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Anyone play DFS?
I know I brought this up awhile back, but since the search engine is busted, figured I'd bring it up again.
I used to be into it 10 yrs ago after I took down a 7,000-player MLB tourney in my first ever DFS game, but only played haphazardly until last year, when my son got into it. Now we're both big into it, and he won TWO 1,000+ player tourneys on back-to-back nights this weekend. I had my best DFS showing since my 2013 tourney win last night, but I still consider myself a pretty conservative player. I'll play $50-$100 a night in DFS, with cash games being 80% of that total.
I play NBA, PGA, UFC & Nascar DFS now, but am looking forward to playing MLB DFS again soon.
We've tried a few of the DFS optimizer services, and while I'd rather not pay the high costs associated with them, unless you're an MIT mathematician (which I am decidedly not), they're essential.
The one we've settled on as being the best is SaberSim, which costs a hefty $90/month, but it's been kind of worth the cost, especially this month (it wasn't last month, lol). I tried LineStar, which is much cheaper at $40/month, but they had this nasty quality of trying to please the masses by not giving anyone who asked their best lineups. In other words, if you use their optimizer and have it give you the top 5 highest scoring lineups, it would change it constantly for every customer, because in their exact words, "then everyone would get the same lineup." I mean, so what? If I'm paying you for your "highest scoring optimized lineups," I'd better get your "highest scoring optimized lineups," and not just crap thrown against the wall, which is what it seemed. I usually enter lineups in the afternoon because I don't want to forget about them before lock -- which I did a month ago, what a disaster -- and just want to refresh it in the event of players being in/out of the lineup, and realized they were just spitting out anything. Too bad, because their statistical data is top-notch IMO.
I tried Rotowire, but it wasn't for me.
My son loves We Want Picks, which is UFC only, but these guys know what they're talking about and it's just $10/month.
A leaguemate of mine, who once took down a $250k DFS tourney win, recommends FTN, and maybe I'll try that if SaberSim fails us.
Who else plays DFS? Would love to turn this into a discussion thread in-season.
I know I brought this up awhile back, but since the search engine is busted, figured I'd bring it up again.
I used to be into it 10 yrs ago after I took down a 7,000-player MLB tourney in my first ever DFS game, but only played haphazardly until last year, when my son got into it. Now we're both big into it, and he won TWO 1,000+ player tourneys on back-to-back nights this weekend. I had my best DFS showing since my 2013 tourney win last night, but I still consider myself a pretty conservative player. I'll play $50-$100 a night in DFS, with cash games being 80% of that total.
I play NBA, PGA, UFC & Nascar DFS now, but am looking forward to playing MLB DFS again soon.
We've tried a few of the DFS optimizer services, and while I'd rather not pay the high costs associated with them, unless you're an MIT mathematician (which I am decidedly not), they're essential.
The one we've settled on as being the best is SaberSim, which costs a hefty $90/month, but it's been kind of worth the cost, especially this month (it wasn't last month, lol). I tried LineStar, which is much cheaper at $40/month, but they had this nasty quality of trying to please the masses by not giving anyone who asked their best lineups. In other words, if you use their optimizer and have it give you the top 5 highest scoring lineups, it would change it constantly for every customer, because in their exact words, "then everyone would get the same lineup." I mean, so what? If I'm paying you for your "highest scoring optimized lineups," I'd better get your "highest scoring optimized lineups," and not just crap thrown against the wall, which is what it seemed. I usually enter lineups in the afternoon because I don't want to forget about them before lock -- which I did a month ago, what a disaster -- and just want to refresh it in the event of players being in/out of the lineup, and realized they were just spitting out anything. Too bad, because their statistical data is top-notch IMO.
I tried Rotowire, but it wasn't for me.
My son loves We Want Picks, which is UFC only, but these guys know what they're talking about and it's just $10/month.
A leaguemate of mine, who once took down a $250k DFS tourney win, recommends FTN, and maybe I'll try that if SaberSim fails us.
Who else plays DFS? Would love to turn this into a discussion thread in-season.
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