FantasyLabs DraftKings Week 16 Plays of the Week
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Our writers will make use of FantasyLabs’ great tools, like Trends, Plus/Minus, and Vegas Lines, to offer our best DraftKings Week 16 GPP Plays of the Week.
As a reminder, we’ll be using FantasyLabs Plus/Minus metric to score our picks. The goal for our individual competitors then, is to recommend players eligible for each week’s Milly Maker slate that will accumulate the highest Plus/Minus. The prognosticator with the best total Plus/Minus at week’s end will pocket a handsome cash prize, courtesy of FantasyLabs and RotoViz. Along the way you, dear reader, will benefit from the recommendations made. Make sure to check out not only the RotoViz Apps, but the suite of FantasyLabs tools, to build your own lineups.
Week 15 Results
| WRITER | WEEK 15 PLUS MINUS | YTD PLUS MINUS |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Lewis | 27.18 | 238.38 |
| Ben Bauer | 20.36 | 98.49 |
| Shawn Siegele | 16 | 308.07 |
| John Gambill | 14.29 | 281.73 |
| Tyler Buecher | 13 | 233.68 |
| Jacob Rickrode | 10.42 | 249.84 |
| Drew Heinl | 10.41 | 171.09 |
| Curtis Patrick | 10.33 | 161.07 |
| RotoDoc | 7.91 | 122.27 |
| Mike Beers | 6.84 | 206.36 |
| Eric Braun | -1.88 | 155.34 |
| Anthony Amico | -2.78 | 56.75 |
| George Fitopoulos | -3.52 | 263.1 |
| Blair Andrews | -4.64 | 206.97 |
| Aaron Butler | -7.31 | 155.54 |
| Ben Gretch | -9.12 | 144.88 |
| Devin McIntyre | -12.95 | 67.15 |
Congratulations to Jason Lewis for winning Week 15. It was a tough week for us overall, as our picks averaged just 5.5 points of plus/minus. Let’s see if we can get back on track.
Week 16 DraftKings Plays of the Week
| Writer | QB | RB | WR | TE | DEF | Commentary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Rickrode | Drew Brees | Jordan Howard | Allen Robinson | Antonio Gates | Buffalo Defense | Antonio Gates has FantasyLabs highest ceiling for TEs this week. He's chasing the TE TD record and has 2 weeks left to score 3 TDs. |
| RotoDoc | Matt Barkley | Dion Lewis | Corey Coleman | Delanie Walker | Chicago Defense | Corey Coleman should avoid Casey Hayward and thus beat a low expected point total at only $3900. He should do so by a hefty margin, giving him a large plus/minus. |
| Ben Bauer | Derek Carr | Jonathan Stewart | Rishard Matthews | Cameron Brate | New England Defense | Matthews has a +4.7 +/- and 92% consistency rate on FantasyLabs and projected for 2-4% ownership. |
| Ben Gretch | Aaron Rodgers | Jay Ajayi | Davante Adams | Greg Olsen | New England Defense | Gambling lines suggest MIA-BUF will be a low-scoring, slow-paced game. If there is more scoring, particularly on Miami's side, it's a fair bet to come from Ajayi, who is well-positioned at 0-1 percent projected ownership against a team with the second most rush TDs allowed. |
| Shawn Siegele | Tom Brady | DeMarco Murray | DeAndre Hopkins | Jack Doyle | New England Defense | Doyle is an inexpensive way to play this week's projected shootout and a good way to exploit Oakland's poor TE defense. Doyle has bested expectation in 60 percent of his last 10 and FantasyLabs gives his a strong plus/minus with 30 percent upside. |
| Mike Beers | Blake Bortles | LeGarrette Blount | Travis Benjamin | Ryan Griffin | New England Defense | FantasyLabs has the Patriots projected for the highest plus/minus among defenses this week despite having the second highest salary. Welcome to New England, Mr. Petty. |
| Anthony Amico | Blake Bortles | Dion Lewis | DeAndre Hopkins | Coby Fleener | Oakland Defense | Fleener is the only part of this Saints offense going almost completely overlooked this week. Fantasy Labs projects him at an ownership percentage between two and four, and this game has a Vegas implied total of 52. According to the Fantasy Labs' trend tool, tight ends in games with at least a 50 point total average 7.23 DK points. |
| Eric Braun | Aaron Rodgers | Kenneth Farrow | Michael Thomas | Cameron Brate | San Diego Defense | I'm going with Farrow even after the pitiful performance last week because its the Browns stupid. The implied point total of 10.45 is very manageable to outperform considering Fantasylabs has this positional matchup as a +/- of 2.6. |
| Aaron Butler | Matt Barkley | Dion Lewis | DeVante Parker | Charles Clay | San Diego Defense | Clay is coming off his best game of the season and faces another soft defense this week. Miami has given up the fourth most points to TEs the past five weeks. |
| Curtis Patrick | Colin Kaepernick | Todd Gurley | Deandre Hopkins | Delanie Walker | San Diego Defense | San Diego is the play at defense this week, featuring one of the top +/ - scores and the highest ceiling of any defense per Fantasy Labs. |
| Tyler Buecher | Andrew Luck | Jordan Howard | Michael Thomas | Greg Olsen | San Diego Defense | The last time Greg Olsen played Atlanta, he finished with a stat line of 6-76-1 on 13 targets. The Falcons are allowing a +4.9 Plus/Minus to opposing tight ends and Olsen leads all tight ends with nine Pro Trends. |
| Blair Andrews | Jameis Winston | DeMarco Murray | Corey Coleman | Greg Olsen | San Francisco Defense | Terrelle Pryor is expected to be shadowed by Casey Heyward, which means Corey Coleman should see a lot of Trevor Williams, who's allowed 0.43 fantasy points per route run, per PFF. Coleman was targeted 11 times with RGIII under center two weeks ago, and his price has dropped $500 since then. FantasyLabs' currently projects his ownership to remain under one percent. |
| Drew Heinl | Blake Bortles | Jordan Howard | DeAndre Hopkins | Greg Olsen | Seattle Defense | I know it's Blake Bortles, but at minimum salary facing that awful beat up Titans secondary sounds too good to pass up. He has the third highest projected points per salary according to Fantasy Labs and also had his best game of the year against the Titans earlier in the season. |
| Jason Lewis | Kirk Cousins | LeSean McCoy | Michael Crabtree | Delanie Walker | Tennessee Defense | I'd expect Walker to be lower owned because of more popular guys in his salary tier, but the Jaguars have given up at least 17 points to opposing TEs in back to back games and Walker's 4.2 projected +/- by FantasyLabs is among the highest for TEs this week. |
| John Gambill | Drew Brees | DeMarco Murray | Michael Thomas | Greg Olsen | Tennessee Defense | Olsen has nine pro trends in his favor and is the top pass catcher on an offense that could end up in a shootout. |
Frequency Table
| QB | N | RB | N | WR | N | TE | N | DEF | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Bortles | 3 | DeMarco Murray | 3 | DeAndre Hopkins | 4 | Greg Olsen | 5 | New England Defense | 4 |
| Aaron Rodgers | 2 | Dion Lewis | 3 | Michael Thomas | 3 | Delanie Walker | 3 | San Diego Defense | 4 |
| Drew Brees | 2 | Jordan Howard | 3 | Corey Coleman | 2 | Cameron Brate | 2 | Tennessee Defense | 2 |
| Matt Barkley | 2 | Jay Ajayi | 1 | Allen Robinson | 1 | Antonio Gates | 1 | Buffalo Defense | 1 |
| Andrew Luck | 1 | Jonathan Stewart | 1 | Davante Adams | 1 | Charles Clay | 1 | Chicago Defense | 1 |
| Colin Kaepernick | 1 | Kenneth Farrow | 1 | DeVante Parker | 1 | Coby Fleener | 1 | Oakland Defense | 1 |
| Derek Carr | 1 | LeGarrette Blount | 1 | Michael Crabtree | 1 | Jack Doyle | 1 | San Francisco Defense | 1 |
| Jameis Winston | 1 | LeSean McCoy | 1 | Rishard Matthews | 1 | Ryan Griffin | 1 | Seattle Defense | 1 |
| Kirk Cousins | 1 | Todd Gurley | 1 | Travis Benjamin | 1 | ||||
| Tom Brady | 1 |
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