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NFL Sim Sports Picks for 7/13/20 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, Tyler Boyd is projected to score 9.54 FanDuel points at a salary of $5,900 (1.62 FanDuel points per $1,000).

RankQBRBWRTE
1Teddy Bridgewater
(2.56)
Christian McCaffrey
(2.15)
D.J. Moore
(1.85)
Ian Thomas
(1.53)
2Joe Burrow
(2.43)
Joe Mixon
(2.04)
Michael Thomas
(1.76)
Mark Andrews
(1.37)
3Lamar Jackson
(2.41)
Ezekiel Elliott
(1.98)
CeeDee Lamb
(1.70)
Evan Engram
(1.36)
4Dak Prescott
(2.36)
Saquon Barkley
(1.97)
Tyler Boyd
(1.62)
Blake Jarwin
(1.32)
5Daniel Jones
(2.26)
Alvin Kamara
(1.91)
Sterling Shepard
(1.62)
Jared Cook
(1.17)
6Drew Brees
(2.20)
Mark Ingram
(1.52)
Michael Gallup
(1.59)
Nick Boyle
(0.95)
7 J.K. Dobbins
(1.51)
Amari Cooper
(1.54)
C.J. Uzomah
(0.88)
8 Tony Pollard
(1.40)
Marquise Brown
(1.51)
Taysom Hill
(0.79)
9 Latavius Murray
(1.16)
Emmanuel Sanders
(1.51)
10 Giovani Bernard
(0.85)
Robby Anderson
(1.51)
11 Curtis Samuel
(1.51)
12 A.J. Green
(1.47)
13 Golden Tate
(1.44)
14 Darius Slayton
(1.37)
15 Miles Boykin
(1.22)




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.