2018 FanDuel and DraftKings Fantasy Football Championship Recap

7:24 PM ET

Barring any scoring adjustments, we have our champions! Congrats to ChipotleAddict for hanging onto first place and bringing home $2,000,000 in the DraftKings Fantasy Football World Championship. Also, it became nail biting time at the end, but dacoltz held on to became the 2018 FanDuel WFFC champion and will take home a cool $500K. Congrats to all of the finalists for earning their way to these two great events!

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7:04 PM ET

With Pittsburgh trying to run the clock out on the New England Patriots, Jaylen Samuels has Jeffeljefe knocking on the door in the FanDuel Championship.

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6:16 PM ET

ChipotleAddict is still holding onto 1st place on DraftKings, and 2nd place on FanDuel. It’s going to be an intense fourth quarter!

4:30 PM ET

With just two late-afternoon games this week, the action is going to slow down a bit. However, the big name players from the potential shootout in Pittsburgh carrying relatively high ownership, things are still very much up in the air on both sites!

Here’s a look at a potential contender for the top spot as this EmpireMaker2 squad sits in 18th with Big Ben, JuJu and Gronk just getting underway;

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4:03 PM ET

Joe Mixon finds paydirt once again, and at 66% owned on the DK final, it pretty much ends all hopes for 1/3 of the field. That touchdown also vaults ChipotleAddict into the 1st and 2nd spots! Oh, and he’s also sitting in first place in the FanDuel final, too!

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3:36 PM ET

Squirrelpatrol regains the lead in the FanDuel Championship thanks to his Josh Allen / Robert Foster stack.

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3:18 PM ET

With Tevin Coleman’s long touchdown run, Rickidee and his mini Atlanta stack has climbed to the top of the DraftKings Championship.

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2:29 PM ET

As the early games head to halftime, Ebeimfohr sits on top of the DraftKings Championship. Meanwhile, Squirrelpatrol still holds the lead on FanDuel.

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1:49 PM ET

With that Josh Allen rushing touchdown, our very own Squirrelpatrol vaults into the lead in the FanDuel Final!

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1:25 PM ET

Dalvin Cook is over 30% owned on DraftKings and just found the end-zone. With that most recent score, Pat2222 currently sits on top of the DK leaderboard.

1:20 PM ET

Today is the day we see Fantasy Football Champions crowned at the Live Finals of both DraftKings and FanDuel and things have just kicked off. We’ll be following the action here all day and providing periodic updates as the games play out. Best of luck to all our RotoGrinders family who were skilled enough to punch their tickets to these two great events!

Links to both finals can be found below;

FanDuel

DraftKings

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John Britt (jmbwngfn)

One of the top baseball and hockey analysts in the DFS industry, John Britt is a family man hailing from St. Louis, Missouri. A proud graduate of the University of Missouri, John’s passion is hockey but he excels at multiple DFS sports. He has been nominated multiple times for awards for his written work in both baseball (best MLB series) and hockey (3x NHL Writer of the Year nominee) and is now the Lead Editor at RotoGrinders. John can be found on Twitter at the username JMBWngFn.