Graded · 2 contests · 25,678 entries

CFB Week 7 DraftKings ownership: Main slate

What the field actually played on the CFB Week 7 DraftKings Main slate, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 16, 2026 · Updated October 16, 2026 · After The Timeout

3 games · classic

The slate at a glance

Sport
CFB
Week
Week 7
Site
DraftKings
Format
Classic
Games
3
Teams
APPST, C-C, MEM, PUR, TUL, UW
First lock
Fri Oct 16, 7:30 PM ET
Player pool
48 players
Projections
Captured Fri Oct 16, 4:37 PM ET, before lock

Top 12 by real ownership

The chalk: who the field played most

Field ownership is the share of lineups that used each player, from 2 large-field tournament contests, 25,678 entries. Gap is the field minus our projection: green means the field played him more than we expected.

Some field numbers read low. Part of the real ownership here comes from a results source that counts each player in one roster slot only, so a player the field used in more than one slot can show less ownership than he really had.

Ours vs the field, 2 large-field tournament contests, 25,678 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Fame IjeboiPURRB63.6%74.1%+10.4
Jaylin CarterMEMRB54.5%58.9%+4.4
Marcus StokesMEMQB100.0%50.9%−49.1
Dezmen RoebuckUWWR10.8%45.9%+35.0
Deuce BaileyC-CQB29.0%45.1%+16.1
Jaquari LewisAPPSTRB10.6%43.8%+33.1
Dominic Lee-KnicelyC-CRB100.0%40.9%−59.1
Hunter TiptonMEMWR57.6%35.8%−21.8
Elijah BrownUW not in our poolQB-30.6%+30.6
Ryan BrownePURQB10.1%30.6%+20.5
Chris LawsonUWWR4.4%30.2%+25.8
Asaad WaseemPURWR3.4%29.0%+25.6

10 players where we were furthest off

Our biggest misses

We publish these on purpose. The players the field played far more than we expected, and the ones it passed on.

The field played him more than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Dezmen RoebuckUWWR10.8%45.9%+35.0
Jaquari LewisAPPSTRB10.6%43.8%+33.1
Elijah BrownUW not in our poolQB-30.6%+30.6
Chris LawsonUWWR4.4%30.2%+25.8
Asaad WaseemPURWR3.4%29.0%+25.6
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Dominic Lee-KnicelyC-CRB100.0%40.9%−59.1
Marcus StokesMEMQB100.0%50.9%−49.1
Karmello EnglishC-CWR65.1%25.3%−39.8
TJ JohnsonMEMWR33.9%0.0%−33.9
Jermane HayesMEMWR48.5%16.0%−32.5

Large-field tournament contests · n = 58 players

How our projections held up

We compared our projected ownership with the real field for 58 players across 2 large-field tournament contests (25,678 entries). On average our number was 12.2 percentage points away from the field's. On the 24 players at 10% ownership or more, the average gap was 22.5 points. Across the board the field owned these players 0.1 points less than we projected, on average.

12.2 ptsaverage gap, ours vs the field (58 players)
0.64correlation with real ownership, 1.00 is a perfect match (n = 58)
22.5 ptsaverage gap on the 24 players at 10%+
2large-field tournament contests, 25,678 entries
The grade by contest type
Contest typeContestsEntriesPlayersAvg gapCorr
Large-field tournament225,6785812.20.64

We grade a contest type once it has at least 2 contests. Cash games are not used to grade tournament ownership.

What these numbers mean

Average gap is how far our projected ownership sat from the real field, in percentage points, averaged over every player compared. If we had a player at 20% and the field played him at 26%, that player adds a 6-point gap.

Correlation measures whether we had the order right: who the field would play most and least. 1.00 would be a perfect match and 0 would be no relationship at all.

Players compared covers our whole player pool plus anyone the field used that we did not have in it.

The 2 contests behind these numbers
ContestGroupEntriesFeeMax entries
CFB $7.5K mini-MAX [150 Entry Max]large-field tournament17,835$0.50150
CFB $120K Friday Kickoff [$30K to 1st]large-field tournament7,843$18-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 48 players, our point projections missed by 7.9 fantasy points on average (7.8 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.29 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Jaquari LewisAPPST9.536.7+27.2
Robby WashingtonC-C3.525.8+22.3
Stonka BurnsideMEM11.331.1+19.8
Asaad WaseemPUR8.023.5+15.5
Brian Bonner Jr.UW8.022.9+14.9
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
QB69.2−3.1
RB118.9+2.2
WR317.3+1.1

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