WEEKLY FANTASY VALUE

His market rank based on start percentage among centers for week 25 is #1, which is better than his market rank of #6. When compared to other centers in week 25, Patrice Bergeron (9 FP), Connor McDavid (14 FP), Sidney Crosby (12 FP), Leon Draisaitl (12 FP), and Brayden Point (13 FP) are all projected for fewer points than MacKinnon but are starting in more leagues. Starting in 96% of leagues he is expected to produce 13.2 fantasy points (WK 25). It should be a very good week 25 as he is projected to be the #1 center. In addition to a solid projected FP average, he will benefit from playing 4 games.

He is projected for 13.93 fantasy points in week 25 (#1 C) in 4 games.

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

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REST OF SEASON VALUE

There are 13 centers owned in 100% of leagues and Nathan MacKinnon is projected to be the #5 among them. Using actual fantasy production and current start percentage as the first and second tie-breaker, his market rank is #6. Based on projections, he is trending up slightly. He is projected for 35 fantasy points in 11 remaining games. He has a lower rank (#8) based on projected fantasy average. The market ranks Nathan MacKinnon behind Bergeron and above Tavares but the projections rank these players in reverse order.

His ranking is based more in his scoring points than it is in +/- and PIM.

MacKinnon is not in the 3/18 DFS player pool, but one player who is in the Sportsline FanDuel optimal lineup is Kevin Hayes, and Anze Kopitar is in the DraftKings optimal lineup.

LAST DAILY FANTASY PERFORMANCE 3/15 VS ANA

• 22 TOI, 1 G, 1 A, 7 SOG, 0 BS
• FanDuel: $8400, 31.7 FPs (+$5757 value, +12.9 FPs)
• DraftKings: $7600, 8.5 FPs (+$4404 value, +3.1 FPs)

SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Nathan MacKinnon was the #27 ranked fantasy skater this season and the #5 center. His elite ranking was helped by his higher games played (72). Based on average fantasy points he is the #6 center. His production dropped throughout the season. In his first 23 games he averaged 4.4 FPs and that declined to 2.2 in his final 24 games. He is young, so his late season drop-off should not be an indicator of an overall downward trend heading into next season. Based on a relatively low standard deviation, MacKinnon can be considered a consistent fantasy player. Our projected ceiling for MacKinnon when he 'goes off' is 11 fantasy points (his average is 3.5FPs).

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CURRENT CAREER TREND AND STATISTICS

He has increased his FP average by 133 percent from two seasons ago.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

Out of 24 fantasy weeks, he was +20% above his weekly average of 10.4 FPs in 10 of them. He had 10 bad weeks where he was 20% below average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 19.7 FD points and 5.4 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. On DraftKings his floor was 1 and on FanDuel it was 3.2 fantasy points. He had a relatively high ceiling. On Draftkings it was 9 and on FanDuel it was 33.3 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.