FanDuel was back at it again with their massive Week 11 Sunday Million contest, requiring a $25 entry fee with 21,840 people getting paid out at least $50. This massive $3 million GPP tournament had 114,942 entries and sold out a few hours before kickoff. Each week FanDuel will be running a Sunday Million GPP Contest and we will break it down here at Footballguys.com and see what the keys were to having the top lineup on the week and taking home the top prize of $300,000.
***The Week 12 Sunday Million will have a total prize pool of $2,000,000 and the top prize will be $200,000.***
Here's how Week 11 of the Sunday Million shook out.
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DFS Screen Name | Points | Prize Money |
1st | rvdwyertx | 173.10 | $300,000 |
2nd | gregoryguerra52 | 163.04 | $100,000 |
3rd | rposthd01 | 162.68 | $70,000 |
4th | jhr747 | 159.70 | $50,000 |
5th | jcavucci | 159.14 | $35,000 |
Rvdwyertx took home the Week 11 Sunday Million winning with a comfortable 10+ point lead over gregoryguerra52 and taking home $300,000. It was a low scoring week as far as the Sunday Million goes and the top score of 173.10 had a nice mixture of low owned players with some higher owned ones. The combo of Russell Wilson at quarterback and Thomas Rawls at running back really set rvdwyertx up for the win as both were priced down at $7,600 and $5,600 and Wilson was only 2% owned and Rawls was barely owned at 0.1% and he ended up being the highest scoring player of the week with 39.00 FanDuel points.
The trio of WRs in DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, and Danny Amendola was a popular choice in the top 10 teams as three separate teams had that combo. Hopkins was the most surprising as he was only owned by 2.6% of the field and gave you a huge advantage if you played him despite his tough matchup on paper. There was nothing too flashy about the winning lineup and rvdwyertx actually left $200 of salary on the table as he found a lineup that he liked and went with it.
At tight end it was Greg Olsen as one of the top plays on the board and he came at a price of $6,400 and was 21.8% owned and caught a touchdown and was good for 12.90 points. He paired Olsen up with teammate and kicker Graham Gano who was just 5.8% owned and gave him 16 points for a modest $4,800 salary. The kicker position remains one of the hardest to pin point each week and trying to find one that can give you double digit points is the way to go. At defense this lineup didn't hit a homerun with the Houston Texans as they only recorded 8 fantasy points but it didn't matter as the rest of the team made up for the lack of production.
Position | Player | Salary | FanDuel Points | % Owned |
QB | Russell Wilson | $7,600 | 25.40 | 2.0% |
RB | Thomas Rawls | $5,600 | 39.00 | 0.1% |
RB | Latavius Murray | $6,800 | 8.80 | 7.5% |
WR | DeAndre Hopkins | $8,900 | 26.30 | 2.6% |
WR | Julio Jones | $9,100 | 20.50 | 29.9% |
WR | Danny Amendola | $6,100 | 16.20 | 28.2% |
TE | Greg Olsen | $6,400 | 12.90 | 21.8% |
K | Graham Gano | $4,800 | 16.00 | 5.8% |
D | Houston Texans | $4,500 | 8.00 | 4.1% |
$59,800 | 173.10 |
Cam Newton was the most popular quarterback in the top 10 teams this week with 5 out of the 10 teams having him rostered. Russell Wilson was next with 2 teams which both finished in the top 4 and Palmer, Stafford and Winston were the other three quarterbacks making the list. If you could have predicted that Marshawn Lynch was going to sit for the Seahawks you would have known that Thomas Rawls was a fantastic low owned player at only $5,600 in a home matchup that was in his favor. He was on 4 of the top 10 teams with a ridiculous low ownership rate of 0.1%. LeSean McCoy was the next on the list with 3 of the top 10 teams having him rostered and the rest of the RBs were scattered with Martin, Gurley, Miller, Stewart, West, Freeman, Murray, Bernard, and Johnson.
The wide receiver position was a little bit more consistant with Danny Amendola on 8 teams, Julio Jones on 9 teams, and DeAndre Hopkins and DeSean Jackson on a handful of others. The combos of Amendola/Hopkins/Jones and Amendola/Jackson/Jones each appeared 3 times. At tight end it was Greg Olsen as the popular choice with 6 entries in the top 10 and Graham, Fells, Gillmore, and Eifert making up of the rest of the TE field.
The kicker and defense spots were all over the place once again this week with only Gano and Crosby on multiple teams and Hauschka, Prater, Catanzaro, Gould and Bullock with single entries. The defense position consisted of Houston, Carolina, Kansas City, Atlanta, and Tampa Bay.
Finish | Score | QB | RB1 | RB2 | WR1 | WR2 | WR3 | TE | K | DEF |
1 | 173.10 | Wilson | Rawls | L.Murray | Amendola | Hopkins | Ju.Jones | Olsen | Gano | HOU |
2 | 163.04 | Newton | Rawls | Stewart | Amendola | Landry | Ju.Jones | Graham | Hauschka | CAR |
3 | 162.68 | Palmer | McCoy | C.Johnson | Amendola | D.Jackson | Ju.Jones | Olsen | Crosby | CAR |
4 | 159.70 | Wilson | Martin | Miller | Amendola | Hopkins | Ju.Jones | Fells | Prater | KC |
5 | 159.14 | Newton | Gurley | Bernard | Amendola | D.Bryant | Ja.Jones | Olsen | Gano | CAR |
6 | 158.84 | Newton | Rawls | D.Murray | Marshall | Crabtree | Ju.Jones | Gillmore | Gano | ATL |
7 | 157.28 | Stafford | Rawls | Freeman | C.Johnson | S.Johnson | Ju.Jones | Olsen | Crosby | TB |
8 | 156.94 | Newton | McCoy | West | Amendola | D.Jackson | Ju.Jones | Olsen | Catanzaro | KC |
8 | 156.94 | Newton | McCoy | West | Amendola | D.Jackson | Ju.Jones | Olsen | Gould | KC |
8 | 156.94 | Winston | Miller | Stewart | Amendola | Hopkins | Ju.Jones | Eifert | Bullock | TB |
***FanDuel's Week 12 Sunday Million will have a $2,000,000 prize pool with 17,475 out of 91,954 people taking home some cash. First prize will be at $200,000 with second prize at $100,000.***
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