Tuesday's DraftKings slate is a single game, MSU @ DUKE, with a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary under a $50,000 cap. Lock is Tue 11/10 at 7:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. PT).
One caution before the numbers: our projections are not built for this slate. There is no model output, no ceilings and no ownership data to lean on. What we have is DraftKings averages, so everything below is a read on those and not a forecast.
The highest averages belong to Patrick Ngongba II (DUKE, F) at 32.8, Jordan Scott (MSU, F) at 31.6 and Jeremy Fears Jr. (MSU, G) at 31.0. Cayden Boozer (DUKE, G) follows at 29.8, then Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje (DUKE, F) at 28.0 and Dame Sarr (DUKE, G/F) at 27.9. The top of the board is split almost evenly between the two sides.
Salary is where the slate gets interesting. Ngongba II costs $4,000 and carries the best average on the board, which makes him the clearest value. Scott at $7,200 and Boumtje Boumtje at $6,000 also average well above what their prices suggest, and Anton Bonke (MSU, F) at $5,600 averages 24.5. Fears Jr. at $10,200 and Sarr at $10,600 cost far more for similar averages, so the cheap forwards do the heavy lifting.
We have no ownership figures for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will land. With averages this bunched up, expect heavy overlap on the cheap forwards and plenty of debate over the expensive guards.
Our model has no lineup to publish, since the projections aren't built for this slate, so there is no lineup and no total salary to report. Build around the low-priced forwards, spend up where the averages justify it, and remember the captain slot costs 1.5x. Lock is Tue 11/10 at 7:00 p.m. ET.
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