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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 $1,000,000 and the top prize will be $100,000.***
Here's how Divisional Weekend of the Sunday Million shook out.
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DFS Screen Name | Points | Prize Money |
1st | albert1010 | 180.56 | $120,000 |
2nd | kungfuelvis | 176.26 | $60,000 |
3rd | kreed2006 | 174.58 | $30,000 |
4th | drrwski427 | 173.18 | $15,000 |
5th | snakes15 | 171.48 | $10,000 |
Divisional 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 only 2 teams to tie in the top 10 and they were the 9th place teams and actually had different defenses that happened to score the same amount of points. Winning 1st and the top prize of $120,000 was albert1010 who beat 2nd place team kungfuelvis by 4.30 points with a score of 180.56.
Albert1010 had a good overall balance and was actuall the only team in the top 10 to have Ben Roethlisberger and Stephen Gostkowski and both weren't even close to the top scorers at their positions. What won it for Albert1010 was his trio of WRs in Larry Fitzgerald, Martavis Bryant and Jermaine Kearse who were the three highest scorers at the position. Also Rob Gronkowski lead all tight ends with 23.80 points and some how was only 11.8% owned as most entries saved the money and went with Greg Olsen.
Jonathan Stewart was the top running back on the weekend and seemed to have a tough matchup on paper against the Seahawks defense and was just coming off of an injury. He was priced at only $6,300 and was 21.3% owned and scored 23.60 points which was tops among all RBs. He also had the top scoring defense in the Carolina Panthers at $5,000 at only 6.7% owned and they scored 15 points.
Out of the 9 positions albert1010 got 6 of them right with the top scorers in Jonathan Stewart, Larry Fitzgerald, Martavis Bryant, Jermaine Kearse, Rob Gronkowski and Carolina Panthers defense. He also used his entire $60,000 salary cap but having low ownership guys such as Roethlisberger 1.3%, Kearse 3.6%, Carolina Panthers 6.7% he was able to have a unique team.
Position | Player | Salary | FanDuel Points | % Owned |
QB | Ben Roethlisberger | $8,100 | 13.56 | 1.3% |
RB | Jonathan Stewart | $6,300 | 23.60 | 21.3% |
RB | Charcandrick West | $6,300 | 14.60 | 10.4% |
WR | Larry Fitzgerald | $7,900 | 27.60 | 19.0% |
WR | Jermaine Kearse | $5,800 | 28.50 | 3.6% |
WR | Martavis Bryant | $7,100 | 23.90 | 20.6% |
TE | Rob Gronkowski | $8,300 | 23.80 | 11.8% |
K | Stephen Gostkowski | $5,200 | 10.00 | 12.9% |
D | Carolina Panthers | $5,000 | 15.00 | 6.7% |
$60,000 | 180.56 |
The quarter back position overall had 4 different names in the top 10 with Tom Brady used the most at 6 times and Carson Palmer twice and Russell Wilson and Ben Roethlisberger the other two entries. At running back Jonathan Stewart was on each of the top ten teams and Charcandrick West was on 4, David Johnson on 2, C.J. Anderson on 2 and Marshawn Lynch and James White were on single entries.
The most popular play at wide receiver was Martavis Bryant as he appeared on all 10 of the top 10 teams. Jermaine Kearse and Larry Fitzgerald were on 5 teams each and Julian Edelman was on 4. The rest of the WRs included Michael Floyd, Doug Baldwin, and John Brown. At tight end it was Rob Gronkowski and Greg Olsen split at 5 entries each and at the kicker spot it was Brandon McManus on 8 teams and Stephen Gostkowski and Mason Crosby on the other two teams. At defense it was Carolina at the top with 3 teams and Arizona, New England, Pittsburgh and Denver all in the 4-10 range.
Finish | Score | QB | RB1 | RB2 | WR1 | WR2 | WR3 | TE | K | DEF |
1 | 180.56 | Roethlisberger | Stewart | West | Fitzgerald | Bryant | Kearse | Gronkowski | Gostkowski | CAR |
2 | 176.26 | Palmer | Stewart | West | Fitzgerald | Bryant | Brown | Olsen | McManus | CAR |
3 | 174.58 | Brady | Stewart | West | Floyd | Bryant | Brown | Gronkowski | McManus | CAR |
4 | 173.18 | Brady | Stewart | West | Fitzgerald | Bryant | Edelman | Olsen | McManus | ARI |
5 | 171.48 | Brady | Stewart | White | Fitzgerald | Bryant | Kearse | Gronkowski | Crosby | NE |
6 | 170.28 | Brady | Stewart | Johnson | Edelman | Bryant | Kearse | Olsen | McManus | NE |
7 | 169.76 | Palmer | Stewart | Lynch | Fitzgerald | Bryant | Kearse | Olsen | McManus | PIT |
8 | 169.54 | Wilson | Stewart | Johnson | Baldwin | Bryant | Kearse | Olsen | McManus | DEN |
9 | 169.48 | Brady | Stewart | Anderson | Edelman | Bryant | Floyd | Gronkowski | McManus | NE |
9 | 169.48 | Brady | Stewart | Anderson | Edelman | Bryant | Floyd | Gronkowski | McManus | ARI |
***FanDuel's Championship Round Weekend/Week 20 version of the Sunday Million will have a $1,250,000 prize pool with 8,750 out of 45,977 people taking home some cash. First prize will be at $100,000 with second prize at $50,000.***
Head over to FanDuel now and catch the action for Championship Weekend.