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2019 FANTASY OUTLOOK AND PROJECTION: LOOKING GOOD

Christian Yelich is projected to be an elite fantasy outfielder and worth a high draft pick. In our latest projection he is the #4 outfielder based on total projected fantasy points. 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 3.62 fantasy points per game in 154 games. His projected rank for the upcoming season is down slightly from where he finished last season.

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SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Christian Yelich was the number #5 ranked OF and the #10 ranked player overall. His elite ranking was helped by his higher games played (145). Based on average fantasy points he is the #19 OF. He steadily increased his fantasy average as the season went on. He averaged 3.3 FPs in his first 47 games, 3.7 fantasy points in his next 47 and 5 FP after that. 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 Yelich when he 'goes off' is 17 fantasy points (his average is 4FPs).

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STATISTICAL IMPROVEMENT OVER LAST SEASON

As a young player he improved as you would like. His fantasy average improved by 33%.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 22 fantasy points per week and had 7 weeks where he came up short (below 50% of average) and had 4 weeks where he was +50% above average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 15.1 FD points and 11.5 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 23 and 31.4 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.