Week 6 NFL GPP Recap: Revenge of the Bad Chalk
For those who got an early jump on building their NFL lineups earlier this week, NFL Week 6 proved to through a few more curveballs into things than previous weeks as we had several key injuries (both in and out) that drastically changed the landscape. With Todd Gurley ruled out late in the week, Malcolm Brown became one of the most obvious value chalk plays on the board. Unlike last week, this chalk was sour. After racking up 40 yards in the first few minutes of the game, Brown did LITERALLY nothing thereafter and left most of his DFS investors less profitable that those sitting across the poker table from Mike Postle at Stones Gambling Hall.
Before we get to the DFS results, I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the makeup of the NFL schedule today. Even with bye weeks now stealing some games away each week, we still had a nice split of six 1PM games followed by a solid 4-game schedule in the afternoon. As an avid enjoyed of RedZone on NFL Network, it was a nice change from some of the previous lopsided slates. I haven’t done the very easy due-diligence to look forward to weeks ahead, but I’m content being blindly optimistic that this is the new standard. However, much like my DFS teams today and my St. Louis Cardinals in the first two games of the NLCS, I’m pretty sure I’ll ultimately be disappointed.
The Results
User bbcombes, anchored by the combo of Matt Ryan to Auston Hooper, took down the DraftKings Millionaire Maker. As you’d expect, this lineup was nearly flawless behind that duo as well as Stefon Diggs proved to be the potential slate-breaker with his monster 46.5 fantasy point performance (7 receptions for 167 yards, 18 rushing yards and 3 TD’s). At just 1.8% owned, Auden Tate came through with 93 yards receiving at just $4.5K. Congrats to bbcomes!
NFL $1.3M Play-Action [$100K to 1st, 20 Entry Max – Gronksplie9
NFL $1.25M Wildcat [$250K to 1st] – tangababy (Took both 1st and 2nd place!)
NFL $1M Luxury Box [$200K to 1st] – golions85
NFL $500K Slant [$50K to 1st, 2x Min Cash] – 7bushes
NFL $500K Power Sweep [$100K to 1st, 3 Entry Max] – 7bushes (again!)
$10M Fantasy Football World Championship Qualifiers
fourdouble
atk10
GertGundy
dub.c
MarksBros
Dpics
robocles
mrdejong
nevs2904
FanDuel
User str8cashhomey84 just lived up to his/her nickname as this user took down the FanDuel Milly Maker! As you’d expect, the Week 6 cheat-code of Stefon Diggs was the highest scoring player on this roster, but every player on this roster obviously performed admirably. The Denver Broncos D/ST was the most “contratian” play of the bunch (at just 4.5% owned) and erupted for 23 FanDuel fantasy points. Congrats to str8cashhomey1000000!
$500K Sun NFL Bomb ($100K to 1st) – ataros (Honorary mention to RG user k1ngd0d3r on the impressive 2nd place finish!)
$450K Sun NFL Monster ($100K to 1st) – ataros
$375K Sun NFL Blitz ($100K to 1st) – romaluck
$300K Sun NFL Kickoff ($100K to 1st) – ataros (Honorary mention to RG user k1ngd0d3r on the impressive 2nd place finish!)
$300K Sun NFL Rush ($100K to 1st) – mlaw925
$300K Sun NFL Rush ($100K to 1st) – catsauce