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🎙 TNF Week 10 Showdown: Commanders at Giants, three Captain lineups | Sports Analytics - Dataspheres AI

TNF Week 10 Showdown: Commanders at Giants, three Captain lineups (10 min), with captions The story DraftKings is running a $1.2 million Thursday Night Sho...

TNF Week 10 Showdown: Commanders at Giants, three Captain lineups (10 min), with captions The story DraftKings is running a $1.2 million Thursday Night Showdown contest for the Washington Commanders at New York Giants, with $300,000 to first place. The contest costs $20 to enter and takes up to 70,588 entries, with a single player allowed up to 150 of them. Kickoff is 8:15 PM Eastern at MetLife Stadium, carried on Prime Video. The format is a one-game showdown: a Captain who scores 1.5 times the points at 1.5 times the salary, plus five FLEX spots under a $50,000 cap, with at least one player from each team. Because six of the 59 players on the board fill a lineup and the Captain counts for half again as much, the winning roster is likely to be one the rest of the field is not holding. The Giants are favored by 2.5 points, with a total of 40.5. The obvious trap is October's meeting between these teams, a 27-27 overtime tie in which Giants quarterback Jameis Winston threw 54 passes and Malik Nabers drew 20 targets. J.J. McCarthy now starts for New York and threw 19 passes at Philadelphia last Sunday, and Nabers had 9 and 8 targets in McCarthy's two starts. The total tonight sits 13.5 points under the 54 the teams scored in October. The Giants are 5-2-1 and Washington is 2-5-1. New York scores 22.8 points a game and allows 21.5; Washington scores 21.5 and allows 25.3, the ninth-most in the NFL. The forecast at the open-air stadium is 52 degrees, a 12 mile an hour north-east wind and a 74% chance of light rain. On the board, Nabers is the most expensive player at $11,000, or $16,500 as Captain, averaging 17.7 points a game. Jayden Daniels is $10,000 and $15,000 as Captain on 20.4 points a game, with no interception in 180 passes. Cam Skattebo ($9,000) and McCarthy ($8,800) both practised in full on Tuesday and Wednesday and carry no injury designation. Three sample builds are offered: a safe lineup captained by Daniels at $49,800, a mid lineup captained by Nabers at $49,500, and a high-risk lineup captained by Isaiah Likely at $49,300. Likely has six touchdowns in eight games and costs $4,200 less as Captain than Nabers, which buys a sixth player. The one scenario none of the builds covers is a Giants quarterback change back to Winston. Inactives land at 6:45 PM Eastern, 90 minutes before kickoff. The only questionable player on either report is a Giants linebacker who is not on the DraftKings board. If Skattebo sits, Devin Singletary at $8,000 is the pivot after 21 carries at Philadelphia. Highlights Highlight In pictures Listen The episode as audio