3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 11/16/18

Anthony Davis, PF, New Orleans Pelicans

Price: $12,800

Anthony Davis' salary is finally climbing back up to where it belongs, but he remains an outstanding play in tonight's matchup against the New York Knicks.

To start with, New York allows the league's third-most fantasy points per 48 minutes to opposing power forwards. They're not as generous against centers, but those numbers still aren't intimidating, and with the sometimes-blurred lines between the positions (like with Davis, here), the overall takeaway is that they give up strong fantasy numbers to bigs.

A deeper look into their stats makes that fact unsurprising as well. They rank only 25th in defensive rating on the season, and they allow opponents the league's 6th-most points, 11th-most rebounds and 3rd-most blocks per game.

Davis also doesn't need a ton of help to be an elite fantasy play. He has opened this season averaging a career-high (and league-leading) 37.8 minutes per game, and his 58.6 FanDuel points per game are 4.9 more than any other player.

Davis has only played 11 games, and he has at least 60 FanDuel points in 6 of those. That includes three of his last four -- a stretch in which he has averaged an absurd 63.3 per.

Only two other players have at least four games with at least 60 FanDuel points on the year (one with six, one with four), and those are both players with more games played -- neither doing so on more than 40% of their contests, compared to 54.5% for Brow.