Welcome to my Week 8 GPP Review. Kamara gets three touchdowns. Pollard gets three touchdowns, AJ Brown gets three touchdowns. Foreman gets three touchdowns. CMC gets three touchdown. Tua gets three touchdowns. You get three touchdowns. You get three touchdowns. Good lord,...Halloween indeed.
Week 8 GPP Ownership Review
On the left, my updated projections from Sunday morning. On the right, the actual number.
Tyreek Hill - 27.8% - 26.9%
Sam Ehlinger - 23.8% - 14.5%
Tony Pollard - 22% - 45%
Saquon Barkley - 19.3% - 15.3%
Josh Jacobs - 18.8% - 15.7%
Derrick Henry - 18.2% - 19.8%
Alvin Kamara - 17.4% - 13.3%
Tua Tagovailoa - 16.4% - 20.7%
Cedee Lamb - 15.2% - 5%
DJ Moore - 15% - 29%
Deandre Hopkins - 14.7% - 19.4%
Commanders - 14.3% - 17.2%
Things that Surprised me
Chris Olave - 28.9%
D'Onta Foreman - 19.8%
Irv Smith - 17.6%
Cedee Lamb - 5%
Jamaal Williams was 1%. Ownership didn't surprise, just Williams did.
Week 8 GPP Lineup Review
My Best Lineup - 204.78 DK Points
Tua Tagovailoa Alvin Kamara Tony Pollard Tyreek Hill Amon-Ra Alec Pierce Dalton Schultz Mike Gesicki Patriots
Week 8 GPP Winning Lineup - 253.98
Tua Tagovailoa D'Onta Foreman Tony Pollard DJ Moore Tyreek Hill Garrett WIlson Kye Pitts Alvin Kamara 49ers
The Good
The Miami v Detroit game was indeed the one to attack for Week 8 GPPs. While I will more often than not fade the chalkiest stack, I also need to go with my gut. I found it difficult to see this game not being high scoring. I wish it was a little higher, but you needed pieces of this game, and I had plenty.
Derrick Henry and D'Onta Foreman were my highest owned players. In any other week, they would have helped me to many cashes.
Tua and Jalen Hurts were two of only three QBs I played this weekend. They were QBs 1 and 3 on the weekend. Go me!
Deandre Hopkins was WR2 on the day. I had a good amount of him.
I faded the heavily owned Commanders. What a call.
I also faded Sam Ehlinger. I know the 4K price tag was tempting for Week 8 GPP contests, but he is unproven and not in a good offense. Paying down when the likes of Mahomes, Allen, Herbert, and a few others were not on the slate may work in the future, but proven talent typically wins out.
The Neutral
I had zero CMC yesterday, but it ultimately didn't matter as he wasn't in the optimal lineup. Most weeks he would have been.
Dal Cook showed out and was the right move on the Vikings side of the ball. Same as above though, didn't matter much in the end.
Dak Prescott and Justin Fields were total misses for me. They may have served you decently at the low ownership they had, but again, didn't matter in terms of the best lineup.
Kyler was the second highest scoring QB on the day. I couldn't care less though.
Jared Goff did decently, but he handed off at the goal line too much, and the Lions overall ran out of steam in the second half.
The Bad
I wish I had more Kamara.
Jamaal Williams was a huge miss for me. It's not that it really hurt as he didn't end up in the optimal lineup or anything, but I made an assumption that Swift would immediately step back into a full time role. I just reminded myself what happens when you assume.
Saquon Barkley was a big fail this week. I didn't have a ton, but at his price point, 15.2 fantasy points were nowhere near enough.
AJ Brown was someone I paired with Hurts but not much beyond that. I have regrets.
I played zero DJ Moore. He was even more highly owned than I thought he was going to be. At one point late yesterday afternoon, the PJ Walker/D'Onta Foreman/DJ Moore stack was winning the day. Pretty sure that would've has broken the DFS industry had it stayed that way. Moore's price should have a nice increase next week.
Ty Conklin was the highest scoring TE in Week 8 GPP contests. At 1.8% ownership, he did what my New York Jet punt Braxton Berrios couldn't. My head was in the right place here, but I ultimately made the wrong call with Corey Davis out.
I guess it took me calling out the Saints defense for them to finally show up. I will have to reassess what's going on here.
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