BIG MARLEY’S UFC 226 DRAFT KINGS FANTASY BREAKDOWN
There’s a good deal of money to be obtained this week on DraftKings including a top prize of $30k in the main tournament. I’ll be going thicker than normal this week chasing the significant GPP prizes, and I will play less money games than usual. This is actually the first time we’ve observed a $30k top prize, therefore I think it’s worth chasing if you have the bankroll to get it.
We did lose the co-main occasion with Max Holloway pulling from the struggle against Brian Ortega, so we’re now down to 11 fights and we ought to observe a great deal of ties with this card with the more popular lineups. If you are chasing that $30K then you’ll want to try and be a bit different with your lineup so you can distinguish yourself from the remainder of the field. That said, let’s get to a few plays I like in addition to my fade of the week.
Money Game play of the week — Paul Felder ($7,400)
The DK pricing on this fight is far off from the betting line. On DK, Felder is 1,400 less than his competitor, Mike Perry. On the gambling line, Felder is your -150 favorite. That’s just too much line worth to pass on in cash games which makes Felder the”free square” this week. Even when he loses this battle, he should be highly owned it won’t even damage your lineup in cash games. In GPP’s, Felder will be among the greatest owned fighters on the card and if he loses there then it could kill your lineup, so perhaps think about avoiding the chalk there if you can. But with this crazy line value we are getting here, Paul Felder is the easy choice for the money game play of this week.
GPP drama of this week — Mike Perry ($8,800)
Ok, I know this sounds a bit weird since I literally just chose Paul Felder because my money play of this week, but hear me out. In cash games, we do not care about possession. In case Felder is 90% owned in cash games, then it doesn’t damage your lineup since only 10 percent of lineups didn’t have him and you merely need to be top ~50 percent of the area to money in money games. In GPPs, I’m guessing Felder will probably be over 50% possessed. When he loses, that’s half of the area that’s dead without a shot at winning 1st place.
Mike Perry on the other hand will be less than 20% owned, and closer to 10% simply because of the mispriced line. If Felder kills and loses off 50 percent of lineups, then you also get a win with the low owned man to set you in a much better location of a solo 1st place win and maybe hitting that $30k. Perry has the capability to KO anybody and Paul Felder is carrying this fight on short notice in a weight class above his division. Can it truly shock you that much if Perry could KO him? In GPPs, we’re looking for that boom or bust play and that’s Mike Perry this week making him my GPP drama of the week.
Underdog play of this week — Anthony Pettis ($7,600)
Anthony Pettis would have been a -500 favored over Michael Chiesa if this fight happened 5 decades ago, but now we get a fading Pettis as a underdog and $1,000 less costly than Chiesa on DraftKings. I believe Pettis can continue to keep this fight standing for many the fight and that will give him a huge advantage. He is also dangerous on the floor himself and when he’s taken I think he is going to have the ability to get back up if he is not able to get a submission of his very own. If Pettis can acquire a determination then I presume he will pay off his DK price tag and will be a good underdog to utilize so you can conserve salary in your lineups. I may also see this fight ending from Pettis dropping Chiesa with a body kick and if that happens he will probably be on the winning lineup when he can make it happen in round 1.
Fade of the week — Rafael Assuncao ($9,100)
At $9.1k, I have zero interest in Assuncao this weekend. I do think that he wins the fight, but I don’t find him paying that large price . He does not fight at a hefty rate and he hasn’t gotten a takedown in his past 4 wins and the ground is where he’ll have his main advantage in this matchup. In those previous 4 wins, Assuncao hasn’t scored over 78 DK points and at his salary this week I need at least 91 points out of him to pay that much. I’d rather pay up for the men higher priced than Assuncao, or even go down to Vannata or Miocic. I will have at least 20 lineups this weekend and Assuncao will probably be in 0 of them, which makes him my fade of the week.
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