Tuesday's DraftKings showdown is a single game, BUF @ SJS, with a $50,000 cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. Lineups lock Tue 10/27 at 10:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. PT).
Our model's top play is Macklin Celebrini of SJS at $10,800, with a ceiling of 35.7 against a DraftKings average of 19.6. That ceiling is well above anyone else on the board. Tage Thompson of BUF is next at $10,000, with a ceiling of 23.9 and an average of 14.0. Rasmus Dahlin of BUF costs $9,600 and carries a 20.5 ceiling, while Yaroslav Askarov of SJS at $10,400 shows a 15.2 ceiling and a 9.2 average, a thin return for the price.
The value pool is where a showdown gets built. Tyler Toffoli of SJS is only $4,400 and has a ceiling of 19.1 with a 9.0 average, the strongest numbers of the cheap group. Dmitry Orlov of SJS at $5,000 has a 22.0 ceiling, though his average is just 6.2. Kiefer Sherwood of SJS is $3,600 with a 15.7 ceiling and a 7.0 average, and Luca Cagnoni of SJS at $4,000 offers a 17.5 ceiling and a 6.5 average.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so there is no read on where the crowd will sit.
Our model's top lineup uses the full $50,000. Celebrini goes at captain for $16,200, flanked by Ivar Stenberg at $6,400, Thompson at $10,000, Orlov at $5,000, Will Smith at $8,800 and Sherwood at $3,600. The build pays up for the top two names and fills out the rest with Orlov and Sherwood.
Check the status tags before building. Danforth of BUF is listed DTD, while Wennberg and Chernyshov of SJS and Kulich of BUF are OUT. Lineups lock Tue 10/27 at 10:30 p.m. ET.
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