Friday's DraftKings soccer slate is a single-game showdown, COV @ EVE, with a $50,000 salary cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. The slate locks Fri 11/6 at 3:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. PT).
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall of EVE sits at the top of our model's ranking at $10,600, with a ceiling of 23.5 and a DraftKings average of 14.6. That ceiling is the highest among the top plays, and the average is too. Thierno Barry follows at $9,800 with a 19.3 ceiling and a 12.0 average. For COV, Jack Rudoni costs $9,400 and carries a 17.6 ceiling alongside an 11.5 average. Braiden Graham of EVE has the second-best ceiling in the group at 20.5 for $8,800.
Several mid-priced names offer upside relative to their recent averages. James Garner is $9,000 with a 17.9 ceiling against a 6.3 average, while Hayden Hackney is $8,400 with the same 17.9 ceiling against a 3.3 average. Taiwo Awoniyi of COV costs $8,600 with an 18.5 ceiling and a 4.1 average. Those gaps between ceiling and average are what make them tournament swings rather than safe floors.
The crowd is likely to gather around the same names our model ranks highly. Dewsbury-Hall is projected at 42% ownership, Barry at 38% and Rudoni at 37%. Garner is at 35% and Graham at 34%, so chalk runs deep on this slate. Lineups that want separation will have to find it away from the top three.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,900 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Dewsbury-Hall at captain for $15,900 and fills the FLEX spots with Stephen Mfuni at $3,200, Barry at $9,800, Hackney at $8,400, James Tarkowski at $7,400 and Ainsley Maitland-Niles at $5,200. The cheap Mfuni slot is what pays for the captain price and the Barry and Hackney pairing.
Check the DraftKings status tags before building. Jack Grealish of EVE is listed OUT, as are Haji Wright, Josh Eccles, Luke Woolfenden and Aurele Amenda of COV. Jarrad Branthwaite of EVE and Bobby Thomas and Frank Onyeka of COV carry Q tags. Lock is Fri 11/6 at 3:00 p.m. ET.
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