Graded · 2 contests · 11,055 entries

NBA Oct 20 DraftKings ownership: BOS @ DET Showdown

What the field actually played on the NBA Tue Oct 20 DraftKings BOS @ DET Showdown, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 20, 2026 · Updated October 20, 2026 · After The Timeout

1 game · showdown

The slate at a glance

Sport
NBA
Site
DraftKings
Format
Showdown (single game)
Games
1
Teams
BOS, DET
First lock
Tue Oct 20, 3:00 PM ET
Player pool
33 players
Projections
Captured Tue Oct 20, 2:08 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, 11,055 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, 11,055 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Jayson TatumBOSPF100.0%87.3%−12.7
Cade CunninghamDETPG100.0%83.0%−17.0
Jalen DurenDETC100.0%53.2%−46.8
Payton PritchardBOSPG/SG27.2%45.9%+18.6
Paul ReedDETC0.5%41.7%+41.1
John CollinsDETPF/C6.5%39.5%+33.0
Ausar ThompsonDETSF15.2%37.6%+22.4
Paul GeorgeBOSSF/PF51.1%36.6%−14.5
Mitchell RobinsonBOSC3.9%29.6%+25.7
Jordan WalshBOSPF0.0%24.9%+24.9
Derrick WhiteBOSPG/SG69.8%24.5%−45.4
Isaiah JoeDETSG/SF0.2%22.0%+21.9

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
Paul ReedDETC0.5%41.7%+41.1
John CollinsDETPF/C6.5%39.5%+33.0
Mitchell RobinsonBOSC3.9%29.6%+25.7
Jordan WalshBOSPF0.0%24.9%+24.9
Ausar ThompsonDETSF15.2%37.6%+22.4
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Jalen DurenDETC100.0%53.2%−46.8
Derrick WhiteBOSPG/SG69.8%24.5%−45.4
Cade CunninghamDETPG100.0%83.0%−17.0
Paul GeorgeBOSSF/PF51.1%36.6%−14.5
Jayson TatumBOSPF100.0%87.3%−12.7

Large-field tournament contests · n = 33 players

How our projections held up

We compared our projected ownership with the real field for 33 players across 2 large-field tournament contests (11,055 entries). On average our number was 11.0 percentage points away from the field's. On the 15 players at 10% ownership or more, the average gap was 23.1 points. Across the board the field owned these players 2.7 points more than we projected, on average.

11.0 ptsaverage gap, ours vs the field (33 players)
0.82correlation with real ownership, 1.00 is a perfect match (n = 33)
23.1 ptsaverage gap on the 15 players at 10%+
2large-field tournament contests, 11,055 entries
The grade by contest type
Contest typeContestsEntriesPlayersAvg gapCorr
Large-field tournament211,0553311.00.82

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
NBA Showdown $6K And-One (BOS @ DET)large-field tournament7,134$1-
NBA Showdown $50K Fadeaway [$10K to 1st] (BOS @ DET)large-field tournament3,921$15-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 32 players, our point projections missed by 6.1 fantasy points on average (7.7 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.83 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Paul GeorgeBOS31.760.8+29.1
Javonte GreenDET9.826.5+16.7
Daniss JenkinsDET25.910.0−15.9
Ronald Holland IIDET16.74.2−12.4
Jayson TatumBOS45.935.0−10.9
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
C83.9−3.0
PF49.1−4.8
PF/C15.5−5.5
PG41.8−0.3
PG/SG37.3−6.5
SF46.3+6.1
SF/PF129.1+29.1
SG14.2−4.2
SG/SF65.9−0.3

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