REST OF SEASON VALUE

As of 7/16, Yasmani Grandal is the #2 ranked catcher based on ownership percentage (99%). Based on the latest projections the market is overrating Grandal. His projection based catcher rank is #6. He is the lowest rated of the 3 catchers (Jacob Realmuto, Willson Contreras) with this market rank (99% Owned). He is projected for 129 fantasy points in 45 remaining games. He has a lower rank (#8) based on projected fantasy average. The market ranks Yasmani Grandal behind Sanchez and above Realmuto but the projections rank Realmuto over Yasmani Grandal.

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Depending on your league's scoring system his value could be quite different because he has clear strengths and weaknesses.

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

His market rank based on start percentage among catchers for the rest of week 17 is #4, which is less than his market rank of #2. In week 18 rankings vs other catchers these are 5 better options at lower start percentages: Chris Iannetta (11.4 FP), Welington Castillo (12.1 FP), Wilson Ramos (12.6 FP), Buster Posey (13.3 FP), and Roberto Perez (12.5 FP). Starting in all virtually all leagues he is expected to produce 13.3 fantasy points (WK 18). Owners expect him to be the most productive catcher of the week, but he is projected to be the #12 catcher. In terms of total fantasy points he projected to come up 2.4 short of expectations. His per game projected FP average is 2.7 which is less than his actual per game average (3.3). In addition to a below average projected FP average, he also is expected to play just 3.96975 games.

He is projected for 10.9 fantasy points in week 18 (#12 C) in 4 games.

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

DAILY FANTASY VALUE

FANDUEL VALUE (7/16): Grandal is not the best option on FanDuel with a projected 8.2 FD pts (#42 among third basemen). He is the #24 highest priced C/1Bs ($3200). Based on the projection, Grandal is worth $2.9K. There are 3 other options at $3200 (Joey Votto, Mitch Moreland, Mark Canha) and Grandal is ranked #2 among the 4. These are 5 better options at lower salaries: Albert Pujols (8.6 FP), Miguel Cabrera (8.8 FP), Howie Kendrick (8.5 FP), Ryan Zimmerman (11.5 FP), and Mark Reynolds (10.6 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 9.1 FPs, a value reached in 94 of 242 games (39%). The combined 'cover percentage' for third basemen expected to start is 42%.

DRAFTKINGS VALUE: Projected for 6.2 DraftKings pts Yasmani Grandal is the #6 ranked catcher. He is the #10 highest priced catcher ($4200). Using our calculation of expected points per dollar, Grandal is worth $4.5K. Buster Posey is also priced at $4200 and is a better option at this price. Wilson Ramos (6.5 FP) is projected for more points at a lower salary. Kurt Suzuki (5.9 FP), Chris Iannetta (4.6 FP), Stephen Vogt (4.2 FP), Christian Vazquez (5.2 FP), and Chance Sisco (4.8 FP) are all projected for fewer points than Grandal but have higher salaries. Based on salary, he is expected to have 5.8 FPs, a value reached in 107 of 242 games (44%). The combined 'cover percentage' for catchers expected to start is 45%.

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

He has averaged 15.4 fantasy points per week and had 4 weeks where he exceeded that by 50% and 3 'bad' weeks where he came up 50% short of his average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 11 points and on DraftKings it was 8.5 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 21 and 27.9 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.