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DAILY FANTASY VALUE

Anthony Rendon is underrated on FanDuel with a projected 15.5 FD pts (#1 among third basemen). At $4300 he is expected to be the #2 third baseman. At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $4.9K (expected pts per $ is calculated daily based on the average of healthy starters). Based on salary, he is expected to have 13.5 FPs, a value reached in 77 of 213 games (36%). The combined 'cover percentage' for third basemen expected to start is 40%.

• 7/16 VEGAS LINE EXPECTATION: WAS 6 (#5 Most Today) vs BAL 5 (#16 Most)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 15.5 Fantasy Points (#0), 4.39 plate appearances (#2), 0.349 BA (#3), 1.067 OPS (#3), 0.25 HR (#3), 0.92 RBI (#1), 0.95 runs (#1), 0.02 stolen bases (#18),

Rendon is in the SportsLine FanDuel optimal lineup 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 is not in the DraftKings optimal lineup but is.

DRAFTKINGS VALUE: Projected for 11.5 DraftKings pts Anthony Rendon is the #1 ranked third baseman. He is the #2 highest priced third baseman ($5400). At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $6.1K (expected pts per $ is calculated daily based on the average of healthy starters). Based on salary, he is expected to have 10.2 FPs, a value reached in 78 of 213 games (37%). The combined 'cover percentage' for third basemen expected to start is 37%.

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

His market rank based on start percentage among third basemen for the rest of week 17 is #1. Week 18 third basemen comparisons show, Mike Moustakas (15.4 FP), Nolan Arenado (22.7 FP), Kris Bryant (18.6 FP), Alex Bregman (19.9 FP), and Rafael Devers (19.5 FP) are all projected for fewer points than Rendon but are starting in more leagues. Starting in 94% of leagues he is expected to produce 18.6 fantasy points (WK 18). It should be a very good week 18 as he is projected to be the #2 third baseman. Even though his per game projected FP average is not better than normal, he will benefit from playing a projected 6 games.

He is projected for 23.3 fantasy points in week 18 (#2 3B) in 6 games.

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

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REST OF SEASON VALUE

Of the 8 third basemen that are 100% owned, Anthony Rendon is projected to be the best fantasy player for the rest of the season. He is projected for 247 fantasy points in 65 remaining games. His projected average FP rank is the same as his rest of season total rank. The market values Anthony Rendon over Devers and the projections agree.

He has more relative strengths than weaknesses which makes him a better value in leagues that score based on production in individual categories.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 22 fantasy points per week and had 5 weeks where he exceeded that by 50% and 4 'bad' weeks where he came up 50% short of his average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 14.5 points and on DraftKings it was 10.9 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. He had a relatively high ceiling. On DraftKings it was 24 and on FanDuel it was 33.9 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.