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NFL Week 7 DraftKings ownership: SF @ ATL Showdown

What the field actually played on the NFL Week 7 DraftKings SF @ ATL Showdown, next to what we projected before lock. Our misses are shown in full.

October 25, 2026 · Updated October 25, 2026 · After The Timeout

1 game · showdown

The slate at a glance

Sport
NFL
Week
Week 7
Site
DraftKings
Format
Showdown (single game)
Games
1
Teams
ATL, SF
First lock
Sun Oct 25, 1:00 PM ET
Player pool
27 players
Projections
Captured Sun Oct 25, 12:37 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, 11,839 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, 11,839 entries
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Christian McCaffreySFRB44.9%70.2%+25.2
Bijan RobinsonATLRB52.6%67.0%+14.4
Brock PurdySFQB59.2%63.1%+4.0
George KittleSFTE43.1%53.5%+10.4
Drake LondonATLWR39.9%36.5%−3.4
Michael Penix Jr.ATLQB50.0%34.9%−15.1
Khalil HerbertATLRB3.1%29.6%+26.5
Jordan WatkinsSFWR16.2%25.2%+9.0
Jahan DotsonATLWR31.4%24.4%−7.0
Kyle Pitts Sr.ATLTE32.9%24.4%−8.6
Nick FolkATLK41.2%22.7%−18.6
Kyle JuszczykSFRB1.1%20.5%+19.4

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
Khalil HerbertATLRB3.1%29.6%+26.5
Christian McCaffreySFRB44.9%70.2%+25.2
Kyle JuszczykSFRB1.1%20.5%+19.4
Bijan RobinsonATLRB52.6%67.0%+14.4
George KittleSFTE43.1%53.5%+10.4
The field played him less than we projected
PlayerPosOursFieldGap
Eddy PineiroSFK42.1%19.9%−22.1
Nick FolkATLK41.2%22.7%−18.6
Brandin CooksSFWR25.3%10.0%−15.3
Michael Penix Jr.ATLQB50.0%34.9%−15.1
FalconsATLDST23.4%11.5%−11.8

Large-field tournament contests · n = 28 players

How our projections held up

We compared our projected ownership with the real field for 28 players across 2 large-field tournament contests (11,839 entries). On average our number was 9.0 percentage points away from the field's. On the 19 players at 10% ownership or more, the average gap was 12.3 points. Across the board the field owned these players 0.1 points less than we projected, on average.

9.0 ptsaverage gap, ours vs the field (28 players)
0.81correlation with real ownership, 1.00 is a perfect match (n = 28)
12.3 ptsaverage gap on the 19 players at 10%+
2large-field tournament contests, 11,839 entries
The grade by contest type
Contest typeContestsEntriesPlayersAvg gapCorr
Large-field tournament211,839289.00.81

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 $3K mini-MAX [150 Entry Max] (SF @ ATL)large-field tournament7,134$0.50150
NFL Showdown $60K Showdown Special [$20K to 1st] (SF @ ATL)large-field tournament4,705$15-
How our fantasy point projections held up

Across 27 players, our point projections missed by 4.2 fantasy points on average (4.5 on players who scored), with a correlation of 0.77 against what they actually scored.

Biggest point misses
PlayerOursActualGap
Kyle JuszczykSF0.410.1+9.7
Nick MuseATL0.08.2+8.2
Eddy PineiroSF9.22.0−7.2
Brock PurdySF21.114.0−7.1
49ersSF5.9-1.0−6.9
By position
PosPlayersAvg missBias
DST26.5−0.3
K24.8−2.4
QB25.7−1.4
RB64.7+3.3
TE72.9+2.9
WR83.8−0.3

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