UFC 254: A Contrarian Take - Khabib vs. Gaethje
Happy Friday everyone, and welcome back to a Contrarian Take on MMA. We had a controversial card last Saturday, with Jun Yong Park putting up an absurdly low 73 points on DraftKings in his 3-round decision over John Phillips, with only 10 of his record 258 ground strikes counting as significant strikes.
While I can’t agree with the scoring, I do think it demonstrates the importance of considering price and variance when selecting an MMA lineup. At $8800 on DraftKings, Park was the 5th-highest owned fighter on the slate as a 70% favorite, but the low score wasn’t enough to put him on the winning lineup. I’m glad we hit on Jonathan Martinez and Gillian Robertson in this column last week – that helped me to 2 top-100 scores on the biggest GPPs on both DraftKings and FanDuel, but I ended up just short of the winning lineup on both sites.