DraftKings is now offering daily fantasy games for CounterStrike: Global Offensive (CS:GO)! A Showdown game, a CS:GO roster has five “flex” spots and one “captain” slot, which receives a 1.5x multiplier on fantasy output.
Points are primarily earned via kills and assists, while each death comes with a one-point penalty. DraftKings also awards bonuses for the following stats:
- Entry Kill (first kill of the round)
- Clutches (when a player wins a round as the last player alive on the team)
- Multi-kill rounds
DraftKings CS:GO uses a “game-length adjustment” (GLA), which normalizes all games to a total of 90 rounds. For instance, if a match is won 2-0, a full 30-round “adjustment” is awarded to each player in the match to make up for the unneeded third set. GLA is factored into these projections, as all players are adjusted based on the assumption of full three-set matches.
GS:GO Notes for Tuesday, Apr. 7
- Gla1ve: After being priced at $8,200 in Astralis’ last matchup against Natus Vincere, gla1ve finds himself in the bargain bin on Tuesday as the cheapest player on the entire slate at $4,800. While gla1ve has tallied more deaths than kills in four of the past five matches, his salary is simply too cheap given that Astralis is the second-largest favorite on the slate.
- If you do decide to use gla1ve, consider pairing him with teammates Xyp9x or device, who currently project as the Nos. 2-3 scorers on the slate. Both are $8,000-plus, but their cost is offset by the salary savings gla1ve provides.
- S1mple remains in play despite a $9,200 price tag. Propelled by a slate-best 24.6% share of his team’s kills over the past six months, s1mple has the highest overall projection on Tuesday’s slate by a healthy margin. He looked like a one-man wrecking crew at times against OG on Monday, finishing with 47 kills and a 1.4 rating, both game highs.
- Fresh off a big win over Astralis on Monday, fnatic is the largest favorite on Tuesday’s slate ahead of their matchup against OG. The problem is that KRIMZ, Brollan, JW and flusha all have similar projections, making roster decisions difficult. If you choose only one, JW makes the most sense based on his $5,600 salary. On Monday, JW led fnatic in hltv’s Rating 2.0 metric, a statistic that measures how well players perform based on the expected value of certain metrics, including kill/assist rating, kill rating, survival rating, impact rating and damage rating.
