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NFL Sim Sports Picks for 7/5/20 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 $6,800 (1.91 FanDuel points per $1,000).

RankQBRBWRTE
1Teddy Bridgewater
(2.64)
Christian McCaffrey
(2.19)
D.J. Moore
(1.91)
Ian Thomas
(1.60)
2Lamar Jackson
(2.49)
Jonathan Taylor
(2.19)
Calvin Ridley
(1.91)
Hayden Hurst
(1.55)
3Kirk Cousins
(2.47)
Dalvin Cook
(2.07)
D.J. Chark
(1.90)
Mark Andrews
(1.47)
4Gardner Minshew
(2.46)
D'Andre Swift
(1.93)
Adam Thielen
(1.80)
Hunter Henry
(1.44)
5Matt Ryan
(2.44)
David Montgomery
(1.90)
Chris Godwin
(1.79)
Jack Doyle
(1.37)
6Matthew Stafford
(2.37)
Austin Ekeler
(1.90)
Kenny Golladay
(1.76)
Kyle Rudolph
(1.34)
7Deshaun Watson
(2.32)
Josh Jacobs
(1.89)
Mike Evans
(1.76)
Michael Gesicki
(1.32)
8Tom Brady
(2.31)
Todd Gurley
(1.85)
Keenan Allen
(1.76)
Darren Waller
(1.31)
9Derek Carr
(2.25)
Marlon Mack
(1.74)
Anthony Miller
(1.73)
T.J. Hockenson
(1.29)
10Ryan Tannehill
(2.18)
Leonard Fournette
(1.71)
Brandin Cooks
(1.71)
Jace Sternberger
(1.19)
11Philip Rivers
(2.18)
David Johnson
(1.65)
Marvin Jones
(1.70)
Rob Gronkowski
(1.17)
12Aaron Rodgers
(2.09)
Ke'Shawn Vaughn
(1.62)
Allen Robinson
(1.69)
Jonnu Smith
(1.16)
13Justin Herbert
(1.39)
Mark Ingram
(1.61)
Will Fuller
(1.65)
Irv Smith
(1.07)
14Ryan Fitzpatrick
(1.08)
Kerryon Johnson
(1.61)
Julio Jones
(1.65)
Jimmy Graham
(0.96)
15Nick Foles
(1.05)
J.K. Dobbins
(1.58)
Justin Jefferson
(1.63)
O.J. Howard
(0.95)




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.