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FanDuel was back at it again with their massive Week 12 Sunday Million contest, requiring a $25 entry fee with 17,475 people getting paid out at least $50. This massive $2 million GPP tournament had 91,954 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 $200,000.
***The Week 13 Sunday Million will have a total prize pool of $2,000,000 and the top prize will be $200,000.***
Here's how Week 12 of the Sunday Million shook out.
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DFS Screen Name | Points | Prize Money |
1st | bigneo | 208.90 | $200,000 |
2nd | leonidax | 203.20 | $100,000 |
3rd | lord_angelici | 197.70 | $60,000 |
4th | shepherd25 | 196.50 | $40,000 |
5th | leonidax | 196.30 | $30,000 |
Week 12 of the Sunday Million saw two teams make it over the 200 point mark with bigneo and leonidax taking home the 1st and 2nd place prizes. Bigneo took 1st place with 208.90 points and claimed the $200,000 top prize. The team was started with Russell Wilson at $7,600 who was the top QB choice of the week as he scored 35.20 points at only a 3.2% ownership rate. The duo of Adrian Peterson and Chris Ivory at running back was also very solid as Peterson scored 31.70 points at a 13.2% ownership and Ivory 17.20 points at a 10.3% ownership rate.
He did his damage at the WR position with Odell Beckham Jr as one of the more popular choices at 35.8% and scoring 24.70 points but it was the other two WR choices that sent him over the top as both Doug Baldwin and Sammy Watkins were owned at 0.9% and 1.8%. Baldwin was only priced at $5,300 and scored 35.50 points and Watkins at just $6,800 and produced 30.80 points. At TE he went with Jordan Reed at $5,800 who scored 13.80 points at his second highest ownership rate of 17.1%.
For the kicker and defense positions he went with a Minnesota Vikings stack with Blair Walsh and the Vikings defense and the combo scored 20 total points. A few notes on the roster was that 5 out of the 9 positions were less than 5.0% owned and only two were over 13.2% owned with Beckham Jr and Jordan Reed. He also left $300 on the table as he didn't use his full $60,000 salary cap but in doing so he made it so he had a very unique lineup.
Position | Player | Salary | FanDuel Points | % Owned |
QB | Russell Wilson | $7,600 | 35.20 | 3.2% |
RB | Adrian Peterson | $9,000 | 31.70 | 13.2% |
RB | Chris Ivory | $7,000 | 17.20 | 10.3% |
WR | Odell Beckham Jr | $9,100 | 24.70 | 35.8% |
WR | Doug Baldwin | $5,300 | 35.50 | 0.9% |
WR | Sammy Watkins | $6,800 | 30.80 | 1.8% |
TE | Jordan Reed | $5,800 | 13.80 | 17.1% |
K | Blair Walsh | $4,700 | 8.00 | 4.3% |
D | Minnesota Vikings | $4,400 | 12.00 | 1.1% |
$59,700 | 208.90 |
Russell Wilson was the quarterback of choice this week as he made it on to the top 9 rosters with Philip Rivers on the 10th place team. Adrian Peterson appeared on all 10 of the top rosters and the RB2 spot was filled with Ivory, Ware, Allen, Yeldon, and McCoy. This late in the season we are seeing why playing DFS can be beneficial when trying to fill in the RB position as we are now deep on teams depth charts from what we saw at the start of the season.
The wide receiver position was filled with Beckham Jr who appeared on 9 of the top 10 teams and Doug Baldwin was also the perfect cheap combo to go along with Russell Wilson to give you a great inexpensive QB/WR stack as they appeared on 7 of the top teams. Sammy Watkins was on 4 teams, and Jarvis Landry, Steve Johnson, Martavis Bryant, T.Y. Hilton, DeSean Jackson, and Allen Robinson made up the rest of the WR cores.
At tight end it was a wide range of players with Reed, Tamme, Gates, Walker, Graham and Barnidge all filling in roster spots. Kicker was just as scattered as well with Walsh, Novak, Catanzaro, McManus, Carpenter, Hopkins, Myers and Barth. Needless to say there wasn't a TE or Kicker that you had to roster this week to ensure that you finished at the top of the leaderboards. At defense it was the Bengals who were the most popular play as 6 teams had them rostered as the Vikings, Chiefs, and Cardinals were the other three teams to crack the top 10.
Finish | Score | QB | RB1 | RB2 | WR1 | WR2 | WR3 | TE | K | DEF |
1 | 208.90 | Wilson | Peterson | Ivory | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | Watkins | Reed | Walsh | MIN |
2 | 203.20 | Wilson | Peterson | Ware | Beckham Jr | Landry | Watkins | Tamme | Novak | CIN |
3 | 197.70 | Wilson | Peterson | Ingram | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | D.Jackson | Gates | Catanzaro | CIN |
4 | 196.50 | Wilson | Peterson | McCoy | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | S.Johnson | Walker | McManus | CIN |
5 | 196.30 | Wilson | Peterson | Ware | Beckham Jr | Hilton | Watkins | Tamme | Carpenter | CIN |
6 | 194.20 | Wilson | Peterson | Ivory | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | Landry | Graham | Novak | KC |
7 | 193.70 | Wilson | Peterson | Ivory | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | S.Johnson | Barnidge | Catanzaro | CIN |
8 | 193.10 | Wilson | Peterson | Allen | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | Robinson | Graham | Hopkins | CIN |
9 | 192.60 | Wilson | Peterson | Yeldon | Beckham Jr | Baldwin | M.Bryant | Reed | Myers | ARI |
10 | 192.20 | Rivers | Peterson | Ivory | Marshall | S.Johnson | Watkins | Gates | Barth | ARI |
***FanDuel's Week 13 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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