Viktor Blom Is Breaking the $25K Fantasy Contest at $21.60

Viktor Blom costs $21.60 in the $25K Fantasy draft and is returning 303.8 points, a value gap so wide it distorts the entire contest.

Of 3,815 rostered teams on 25kfantasy.com, only 98 own Blom. That's 2.6% ownership on a player whose +231.3 delta (actual score minus ODB's expected points at his draft price) is the largest in the field. For context, the ODB isotonic curve pegs a $21.60 player at 72.5 expected points. Blom is quadrupling that.

And almost nobody noticed.

Of 3,815 rostered teams on 25kfantasy.com, only 98 own Viktor Blom, the player with the largest value delta in the entire contest at +231.3.

The Chalk Is Paying Retail

The most-owned player in the contest is Ari Engel at 11% ownership (419 teams), drafted at an average price of $11.30 and scoring 96.4 points. That's a fine return on a cheap asset. But compare it to Blom: Engel costs roughly half as much and returns less than a third of the points.

Shaun Deeb sits on 10.1% of rosters (385 teams) at an average price of $88.30, scoring 249 points. Deeb is producing, but he's eating nearly four times the cap space Blom requires. The points-per-dollar math isn't close.

The rest of the chalk tier tells a similar story. Brian Rast (9.1% ownership, $37.30 avg price, 199.1 points) and Scott Seiver (8.7%, $48.30, 208.5 points) are both solid performers. Neither approaches Blom's efficiency. Adam Friedman (8.3%, $20.60, 88.2 points) and Robert Mizrachi (8.3%, $30, 90 points) are returning below the ODB curve at their price points.

Mike Matusow at $3.80 and 80.4 points on 8.2% of teams is a fun punt. James Obst at $28 and 138.3 points on 8.3% of teams is reasonable. But none of them are Blom.

The Hidden Tier Below Blom

Blom isn't the only mispriced asset. Koray Aldemir is putting up 301.1 points at an $18.10 average draft price, good for a +231.1 delta that's nearly identical to Blom's. The difference: Aldemir sits on 281 teams (7.4% ownership), almost triple Blom's exposure. The field found Aldemir. It missed Blom.

Further down the board, the numbers get wilder. Klemens Roiter costs $9 and is scoring 277 points (+220.6 delta), but only 23 teams own him. Andrew Ostapchenko and Yueqi "Rich" Zhu were both drafted at the $1 minimum and are returning 233.1 and 229 points respectively. Combined, they sit on 42 teams total. These are ghost rosters printing points that nobody is collecting.

The Busts Tell the Other Story

On the opposite end, Michael Moncek is the biggest bust in the pool. Drafted at $85.10 on 94 teams, he's scored just 68 points against an expected 151.9. That's a -83.9 delta and a devastating cap hit.

Bryn Kenney ($39.50, 20.7 points, -72.6 delta) and Aditya Prasetyo ($38, 17 points, -72 delta) are similarly underwater. Eugene Katchalov ($22.20, 16.2 points) and Konstantin Maslak ($12.70, 0.9 points) round out the bottom five.

The pattern is clear: the field is paying premium prices for name recognition and getting crushed on the back end, while sub-$25 assets like Blom, Aldemir, and Roiter are generating four times their expected value in near-total obscurity.

What This Means for Your Roster

If you're building or adjusting a team, the ODB curve is screaming one thing: the $15-$25 tier is where the alpha lives. Blom at $21.60 with 303.8 points is not a fluke data point. It's a structural inefficiency that 97.4% of the field is ignoring.

The chalk picks aren't bad players. They're bad prices.