Who says that lesser owned players have less skill? A huge part of winning a big tournament is going against the grain. Not saying that every single player has to be low owned, you could put Ovechkin in your lineup and still win a big tournament. What I'm saying is you need to have those players that very few others have and hope they have a big night for you because you'll be one of the only ones getting huge points.
For example here are some guys I would have looked at tonight based on those owned percentages:
Gaudreau (1%) - Monahan (0.3%) - Hudler (0.3%) - Why, because the line is back together and they could breakout at anytime. If your the guy who has them when they do your looking to cash in.
Parise (2.3%), Hartnell (1.4%), Okposo (1.7%), Kucherov (1.6%), Hedman (.7%), Josi (2.3%), are just some other very good players that could break out.
On Fanduel, Taylor Hall was 2.3% according to the NHL One-Timer single entry tonight, he has 5.9 FP as I write this. Ovechkin has 5.2 FP, 16.2% owned, and is $1000 more to pay up for. Hall is the better LW choice tonight and anyone who picked him instead of Ovi has a leg up on everyone else. I realize the difference is only .7 FP but I'm just using it as an example. If Hall went off for 15 FP and Ovi still had 5FP that 2.3% with Hall would be shooting towards the top.
Here is my lineup for the $1 One-timer single entry tonight on Fanduel. Sitting 52nd out of 5405 people and only making $8. It is only $1 entry, but still these tournaments are so hard to take down.
As you can see I went against the grain with the Blue Jackets over the Blues because Bobrovsky has been playing better as of late and so has Johansen. Also the Devils players because they lost to Montreal last night and could see them coming back to win tonight. They didn't really explode or anything to win the tournament, but I'm at least making $9 off of the $1 I put in. The potential was definitely there though.
Here is an example of my best lineup I have ever put together on Fanduel.
Seguin and Benn didn't have a point after the first couple games last year and people we're off them, so I took them and lucked out. They were only 3% owned which was a huge reason as to why I won. And because of that I could afford one of my players to get 0.7 points and my goalie to not get the win.
That's some of my thinking when it comes to DFS.