REST OF SEASON VALUE

Based on ownership percentage (86%), Anze Kopitar has a market rank of #32 among centers. Our projections indicate that Anze Kopitar is overrated by the market. His fantasy center projection rank is #37. He is projected for 15 fantasy points in 8 remaining games. He has a lower rank (#47) based on projected fantasy average. The market ranks Anze Kopitar behind Karlsson and above Horvat but the projections rank Horvat over Anze Kopitar.

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His rank in goals is better than his SOG rank indicating a relatively high shooting %.

WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

When compared to other centers in week 26 these are 5 better options at lower start percentages: Mikael Backlund (10.8 FP), Erik Haula (7.6 FP), Kevin Hayes (10.1 FP), Evgeni Malkin (9.9 FP), and Joe Thornton (9.1 FP). Max Domi (6.9 FP), Nathan MacKinnon (6.5 FP), Steven Stamkos (7.1 FP), Evgeny Kuznetsov (4.4 FP), and Brayden Point (6.8 FP) are all projected for fewer points than Kopitar but are starting in more leagues. Starting in 51% of leagues he is expected to produce 7.7 fantasy points (WK 26). At his start percentage, he is expected to be the #33 center of the week, but he is projected to be the #35 center.

He is projected for 7.43 fantasy points in week 26 (#35 C) in 4 games.

Kopitar is not in the 3/24 DFS player pool, but one player who is in the Sportsline projection model optimal lineup for both FanDuel and DraftKings is Pierre-Luc Dubois.

LAST DAILY FANTASY PERFORMANCE 3/23 VS ANA

• 25 TOI, 0 G, 0 A, 4 SOG, 0 BS
• FanDuel: $6300, 6.4 FPs (-$3255 value, -6.8 FPs)
• DraftKings: $4900, 2 FPs (-$1811 value, -1.2 FPs)

SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Anze Kopitar had an OK fantasy season if you were expecting to have him on the bench and only start in certain weeks. He was the number #41 ranked center and the #190 ranked skater overall. His ranking drops to the #46 ranked center when basing it on average fantasy points. His production dropped throughout the season. In his first 24 games he averaged 1.9 FPs and that declined to 1.5 in his final 25 games. His fantasy production is more volatile that most players based on having a relatively high standard deviation. When he is good, he is really good but when he is off, he is really off. Our projected ceiling for Kopitar when he 'goes off' is 10 fantasy points (his average is 1.8FPs).

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STATISTICAL DROPOFF FROM PREVIOUS SEASON

Getting older predictably resulted in a drop in production. His fantasy average dropped by 42 percent.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 5.1 fantasy points per week and had 10 weeks where he came up short (below 80% of average) and had 9 weeks where he was +20% above average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 11.8 points and on DraftKings it was 3.2 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 6 and 22.9 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.