NFL Week 2: Draft Kings Fantasy Lineup

CNG Analytics
Top Level Sports
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3 min readSep 17, 2021

Author: Elijah Cavan, CSO at CNG Analytics Inc.

Hey NFL fans! Lots of great games coming up in week 2; but who cares about that. We’re here to try and win 1 million dollars with our Draft Kings fantasy lineup; check out the challenge here:

We’ll be using our classical and quantum algorithms from CNG Analytics. If you want to check out the results from last week, here they are:

Kyler Murray, Fantasy Star, Dual Threat QB

If you read last week’s article you know the drill. First we’ll present our recommended lineup using a classical algorithm; then we’ll present the lineup generated by our in house quantum algorithm. The classical lineup looks like this:

Classical Fantasy lineup for Week 2

Very balanced ;). As a rule of thumb we should be targeting anyone from that Cardinals offence, and Taylor as a flex, plus the rook Chase and the goat himself? We might actually win this week.

Let’s see what the quantum lineup looks like:

Quantum Fantasy lineup for Week 2

Anyone notice any patterns? Lots more cardinals. Also we have Brady throwing against ATL defence … if the game isn’t over by the end of the first quarter I’m fairly confident AB is going to have a big game. Allen Robinson is also as underrated as they come (if only he could get a real QB throwing him the ball!).

Check in next week to see which lineup did better!

UPDATE TIME! Week 2 is in the books, time to see which lineup scored the most points.

The classical lineup scored: 79.34

The quantum lineup scored: 92.6

The Quantum algorithm takes it for the 2nd week in a row! (Is there a pattern developing here…?) We’d easily have broken the 100 point mark if not from some disappointing receiver play (AB with 1.7 points last week? Smh).

Tune in next week for more fantasy lineup advice!

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