FanDuel's Sunday Million Week 10 Recap

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FanDuel was back at it again with their massive Week 10 Sunday Million contest, requiring a $25 entry fee with 26,405 people getting paid out at least $50. This massive $3 million GPP tournament had 137,931 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 11 Sunday Million will have a total prize pool of $2,500,000 and the top prize will be $300,000.*** 

Here's how Week 10 of the Sunday Million shook out.

Jtppick6 took home the top two spots in Week 10 of the FanDuel Sunday Million by double entering the same lineup. It paid off for jtppick6 in a big way as he collected a total of $650,000 for the top two spots and it was the first time this season that we have seen someone pull the trigger on this strategy and place at the top of the leaderboard. An interesting part of his team was the WR stack of Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant to go along with the Steelers defense.  Having 3 spots filled out of the 9 with Steelers seemed to be a little higher risk but in the end it was something that was different and proved to be well worth the risk. 

This was a very balanced team from top to bottom with no player being owned by more than 12.8% (Mark Ingram who scored the least points at 11.30). At QB Cam Newton continues to find his name at the top of the big GPP leaderboards as he continues to put up points with another 20+ performance this week at 20.98 at a 7.6% ownership level. Newton was stacked with Greg Olsen at TE and although neither player had their best performance of the season they both were safe options and put up above average points. Jeremy Langford was an interesting play as he was priced at only $6,200 and was coming off a huge week last week but yet he was only owned by 3.7% of the field and ended up putting up a remarkable 33.70 FanDuel points. Mark Ingram was the other name that jtppick6 plugged into his lineup at the RB position and although he didn't put up huge numbers he did at least hit double digits with 11.30.

The WR trio of Antonio Brown, Brandin Cooks and Martavis Bryant was another example of looking at the position and breaking it down with a player from each the $8,000+, $7,000, and $6,000 price ranges and finding the best value at each. All three of his WRs were under 8% owned as Pittsburgh's passing game came at a discount because of the status of Ben Roethlisberger starting the game as the backup QB. He also rostered Chandler Catanzaro at kicker at a very low ownership rate of 1.7% and got 15 points from him and hit on his cheap defense with the Steelers at only $4,600 and they gave him 16 points also.

Going through the top 10 teams in Week 10 of the Sunday Million there were a lot of players such as Cousins, Manziel, Langford, West, Starks, Ellington, Aiken, and Rodgers that were used and although not the popular everyday fantasy plays they proved to be very valuable in the DFS game this week. The big named players are not always the guys you just want to automatically plug into your lineup and that was a great example this weekend. Kirk Cousins was on 5 of the top 10 teams and Cam Newton on 2 with Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, and Johnny Manziel making up the other QBs in the top 10. 

At running back it was Jeremy Langford on 6 teams and Adrian Peterson on 5 teams with West on 3, Ingram on 2 and then the likes of Bernard, Starks, Ellington, Murray on the other teams with single entries. WR Antonio Brown continues to be a big time play in the Sunday Million on back to back weeks as he was on all 10 of the top teams last week he returned again this week on 8 of 10 rosters. Brandin Cooks, Odell Beckham Jrand Martavis Bryant were the other popular plays at WR this week. 

Jordan Reed was the popular play at TE with 5 of 10 teams using him and Greg Olsen and Rob Gronkowski were on two teams each with Richard Rodgers being on the other team. The kicker position was split with Catanzaro and Santos as the main options and at defense you wanted to have either Pittsburgh, Kansas City, or Carolina as your play and they all came at fair prices and lower ownership. 

***FanDuel's Week 11 Sunday Million will have a $2,500,000 prize pool with 21,840 out of 114,942 people taking home some cash. First prize will be at $300,000 with second prize at $100,000.***

Head over to FanDuel now and catch the action for Week 11.

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