Week 15 NFL DFS GPP Recap: DFS Championship Weekend

The Week 15 main slate has now come and gone, and that means we now have champions crowned in the World Fantasy Football Championships on both DraftKings and FanDuel (more on that later).

Let’s take a look at some of this week’s ownership numbers/trends before checking in on the big winners!

Ownership Overview

Using our awesome tool ResultsDB, here are some of the notable numbers from the DraftKings Milly Maker.

QB: Deshaun Watson was the most popular QB of the weekend, finding his way onto 14.43% of rosters. He was followed by double-digit ownership from both Kyler Murray and Jimmy Garoppolo. The one standout quarterback of the weekend was Jameis Winston, who tore up the Lions for 458 yards and four touchdowns (with just ONE interception).

RB: Christian McCaffrey’s lofty price-tag kept his ownership in check a bit (15.12%), but he just kept on doing Christian McCaffrey things. Chris Carson chalk week has been a theme all week long, and it proved true as he was the highest-owned running back of the weekend (33.81%). He did great, but not quite as good as the second highest-owned back Saquon Barkley. With these two both putting up massive scores at high-ownership, going contrarian at running back this weekend likely didn’t work out too well. That is, unless you rolled with either Kenyon Drake, Miles Sanders or Nick Chubb, as all three went nuts.

WR: Darius Slayton made a rare appearance as the top-owned wideout this weekend. He was decent, but not great. With Mike Evans sidelined, Chris Godwin ranked 2nd in WR ownership this weekend, but 22.29% of users saw him exit the game early with an injury. Behind them, DeAndre Hopkins, Jarvis Landry, Dede Westbrook. A.J. Brown, Kenny Golladay, Chris Conley, Danny Amendola, DeVante Parker and Christian Kirk all saw double-digit ownership. Those rostering Brown, Amendola and Parker were all pleased.

TE: Tyler Higbee was far-and-away the most popular TE (34.68%). As expected, he was rock-solid, but didn’t necessarily do anything to separate 1/3 of the field from the pack. George Kittle, Zach Ertz, Darren Waller and Travis Kelce all posted far better games at much less ownership.

D/ST: New England (yawn) was the most popular pick once again this weekend and they racked up 20 points. The only way to avoid being in an immediate hole by fading them, was by selecting the 2.21% owned Minnesota Vikings, who managed to post a 21 of their own. 9.65% of users picked the Lions, and as a Lions fan I have to ask…..

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The Results

It was a busy weekend in daily fantasy football, with both FanDuel (Puerto Rico) and DraftKings (Miami) hosting their live finals for NFL. Shoutout to RG’s own Cal Spears, Erik Beimfohr and John Breslin for qualifying! Below are the results.

FanDuel

$2.5M WFFC Finals

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Live from Puerto Rico, paulyshorts reigned victoriously and took home the crown and the $490,000 giant check. Congrats on yet another HUGE takedown! Accompanied by a Ryan Tannehill to A.J. Brown stack, this team climbed its way to the top of the leaderboard thanks to massive games from the likes of Chris Carson, Todd Gurley, Saquon Barkley and the NE D/ST. At just 8.8% owned, Terry McLaurin 21.5 points might have been the difference-maker that propelled this lineup to the top.

DraftKings

$10M FANTASY FOOTBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL [$2 MILLION TO 1ST]

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With a live final in Miami, who else could have possibly won than user 180DegreesMiami? This lineup managed to get the Mahomes to Hill combo at very low ownership. With Boston Scott also putting in a respectable score at just $3K, this lineup was also able to afford Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey and the New England D/ST. Rounding out the TWO MILLION dollar winning lineup were solid games from Chris Conley, Greg Ward and Tyler Higbee. This was a stacked field and an incredible win.

NFL $2.75M Champ Series Millionaire [$1M to 1st]

180DegreesMiami wasn’t the only millionaire made today on DraftKings, as RBX88 took down their Milly Maker with a massive score of 260.02. Congrats!

NFL $1M Champ Series Play-Action [$100K to 1st] – Croby08

NFL $1M Champ Series Wildcat [$200K to 1st] – MM50FK

NFL $670K Luxury Box [$150K to 1st]moklovin

NFL $500K Power Sweep [$100K to 1st, 3 Entry Max] – powermoves

Congratulations to all of the Week 15 winners and live final champions. We still have two more weeks of the NFL regular season, so we’ll see you back for Week 16!

About the Author

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John Britt (jmbwngfn)

One of the top baseball and hockey analysts in the DFS industry, John Britt is a family man hailing from St. Louis, Missouri. A proud graduate of the University of Missouri, John’s passion is hockey but he excels at multiple DFS sports. He has been nominated multiple times for awards for his written work in both baseball (best MLB series) and hockey (3x NHL Writer of the Year nominee) and is now the Lead Editor at RotoGrinders. John can be found on Twitter at the username JMBWngFn.