DAILY FANTASY VALUE

Whiteside is underrated on DraftKings with a projected 30.2 DK pts (#12 among centers). At $5100 he is expected to be the #15 center. At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $6.5K. Jarrett Allen is also priced at $5100 and is a better option at this price. DeAndre Jordan (34.2 FP) is projected for more points at a lower salary. Alex Len (22.5 FP), Dwight Powell (21.7 FP), Joel Embiid (27.4 FP), Willie Cauley-Stein (26.3 FP), and Mitchell Robinson (26.4 FP) are all projected for fewer points than Whiteside but have higher salaries. Based on salary, he is expected to have 23.7 FPs, a value reached in 53 of 81 games (65%). The combined 'cover percentage' for centers priced at $4.0K and above is 44%.

• 4/10 MATCHUP: MIA @ BKN, MIA Vegas Line Expectation 106.5 Points (#19 most points for the day)
• PROJECTION (POS RANK): 30.2 Fantasy Points (#12), 11.6 pts (#12), 10.3 reb (#7), 0.7 ast (#25), 0.7 stl (#9), 1.6 blk (#6), 0 3pt (#15), 1.4 turnovers (#13 most)

FANDUEL VALUE: Hassan Whiteside is underrated on FanDuel with a projected 28.5 FD pts (#12 among centers). He is the #13 highest priced center ($6200). At his projected points, he is worth a salary of $6.8K. Instead of Whiteside consider these better options at lower salaries: DeAndre Jordan (30.6 FP) and Jarrett Allen (30.1 FP). He is projected for more points than 3 higher priced options: Mason Plumlee (19.4 FP), Joel Embiid (24.9 FP), and Mitchell Robinson (26.9 FP). Based on salary, he is expected to have 26.1 FPs, a value reached in 42 of 81 games (52%). The combined 'cover percentage' for centers priced at $4.0K and above is 40%.

Whiteside 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.

SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Hassan Whiteside had a decent season as a solid fantasy starter. He is the number #17 ranked center and the #77 ranked player overall. His value would have been slightly higher if he played more games. Based on average fantasy points he is the #16 center. His production dropped throughout the season. In his first 23 games he averaged 30.1 FPs and that declined to 21.9 in his final 24 games. Based on a relatively low standard deviation, Whiteside can be considered a consistent fantasy player. He averaged 26.4 FPs, but on any given day his projected ceiling is as high as 61 fantasy points with a floor of 6 points.

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DOWNWARD STATISTICAL CAREER TREND

His fantasy point average has dropped for the past two seasons. His average Fantasy points have dropped by 21% over this time frame. His usage rate is trending down as are his minutes per game.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 73 fantasy points per week and had 9 weeks where he exceeded that by 20% and 7 'bad' weeks where he came up 20% short of his average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 31.5 points and on DraftKings it was 33.3 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 16.2 and on FanDuel it was 15 fantasy points. He did not have a high ceiling (less than +50% over average). On Draftkings it was 49.2 and on FanDuel it was 46.5 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.