Week 5 Tournament Recap - Chalk Week
Fading the chalk is often a winning DFS strategy, but that certainly wasn’t the case this week. Here’s a look at the most highly owned players in the DraftKings Millionaire Maker using our ResultsDB:
As you can see, barring a few duds mixed in, most of the chalk smashed. Let’s go position by position:
QB – Deshaun Watson was the highest-owned QB and erupted for 44.74 fantasy points. Matt Ryan dropped 35.9 points as the second-most popular selection
RB – David Johnson was the chalkiest of the bunch and “only” put up 18.6 points. Behind him, Zeke Elliot carried nearly 27% ownership and posted a similar number (17.1). After those three, we saw the monster scores: Christian McCaffrey 50.7 points at 24.73% ownership. Leonard Fournette with 26.7 at 13.92%. Dalvin Cook with 29.8 at 12.74% and Aaron Jones with 52.2 @ 12.03%. Josh Jacobs was one of the few “contrarian” options that paid off as he posted 32.3 points at just 1.27%.
WR – There were a few duds here and this position continues to prove to be the most volatile. Julio Jones, Keenan Allen, Mike Evans, Emmanuel Sanders, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Phillip Dorsett were all over 7% owned and all of them killed your lineups. However, Michael Thomas, Will Fuller V, Chris Godwin, Adam Thielen, Tyler Boyd and Allen Robinson all killed it.
TE – Honestly, tight end selection wasn’t a major factor this weekend as none of the TEs had a slate-busting type performance. However, Tyler Eifert sunk 17.03% of lineups (he was the highest-owned TE).
D/ST – This is now the second week that we’ve seen a D/ST become a must-have for GPP success. The Eagles posted 35 DraftKings points against the Jets. We recently have seen the sites do away with Kickers and I’m now wondering if a change needs to be made to at least the D/ST scoring? Who else agrees?
The Results
DraftKings
Long-time RotoGrinders member thechek182 solved the puzzle this week and brought home the $1,000,000 payday on in the DK Milly Maker. CONGRATS! This lineup picked all of the right chalk and topped it off with solid difference-makers in Teddy Bridgewater and Jared Cook.
NFL $1.5M Play-Action [$100K to 1st] – PlanetSaucepan62
NFL $1.25M Wildcat [$250K to 1st] – Papagates
NFL $13.5K Power Sweep [3 Entry Max] – jram409
NFL $14.2K Luxury Box [Single Entry] – moklovin
NFL $150K Red Zone [Single Entry] – DerekCarty It looks like THE BLITZ was on point once again this weekend!
NFL $150K Thunderdome [Single Entry] – Cubasugar1
NFL $156K Game Changer [Single Entry] – Daut44
NFL $500K Power Sweep [3 Entry Max, $100K to 1st] – KillerBees2015
FanDuel
gottowin33 did just that and shipped the FanDuel Milly Maker. Of course, the winning lineup rolled with the Deshaun Watson and Will Fuller combo and topped it off with huge games from Aaron Jones, Michael Thomas, Adam Thielen and the Philly defense. Congrats!
$500K Sun NFL Gunslinger ($100K to 1st) – Gosixersgo76 – Look who’s back at the top of the leaderboards once again this weekend? Congratulations AGAIN!
$500K Sun NFL Monster ($150K to 1st) – fourslot40
$500K Sun NFL Bomb ($100K to 1st) – ddomo1964
$325K Sun NFL Rush ($100K to 1st) – cjdidio
$300K Sun NFL Gladiator ($100K to 1st) – Gosixersgo76
$300K Sun NFL Kickoff ($100K to 1st) – Ohoti
$300K Sun NFL Rush ($100K to 1st) – Scottcsmith
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