The NBA is honoring the Martin Luther King holiday with two separate slates — an early slate that locks at 2:30 p.m. EST and a late slate that locks at 7:30 p.m. EST. The Awesemo team has been hard at work preparing loads of content and breaking down the games and the slate of NBA DFS picks. We have projections, tools, data and a number of other amazing premium NBA DFS options to help you win at daily fantasy on DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo and SuperDraft. Check out our Boom/Bust Tool and the new NBA Big Board for more of the day’s top daily fantasy basketball NBA picks. In this NBA ConTENders video, Josh Engleman breaks down his top NBA DraftKings picks for daily fantasy lineups on Monday, 1/18.
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The ConTENders: NBA DraftKings Picks | Monday, 1/18
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NBA DraftKings Picks Tools
NBA Projections
Our NBA DFS projections are managed by Alex Baker and updated throughout the day as more information becomes available up until the last game tips. Projections are an integral part of a winning process for NBA DFS and using Awesemo’s projections provide you a system that’s proven to win money in tournaments over several seasons of action.
NBA Rankings
These NBA Rankings rankings for fantasy points and value are derived directly from my own fantasy NBA projections. Roster players with solid value rankings and spend most, if not all of your salary to build competitive lineups for your leagues.
NBA Boom/Bust Tool
In all DFS sports, being able to compare the strength of a player each day versus their popularity is key to success. In NBA, correlations between players are less valuable so the strength of each play can be considered individually. For each player, I calculate the standard deviation based on a variety of factors and use that to calculate the ceiling (75th-percentile performance) the floor (25th-percentile performance) and the probability that they will bust (not meeting value) or boom (value plus 10 points). Combining these metrics, you will be able to gain an edge on everyone by identifying under-owned or over-owned players.
NBA Ownership Projections
Initial ownership percentages are posted daily by 1:00 p.m. EST and are updated every two hours throughout the day with a final update occurring 30 minutes before lock. Note that last-minute injury reports will impact not only the injured players’ or their replacements’ ownership, but can affect overall roster construction and therefore, every other player on the slate.
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