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FanDuel was back at it again with their massive Wildcard Weekend Sunday Million contest, requiring a $25 entry fee with 11,490 people getting paid out at least $60. 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 $120,000.
***This Weeks Sunday Million will have a total prize pool of $1,250,000 and the top prize will be $120,000.***
Here's how Wildcard Weekend of the Sunday Million shook out.
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DFS Screen Name | Points | Prize Money |
| 1st | buttfumbletwo | 158.26 | $120,000 |
| 2nd | mcs1227 | 157.96 | $45,000 |
| 2nd | tucdrew | 157.96 | $45,000 |
| 4th Tie | aglink, dreward27 | 156.86 | $10,500 |
| 4th Tie | clkmstr, dems2016 | 156.86 | $10,500 |
Wildcard Weekend only had four games and with such a small slate you are going to run into some over lap in teams and players. WIth over 57,000 entries in the the Sunday Million and just four games it was a huge surprise to see buttfumbletwo stand in first place all alone and not have to share the 1st place prize of $120,000. He used $59,300 of the possible $60,000 salary cap and the $700 in overlay cap might have just been the reason for him not to have any identical lineups with him this week.
He went with the Kirk Cousins and Jordan Reed stack and those were the two players at each of their positions that were the high scorers so they were must plays if you wanted to cash. He also had the highest scoring players at all the positions. The two players that he hit on that were a little different than the field were James Starks at 7.8% owned for 13.50 points and Martavis Bryant at 14.0% for 15.80 points. It seemed as though the field went with each of those players teammates in Eddie Lacy and Antonio Bryant so it was a good way to differentiate.
He also hit on a nice combo at the kicker and defense positions with Cairo Santos and the Kansas City Chiefs defense. Santos was 19.0% owned and scored a position high 14.0 points and the Chiefs were 23.8% owned and scored a positon high of 29.0 points.
| Position | Player | Salary | FanDuel Points | % Owned |
| QB | Kirk Cousins | $8,000 | 21.36 | 27.1% |
| RB | Fitzgerald Toussaint | $5,700 | 13.80 | 19.7% |
| RB | James Starks | $5,800 | 13.50 | 7.8% |
| WR | Doug Baldwin | $7,300 | 12.70 | 35.0% |
| WR | A.J. Green | $8,300 | 15.60 | 39.4% |
| WR | Martavis Bryant | $6,900 | 15.80 | 14.0% |
| TE | Jordan Reed | $7,400 | 22.50 | 49.7% |
| K | Cairo Santos | $4,800 | 14.00 | 19.0% |
| D | Kansas City Chiefs | $5,100 | 29.00 | 23.8% |
| $59,300 | 158.26 |
There was some overlap in the top 10 teams this week as we had a tie for 2nd place and a 4-way tie for 4th place. At quarterback the entire top 10 rosters had Kirk Cousins, same for tight end with Jordan Reed, and defense with Kansas City Chiefs. Only one team was different at the kicker position as the 9th place team had Mason Crosby over Cairo Santos.
At running back Fitzgerald Toussaint was on 4 teams, James Starks on 5, Jeremy Hill on 6, Spencer Ware on 4 and Thompson on just 1. At wide receiver A.J. Green was at the top on 8 of the 10 teams followed by Bryant on 6. Doug Baldwin was on 5, Antonio Brown on 5, and Adams and Jones on a pair each with Cobb on a single team.
| Finish | Score | QB | RB1 | RB2 | WR1 | WR2 | WR3 | TE | K | DEF |
| 1 | 158.26 | Cousins | Toussaint | Starks | Green | Bryant | Baldwin | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 2 | 157.96 | Cousins | Toussaint | Starks | Green | Brown | Adams | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 2 | 157.96 | Cousins | Toussaint | Starks | Green | Brown | Adams | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 4 | 156.86 | Cousins | Hill | Ware | Green | Bryant | Baldwin | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 4 | 156.86 | Cousins | Hill | Ware | Green | Bryant | Baldwin | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 4 | 156.86 | Cousins | Hill | Ware | Green | Bryant | Baldwin | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 4 | 156.86 | Cousins | Hill | Ware | Green | Bryant | Baldwin | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 8 | 156.66 | Cousins | Toussaint | Hill | Bryant | Brown | Jones | Reed | Santos | KC |
| 9 | 156.46 | Cousins | Thompson | Starks | Green | Brown | Cobb | Reed | Crosby | KC |
| 10 | 156.36 | Cousins | Hill | Starks | Brown | Bryant | Jones | Reed | Santos | KC |
***FanDuel's Divisional Round Weekend/Week 19 version of the Sunday Million will have a $1,250,000 prize pool with 11,490 out of 57,471 people taking home some cash. First prize will be at $120,000 with second prize at $60,000.***
Head over to FanDuel now and catch the action for Wildcard Weekend.
