DAILY FANTASY VALUE

There are 4 other options at $4200 (Adam Jones, Brett Gardner, Lonnie Chisenhall, Clint Frazier) and Brantley is the best option of these 5. Instead of Brantley consider these better options at lower salaries: Shin-Soo Choo (7.9 FP), Nick Markakis (7.9 FP), and Nick Castellanos (8.2 FP). Jason Heyward (6.4 FP), Jarrod Dyson (6.1 FP), Joc Pederson (5.6 FP), George Springer (7.5 FP), and Domingo Santana (7.4 FP) are all projected for fewer points than Brantley but have higher salaries. Based on salary, he is expected to have 7.5 FPs, a value reached in 83 of 170 games (49%). The combined 'cover percentage' for outfielders expected to start is 39%.

• 4/25 VEGAS LINE EXPECTATION: HOU 4.5 (#4 Most Today) vs CLE 4.1 (#11 Most)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 7.8 Fantasy Points (#13), 3.86 plate appearances (#20), 0.307 BA (#9), 0.849 OPS (#12), 0.13 HR (#20), 0.55 RBI (#10), 0.51 runs (#20), 0.07 stolen bases (#22),

FANDUEL VALUE: Projected for 10.2 FanDuel pts Michael Brantley is the #16 ranked outfielder. He is the #20 highest priced outfielder ($3600). At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $3.5K. There are 2 other options at $3600 (Andrew McCutchen, David Peralta) and Brantley is ranked #3 among the 3. Instead of Brantley consider these better options at lower salaries: Nick Castellanos (10.7 FP), Gregory Polanco (10.2 FP), and Mallex Smith (11.5 FP). Brett Gardner (9.3 FP), Joc Pederson (7.4 FP), George Springer (10 FP), Domingo Santana (9.9 FP), and Joey Gallo (8.1 FP) are all projected for fewer points than Brantley but have higher salaries. Based on salary, he is expected to have 10.3 FPs, a value reached in 78 of 170 games (46%). The combined 'cover percentage' for outfielders expected to start is 45%.

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WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

His market rank based on start percentage among outfielders for the rest of week 5 is #9, which is less than his market rank of #8. In week 6 rankings vs other outfielders these are 5 better options at lower start percentages: Avisail Garcia (19.8 FP), Christian Yelich (25.4 FP), Charlie Blackmon (19 FP), Thomas Pham (22.4 FP), and Marcell Ozuna (20.2 FP). He is projected for more points than 4 other outfielders starting in more leagues: Mike Trout (17.1 FP), Bryce Harper (17.4 FP), Mitch Haniger (14.5 FP), and Rhys Hoskins (16.7 FP). Starting in all virtually all leagues he is expected to produce 20.2 fantasy points (WK 6). At his start percentage, he is expected to be the #8 outfielder of the week, but he is projected to be the #13 outfielder.

He is projected for 18.9 fantasy points in week 6 (#13 OF) in 5 games.

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

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REST OF SEASON VALUE

Michael Brantley is projected to be the #11 rated player of 15 outfielders who are owned in 100% of leagues. If you sort these 15 players based on their actual fantasy production and then by their current start percentage, he is the #8 rated player. The projections expect his value to decrease. He is projected for 402 fantasy points in 124 remaining games. Based on average FPs, he is even better with the #9 highest average. The market ranks Michael Brantley behind Springer and above Acuna but the projections rank Acuna over Michael Brantley.

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

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has been consistent. Out of his 5 weeks all have been within 50% of his 17.2 weekly FP average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 12.5 FD points and 9.5 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. On DraftKings his floor was 0 and on FanDuel it was 3 fantasy points. He had a relatively high ceiling. On DraftKings it was 19 and on FanDuel it was 24.9 FPs. He has had more bad FanDuel games (below average by 20%) than good games (20% above average), and an equal number of good and bad games on DraftKings. We are only including games where they were in the daily fantasy slate and played.