The Field Report: Week 7

by Stephen Keech (SBK) Last Updated 2014-11-10 15:51:13

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 seperate your entry from the rest of the field, you need to create a very 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 the 15K Thursday Rush #2.

I saw a comment in my article from last week saying that one of the biggest misconceptions in DFS is that you have to fade the big (popular) plays in order to win a GPP. His main point was that if you want to win, you have to get the best value for your money spent, regardless of where it comes from, and he’s absolutely right. If you think the cheap, albeit popular, play of the week is actually going to go out and have a big week (unlike Garrett Graham last week), then you use that player regardless of whether or not you think a nice chunk of the field will do the same (this goes for players in all price ranges; I only used value play Garrett Graham as an example). If you look at some of the players who were on this list last week, you will see what I mean. Knowshon Moreno, Justin Blackmon and Arian Foster were among three of the most popular plays from last week, and if you faded all of these guys, you didn’t have much of a chance. Vernon Davis and the Chiefs Defense also made the list, but were not as highly owned as the other three players. On the other hand, a lot of the guys on this list under-performed, so if you faded them it gave you a nice little advantage.

The bottom line is that it is perfectly alright to use players who are highly owned, as long as you think they will give you enough points to be worth what you paid for them. At the same time, you do not want your ENTIRE lineup to consist of players in the first two tables, as you still have to find a way to set yourself apart from the field. I also wanted to note that I did not forget about defenses for the 10-19.9% table, there just weren’t any in that range.

20% to 32.7% Usage

10% to 19.9% Usage

5% to 9.9% Usage