Lineup Rewind: NBA DraftKings Main Slate GPP Review | 12/26/20

Yesterday we had a nine-game NBA DFS slate, and the main DraftKings GPP was the NBA $500K Saturday Fadeaway ($100,000 to first). There were 39,215 entries at $15 each, which netted DraftKings $88,225 in rake. On top of that, 2,013 of the 14,415 entrants (14%) also profited. Let’s dive into the NBA DraftKings Lineup Review and take a look.

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The Rockets played their first game and were shorthanded. DraftKings users responded by making Christian Wood (61.5%) and James Harden (47.7%) the two highest-owned players on the slate. They were rewarded with 53.75 fantasy points from Wood (9.1x) and 79 fantasy points from Harden (7.2x). Points-per-dollar-wise, Wood ranked fifth and Harden ranked 14th, but the raw points were necessary to win the GPP.

The Winner

Congratulations to burnside79, who entered 20 lineups, cashed nine and turned $300 in entry fees into $100,004. His best lineup posted a 389.25, winning this GPP by 6.75 points. Interestingly, this lineup only used $49,600 team salary, one of six entries that finished in the top 50 using less than $49,700 team salary. Cumulative team ownership checked in at 174.4%. It is important to remember that this number is relative to the slate, as slate size and chalk ownership (Harden and Wood combined for 89% ownership) will change the cumulative team ownership range.

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Salary and Ownership:

Only six of the top 50 finishers used $49,600 team salary or less (32nd place used $49,400). All others used $49,700 or more. Here are the top salaries used in the GPP:

  • $50,000 | 44%
  • $49,900 | 22%
  • $49,800 | 14%
  • $49,700 | 8%
  • $49,600 | 4%

Cumulative team ownership on the top 50 was a very wide range, most falling in between 165% and 230%.

The 150-Maxers

There were 75 150-maxers, making up 29% of the field. Twenty of the 75 (27%) made a profit, while eight cashed 10 or fewer entries. Three 150-maxers took ninth, 10th and 11th place. The most profitable one was petteytheft89, who cashed 84 entries topping out at 375.75 fantasy points, good for 10th place. He basically locked in Wood and Harden, and his player pool contained 56 other players as well.

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Miscellaneous

The boom of the slate goes to Jerami Grant, who put up 52.5 fantasy points for $5,2000 (10.1x) at 5.2% ownership. The bust of the slate is a smaller pool than usual. I’ll go with chalk Sterling Brown, who put up 11.75 fantasy points for $3,200 (3.7x), allaying the fears of some on DFS Twitter that chalk Brown was going to do well (had a flame in the first quarter), even after David Nwaba got the start over him.

Eighty-Five lineups were reserved and not played. The lowest-owned lineup that cashed (min-cashed) featured a cumulative team ownership of just 28.2%:

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The lowest salary team that cashed (min-cash) used $47,300 team salary:

The best single bullet (one entry in an MME GPP) last night goes to Acordell74, who turned $15 into $3,000 with this lineup:

The most popular lineup played was used 37 times and min-cashed. It had 226.9% cumulative team ownership.

The highest-placing lineup without Harden or Wood finished tied for fourth place, 9.75 points behind first:

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The best possible lineup you could have played last night scored a 428.75 using a team salary of only $49,100. It would have won the GPP by 39.5 points:

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