REST OF SEASON VALUE

Ranking by ownership percentage (99%), Yasmani Grandal is expected to be the #4 catcher for the rest of the season. Based on the latest projections the market is overrating Grandal. The projections have him 4 spots lower in the rankings. He is the lowest rated of the 3 catchers (Wilson Ramos, Willson Contreras) with this market rank (99% Owned). He is projected for 258 fantasy points in 93 remaining games. He has a lower rank (#11) based on projected fantasy average. The market ranks Yasmani Grandal behind Contreras and above Ramos but the projections rank Ramos over Yasmani Grandal.

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

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

Yasmani Grandal is a bad value this week. He has a market rank of #4 while his projection (week 5) rank is #12. Week 5 catchers comparisons show instead of Grandal consider these better options at lower start percentages: Yadier Molina (13 FP), Robinson Chirinos (11 FP), Francisco Cervelli (11 FP), Welington Castillo (12 FP), and Wilson Ramos (13 FP). Starting in all virtually all leagues he is expected to produce 12.5 fantasy points (WK 5). At his start percentage, he is expected to be the #4 catcher of the week, but he is projected to be the #12 catcher. In terms of total fantasy points he projected to come up 1.8 short of expectations. His per game projected FP average is 2.6 which is less than his actual per game average (3.4). In addition to a below average projected FP average, he also is expected to play just 4.1380875 games.

He is projected for 10.7 fantasy points in week 5 (#12 C) in 4 games.

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

DAILY FANTASY VALUE

FANDUEL VALUE (4/22): Projected for 7.2 FanDuel pts Yasmani Grandal is the #26 ranked C/1Bs. At $3400 he is expected to be the #10 C/1Bs. At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $2.6K. There are 3 other options at $3400 (Kurt Suzuki, Ryan Zimmerman, Ryan McMahon) and Grandal is ranked #3 among the 4. These are 5 better options at lower salaries: Albert Pujols (8 FP), Miguel Cabrera (8.6 FP), Yadier Molina (8.7 FP), Kendrys Morales (8.9 FP), and Welington Castillo (8.5 FP). He is projected for more points than 3 higher priced options: Matt Adams (4.6 FP), Christian Walker (5.6 FP), and Mitch Garver (2.7 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 9.6 FPs, a value reached in 59 of 174 games (34%). The combined 'cover percentage' for pitchers expected to start is 44%.

DRAFTKINGS VALUE: Based on a projected 5.5 DraftKings points, Grandal is fairly ranked. He is the #6 highest priced catcher ($4100). Using our calculation of expected points per dollar, Grandal is worth $3.9K. These are 4 better options at lower salaries: Yadier Molina (6.6 FP), Welington Castillo (6.5 FP), Wilson Ramos (6 FP), and Josh Phegley (6.6 FP). He is projected for more points than 3 higher priced options: Kurt Suzuki (3.9 FP), Yan Gomes (4.8 FP), and Mitch Garver (2 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 5.7 FPs, a value reached in 72 of 174 games (41%). The combined 'cover percentage' for catchers expected to start is 43%.

Grandal 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 RECAP

Out of 4 fantasy weeks he had one where he was +50% above his weekly average of 15.9 fantasy points. He had one bad week where he came up 50% below average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 11.8 points and on DraftKings it was 10.5 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. When he was good, he was very good with a DraftKings ceiling of 19 and 24.9 on FanDuel. 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.