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NFL Week 6 DraftKings ownership: PIT @ TB Showdown

What the field actually played on the NFL Week 6 DraftKings PIT @ TB Showdown, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 18, 2026 · Updated October 18, 2026 · After The Timeout

1 game · showdown

The slate at a glance

Sport
NFL
Week
Week 6
Site
DraftKings
Format
Showdown (single game)
Games
1
Teams
PIT, TB
First lock
Sun Oct 18, 1:00 PM ET
Player pool
31 players
Projections
Captured Sun Oct 18, 12:07 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, 2,567 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, 2,567 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Jaylen WarrenPITRB80.5%85.0%+4.5
Aaron RodgersPITQB75.0%72.0%−2.9
Bucky IrvingTBRB59.0%62.3%+3.3
Jalon DanielsTBQB55.2%60.4%+5.3
Germie BernardPITWR19.0%52.5%+33.4
DK MetcalfPITWR41.7%44.1%+2.4
Emeka EgbukaTBWR37.7%32.4%−5.3
Chris BoswellPITK29.1%24.5%−4.6
SteelersPITDST28.0%24.0%−4.0
Darnell WashingtonPITTE18.5%23.3%+4.9
Cade OttonTBTE25.8%23.2%−2.6
Chase McLaughlinTBK24.1%21.1%−3.1

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
Germie BernardPITWR19.0%52.5%+33.4
Jalon DanielsTBQB55.2%60.4%+5.3
Darnell WashingtonPITTE18.5%23.3%+4.9
Jaylen WarrenPITRB80.5%85.0%+4.5
Bucky IrvingTBRB59.0%62.3%+3.3
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Rico DowdlePITRB13.6%2.2%−11.3
Chris Godwin Jr.TBWR23.2%13.8%−9.4
BuccaneersTBDST21.5%14.8%−6.7
Emeka EgbukaTBWR37.7%32.4%−5.3
Ted Hurst IIITBWR7.8%2.6%−5.2

Small-field or limited-entry tournament contests · n = 31 players

How our projections held up

We compared our projected ownership with the real field for 31 players across 2 small-field or limited-entry tournament contests (2,567 entries). On average our number was 3.9 percentage points away from the field's. On the 16 players at 10% ownership or more, the average gap was 6.0 points.

3.9 ptsaverage gap, ours vs the field (31 players)
0.95correlation with real ownership, 1.00 is a perfect match (n = 31)
6.0 ptsaverage gap on the 16 players at 10%+
2small-field or limited-entry tournament contests, 2,567 entries
The grade by contest type
Contest typeContestsEntriesPlayersAvg gapCorr
Small-field or limited-entry tournament22,567313.90.95

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
NFL Showdown $1.5K First Down [20 Entry Max] (PIT @ TB)small-field or limited-entry tournament1,783$120
NFL Showdown $8K Showdown Special [$2K to 1st] (PIT @ TB)small-field or limited-entry tournament784$12-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 31 players, our point projections missed by 3.5 fantasy points on average (5.1 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.70 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Germie BernardPIT6.225.7+19.5
Chris BoswellPIT8.218.0+9.8
Chase McLaughlinTB7.217.0+9.8
DK MetcalfPIT10.720.3+9.6
Emeka EgbukaTB10.017.8+7.8
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
DST21.2+1.2
K29.8+9.8
QB20.9+0.9
RB82.2−1.5
TE72.80.0
WR104.6+4.0

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