Week 7 DraftKings & FanDuel Winning GPP Lineup Review
In this space each week, I will review the winning lineups from the DraftKings Millionaire Maker and the FanDuel Sunday Million. Analyzing top lineups can help to tease out lineup-building strategies and offer clues on how you could have landed on a similar team.
DraftKings Week 7 Millionaire Winning Lineup
Ownership
| Week | QB | RB1 | RB2 | WR1 | WR2 | WR3 | TE | Flex | Flex Pos | DEF | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9.1% | 14.2% | 9.3% | 27.1% | 12.5% | 11.2% | 17.2% | 7.9% | WR | 3.0% | 111.5% |
| 2 | 3.6% | 10.4% | 8.4% | 21.3% | 19.7% | 14.4% | 9.2% | 6.3% | WR | 1.8% | 95.1% |
| 3 | 2.3% | 16.0% | 13.9% | 16.9% | 8.8% | 5.6% | 2.6% | 1.4% | WR | 15.7% | 83.2% |
| 4 | 6.8% | 38.0% | 15.2% | 15.4% | 11.4% | 5.7% | 19.8% | 6.1% | RB | 3.3% | 121.7% |
| 5 | 12.1% | 14.1% | 13.9% | 27.0% | 13.4% | 7.5% | 7.8% | 9.6% | RB | 22.7% | 128.1% |
| 6 | 4.4% | 12.7% | 8.5% | 14.7% | 4.9% | 3.2% | 2.6% | 2.4% | WR | 0.6% | 54.0% |
| 7 | 17.0% | 46.7% | 32.1% | 15.4% | 2.6% | 2.1% | 8.1% | 21.4% | RB | 43.8% | 189.2% |
| AVG | 7.9% | 21.7% | 14.5% | 19.7% | 10.5% | 7.1% | 9.6% | 7.9% | 13.0% | 111.8% |
Cumulative ownership of the winning lineup was 189.2%, the highest for any winner dating back to Week 1 of 2019.
Since the beginning of 2019, the highest cumulative ownership in a winning lineup was 158.8%. There have only been two other winners in that span at or above 150%.
This is only the fifth winner in that span to have at least three 20%-owned players; it is the third with four players over 20%; it is the only winner with three players over 30%.
Stacks
| Week | Primary Stack | Secondary Stack | Third Stack | Correlated Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QB/TE | RB/Opp WR | WR/Opp WR | 6 |
| 2 | QB/WR/WR/Opp TE | 4 | ||
| 3 | QB/TE | RB/Opp WR | 4 | |
| 4 | QB/WR/WR/Opp RB/Opp WR/Opp TE | 6 | ||
| 5 | QB/WR | RB/WR/TE | WR/Opp WR | 7 |
| 6 | QB/WR/Opp RB | 3 | ||
| 7 | QB/WR/TE | RB/Opp RB | 5 |
Of the seven winning Millionaire Maker lineups this year, three have stacked two players with their quarterback, as this lineup did.
Dating back to Week 1 of 2020, 40 of 42 Millionaire winners have used a quarterback stack. This is only the sixth winner to use a double stack with no bring-back.
Four winners this year have used at least one mini-correlation and all of those lineups included at least one mini-stack with a running back.
Flex
For the third time all season and the third time in four weeks, the Millionaire winner flexed a running back. The other four winners flexed wide receiver.
In week 7, 54% of top-1% Millionaire lineups flexed running back compared to just 39% of the field.
Leverage
Parris Campbell provided direct leverage off of Alec Pierce, who carried the third-highest ownership among wide receivers.
The Chiefs game had the third-highest over-under on the slate but no player on Kansas City carried double-digit ownership. At $4,300, Mecole Hardman helped to build a unique studs-and-duds build in a week where no wide receiver under $4,900 projected for ownership above 10%.
FanDuel Week 7 Sunday Million Winning Lineup
Ownership
| Week | QB | RB1 | RB2 | WR1 | WR2 | WR3 | TE | Flex | Flex Pos | DEF | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9.9% | 17.7% | 9.1% | 17.4% | 12.6% | 6.2% | 14.5% | 1.2% | RB | 2.8% | 91.4% |
| 2 | 3.0% | 7.9% | 2.8% | 9.9% | 6.4% | 5.9% | 8.7% | 0.5% | WR | 4.6% | 49.7% |
| 3 | 4.4% | 15.0% | 5.0% | 15.6% | 5.6% | 4.2% | 4.1% | 1.9% | RB | 6.6% | 62.4% |
| 4 | 2.2% | 31.2% | 12.8% | 11.7% | 7.6% | 7.6% | 20.1% | 3.9% | RB | 4.8% | 101.9% |
| 5 | 17.8% | 17.4% | 13.0% | 22.7% | 14.7% | 0.9% | 3.8% | 6.3% | RB | 4.6% | 101.2% |
| 6 | 4.2% | 29.8% | 2.9% | 13.7% | 4.3% | 4.0% | 0.4% | 0.7% | WR | 8.0% | 68.0% |
| 7 | 16.2% | 25.1% | 22.6% | 17.5% | 5.4% | 4.0% | 11.3% | 16.0% | RB | 2.9% | 121.0% |
| AVG | 8.2% | 20.6% | 9.7% | 15.5% | 8.1% | 4.7% | 9.0% | 4.4% | 4.9% | 85.1% |
With cumulative ownership of 121%, this was the chalkiest lineup to win the Sunday Million this season. The average cumulative ownership for 2022 winners is 85.1%.
From 2019–2021, 22 of 52 Sunday Million winning lineups had cumulative ownership of 12% or higher.
Stacks
| Week | Primary Stack | Secondary Stack | Third Stack | Correlated Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QB/TE | 2 | ||
| 2 | QB/WR/WR/Opp TE | RB/Opp WR | 6 | |
| 3 | QB/TE | RB/WR/DEF | RB/WR | 7 |
| 4 | QB/RB/WR/TE/Opp WR | RB/WR | 7 | |
| 5 | QB/WR/WR | RB/TE | 5 | |
| 6 | QB/WR | WR/TE | 4 | |
| 7 | QB/WR/WR | 3 |
Using a double stack with no bring-back and no secondary stack, the three correlated players used by this week's winner were the fewest by a winner since Week 1.
Since Week 1 of 2020, only three other winning lineups used less than four correlated players.
Flex
For the fifth time in seven weeks, the Sunday Million winner flexed a running back.
This was just the fifth winning Sunday Million lineup since the start of 2020 to use a double stack with no bring-back. Of the last 59 Sunday Million winners, 35 (59%) have rostered three running backs.
Leverage
Four Bengals projected for double-digit ownership. Playing a 5% Tyler Boyd lowered the overall ownership of an otherwise popular stack.
The Buccaneers had the third-highest cumulative ownership projection on FanDuel. With Christian McCaffrey no longer a Panther, D.J. Moore was set up for an expanded target share as leverage against a popular offense.
