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NBA Oct 28 DraftKings ownership: ORL @ TOR Showdown

What the field actually played on the NBA Wed Oct 28 DraftKings ORL @ TOR Showdown, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 28, 2026 · Updated October 28, 2026 · After The Timeout

1 game · showdown

The slate at a glance

Sport
NBA
Site
DraftKings
Format
Showdown (single game)
Games
1
Teams
ORL, TOR
First lock
Wed Oct 28, 7:30 PM ET
Player pool
25 players
Projections
Captured Wed Oct 28, 6:07 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 small-field or limited-entry tournament contests, 2,427 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 small-field or limited-entry tournament contests, 2,427 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Scottie BarnesTORSF/PF100.0%85.5%−14.5
Franz WagnerORLSF100.0%84.4%−15.6
RJ BarrettTORSG100.0%63.5%−36.5
Ja'Kobe WalterTORPG/SG10.7%59.9%+49.2
Desmond BaneORLSG/SF59.6%58.9%−0.7
Immanuel QuickleyTORPG62.2%44.6%−17.6
Anthony BlackORLPG/SG12.4%44.1%+31.7
Wendell Carter Jr.ORLC45.1%33.8%−11.4
Jakob PoeltlTORC5.4%25.1%+19.8
Jase RichardsonORLPG/SG0.4%24.6%+24.2
Collin Murray-BoylesTORPF/C5.0%13.8%+8.8
Jamal CainORLSF/PF0.2%13.7%+13.5

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
Ja'Kobe WalterTORPG/SG10.7%59.9%+49.2
Anthony BlackORLPG/SG12.4%44.1%+31.7
Jase RichardsonORLPG/SG0.4%24.6%+24.2
Jakob PoeltlTORC5.4%25.1%+19.8
Jamal CainORLSF/PF0.2%13.7%+13.5
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
RJ BarrettTORSG100.0%63.5%−36.5
Immanuel QuickleyTORPG62.2%44.6%−17.6
Franz WagnerORLSF100.0%84.4%−15.6
Scottie BarnesTORSF/PF100.0%85.5%−14.5
Wendell Carter Jr.ORLC45.1%33.8%−11.4

Small-field or limited-entry tournament contests · n = 25 players

How our projections held up

We compared our projected ownership with the real field for 25 players across 2 small-field or limited-entry tournament contests (2,427 entries). On average our number was 10.8 percentage points away from the field's. On the 14 players at 10% ownership or more, the average gap was 18.0 points. Across the board the field owned these players 3.1 points more than we projected, on average.

10.8 ptsaverage gap, ours vs the field (25 players)
0.88correlation with real ownership, 1.00 is a perfect match (n = 25)
18.0 ptsaverage gap on the 14 players at 10%+
2small-field or limited-entry tournament contests, 2,427 entries
The grade by contest type
Contest typeContestsEntriesPlayersAvg gapCorr
Small-field or limited-entry tournament22,4272510.80.88

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 $1.25K And-One [20 Entry Max] (ORL @ TOR)small-field or limited-entry tournament1,486$120
NBA Showdown $8K Pull Up Jumper [$2K to 1st] (ORL @ TOR)small-field or limited-entry tournament941$10-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 25 players, our point projections missed by 6.9 fantasy points on average (6.9 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.75 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Trayce Jackson-DavisTOR7.126.8+19.6
Jamal SheadTOR14.531.0+16.5
Jakob PoeltlTOR19.84.0−15.8
RJ BarrettTOR34.048.8+14.8
Scottie BarnesTOR37.550.5+13.0
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
C510.3−1.5
PF17.0−7.0
PF/C23.2−3.2
PG16.0+6.0
PG/SG74.5+2.4
SF27.7−3.5
SF/PF48.7+2.4
SG28.8+8.8
SG/SF11.6+1.6

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