DraftKings continues to be one of the hottest daily fantasy sites. Even though it’s slightly smaller in overall size than FanDuel, it’s the site of choice for tens of thousands of fantasy sports fans. Having said that, it doesn’t matter how popular DraftKings is if you’re unable to win. Whether you’re playing fantasy football, baseball, […]
How FanDuel Works – FanDuel Beginners Guide 2017
The Absolute Beginners Guide to FanDuel – 2017 Edition So you’ve heard about Daily Fantasy Sports and you want to play. Well this guide to FanDuel, walks you you through every aspect of the rules, the games and the prizes and how to play. First Step – Signing Up & Creating Your FanDuel Account When […]
The Double Edged Sword of Daily Fantasy Sports Projections and Expert Picks
A few years ago, you’d have been hard-pressed to find reliable sites offering daily fantasy sports projections. Today, they’re everywhere. Some sites crunch huge reams of data and provide statistics that reveal the best players and matchups for a given evening. Other sites host fantasy experts – guys and gals who have a track record […]
Using Schedules, Rest Days and Injuries for DFS
Using Schedules, Rest days and Injuries in Daily Fantasy Sports You’ll find much advice online about using statistics in daily fantasy sports and of course this should be the most dominant factor when selecting your line-ups. However, every good fantasy contestant will be looking at how a particular player is performing both over the season […]
$10,000 DraftDay Hockey Fantasy Contest “Ice Throne”
Draft Day are holding their ‘Ice Throne’ tournament on January 29th. This is the sites largest Ice Hockey Daily Fantasy Sports contest with $2,000 going to the eventual winner. There are just 225 spots available in the field and these spots are filling up quickly, with 101 seats taken at time of writing. The contest […]
Successful Drafting According to Contest Type
Know Thy Enemy Understand your tourney. The imperative nature of being detailed in your approach to expanding your contest portfolio cannot be understated. DFS should be viewed as an investment – because any participant who views it as a gamble, is your lunch meat. And as an investment, your bank account and your billfold will […]
Advanced Bankroll Metrics
The Kelly Method The Kelly criterion is a beautiful and useful tool for determining optimal bet proportion of bankroll according to expectation in order to achieve maximum growth. That being said, its use as a hard and fast rule for DFS is questionable because of contest formatting and the volatility created by the variable in […]
