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2019 FANTASY OUTLOOK AND PROJECTION: LOOKING GOOD

The only player we project to be better than Mike Trout (at OF) is Mookie Betts. In 2018, he was owned in 100 percent of leagues and it will be at least this high next season as well. He is projected to average 4.09 fantasy points per game in 151 games. His projected rank for the upcoming season is up slightly from where he finished last season.

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SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Mike Trout was the #14 ranked fantasy player this season and the #6 OF. His elite ranking was helped by his higher games played (139). Based on average fantasy points he is the #15 OF. His fantasy production did not rise or fall significantly as the season went on. If you break up his season into 3 equal segments (start, middle, end) his average started at 4 FPs, ended at 3.8 FPs, and was 3.9 FPs in between. His fantasy production is stable and he is not as volatile as most players based on a below average standard deviation. Our projected ceiling for Trout when he 'goes off' is 19 fantasy points (his average is 3.9FPs).

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CURRENT CAREER TREND AND STATISTICS

His fantasy point average held steady over the past 2 seasons.

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

He averaged 14 FD points and 10.3 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 20 and 27.5 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.