The Shark Lab’s research is a different level of analysis to weekly lineup construction, placing value on lineup deconstruction. The Shark Lab performs research on deconstructing lineups to derive metrics to determine the players per position that can make optimal lineup combinations. The combinations are based upon hundreds of Millionaire Maker contest’s winning top twenty lineup data. The Shark Lab encompasses a high level of research and analysis to lineup construction that determines weekly main slate NFL games to target by position (quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end, defense).

During the 2024 NFL season, the Shark Lab is providing DFS Army members with a Cheat Sheet of the players it’ll be targeting in its weekly DraftKings main slate. Additionally, the Shark Lab has its own show on Thursday evenings to break down the main slate and Tournament Tactics show on Fridays. It’s a great opportunity for you as a member to gain insight on tournament plays for that week’s main slate. Finally, every week of the 2024 NFL season, the Shark Lab will be providing members in Discord back test results for the prior week’s main slate with screen shots of the settings that were used to capture results to win or place top 20 in the Milly Maker contest.

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Chronicling the 2024 Milly Maker

Targeting the right games to construct your Milly Maker lineups around is vital to your success within the contest. Being on the right weekly games is as important to the success of your lineups as is being on the right plays for the week.

Winning the Million Dollar Game provides Daily Fantasy Sports players with a wealth of knowledge and secrets to Win DraftKings Millionaire Maker contest with respect to the Quarterback, Running Back, Wide Receiver, and Tight End positions, Defenses, and Stacks. To enhance your game as a Daily Fantasy Sport player, the Shark Lab highly advises you to purchase Winning the Million Dollar Game to unveil those secrets.

Tools to use in the development of your lineups in addition to the Shark Lab’s NFL Cheat Sheets:

Winning the Million Dollar Game Book
Shark Lab’s NFL Cheat Sheets – The Burns Cheat Sheets
Shark Lab’s Weekly Back Test Results
Shark Lab’s Quarterly Milly Maker Contest Results
Domination Station – The DraftKings Manual
Domination Station – The FanDuel Manual
Domination Station FPTS/$
Domination Station Rating Metric
Other DFS Army Coaches’ articles

Quarterbacks

The below efficiency metrics best predict how a QB will perform in the next week’s fantasy output when looking at relative sample sizes over the course of a given period during the NFL season. These metrics outweigh volume, which has virtually no correlation to the next week’s fantasy output:

Touchdown Rate
Yards Per Attempt Passing
Yards Per Game
Completion Percentage

The most correlated data points when using betting lines unveiled to determine top QB plays:

Implied Team Totals
Over/Under
Favorites

The four-efficiency metrics that the Shark Lab looks at weekly as mentioned above to best predict how a QB will perform in the next week’s fantasy output when looking at relative sample sizes over the course of a given period during the NFL season are:

Touchdown Rate
Yards Per Attempt Passing
Yards Per Game
Completion Percentage

Over the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered QBs that had a touchdown rate of 3% or greater at 67% of the time, yards per attempt passing of 6.5 yards or greater at 85% of the time, yards per game of 225 yards or greater at 59% of the time, and a completion percentage of 60% or greater at 82% of the time.

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

181 Milly Maker Lineups Researched – 181 QBs Rostered

Through nine weeks of the 2024 NFL season, there were 181 total Milly Maker lineups researched with 181 QBs rostered. During week 3, there was a tie in the top twenty lineups that occurred. Over the of the 2024 NFL season, there were 90 lineups that rostered a favored QB. Of those favored lineups, there were 49 lineups (54%) that rostered a home favored QB and 59% of those lineups targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 41(46%) lineups that rostered an away favored QB. Of those lineups, 71% targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 91 lineups that rostered an underdog QB. Of those lineups, there were 53 lineups (58%) that rostered a home underdog QB and 77% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 38 (42%) lineups that rostered an away underdog QB. Of those lineups, a split between three categories occurred. 39% targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of 24 or greater, 37% targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24, and 24% of those lineups targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team total of less than 24.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered betting lines favorite QBs 50% of the time. Those top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered QBs in games with final betting lines over/under of 45 points or greater 50% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered QBs in games where the final betting lines favorite ITT of 24 points or greater 36% of the time. Of the 50% of the betting lines underdog QBs, 86% of those lineups rostered an RB with ITT of 20 or greater.

Use salary ranges to your advantage on a weekly basis to develop your QB player pool. During the 2024 NFL season, 90% of the winning DraftKings Millionaire Maker lineups rostered a QB in both the $5,000 and $6,000 salary ranges, where the $5,000 encompassed 50% of that percentage. The dynamic of salary ranges play a significant role in selecting QBs that may place lineups in the top 20.

Understanding all aspects of what makes a QB a good play versus not a good play. Consider a defense’s average fantasy points against the QB position. Rostering QBs versus defenses that allow 15^th to 32^ndmost average fantasy points against the QB position were a winning proposition during the 2024 NFL season at 78%.

QBR is another piece of the puzzle in the development of your QB player pool. Target QBs with a QBR equal to or in excess of 90. During the 2024 NFL season, rostering QBs with a QBR equal to or in excess of 90 was a winning proposition 61% of the time.

A metric the Shark Lab is chronicling during the 2024 NFL season is whether defensive scheme plays a factor in a QBs performance to enter into the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups. During the first quarter of the 2024 NFL season, QBs who played against defenses that schemed defensively for zone at least 50% of the game accounted for 87% of the QBs used in the top twenty Milly Maker lineups.

Running Backs

The following volume metrics best predict how an RB may perform in the future week’s fantasy output when looking at relative sample sizes over the course of a given period of time during the NFL season:

Total Yardage
Opportunities (Rush Attempts and Pass Targets)
Rush Yards
Rush Attempts
Pass Targets
Receiving Yards
Receptions

The most correlated data points when using betting lines were unveiled to determine top RB plays:

Implied Team Totals
Favorites

Understanding the salary ranges that generate the most successful lineup construction is incredibly valuable information to have at our disposal. Refining our lineup construction decisions based on salary ranges will help generate better lineups over the course of the season.

Salary combinations for RBs with “No RB in the FLEX position” and “RB in the FLEX position” allow players to see salary pattern combinations for the RB1, RB2, along with the FLEX position to determine how much salary to attribute holistically to the RB position each week. This higher level of analyzing lineups can be the difference maker in a profitable week with the potential of taking down tournaments.

Ownership percentages is a tool to help players gain an edge on the competition. Players don’t have to be contrarian at the RB position in their roster construction; they need to attack RBs that have high-end volume metrics to capture the most amount of fantasy points at the RB position.

Target RBs against defenses that ranked in the bottom half of the NFL in terms of surrendering fantasy points to the RB position.

Target offenses with strong rushing attacks in terms of rush DVOA.

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

181 Milly Maker Lineups Researched – 460 RBs Rostered

Through nine weeks of the 2024 NFL season, there were 181 total Milly Maker lineups researched with 460 RBs rostered. During week 3, there was a tie in the top twenty lineups that occurred. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 321 lineups that rostered a favored RB. Of those lineups, there were 173 lineups (54%) that rostered a home favored RB and 42% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of 24 or greater. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 148 (46%) lineups that rostered an away favored RB. Of those lineups, 55% targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of 24 or greater. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 139 lineups that rostered an underdog RB. Of those lineups, there were 31 lineups (22%) that rostered a home underdog RB and 52% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 108 (78%) lineups that rostered an away underdog RB. Of those lineups, 56% targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered betting lines favorite RBs 70% of the time. Those top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered RBs in games with final betting lines over/under of 45 points or greater 53% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered RBs in games where the final betting lines favorite ITT of 24 points or greater 69% of the time. Of the 30% of the betting lines underdog RBs, 83% of those lineups rostered an RB with ITT of 19 or greater.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top 20 winning Milly Maker lineups targeted defenses who surrendered fantasy points to the RB position ranked between 15^th to 32^nd in the league (league’s worst teams at giving up fantasy points to the RB position) 75% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups targeted RBs against defensive lines that ranked between 15^th and 32^nd in the league in terms of adjusted line yards 53% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly lineups targeted RBs against defenses that were susceptible to pass catching RBs 59% of the time.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineup’s average salaries for RB1 was $6,797 and RB2 was $6,396. The dynamic of salary ranges played a significant role in the selection of RBs that placed lineups in the top 20. The $6,000 salary range was the most successful thus far during the 2024 NFL season at 42%. The next closest salary range that had success in 2024 was the $7,000 salary range at 29% and the $5,000 salary range at 21%. Rostering high salaried RBs has fared marginally in 2024, $8,000 salary range2 RBs were rostered 5% of the time.

Ownership per position has a massive impact on whether your lineups will scale the leaderboards in tourneys. At the RB positions, you DO NOT have to take a contrarian approach in your lineup construction. In fact, a contrarian approach at the RB position is a detriment to your lineups. Through the first four weeks of the 2024 NFL season, the average ownership for RB1 was 15.68% and RB2 was 17.65%.

Wide Receivers

The below volume metrics best predict how a WR may perform in future week’s fantasy output when looking at relative sample sizes over the course of a given period during the NFL season:

Targets
Receptions
Receiving Yards
Target Share
Air Yards Share
Yards per Target

The most correlated data points when using betting lines unveiled to determine top RB plays:

Implied Team Totals
Over/Under
Favorites

Understanding the salary ranges that generate the most successful lineup construction is incredibly valuable information to have at our disposal. Over the course of the season, refining our lineup construction decisions based on salary ranges will help generate better lineups for the remainder of the season.

Salary combinations for WRs with “No WR in the FLEX position” and “WR in the FLEX position” allow players to see salary pattern combinations for the WR1, WR2, WR3 along with the FLEX position to determine how much salary to attribute holistically to the WR position on a weekly basis. This higher level of analyzing lineups can be the difference maker to a profitable week with the potential to take down tournaments.

Ownership percentages is a fantastic tool to help players gain an edge on the competition. The WR lineup spots are valuable real estate where players can be contrarian and gain an edge on the competition in their roster construction. A low volume WR who has the potential to catch a few targets, gain high yardage, and score a touchdown in a contest can break open a slate at low ownership, the pearls of the sea.

Target WRs against defenses that rank in the bottom half of the NFL in terms of surrendering fantasy points to the WR position.

Target WRs against defenses that rank in the bottom half of the NFL and were suspect at applying pressure on the QB and are bottom tier defenses against the pass.

Understand WR versus CB matchups. These matchups can help a player find those WRs in great matchups and stay away from those WRs in bad matchups.

Target WRs on offenses with strong passing attacks in terms of pass DVOA, especially against defenses that have weak defensive line ranks and surrender a high amount of fantasy points to the WR position.

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

181 Milly Maker Lineups Researched – 599 WRs Rostered

Through nine weeks of the 2024 NFL season, there were 181 total Milly Maker lineups researched with 599 WRs rostered. During week 3, there was a tie in the top twenty lineups that occurred. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 295 lineups that rostered a favored WR. Of those lineups, there were 183 lineups (62%) that rostered a home favored WR and 45% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of 24 or greater. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 112 (38%) lineups that rostered an away favored WR. Of those lineups, 54% targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 303 lineups that rostered an underdog WR. Of those lineups, there were 150 lineups (49%) that rostered a home underdog WR and 57% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 153 (51%) lineups that rostered an away underdog WR. Of those lineups, 52% targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered betting lines favorite WRs 49% of the time. Those top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered WRs in games with final betting lines over/under of 45 points or greater 45% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered WRs in games where the final betting lines favorite ITT of 24 points or greater 60% of the time. Of the 51% of the betting lines underdog WRs, 78% of those lineups rostered an WR with ITT of 18 or greater and ITT of less than 24.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top 20 winning Milly Maker lineups targeted defenses who surrendered fantasy points to the WR position ranked between 15^th to 32^nd in the league (league’s worst teams at giving up fantasy points to the WR position) 71% of the time. 79% of the time, the top twenty Milly Maker lineups targeted WRs in offenses that played against defenses that schemed in zone of at least 50%.

The top 20 winning Milly Maker lineup’s average salaries for WR1 was $6,810, WR2 was $6,093, and WR3 was $5,156. During the 2024 NFL season, the $6,000 salary was the most successful during the start of the 2024 NFL season at 30%. The $5,000 salary range was 25%, $4,000 salary range at 14%, the $8,000 salary range at 13%, and the $3,000 and $7,000 salary range equally at 9%. The WR position has less disparity amongst the salary ranges than any other roster position with your lineup.

Ownership per position has a massive impact on whether your lineups will scale the leaderboards in tourneys. At the WR position, ownerships fluctuate more than the other positions and allow you to be more contrarian in your player pool selection. The average ownership for WR1 was 13.71%, WR2 was 9.88% and WR3 was 11.01%.

Tight Ends

The below volume metrics best predict how a TE would perform in the next week’s fantasy output when looking at relative sample sizes over the course of a given period in time during the NFL season:

Target Share
Targets
Receiving Yards
Receptions
Air Yards Share

The most correlated data points when using betting lines unveiled to determine top TE plays were:

Favorites
Implied Team Totals
Over/Under

Ownership percentages is a fantastic tool to help players gain an edge on the competition.

Target TEs against defenses that rank in the bottom half of the NFL in terms of surrendering fantasy points to the TE position.

Target TEs against defenses that: rank in the bottom half of the NFL; were suspect at getting pressure on the QB; and are bottom-tier defenses against the pass.

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

181 Milly Maker Lineups Researched – 208 TEs Rostered

Through nine weeks of the 2024 NFL season, there were 181 total Milly Maker lineups researched with 208 TEs rostered. During week 3, there was a tie in the top twenty lineups that occurred. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 109 lineups that rostered a favored TE. Of those lineups, there were 51 lineups (47%) that rostered a home favored TE and 47% of those lineups targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 58 (53%) lineups that rostered an away favored TE. Of those lineups, 50% targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of 24 or greater. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 99 lineups that rostered an underdog TE. Of those lineups, there were 47 lineups (47%) that rostered a home underdog TE and 57% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 52 (53%) lineups that rostered an away underdog TE. Of those lineups, 62% targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered betting lines favorite TEs 52% of the time. Those top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered TEs in games with final betting lines over/under of 45 points or greater 39% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered TEs in games where the final betting lines favorite ITT of 24 points or greater 57% of the time. Of the 48% of the betting lines underdog TEs, 91% of those lineups rostered a TE with ITT of 18 or greater and ITT of less than 24.

The top 20 winning Milly Maker lineups targeted defenses who surrendered fantasy points to the TE position ranked between 15^th to 32^nd in the league (league’s worst teams at giving up fantasy points to the TE position) 75% of the time. The top 20 winning Milly Maker lineups targeted TEs who were targeted in the red zone at 15% or greater 70% of the time.

The top 20 winning Milly Maker lineup’s average salaries for TE was $3,899. The salary ranges that were the most successful during the 2024 NFL season were $3,000 salary range at 59%, $4,000 salary range at 27%, $5,000 salary range at 7%, $6,000 salary range at 4%, and the $2,000 salary range at 3%.

Ownership per position has a massive impact on whether your lineups will scale the leaderboards in tourneys. At the TE position, ownerships are flatter but you can still be contrarian in your player pool selection per salary range. The average ownership for TE was 13.51%.

Defenses

The most correlated data points when using betting lines unveiled to determine top DST plays were:

Over/Under
Implied Team Totals
Spread

Understand how salary trends could have an impact on the upcoming NFL daily fantasy season to get ahead of the curve.

Target defenses to roster that have solid defensive lines and are in the Top 15 in the NFL at applying pressure on the QB position.

Target defenses to roster that are going up against offensive lines susceptible to giving up pressures onto the QB position.

Target QBs who throw a lot of interceptions over the course of a season.

Target defenses that force a lot of turnovers via fumbles and interceptions, as these lead to a greater amount of fantasy points scored via the rostered defense.

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

181 Milly Maker Lineups Researched – 181 DSTs Rostered

Through nine weeks of the 2024 NFL season, there were 181 total Milly Maker lineups researched with 181 DSTs rostered. During week 3, there was a tie in the top twenty lineups that occurred. Over the course of the 2024 NFL season, there were 144 lineups that rostered a favored DST. Of those lineups, there were 101 lineups (70%) that rostered a home favored DST and 62% of those lineups targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24. There were 43 (30%) lineups that rostered an away favored DST. Of those lineups, 74% targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24. There were 37 lineups that rostered an underdog DST. Of those lineups, there were 25 lineups (67%) that rostered a home underdog DST and 52% of those lineups targeted games with total points of 45 or greater and implied team totals of less than 24. There were 12 (33%) lineups that rostered an away underdog DST. Of those lineups, 67% targeted games with total points of less than 45 and implied team totals of less than 24.

During the 2024 NFL season, the top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered betting lines favorite DSTs 80% of the time. Those top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered DSTs in games with final betting lines over/under of 45 points or less 82% of the time. The top twenty winning Milly Maker lineups rostered DSTs in games where the final betting lines favorite ITT of less than 24 points 67% of the time. Of the 20% of the betting lines underdog DSTs, 76% of those lineups rostered a DST with ITT of 18 or greater.

The top 20 winning Milly Maker lineups targeted defenses who surrendered fantasy points to the QB position ranked between 1^st to 15^th in the league (league’s best defenses at not giving up fantasy points to the QB position) 55% of the time.

The top 20 winning Milly Maker lineup’s average salaries for DST was $2,997. The salary ranges that were the most successful during the 2024 NFL season were $3,000 salary range at 52%, $2,000 salary range at 48%.

Shark Lab Presents….. 2024 NFL Season’s Milly Maker Research – Quarterly Report

Master the Art of the Million Dollar Game

Chronicling the 2024 Milly Maker

Quarterbacks

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

Running Backs

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

Wide Receivers

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

Tight Ends

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)

Defenses

2024 NFL Season (Through 9 Weeks)