WNBA DFS Breakdown: Sunday, July 16th

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We have a nice four-game slate to run over here on Sunday, and I’ll be talking about some of my favorite options, along with my top fade of the day.

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Situations to Monitor

Mystics Injuries

The Mystics are dealing with a ton of injury issues on this slate. Elena Delle Donne rolled her ankle and went back to the locker room, and Taylor Hill injured her right knee. If both are out, I would have a ton of interest in both Emma Meesseman and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt. If both played, I would still have interest in Meesseman, who is still underpriced; I will keep talking about her until she is priced up right. This is just a price tag I will keep taking advantage of, and if there is no Delle Donne this could be an even larger bump in production for her.

Tierra Ruffin-Pratt showed us a ton of upside earlier in the year when the Mystics had issues, and I would have interest in her as a nice value guard if Hill is out. The good news is that this is the first game of the slate and we should get starting lineups before the game. There could be a lot of value in the Mystics, so we should be sure to monitor this situation.

Brittney Griner

The loss of Griner for 3-4 weeks is going to be rough on the Mercury. I think a lot of the guards will try and pick up the slack, but there are a ton of rebounds and offensive production that will be open for the taking at the forward position. Camille Little makes the most sense as the one who will slide in and fill that void. I would expect Little to have high ownership tomorrow, considering it is an obvious pivot, but it is a tough matchup. That said, I will still take Little as a value play and let others try and beat me in different spots.

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I could see Diana Taurasi being asked to shoot a ton going forward, so she is someone to monitor in the next couple of games. She is older and they don’t want to run her into the ground, but she might have so much usage that she could be tough to fade. In a tough matchup against Minnesota, I expect a blowout and don’t think you need to go crazy with Taurasi right now.

Keep it simple and let’s just play Little as a value and maybe mix in some other Phoenix value with Little.

Chicago Guards

Cappie Pondexter is still under concussion protocol, meaning we need to still target these Chicago guards. Vandersloot has been priced up now on both sites, and if you have the money I don’t mind paying for her, but I think you can easily go Young or Quigley, who have similar upside with no Pondexter. We also need to discuss Breland and Dolson, who have really picked up some nice usage and production with Pondexter out. In a matchup against Dallas which should be a fast-paced game, we should have interest in them. I think you could also play them together if you wanted to make your lineups different.

Let’s not forget that this Chicago/Dallas game has the highest total on the slate at 173, the highest by eight points! This is a game you are going to want a lot of exposure to, and is the best game on the slate to game stack. I didn’t play enough players from this matchup the other day, but I am not going to make that mistake again.

Fade of the Slate

I normally don’t fade a whole game (and I don’t think I will fade it entirely), but this is the game that you should want the least exposure to: San Antonio against Connecticut. The game has a 160 total with the Sun favored by 14 points. This game has blowout written all over it, and with Moriah Jefferson expected to play on Sunday, that takes away from the value guards on San Antonio that we have been using.

For me, I am going to get as little exposure to this game as possible and I don’t think it will burn me. At the end of the night, we are playing for first in these tournaments; I don’t think any players in this game will be on the winning lineup.

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