The Field Report: Week 14

The Field Report is designed to give you a look into the most popular plays from FanDuel’s Thursday Night action. In order to truly separate your entry from the rest of the field, you need to create a unique roster. In GPP’s especially, playing along with the rest of your opponents won’t get you very far. The rules are much different in H2H’s and 50/50’s, but in tournaments where you need to beat ALL of your opponents (e.g. major qualifiers), you need to take risks and use a player or two that you know will be lightly owned. The percentages in the tables below come from a $2 250-man tournament (top 10.8% paid). Since this data comes from Thursday contests, the ownership percentages for the players listed below will be a bit higher on average for Sunday contests.

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We’re coming down to the final few weeks of the NFL regular season, and it seemed to go by really fast this year. It feels like it was just yesterday that Zach Sudfeld destroyed all of my Week 1 lineups, and here we are with just four weeks left before playoff football begins. Fanduel’s FFFC Final kicks off tomorrow, but there is still plenty of action left for the rest of us. One thing to keep in mind when using this information as a research tool is that this article is Fanduel specific. The popular plays this week on sites with sharp pricing (such as Draftstreet) will be much different, so these ownership percentages are by no means industry wide.

Note: All players are listed by percentage owned inside the tables. Any player owned by more than 5% of the field will be included.
Quarterbacks Percentage Owned
Josh McCown 19.2%
Nick Foles 11.2%
Alex Smith 6.4%
Joe Flacco 5.6%
Tom Brady 5.2%
Running Backs Percentage Owned
DeMarco Murray 20.0%
Eddie Lacy 18.8%
Jamaal Charles 14.4%
Shane Vereen 12.4%
Matt Forte 11.2%
Andre Brown 10.4%
Bobby Rainey 10.4%
Knowshon Moreno 5.6%
Le’Veon Bell 5.2%
Wide Receivers Percentage Owned
Alshon Jeffrey 22.8%
Calvin Johnson 22.8%
Torrey Smith 17.2%
Riley Cooper 15.2%
Julian Edelman 14.8%
DeSean Jackson 12.8%
Keenan Allen 12.8%
Antonio Brown 10.8%
Brandon Marshall 9.2%
Wes Welker 8.8%
Vincent Jackson 8.4%
Kendall Wright 8.0%
Dez Bryant 7.6%
Josh Gordon 6.4%
Eric Decker 6.4%
Larry Fitzgerald 6.0%
Roddy White 5.6%
A.J. Green 5.2%
Tight Ends Percentage Owned
Rob Gronkowski 18.4%
Jared Cook 9.6%
Greg Olsen 7.6%
Jimmy Graham 5.6%
Julius Thomas 5.2%
Defense/Special Teams Percentage Owned
New England Patriots 15.2%
Baltimore Ravens 14.8%
Oakland Raiders 14.4%
Kansas City Chiefs 10.0%
Arizona Cardinals 6.4%

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