Here you go! DraftKings Millionaire Maker Champion: TheDuganBrothers (246.18)

QB: Marcus Mariota – 18.18 (4.7%)
RB: DeAngelo Williams – 31.2 (3.7%)
RB: Danny Woodhead – 16.4 (10.9%)
WR: Travis Benjamin – 35.5 (0.8%)
WR: Antonio Brown – 39.5 (28.4%)
WR: Julian Edelman – 33.9 (16.5%)
TE: Rob Gronkowski – 27.3 (13.7%)
FLEX: Larry Fitzgerald – 40.2 (6.5%)
DEF: Rams – 4 (22.0%)

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TheDuganBrothers took down the second $2 million prize at DraftKings with a lineup straight out of the aquarium. There’s no getting past the inherent fishiness of this monstrously lucky lineup, king of the Millionaire Maker and best of the eight solo lineups atop its leaderboard. There are two different negatively-correlated stacks in the lineup, but no positive-correlation QB-receiver stack.

Putting Steelers DeAngelo Williams (the week’s highest-scoring running back) and Antonio Brown (the week’s highest/second-highest scoring wide receiver) on the same team was critical to the lineup’s success. Very few lineups had both Williams and Brown, and for good reason. RB/WR combos are negatively correlated: whenever Williams scores fantasy points, Brown doesn’t. Whenever Brown scores fantasy points, Williams doesn’t. When either scores a touchdown, the other loses an opportunity to do so.

TheDuganBrothers also placed Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman together in their lineup, a reasonable move if Tom Brady quarterbacked it. But with no Brady, Edelman and Gronkowski are battling each other for finite receptions, yards, and touchdowns. Like RB/WR, WR/TE from the same team are negatively correlated, especially without a QB.

When TheDuganBrothers orders a replica jersey to commemorate their Millionaire Maker victory, Travis Benjamin’s #11 will be on it. Not only did Benjamin score a whopping 35.5 fantasy points at near-minimum price, he did it for less than 1% of Millionaire Maker entrants. Along with the fishy Williams/Brown combo, this was the key contrarian move that vaulted TheDuganBrothers to the top.

FanDuel Sunday Million Champion: jeremiah1974db (209.66)

QB: Ben Roethlisberger – 30.66 (4.1%)
RB: Adrian Peterson – 18.2 (6.6%)
RB: Dion Lewis – 20.8 (0.6%)
WR: Antonio Brown – 32 (26.5%)
WR: Larry Fitzgerald – 33.2 (6.1%)
WR: Travis Benjamin – 31 (.6%)
TE: Rob Gronkowski – 20.8 (11.5%)
K: Josh Brown – 9 (20.3%)
DEF: New York Jets – 14 (0.9%)

Here is a wonderful tournament lineup. jeremiah1974db started with an innocuous Berger/Brown stack, added a couple studs (Peterson and Gronk) and a couple standard fill-ins (Fitzgerald and Josh Brown), then wildly differentiated his lineup with three brilliant game-changers.

Jeremiah played $5200 Dion Lewis, who gave him enough points to overcome not having DeAngelo Williams in his lineup. As a still-under-the-radar, pass-catching running back for the Patriots, Lewis offered tremendous upside for his price. A high-upside, low-price, low-owned player is the exact profile we want to target in large-field tournaments. He is negatively correlated with TE Gronkowski, but we’ll forgive him for stacking the best tight end with a low-priced pass-catching running back.

Jeremiah also got Benjamin, who fits the same profile as Lewis, into his lineup – and he managed to do it without Johnny Manziel attached to him. Finally, Jeremiah went with the ultra-contrarian New York Jets defense, one of two (alongside Dallas) talented defenses in a perceived bad matchup. The three “good matchup” defenses – Baltimore, Miami, and St. Louis – flopped hard and those who went contrarian gained a ton of ground on the field. This is how you win the Sunday Million by eight points without the highest-scoring running back on your team.