The Field Report: Week 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | Rashad Jennings | Antonio Brown | x | x | Shayne Graham |
| x | Le’Veon Bell | x | x | x | x |
| x | x | x | x | x | x |
10% to 19.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | D/ST | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eli Manning | DeMarco Murray | Kelvin Benjamin | Travis Kelce | Detroit | Shaun Suisham |
| Ben Roethlisberger | Darren Sproles | Andrew Hawkins | Larry Donnell | Seattle | Robbie Gould |
| Drew Brees | x | Steve Smith Sr. | Jimmy Graham | Pittsburgh | Cody Parkey |
| x | x | Marques Colston | x | x | x |
| x | x | Brian Quick | x | x | x |
| x | x | Brandin Cooks | x | x | x |
| x | x | Jeremy Maclin | x | x | x |
| x | x | T.Y. Hilton | x | x | x |
| x | x | Michael Floyd | x | x | x |
5% to 9.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | D/ST | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Foles | Khiry Robinson | Keenan Allen | Greg Olsen | Cleveland | Steven Hauschka |
| Philip Rivers | Giovani Bernard | Golden Tate | Owen Daniels | Cincinnati | Nick Novak |
| Matt Ryan | Bishop Sankey | Alshon Jeffrey | Delanie Walker | Tennessee | x |
| x | Zac Stacy | Victor Cruz | Antonio Gates | x | x |
| x | LeSean McCoy | Percy Harvin | Heath Miller | x | x |
| x | Marshawn Lynch | Markus Wheaton | x | x | x |
| x | Chris Ivory | Rueben Randle | x | x | x |
| x | Justin Forsett | Wes Welker | x | x | x |
| x | x | Emmanuel Sanders | x | x | x |
| x | x | DeAndre Hopkins | x | x | x |
| x | x | Michael Crabtree | 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 – Peyton Manning
Running Backs – Ahmad Bradshaw, Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles
Wide Receivers – Julio Jones, A.J. Green, Dez Bryant, Allen Hurns, Vincent Jackson
Tight Ends – Martellus Bennett