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JD’s Junk Yard Dogs for DK DFS April 13th 2017 Playoff Edition

Day 2 of the marathon that is the Stanley Cup playoffs.  As usual, I stayed up too late so I could catch the final scores.  Of course, that’s the one night this week when the next day I had to be out of the house early.  That’s why my current social media relationship status is playoffs!

Only 3 games on the slate tonight, which limits our options, but there are still some interesting potential plays.

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Please remember I am not one of the coaches but am really just sharing my own research. This is focused on cash games on DK. I am not speaking to what position they or their teams are in for today’s specific games, just pointing out players you might want to look at for your bottom up build. These guys provide value for their price.

Remember, for value we are looking for players hitting about .6 points or more per $1000 in price. We are generally looking at players whose DK cost is $4500 or under, though with this small slate I have raised that to $5000. This isn’t to say there aren’t value players at higher cost, but the purpose of this blog is to help you find those cheaper plays that leave you lot of cap room to fit in those studs you want
Numbers shown are their price and Avg points over the last 10 games, and all players listed have hit value in at least 6 of those 10 games. In some cases with Defense, there is another number in brackets. This number is their Avg points from shots and blocked shots alone. These players are hitting value on Avg even without being involved in scoring.

DEFENCE

Polak (Tor) 3.1 k 2.8 pts (2)

Stone (Cal) 3.2 k 2.5 pts (2)

Van Riemsdyk (Chi) 3.3 k 2.1 pts

Lindholm (Ana) 3.5 k 3 pts

Gardiner (Tor) 4.1 k 2.6 pts

Seabrook (Chi) 4.5 k 3.1 pts

Ellis ( Nash) 5 k 4.3 pts

It’s too bad that almost a 3rd of our options on D are from Toronto who may have bitten off more than they can chew with having to face the Capitals.  If you choose to look that way I would likely be more comfortable with Polak as he is has a higher floor from blocked shots in particular compared to Gardiner who is more scoring dependant, though I just read that Polak has a minor injury and while he is likely to play, you need to keep an eye on that if you are thinking of using him.   Ellis is the guy I find very interesting as he has hit value in 9 of his last 10 games, and when I have seen Nash play he seems to be becoming their leader from the D corp.

WINGER

  1. Smith 3.2 K 3 pts

Versteeg 3.6 k 3.7 pts

Two guys from the underdog teams are all we have at forward tonight.   Both are about 1 pt/1k guys lately though which means they have been pretty consistently putting up good points and makes them interesting plays on a day where there is little low-cost value to be found.

CENTRE

No Centres make the list today even with raising the $ value I looked at, which makes the few options we do have on D and W all the more important to take a deeper look at, and means C might be a place worth paying up for tonight.

Goal will remain a tough choice for however long we keep doing DFS for the playoffs.  Haven’t seen the money lines yet, but you have to think Holtby will be a strong favorite.  But Toronto is a high scoring team, and while the Caps won 2 of 3 this season, one was a 6-5 OT win.  Crawford should be the favorite against Nashville, but is susceptible, and then Gibson should be the favorite in what is projected to be the lowest scoring game of the night and might be the cheaper alternative to use tonight.