FanDuel Price: $3,500
Projected FanDuel Points: 14.8
Projected FanDuel Value: 4.23
Look -- two-game slates are ridiculously tough. Many of the rosters put together are close to (or flat-out are) identical, and finding any kind of differential can become nearly impossible. As such, the need for locating a high-risk, high-reward, low-ownership play becomes even more heightened.
One such player with the ability to put up points in bunches is Pacers forward Tyreke Evans. Evans hasn't been particularly great this season. Heck, I'd argue he hasn't even been good. His 38.5% shooting clip from the floor is the lowest in his career and 6.7 percentage points worse than he shot last year. He's somehow jacking up enough shots to average 10.0 real-world points per game, but he's tacking on just 2.3 assists and 2.7 boards.
He can on occasion, however, catch fire. One such example is a 36.1-FanDuel-point outing in just 18 minutes against the New Orleans Pelicans in late February. He's averaging a respectable 1.03 FanDuel points per minute against the Bucks over his past 10 games against them, meaning he's theoretically need just 17 minutes on a normal night versus Milwaukee in order to hit a decent value of 5.0 FanDuel points per $1,000.
While we currently have him projected for just 14.8 FanDuel points, an extra steal, block, or three pushes him right past that five-times value barrier.
He's inconsistent. He's risky. He occasionally has ridiculously high output in very little playing time. He's also minimum salary. Sounds like the perfect combo to take a chance on when building your tournament lineups tonight, especially given the leeway of FanDuel's best-ball format.
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