The Field Report: Week 6
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 | Branden Oliver | Golden Tate | Martellus Bennett | Denver | Robbie Gould |
| x | Matt Forte | Mohamed Sanu | x | x | x |
| x | Andre Williams | x | x | x | x |
10% to 19.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eli Manning | Le’Veon Bell | Julio Jones | Antonio Gates | San Diego | Patrick Murray |
| Matt Ryan | Andre Ellington | Jordy Nelson | Delanie Walker | x | Shaun Suisham |
| Philip Rivers | x | Emmanuel Sanders | x | x | x |
| Russell Wilson | x | Brian Quick | x | x | x |
| Peyton Mannng | x | Alshon Jeffrey | x | x | x |
5% to 9.9% Usage
| Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends | Defense | Kickers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teddy Bridgewater | Frank Gore | Brandon Marshall | Owen Daniels | Seattle | Nick Novak |
| x | LeSean McCoy | Demaryius Thomas | Julius Thomas | Detroit | Steven Hauschka |
| x | Giovani Bernard | Steve Smith | Rob Gronkowski | Baltimore | Ryan Succop |
| x | Marshawn Lynch | Kendall Wright | Heath Miller | Green Bay | x |
| x | Justin Forsett | Rueben Randle | x | Washington | x |
| x | Ben Tate | Jeremy Maclin | x | Jacksonville | x |
| x | x | DeSean Jackson | x | x | x |
| x | x | Percy Harvin | x | x | x |
| x | x | Antonio Brown | x | x | x |
| x | x | Victor Cruz | x | x | x |
| x | x | Wes Welker | x | x | x |
| x | x | Kelvin Benjamin | x | x | x |
| x | x | Torrey Smith | x | x | x |