FanDuel Week 4 Freeroll Contest: Looking for Value

Sep 30, 2011

John Paulsen, Contributing Editor

We're continuing our weekly $500 freerolls at FanDuel -- think you can beat our very own Josh Moore? If so, you'll win a cool $5, maybe more if you score big. All you have to do is assemble your team in FanDuel's weekly salary cap format. Enter now.

A couple of weeks ago we debuted a new tool for subscribers that identifies the best FanDuel values in any given week. The lower the $/Point, the better the value. Here are the first few rows of the table so you have an idea of what it's all about.

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Now let's take a look at the Top 5 values at each position.

Note: Values are subject to change throughout the week as projections are updated.

QBs

1. Andy Dalton ($392)

2. Tarvaris Jackson ($396)

3. Rex Grossman ($416)

4. Jason Campbell ($422)

5. Jay Cutler ($437)

The value is in the bargain/sleeper QBs this week. Grossman, Campbell and Cutler are all experienced players with good matchups (STL, NE and CAR, respectively, are amongst the worst in the league against opposing QBs.) The best high-priced QB value is Tom Brady who checks in at #6. The Raiders have had trouble against opposing QBs as well.

RBs

1. Matt Forte ($385)

2. Tim Hightower ($434)

3. Ray Rice ($478)

4. Darren McFadden ($493)

5. Mike Tolbert ($508)

It looks like the value is in the studs this week, with Forte, Rice and DMC chiming in in the Top 5. Hightower and Tolbert are both sub-$7000 guys that should have productive weeks, though Tolbert's value depends somewhat on the status of Ryan Mathews.

WRs

1. David Nelson ($447)

2. Wes Welker ($449)

3. Larry Fitzgerald ($478)

4. Denarius Moore ($480)

5. Eric Decker ($500)

Three sub-$6000 value players in Nelson, Moore and Decker to go along with two studs. Moore has a terrific matchup against a Patriots defense that has been unable to stop the pass this season. He's a rookie though, and rookies are known to disappear.