Here’s what I wrote during the Week 1 edition of this series:
I think one of the most underrated aspects of being a profitable DFS player is game selection. In one of our recent FantasyLabs Podcast episodes, we talked about how important it is to identify your specific skillset in DFS. Are you good at spotting value and competing in cash games? Are you good at finding contrarian players and understanding tournament game theory? It’s important to be self-aware and to tailor game selection to your skills.
Listed below are the tournaments for NFL Week 1 on both DraftKings and FanDuel. I did all tournaments with a prize pool of at least $75,000, and I color-formatted the table in case you’re a visual learner. The colors are less important than being able to visualize the difference between the tournaments. In other words, I don’t think that the tournaments with $3 entry fees are bad. It’s just that I happened to mark them red.
I think these tables can help identify which tournaments you should target. Sure, winning $1,000,000 on just a $3 entry fee is sexy, but for the rest of us it is critical to target the tournaments that fit our personal playing styles best. Are you more of a chalky tournament player? That’s fine. Target the tournaments like the $5 DK Flea Flicker, which pays out only five percent to first place but cashes 30.1 percent of entries. Do you like the super top-heavy tournaments? Those are available as well.
Both DK and FD offer a variety of tournaments at different price points that cater to different playing styles. Understanding where you fall in that spectrum and allocating your entries into those tournaments can certainly help make the 2016 NFL season a profitable one.
Still true.
A couple notes for this week . . .
- Because of the early Sunday game in London, both DK and FD have added unique slates to include that game. It is not in the 1:00pm Sunday main slates.
- DraftKings has added a Sunday afternoon turbo slate that includes three games.
- DraftKings has not added its Monday-Thursday slates yet. I will update these spreadsheets this weekend and tweet out the update when I do.
Enjoy and good luck in Week 4!
