DAILY FANTASY VALUE

Bell is not the best option on FanDuel with a projected 10.3 FD pts (#14 among outfielders). At $4500 he is expected to be the #1 C/1Bs. At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $3.8K (expected pts per $ is calculated daily based on the average of healthy starters). Gary Sanchez is also priced at $4500 and is a better option at this price. Instead of Bell consider these better options at lower salaries: Edwin Encarnacion (10.9 FP), Freddie Freeman (10.9 FP), Eric Hosmer (11.4 FP), Anthony Rizzo (11.4 FP), and Paul Goldschmidt (10.9 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 12.2 FPs, a value reached in 68 of 195 games (35%). The combined 'cover percentage' for outfielders expected to start is 46%.

• 5/24 VEGAS LINE EXPECTATION: PIT 3.3 (#29 Most Today) vs LAD 5.6 (#2 Most)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 10.33 Fantasy Points (#13), 3.7 plate appearances (#25), 0.277 BA (#18), 0.892 OPS (#11), 0.21 HR (#10), 0.58 RBI (#18), 0.52 runs (#15),

DRAFTKINGS VALUE: Bell is not the best option on DraftKings with a projected 7.8 DK pts (#15 among first basemen). He is the #2 highest priced first basemen ($5500). Using our calculation of expected points per dollar, Bell is worth $4.5K. These are 5 better options at lower salaries: Edwin Encarnacion (8.1 FP), Freddie Freeman (8.3 FP), Eric Hosmer (8.7 FP), Wil Myers (8.3 FP), and Paul Goldschmidt (8.2 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 9.6 FPs, a value reached in 57 of 195 games (29%). The combined 'cover percentage' for first basemen expected to start is 36%.

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WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

Josh Bell is a bad value the rest of the week. He has a market rank of #7 while his projection (rest of week 9) rank is #17. In week 10 rankings vs other 1B/DHs he is projected for more points than 4 other 1B/DHs starting in more leagues: Freddie Freeman (17.1 FP), Anthony Rizzo (18.8 FP), Jose Abreu (19.8 FP), and Cody Bellinger (23.6 FP). Starting in all virtually all leagues he is expected to produce 20.9 fantasy points (WK 10). It should be a very good week 10 as he is projected to be the #1 1B/DH. Even though his per game projected FP average is not better than normal, he will benefit from playing a projected 7 games.

He is projected for 24.2 fantasy points in week 10 (#1 1B/DH) in 7 games.

Josh Bell last five game log with fantasy points (CBS, FD, DK) and statline.

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REST OF SEASON VALUE

Both the market and projections have virtually the same expectations for Josh Bell. Based on ownership percentage (99%), Josh Bell has a market rank of #7 among 1B/DHs. Projections rank him #6. Of the 4 1B/DHs (Giancarlo Stanton, Khris Davis, Pete Alonso) with this market rank (99% Owned), he is the top rated one. He is projected for 348 fantasy points in 104 remaining games. His projected average FP rank is the same as his rest of season total rank. The market ranks Josh Bell behind Goldschmidt and above Alonso but the projections rank Josh Bell over Goldschmidt.

His value decreases in leagues where winning specific categories is important because he has more relative weaknesses than strengths.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

Out of 9 fantasy weeks he had one where he was +50% above his weekly average of 23 fantasy points. He had one bad week where he came up 50% below average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 15.4 FD points and 11.7 DK points per game. We looked at all of his games that were between the 10th and 90th percentile where the 10th percentile is his floor and the 90th is his ceiling. When he was bad in DFS, he was really bad with a floor of zero points. He had a relatively high ceiling. On DraftKings it was 30 and on FanDuel it was 40.6 FPs. He has had more bad FanDuel games (below average by 20%) than good games (20% above average), and the same was true on DraftKings. We are only including games where they were in the daily fantasy slate and played.