DFS Intro

Our season-long drafts are behind us and it’s time to think about daily fantasy. If your first draft of the year is the most exciting time in fantasy football, the first week of DFS has to be a close second.

Let’s get you ready. Here’s what you should be doing right now.

1. Refresh your knowledge base by re-reading our DFS eBook.
2. Go back to last year’s FD and DK Building Blocks articles and re-read those. Obviously, you don’t care about the individual players in those articles, but all throughout you’ll find little nuggets of strategy that you can start applying in Week 1 – sometimes it’s something reinforcing a concept in the eBook, sometimes it’s something new or unique about an individual situation. We’ll still be adding those nuggets into our weekly content, but you can jumpstart your play by going back to those articles now.
3. Start building some test lineups. On a normal week, you should be building your lineups later in the week all the way through Sunday morning, but start playing with some now to get yourself back in the groove of lineup building. Start looking at pricing for values and potentially over-owned players, start looking at what correlation stacks you like and what mini-correlation stacks you like, etc. And start looking at what new contests may be available; it’s time to plan what contests you want to play each week. Are you going to be a cash player focusing on double-ups and 50/50s, are you going to be a single-entry tournament player, or a large-field guaranteed prize-pool (GPP) player? Are you going to enter one lineup or multiple? What can your bankroll afford? Are you going to “take a shot” in week one or are you going to take a disciplined approach and play the same way every week?

And here’s what you can expect from our DFS content.

We’re expanding our early-week content in the form of more detailed player grids and consolidating our primary strategy articles into one “Building Blocks” article. Our focus is on the main slate. We’ll have some articles on how to approach showdown slates, but won’t be providing individual analysis for each showdown slate or small-slate (early-only, afternoon-only, etc.).

The player grids will give you player pricing, conservative projections, aggressive projections, cash and tourney ratings, and ownership %. This will be your cheat sheet for the week that you can use to build a good lineup without any other information, but, if you’re able to, you should always read our Building Blocks article. You can expect this player grid around mid-week, with ownership % and cash and tourney ratings tightening up as we get closer to the weekend.

The Building Blocks article will go further into strategy for the slate, some additional player thoughts, stacks we like, and what specific core plays we’ll be using for the week. This article will normally be posted Saturday before lunch, sometimes we get it out Friday night and sometimes a bit later on Saturday, but that’s generally when you can expect it.