FanDuel Best NBA DFS Picks: Mavericks vs. Rockets 11/3/25
Dallas Mavericks vs. Houston Rockets
November 3, 2025 8:00 pm EDT
The NBA presents FanDuel basketball fans with a regular season matchup featuring the Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets. Let’s take a look at this game from a DFS perspective.
Before we dive into the Dallas Mavericks vs. Houston Rockets game let’s review the rules for the FanDuel single game showdown contest.
FanDuel Single Game Contest Rules
Here are the FanDuel single game contest rules. You have $60,000 to utilize on five players from either team. However, one of those players will be designated as your team MVP. The MVP accumulates 1.5x times the standard FanDuel fantasy points value. Additionally, the MVP is 1.5 times the standard cost of the flex position.
The remaining five players in your lineup will be flex plays. The five flex positions will receive the standard FanDuel points value. Having stated that, it is highly important for you to identify the correct player for your MVP position if you hope to win a large field GPP (guaranteed prize pool) FanDuel single game contest.
If you have additional questions regarding the rules for the single game contest, I highly recommend that you check out the FanDuel website for more details.
*I recommend that all readers review the starting lineups for both teams prior to setting your DFS lineup for this one game slate.
Here are my FanDuel picks for tonight’s Mavericks vs. Rockets matchup.
FanDuel NBA DFS Picks
MVP-Alperen Sengun, Center, Houston Rockets $13,800
Talented center Alperen Sengun has been a solid contributor for the Houston Rockets this season. Having stated that, how has Sengun played from a data standpoint? Let’s examine Sengun’s relevant game data from the 2025 NBA regular season to better shed light on the veteran center’s overall contributions to his team.
In the five games that center Alperen Sengun has played for the Houston Rockets in the 2025 NBA season, Sengun has averaged a robust 22.2 points, 8.4 rebounds, 7.6 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.1 blocks a game.
Examining the data just presented more closely, in the five games that Alperen Sengun has played for the Houston Rockets in the 2025 NBA regular season, Sengun has compiled a 47.3% field goal percentage, a 52.9% three point percentage and a 78% free throw percentage.
More recently in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 125-124 win over the Houston Rockets last month, Houston center Alperen Sengun played exceptionally well. Let me be more specific. In the Thunder’s defeat of the Rockets, Sengun amassed 39 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists, two steals and one block.
What did we learn from the data just presented? The data clearly illustrates that Alperen Sengun can post a high number of DFS points on any given night. With that said, I fully expect that trend to continue in tonight’s matchup with the Dallas Mavericks.
As I noted in the rules section above, selecting the correct player at the MVP position for a FanDuel NBA single game lineup is absolutely vital if you hope to win a large field GPP (guaranteed prize pool) DFS contest. Keep that in mind as you construct your lineups.
In my view, Alperen Sengun is the player most likely to accumulate the highest number of FanDuel points in this NBA regular seaspn game. For that specific reason, I am backing Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun at the MVP position for this one game FanDuel DFS NBA slate.
Additional flex plays I like to play well in this evening’s NBA regular season game (FanDuel price noted): Amen Thompson, Point Guard (Houston Rockets) $12,000: Cooper Flagg, Forward (Dallas Mavericks) $11,000: Naji Marshall, Forward (Dallas Mavericks) $2,600.
