Week 12 Daily Fantasy Football Tournament Recap: The Laird's Day?
The Week 12 daily fantasy football main slate saw almost all of the action in the 1 PM ET set of games, as we were left with just two late games this week. However, Derrick Henry’s monster performance in the afternoon did make it so that no lead was safe even despite the limited afternoon action.
Just ask Peter Overzet, who was barely able to hang out to take down his H2H GPP with Josh Hermsmeyer and let his bankroll challenge live for another week.
Pete held off the late Derrick Henry charge thanks, obviously, to Patrick Laird’s two clutch points and won by 0.70 fantasy points. He handled the win modestly, of course (credit to @Jarad_Evans on Twitter for the photo grab)
Some family business needs my attention this evening, so this will be a bit briefer than in previous weeks. Let’s just take a quick look at ownership results before checking in on the biggest winners.
Week 12 Ownership
Using ResultsDB here are some quick notes about the ownership we saw in the DK Milly Maker
QuarterBack – Matt Ryan was rostered on 21.55% of teams. And sucked. Ryan Griffin saw double-digit ownership. And sucked. Baker Mayfield was the second-highest owned QB (14.61%) and had a solid game. The low-owned gem of the week was 1.01% owned Ryan Tannehill.
Running Back – Derrick Henry was 30.61% owned chalk and he smashed. Christian McCaffrey asking price held his ownership back (9.46%) but he continues to be a near-lock for a monster performance each week. Leonard Fournette was the highest-scoring running back of the weekend, and he only found his way onto 5.36% of rosters.
Wide Receivers – Atlanta WR’s Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley were the two highest-owned wideouts this weekend, with both seeing 25%+ ownership. Ridley delivered, not so much for Julio. Jarvis Landry took a trip down a narrative street and ripped apart his former team. Meanwhile, Chris Godwin erupted for 40.4 DK points at 9.34%.
Tight End – Zach Ertz and Jared Cook were really the only two difference-makers at Tight End this week as both posted 20+ point games. Ertz was the third-most owned at 14.12% ownership. Cook was used far less frequently at just 3.09%.
Results
DraftKings
NFL $3M Fantasy Football Millionaire [$1M to 1st] – Nam2312
You have to be pretty perfect to take down the DraftKings Milly Maker, and today, RotoGrinders user Nam2312 was just that. Anchored by a Baker Mayfield and Jarvis Landry stack, this lineup also saw huge performances from Nick Chubb, Derrick Henry, DJ Moore, Jared Cook and Seattle’s D/ST. Bo Scarbrough even came through as a value RB with 98 rushing yards for the Lions. Congrats on this life-changing victory!
NFL $1.5M KING OF THE BEACH FINAL – BRORANNOSAURUS_FLEX
75 of the best NFL DFS players in the world headed to Miami for an epic weekend, and BRORANNOSAURUS_FLEX came up victorious and the winner of the $200,000 first-place prize. He currently sits 31st overall in our DFS Rankings and this win should propel him even higher!
NFL $1.25M Fourth Down Conversion [$250K to 1st] – hardfour
NFL $1.11M Play-Action [$100K to 1st, 20 Entry Max] – Jakeclose35
NFL $888K Wildcat [$200K to 1st] – JMtoWin
NFL $555K Power Sweep [$100K to 1st, 3 Entry Max] – teejc1
FanDuel
$1.75M NFL Sunday Million ($300K to 1st) –
The Mayfield/Landry combo strikes again in the FanDuel Sunday Million tournament, also. User oconnopj rode that duo along with huge games from Leonard Fournette, Derrick Henry, Chris Godwin, DJ Moore, Zach Ertz and Calvin Ridley to hold off the other 231,480 lineups. Congrats!
$420K Sun NFL Bomb ($100K to 1st) – felixingenium (and there’s gosixersgo76 once again peppering the leaderboard with 2nd and 3rd place finishes.
$400K Sun NFL Monster ($100K to 1st) – hossdaboss
$300K Sun NFL Gunslinger ($100K to 1st) – thewildbuffalo
$300K Sun NFL Kickoff ($100K to 1st) – tomjk321
Congrats to all of the big Week 12 winners!