DAILY FANTASY VALUE

Projected for 3.5 FanDuel pts Charlie Culberson is the #35 ranked shortstop. At $2200 he is expected to be the #29 shortstop. Using the salaries and projected points for healthy players in in today's pool to calculate expected points per dollar, Culberson is worth $1.3K. Miguel Rojas is also priced at $2200 and is a better option at this price. Instead of Culberson consider these better options at lower salaries: Ehire Adrianza (5.7 FP), Brandon Crawford (7.9 FP), Greg Garcia (4.9 FP), Jose Iglesias (6.3 FP), and Hanser Alberto (4.8 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 4 FPs, a value reached in 59 of 126 games (47%). The combined 'cover percentage' for shortstops expected to start is 42%.

• 4/21 VEGAS LINE EXPECTATION: ATL 3.8 (#24 Most Today) vs CLE 4.2 (#16 Most)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 3.46 Fantasy Points (#34), 1.39 plate appearances (#36), 0.264 BA (#19), 0.779 OPS (#14), 0.05 HR (#26), 0.19 RBI (#34), 0.18 runs (#36), 0.02 stolen bases (#31),

Culberson is NOT in the SportsLine DraftKings optimal lineup or the FanDuel optimal lineup which are based on the computer model's projection. SportsLine.com also offers premium optimal lineups from Mike McClure, a professional DFS player who has over $1 million in career winnings. He uses his own proprietary model to find great DFS values and often differs from the computer in how a player is projected to play on a daily basis.

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

Based on start%, Altherr is expected to produce more fantasy points than Charlie Culberson and the projections validate that assessment. Shuck is the player that the market has ranked 1 spot below Charlie Culberson but the projections have Shuck putting up more fantasy points. He is starting in no leagues and with a projected outfielder rank of #123 in week 5 it makes sense.

He is projected for 5.6 fantasy points in week 5 (#123 OF) in 2 games.

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

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REST OF SEASON VALUE

Based on ownership percentage (1%), Charlie Culberson has a market rank of #128 among outfielders. Charlie Culberson's market rank is better than our current projections indicate. His fantasy outfielder projection rank is #137. He is projected for 121 fantasy points in 43 remaining games. Based on average FPs, he is even better with the #52 highest average. The market ranks Charlie Culberson behind Jankowski and above Jay but the projections rank these players in reverse order.

His projected fantasy points is lower than you would like given his relatively strong OPS projection.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

Out of 4 fantasy weeks, he was +50% above his weekly average of 4 FPs in 2 of them. He had 2 bad weeks where he was 50% below average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 6.3 points and on DraftKings it was 1.7 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 1000 and on FanDuel it was 1000 fantasy points. He did not have a high ceiling (less than +50% over average). On DraftKings it was -1000 and on FanDuel it was -1000 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.