DAILY FANTASY VALUE

Projected for 8.5 FanDuel pts DJ LeMahieu is the #21 ranked third baseman. At $3700 he is expected to be the #7 third baseman. Using the salaries and projected points for healthy players in in today's pool to calculate expected points per dollar, LeMahieu is worth $2.7K. There are 2 other options at $3700 (Hunter Dozier, Yandy Diaz) and LeMahieu is ranked #2 among the 3. Instead of LeMahieu consider these better options at lower salaries: Asdrubal Cabrera (12.4 FP), Evan Longoria (8.9 FP), Josh Donaldson (10.7 FP), Justin Turner (10.8 FP), and Manny Machado (9 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 11.6 FPs, a value reached in 75 of 199 games (38%). The combined 'cover percentage' for third basemen expected to start is 39%.

• 6/19 VEGAS LINE EXPECTATION: NYY 4.4 (#18 Most Today) vs TB 4.6 (#12 Most)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 8.53 Fantasy Points (#20), 3.61 plate appearances (#25), 0.282 BA (#15), 0.761 OPS (#23), 0.08 HR (#30), 0.42 RBI (#25), 0.53 runs (#11), 0.05 stolen bases (#4),

LeMahieu 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

His market rank based on start percentage among second basemen for the rest of week 13 is #13, which is less than his market rank of #8. In week 14 rankings vs other second basemen these are 5 better options at lower start percentages: Howie Kendrick (14.5 FP), Robinson Cano (17.3 FP), Asdrubal Cabrera (15.7 FP), Daniel Murphy (16.2 FP), and Cesar Hernandez (16.9 FP). Starting in 89% of leagues he is expected to produce 17.3 fantasy points (WK 14). At his start percentage, he is expected to be the #6 second baseman of the week, but he is projected to be the #14 second baseman. In terms of total fantasy points he projected to come up 3 short of expectations. In addition to a below average projected FP average, he also is expected to play just 4.48875 games.

He is projected for 14.3 fantasy points in week 14 (#13 2B) in 4 games.

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

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REST OF SEASON VALUE

His latest projection based rank among second basemen is #5. As of 6/19, DJ LeMahieu is the #8 ranked second baseman based on ownership percentage (97%). With a lower market rank than projection rank, consider DJ LeMahieu to be undervalued. He is projected for 243 fantasy points in 81 remaining games. He has a lower rank (#8) based on projected fantasy average. The market ranks DJ LeMahieu behind Moncada and above Murphy but the projections rank DJ LeMahieu over Moncada.

He has more relative weaknesses than strengths which hurts his value in leagues that score based on production in individual categories.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 16.6 fantasy points per week and had 3 weeks where he exceeded that by 50% vs just one bad week.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 11.7 FD points and 9.7 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. When he was good, he was very good with a DraftKings ceiling of 19 and 24.6 on FanDuel. He has had more good FanDuel games (exceed average by 20%) than bad games (20% below average), and the same was true on DraftKings. We are only including games where they were in the daily fantasy slate and played.