REST OF SEASON VALUE

His latest projection based rank among shortstops is #20. As of 4/21, Dansby Swanson is the #18 ranked shortstop based on ownership percentage (77%). Our projections indicate that Dansby Swanson is slightly overrated by the market. He is projected for 285 fantasy points in 118 remaining games. He has a lower rank (#31) based on projected fantasy average. The market ranks Dansby Swanson behind Semien and above Peraza and the projections agree.

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

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

His market rank based on start percentage among shortstops for the rest of week 4 is #21, which is less than his market rank of #18. Week 5 shortstops comparisons show instead of Swanson consider these better options at lower start percentages: Andrelton Simmons (17.2 FP), Nick Ahmed (13.7 FP), Aledmys Diaz (14.9 FP), and Francisco Lindor (19.1 FP). He is projected for more points than 3 other shortstops starting in more leagues: Jean Segura (5.7 FP), Tim Beckham (12.9 FP), and Corey Seager (12.6 FP). Starting in 58% of leagues he is expected to produce 13.4 fantasy points (WK 5). Week 5 market expectations match his projection. He is expected to be the #16 shortstop (projected to be #17).

He is projected for 13 fantasy points in week 5 (#17 SS) in 5 games.

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

DAILY FANTASY VALUE

FANDUEL VALUE (4/21): Projected for 8.4 FanDuel pts Dansby Swanson is the #18 ranked shortstop. He is the #19 highest priced shortstop ($3300). At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $3K (expected pts per $ is calculated daily based on the average of healthy starters). These are 2 better options at lower salaries: Andrelton Simmons (9.2 FP) and Amed Rosario (9.1 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 9.1 FPs, a value reached in 59 of 156 games (38%). The combined 'cover percentage' for shortstops expected to start is 42%.

Swanson 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 been consistent. Out of his 4 weeks all have been within 50% of his 18 weekly FP average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 12.8 FD points and 10.1 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. On DraftKings his floor was 0 and on FanDuel it was 3 fantasy points. He had a relatively high ceiling. On DraftKings it was 18 and on FanDuel it was 25.7 FPs. He has had more bad FanDuel games (below average by 20%) than good games (20% above average), and an equal number of good and bad games on DraftKings. We are only including games where they were in the daily fantasy slate and played.