The Field Report: Week 4
The field report is designed to give you a look into the most popular plays from FanDuel’s Thursday Night games. 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 will typically not get you anywhere. 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 go off-the-radar with a few plays.
The percentages below will give you an idea of how popular each player was in contests which began on Thursday. We must take into account that many players overexpose themselves to the Thursday Night game, so the actual percentages for the players listed below will be on average higher than what is listed here come Sunday afternoon.
In order to get these percentages, I entered two Fanduel $10 Thursday 100-man tournaments and averaged the percentage owned between the two leagues. The players aren’t listed with the ownership percentage, but they are listed in order from most popular to least popular in the tables below. It’s not a perfect formula, but it should give us a good idea of the popularity of players at this point in the week.
20%+ Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | D/ST | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Rivers | Donald Brown | Antonio Brown | Jimmy Graham | San Diego | x |
| x | Le’Veon Bell | x | Martellus Bennett | x | x |
| x | Lamar Miller | x | x | x | x |
10% to 19.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Brees | DeMarco Murray | Julio Jones | Antonio Gates | Atlanta | Robbie Gould |
| Ben Roethlisberger | x | Steve Smith | x | Pittsburgh | Shayne Graham |
| x | x | Brandin Cooks | x | Detroit | Stephen Gostkowski |
| x | x | Julian Edelman | x | x | x |
| x | x | Kelvin Benjamin | x | x | x |
| x | x | Calvin Johnson | x | x | x |
| x | x | Michael Crabtree | x | x | x |
| x | x | Alshon Jeffrey | x | x | x |
| x | x | Jordy Nelson | x | x | x |
5% to 9.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colin Kaepernick | Ahmad Bradshaw | Cordarrelle Patterson | Greg Olsen | Indianapolis | Shaun Suisham |
| Matt Ryan | Khiry Robinson | DeAndre Hopkins | x | Miami | Adam Vinatieri |
| Matthew Stafford | Matt Asiata | Jeremy Maclin | x | Houston | Nick Folk |
| x | Darren Sproles | Marques Colston | x | x | Cody Parkey |
| x | x | Dez Bryant | x | x | Matt Bryant |
| x | x | James Jones | x | x | Nick Novak |
| x | x | Golden Tate | x | x | x |
Others Who Barely Missed the Cut
With the Thursday night players being highly owned at several positions (very common), I’ve decided to add a short list of players who barely missed the cut, typically those between 3.5%-4.9%. It’s not a full list, but here are a few of the interesting names I spotted in that group..
Quarterbacks – Teddy Bridgewater, Jay Cutler, Aaron Rodgers
Running Backs – Pierre Thomas, Stephen Jackson, Eddie Lacy
Wide Receivers – Keenan Allen, Allen Robinson, Randall Cobb
Tight Ends – Owen Daniels, Rob Gronkowski, Delanie Walker