DAILY FANTASY VALUE

Projected for 2.9 FanDuel pts Patrick Valaika is the #43 ranked third baseman. He is the #33 highest priced third baseman ($2500). Based on the projection, Valaika is worth $0.9K. There are 2 other options at $2500 (Pablo Sandoval, Jose Osuna) and Valaika is ranked #3 among the 3. These are 5 better options at lower salaries: Sean Rodriguez (5.6 FP), Gordon Beckham (4.9 FP), Donovan Solano (5 FP), Logan Forsythe (6.4 FP), and Brad Miller (3.1 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 5.4 FPs, a value reached in 18 of 94 games (19%). The combined 'cover percentage' for third basemen expected to start is 39%.

• 7/13 VEGAS LINE EXPECTATION: COL 7.2 (#1 Most Today) vs CIN 6.8 (#2 Most)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 2.9 Fantasy Points (#42), 1.29 plate appearances (#43), 0.246 BA (#30), 0.714 OPS (#32), 0.04 HR (#39), 0.14 RBI (#43), 0.17 runs (#41), 0.01 stolen bases (#31),

DRAFTKINGS VALUE: Patrick Valaika is underrated on DraftKings with a projected 2.2 DK pts (#60 among second basemen). At $3000 he is expected to be the #62 second baseman. Using the salaries and projected points for healthy players in in today's pool to calculate expected points per dollar, Valaika is worth $1.2K. There are 2 other options at $3000 (Ian Kinsler, Addison Russell) and Valaika is ranked #3 among the 3. These are 5 better options at lower salaries: Gordon Beckham (3.8 FP), Daniel Descalso (5.1 FP), Carlos Sanchez (4.9 FP), Jose Rondon (4.8 FP), and Nicky Lopez (5.5 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 5.5 FPs, a value reached in 9 of 94 games (10%). The combined 'cover percentage' for second basemen expected to start is 36%.

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WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

In week 17 rankings vs other second basemen he is projected for more points than 3 other second basemen starting in more leagues: Sean Rodriguez (1.9 FP), Logan Forsythe (5.1 FP), and Christian Arroyo (3.2 FP). Given he is starting in 0% of leagues there is no market expectation for any real fantasy production in week 17. His per game projected FP average is 2.6 which is better than his actual per game average (0).

He is projected for 5.5 fantasy points in week 17 (#47 2B) in 2 games.

Patrick Valaika 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 #55. Based on ownership percentage (under 1%) and season fantasy rankings, Patrick Valaika has a market rank of #58 among second basemen. Patrick Valaika's projection rank is better than their market rank. Even though he is undervalued, he is not projected for more fantasy points than other second basemen with a better market ranking. He is projected for 52 fantasy points in 22 remaining games. Based on average FPs, he is even better with the #45 highest average. The market values Sanchez over Patrick Valaika and the projections agree.

His projected fantasy points is lower than you would like given his relatively strong OPS projection.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 1.9 fantasy points per week and had 4 weeks where he came up short (below 50% of average) and had 2 weeks where he was +50% above average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 3.4 FD points and 2.6 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. He had a relatively high ceiling. On DraftKings it was 7 and on FanDuel it was 6.2 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.