Welcome to this edition of the NFL DFS Showdown SZN breakdown. The aim of this post is to look at the best players to build around and constructions to focus on for the night's NFL DFS showdown contests on Draftkings. We run the Showdown Contest simulations to see what differences we can find in projected ownership and likely exposure. Likewise, we take into account the whole lineup's projection and ownership.

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Captain ownership distributions

Some notes on Captain exposures and edges:

CMC good, Stafford bad Realistically there is a lean towards SF but I'll talk about that more Exposures are very clear in CMC, Puka, or bust

The edges here are fun to look at but the real story is in the exposures: CMC shows up 40% of the time in winning lineups at captain, Puka Nacua at 16%, and then ...