Mike Clay is a senior football and NFL writer at ESPN. Mike is a member of the FSWA Hall of Fame. His predictions are on ESPN Fantasy Football, and he also appears on “Fantasy Football Now” and the Fantasy Focus Football podcast.
Set up a winning slate for DraftKings’ NFL cycle by combining the value picks from each list and using the best matchups, all within the salary range. Every week, we examine all of your DraftKings options to identify the best values among the lowest-priced options, as well as matchups to play or avoid, so you can choose the players who deserve their highest price tags.
The value is determined by the number of DraftKings points you can expect for each dollar invested in placing that player on your roster. A player may be “Average” or “Good Value” while it is shown that he will surpass a player identified as “Good” value, but if you consider the cap hit and the salary you can place on other players, you may decide that the “good” value exceeds that projection.
Players considered “good” value are those in the 90th percentile of the week’s suggested value picks. “Good” games are in the 75th percentile or better. “Average” plays from 25 to 74 percent, while “Shaky” plays at 10-24 percent. The “poor” selection includes single-digit percentages.
Player salaries are taken from DraftKings’ main slide and are based on ESPN’s player projections at press time.
