SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

He is the number #198 ranked defender and the #639 ranked skater overall. We split his 37 games into 3 segments (start, middle, and end). He showed improvement from his start of the season to the middle of his season, but then his production dropped off. In his middle 12 games he averaged 1.3 fantasy points which was higher than his start (0.1 FP) and his ending average (0.8 FP). He is still relatively young, so his late season drop-off should not be an indicator of an overall downward trend heading into next season. 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 Riikola when he 'goes off' is 6 fantasy points (his average is 0.7FPs).

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WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

He has averaged 1.6 fantasy points per week and had 10 weeks where he came up short (below 80% of average) and had 6 weeks where he was +20% above average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

His FanDuel average was 4.6 points and on DraftKings it was 1.4 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. He had a relatively high ceiling. On Draftkings it was 3 and on FanDuel it was 11.2 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.