NFL Sim Sports Picks for 7/3/20 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, Matt Ryan is projected to score 19.04 FanDuel points at a salary of $7,700 (2.47 FanDuel points per $1,000).
Rank | QB | RB | WR | TE |
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1 | Patrick Mahomes (2.63) | Jonathan Taylor (2.12) | Calvin Ridley (1.88) | Travis Kelce (1.60) |
2 | Matt Ryan (2.47) | Dalvin Cook (2.02) | Michael Thomas (1.84) | Hayden Hurst (1.59) |
3 | Kirk Cousins (2.47) | Clyde Edwards-Helaire (1.96) | Adam Thielen (1.77) | Hunter Henry (1.49) |
4 | Lamar Jackson (2.46) | Austin Ekeler (1.95) | Chris Godwin (1.75) | Dallas Goedert (1.44) |
5 | Russell Wilson (2.46) | Josh Jacobs (1.94) | Julio Jones (1.72) | Mark Andrews (1.42) |
6 | Carson Wentz (2.43) | Todd Gurley (1.90) | Mike Evans (1.71) | Darren Waller (1.37) |
7 | Tom Brady (2.34) | Alvin Kamara (1.87) | Keenan Allen (1.70) | Chris Herndon (1.37) |
8 | Drew Brees (2.31) | Miles Sanders (1.86) | Mecole Hardman (1.70) | Jack Doyle (1.37) |
9 | Derek Carr (2.25) | Chris Carson (1.81) | Tyler Lockett (1.69) | Kyle Rudolph (1.34) |
10 | Baker Mayfield (2.23) | Le'Veon Bell (1.80) | Tyreek Hill (1.67) | Zach Ertz (1.33) |
11 | Philip Rivers (2.22) | Nick Chubb (1.75) | Emmanuel Sanders (1.66) | Jared Cook (1.33) |
12 | Sam Darnold (2.11) | Marlon Mack (1.74) | Marquise Brown (1.65) | Greg Olsen (1.32) |
13 | Justin Herbert (1.39) | Damien Williams (1.71) | Justin Jefferson (1.63) | Rob Gronkowski (1.28) |
14 | Ryan Fitzpatrick (1.08) | Kareem Hunt (1.66) | Jarvis Landry (1.62) | Austin Hooper (1.25) |
15 | Ke'Shawn Vaughn (1.62) | Jalen Reagor (1.62) | 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.