Tuesday's DraftKings showdown is a single game, BOS @ PHI, with a $50,000 salary cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. The slate locks Tue 11/10 at 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT).
At the top of the board, our model's ranking puts Jayson Tatum first by ceiling. He costs $11,000, carries a ceiling of 66.7 and a DraftKings average of 44.9, and no one else on the sheet comes close to that upside. The PHI group sits in a tight band behind him. Tyrese Maxey ($9,800) has a 50.4 ceiling, Joel Embiid ($9,400) has 49.7, Jaylen Brown ($9,000) has 48.8, and LeBron James ($8,800) has 45.8. Maxey's 39.8 DraftKings average is the best of that group.
The value end of the pool is cheap. Ron Harper Jr. costs $1,000 with a ceiling of 19.5, and Jordan Walsh costs $1,200 with a ceiling of 19.7. Neither averages much for DraftKings, at 3.2 and 7.0, so they are ceiling plays at near-minimum salary. Luka Garza at $2,800 offers a higher ceiling of 28.6 and a 10.4 average, which makes him the sturdier of the budget options. All three are BOS players. On the PHI side, Adem Bona, Dominick Barlow and Ariel Hukporti all carry an OUT tag on DraftKings.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so there is no read on where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup spends $49,900 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Tatum in the captain slot at $16,500, then fills the UTIL spots with James at $8,800, Embiid at $9,400, Paul George at $8,400, Mitchell Robinson at $4,000 and Garza at $2,800. The build pays up for Tatum's ceiling as captain and leans on Garza's price to afford three PHI stars, plus George.
Rosters lock Tue 11/10 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
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