FanDuel points per $1,000).
Note that Cam Newton is not in the player pool on FanDuel.
| Rank | QB | RB | WR | TE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Mahomes (2.60) | Austin Ekeler (1.95) | Tyreek Hill (1.73) | George Kittle (1.75) |
| 2 | Josh Allen (2.50) | Saquon Barkley (1.93) | Keenan Allen (1.70) | Travis Kelce (1.64) |
| 3 | Jimmy Garoppolo (2.43) | Clyde Edwards-Helaire (1.93) | Mecole Hardman (1.66) | Hunter Henry (1.44) |
| 4 | Russell Wilson (2.40) | Devin Singletary (1.92) | Jalen Reagor (1.66) | Evan Engram (1.36) |
| 5 | Carson Wentz (2.33) | Miles Sanders (1.91) | D.K. Metcalf (1.65) | Dallas Goedert (1.32) |
| 6 | Daniel Jones (2.29) | Raheem Mostert (1.75) | John Brown (1.65) | Zach Ertz (1.31) |
| 7 | Drew Lock (2.28) | Tevin Coleman (1.71) | Brandon Aiyuk (1.65) | Noah Fant (1.26) |
| 8 | Aaron Rodgers (2.09) | Damien Williams (1.71) | Jerry Jeudy (1.64) | Greg Olsen (1.23) |
| 9 | Justin Herbert (1.39) | Melvin Gordon (1.65) | Sterling Shepard (1.62) | Jace Sternberger (1.19) |
| 10 | Chris Carson (1.62) | Davante Adams (1.60) | Dawson Knox (0.97) | |
| 11 | Aaron Jones (1.60) | Courtland Sutton (1.59) | Will Dissly (0.83) | |
| 12 | Phillip Lindsay (1.59) | Julian Edelman (1.58) | Jacob Hollister (0.68) | |
| 13 | Sony Michel (1.57) | Mike Williams (1.55) | Devin Asiasi (0.51) | |
| 14 | James White (1.49) | Stefon Diggs (1.53) | Dalton Keene (0.43) | |
| 15 | Zack Moss (1.30) | Tyler Lockett (1.51) | Jeff Heuerman (0.40) |
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.
