Eagles at Commanders is the Week 8 Sunday night showdown, a projected 41 point game with Jalen Hurts out, Tanner McKee starting for Philadelphia, and Terry McLaurin out for Washington. Below is the game type, the captain pool, the full FTA projection board for the DraftKings showdown, the captain leverage board, the optimal lineup against the ownership capped build, and the low owned screen.
Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Commanders kicks off on Sunday November 1 at 8:20 PM Eastern at Northwest Stadium, and it is a one game slate. Below is the full FTA projection board for the DraftKings showdown, the optimal lineup, the captain leverage board and the low owned screen, with every number taken from the same simulation set that feeds our tools.
Game type: Lean favorite, grind
The Commanders are favored but not by much. The field will tilt toward Commanders captains without fully abandoning the Eagles.
How to build it: Make most captains Commanders, keep a meaningful share on the Eagles, and always bring back at least one player from the other side. A low total makes kickers and defenses more useful than usual.
What the slate shape says before you look at a single player
Our simulations put this game at 40.9 total points, with the Commanders at 23.5 and the Eagles at 17.4, a spread of about 6 points. The Commanders are the side the field will lean on, but this is not a blowout on paper, and the Eagles 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 DraftKings board
The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 30 players, the value board, the captain leverage board and the optimal lineup are below for FTA+ members.
That is the free preview
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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