Buccaneers vs Bears FanDuel Showdown Breakdown Week 9

Buccaneers at Bears is a Week 9 Sunday single game slate, a projected 48 point game at Soldier Field with the Bears favored by 6. Below is the game type, the MVP pool, the full FTA projection board for the FanDuel single game slate, the MVP leverage board, the optimal lineup against the ownership capped build, and the low owned screen.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Chicago Bears kicks off on Sunday November 8 at 8:20 PM Eastern at Soldier Field, and it is a one game slate. Below is the full FTA projection board for the FanDuel single game slate, the optimal lineup, the MVP leverage board and the low owned screen, with every number taken from the same simulation set that feeds our tools.

48.2Projected total
Bears by 6Spread
194%Optimal ownership
29Players with projections
Injury note. Emeka Egbuka and Kyle Monangai are listed questionable or doubtful, so check them before you build.

Game type: Clear favorite, standard total

The Bears are clear favorites. Expect the field to stack Bears MVPs and treat the Buccaneers as salary filler.

How to build it: Lean Bears at MVP, but a Buccaneers MVP in a slice of lineups is the cheapest way to separate if the game stays close.

What the slate shape says before you look at a single player

Our simulations put this game at 48.2 total points, with the Bears at 27.4 and the Buccaneers at 20.8, a spread of about 6.5 points. The Bears are the side the field will lean on, but this is not a blowout on paper, and the Buccaneers are very much alive.

Even so, do not build only one side. Our study of 163 showdown slates found the perfect lineup took players from both sides in almost every slate, with a three to three or four to two split accounting for the clear majority. Building entirely on one team is the single most common way to lose a showdown you had right.

The top of the FanDuel board

Caleb WilliamsCHI QB21.19$13,000
D'Andre SwiftCHI RB16.87$10,800
Baker MayfieldTB QB15.63$11,400
Bucky IrvingTB RB14.30$12,000
Luther Burden IIICHI WR12.80$10,000
Colston LovelandCHI TE11.53$8,200
Emeka EgbukaTB WR10.06$9,400
Cairo SantosCHI K9.40$6,600

The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 29 players, the value board, the MVP leverage board and the optimal lineup are below for FTA+ members.

The rest of this breakdown is in FTA+. Members get the complete 29 player projection board, the value board, the MVP leverage board ranked by ceiling over ownership, the optimal lineup with its total projected ownership, the same build under an ownership cap, and the low owned screen. See what FTA+ includes.

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You are seeing the top projections on this single game slate. The full player board, the value board, the captain and MVP leverage board, the optimal lineup with its projected ownership and the low owned screen are in FTA+.

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