REST OF SEASON VALUE

Ranking by ownership percentage (98%), Nicklas Backstrom is expected to be the #18 center for the rest of the season. Based on the latest projections the market is overrating Backstrom. His projection based center rank is #29. Owners should not be surprised if they find themselves benching Backstrom more than they thought. Ryan O'Reilly has virtually the same market rank (98% Owned) and is projected for more points than Backstrom. He is projected for 22 fantasy points in 8 remaining games. Based on average FPs, he is even better with the #22 highest average. The market ranks Nicklas Backstrom behind O'Reilly and above Hertl but the projections rank Hertl over Nicklas Backstrom.

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He has a relatively high shooting percentage.

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

His market rank based on start percentage among centers for the rest of week 25 is #18. When compared to other centers in week 26 these are 5 better options at lower start percentages: David Krejci (8.4 FP), Jack Eichel (14.2 FP), Mikael Backlund (10.1 FP), Sean Monahan (14.3 FP), and Jonathan Toews (8.4 FP). He is projected for more points than 3 other centers starting in more leagues: Nathan MacKinnon (7.1 FP), Steven Stamkos (7.1 FP), and Brayden Point (6.8 FP). Starting in 84% of leagues he is expected to produce 10.3 fantasy points (WK 26). At his start percentage, he is expected to be the #15 center of the week, but he is projected to be the #33 center. In terms of total fantasy points he projected to come up 2.9 short of expectations.

He is projected for 7.38 fantasy points in week 26 (#33 C) in 3 games.

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

Backstrom is not in the 3/21 DFS player pool, but one player who is in the Sportsline FanDuel optimal lineup is Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Anze Kopitar is in the DraftKings optimal lineup.

LAST DAILY FANTASY PERFORMANCE 3/20 VS TB

• 23 TOI, 0 G, 1 A, 3 SOG, 1 BS
• FanDuel: $6600, 14.4 FPs (-$307 value, -0.7 FPs)
• DraftKings: $5800, 4 FPs (-$141 value, -0.1 FPs)

SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Nicklas Backstrom was not a fantasy star but was worth starting most weeks. He was the number #21 ranked center and the #88 ranked skater overall. His ranking drops slightly if you base things on average fantasy points where he is the #26 center. He peaked early in the season. He averaged 3.1 FPs in his first 24 games and 1.8 FP in his final 25 games. His standard deviation divided by his average is 1.4 which is close to the league ratio. Our projected ceiling for Backstrom when he 'goes off' is 16 fantasy points (his average is 2.4FPs).

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CURRENT CAREER TREND AND STATISTICS

His FP average has dropped by -14 percent from two seasons ago.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 7 fantasy points per week and had 11 weeks where he came up short (below 80% of average) and had 9 weeks where he was +20% above average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 13.1 FD points and 3.5 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. His DraftKings ceiling was 5 fantasy points and 24.2 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.