Fantasy Football Millionaire Review: Week 14
The Millionaire review series will provide the reader with a breakdown of the exposures of “top of the leaderboard” players, the top single-entry lineup, and a comparison between all single entry lineups and professionals for the weekly DraftKings Millionaire Maker GPP.
This week, we looked at the $3.6M Fantasy Football Millionaire [$1M to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $27 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Jae686 focused on a few cheap quarterbacks due to slotting in Le’Veon Bell in 97.3% of his lineups and David Johnson in 78.7%. While a large chunk of salary was sunk in these two running backs, he was able to find easy value at receiver with Taylor Gabriel becoming a WR1 for Atlanta, Robby Anderson making best friends with Bryce Petty, and half of the Chicago Bears roster on the injury report. From there, a noticeable ownership in Emmanuel Sanders and the Falcons defense helped solidify his upside and overall floor as he cashed on all but 1 lineup (99.3% cash rate).
Janxon007 was noticeably more concentrated in his overall player ownership, but still maxed out the 150 lineup limit. However, instead of focusing on some streaking cheap QBs, he bit the bullet and paid up for an elite arm in Andrew Luck and a price-depressed Aaron Rodgers going up against a beat up Seahawks defense in Lambeau. Instead of gambling heavily on any one RB, janxon took an array of studs at close ownerships across the board: Le’Veon Bell 38%, Ezekiel Elliot 28.7%, DeMarco Murray 28%, Melvin Gordon 24.7%, while managing to correctly fade David Johnson at just 4%. From the salary saved from fading Johnson, he was able to pay up on a number of elite wide receivers that would go low-owned on the slate: Antonio Brown, TY Hilton, and Jordy Nelson. Even though Antonio Brown did not pay off, it was his high ownership in Emmanuel Sanders (who was in his top-32 lineups) that helped him take three top-10 finishes, twelve within the top-100, and a 45.3% cash rate. Obviously, Janxon killed it on this slate, but I thought it was interesting that even with such a tight core, he was still able to put up a lineup totaling 47.3 points (outscored by Le’Veon Bell himself).
Rayofhope spread his quarterback ownerships out thin, but followed along the same lines as the others throughout the rest of his lineup construction. A large percentage of his salary was balanced between Le’Veon Bell & David Johnson, but snuck in a great value play in Jeremy Hill against the Browns at 46.7%. Many people thought he was overpriced due to his recent production and worrisome YPC, but that was against great run defenses (Ravens, Eagles) and the Browns are a get-right spot for almost anyone. He landed on the same stud receivers as others without too many surprises (Robby, Gabriel, Meredith), but managed to hit on a majority of his stud receivers: Odell Beckham, Jordy Nelson, and Emmanuel Sanders. Where rayofhope really shined was with his ability to pick defenses, as he owned the pick-six Falcons at a 22.7% clip and the Dolphins facing a top-2 RB at 20% rate. Although rayofhope wasn’t able to break-in to the top-100 finishes for the big money, he finished with a cash rate of 90% and a nice ROI on such a top-heavy tournament.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Amorris525 took down a million big ones with the his QB/WR main stack being the explosive combination of Captain Kirk and DeSean Jackson (revenge game narrative street) with Zach Ertz trying to keep up on the Eagles side of things. However, both combined for a mediocre sum as the real firepower came unsurprisingly from Le’Veon Bell and more surprisingly, from the Falcon defense. From there, we naturally slot in a player facing the browns and Taylor Gabriel who was a top receiving option for the Falcons with both Julio Jones and Mohamed Sanu out. Emmanuel Sanders benefited from Trevor Siemian coming off of injury and Amorris525 ran the board with his single entry for the top prize of the day.
Single-Entry vs. jae686/janxon007/rayofhope
Out of 149,785 entries in the Fantasy Football Millionaire, 28.8% of those entries were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the exposures of jae686, janxon007, rayofhope, and 80 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
