Top 5 Tips to Win Money Playing DFS: Build Your Bankroll

[00:02] continue to get harder tools and data improve every year and if you're not using the best available there's a good chance you're getting left behind yet players all the time trying to figure out how to make money in this realm some

[00:15] limited bank roll several have asked me over the years what I would recommend to limited bank roll today it is harder than it was when I started over a decade ago but it is still absolutely possible to build a DFS bank rooll today you just

[00:29] spending your money I've got some ideas I'll give you five starting with where I would start if I had less than $20 per day to enter in DFS if you're new to DFS and even if you're a DFS veteran one of the most sustainable ways to build a

[00:42] don't know what that means I'll give you a quick and simple example generally tournaments that's why we call them gpps it stands for guaranteed prize pool so as an example a tournament on DraftKings might be sized to have 10,000 entrance

[00:56] with a $10 buy and that's $100,000 in entry fees but DraftKings will take a cut which is called The Rake if the rake is 10% there will be a $90,000 in guaranteed prices overlay happens when the contest is size for 10,000 entries

[01:09] but fewer than 9,000 entries are filled if the contest only fills 80% DraftKings is only taking in $80,000 but they have to pay out 90,000 that's called overlay and every DFS player in the contest gains some EV by the contest not filling

[01:22] if the contest fills 95% DraftKings will still get a cut it'll just be smaller reduced rake which is still great where do you find find overlay if you're typically you just have to wait until close to lock and scour the lobbies

[01:36] contest after the original contest fill and the secondary contest won't fill alternatively you can often find overlay on new DFS sites as they are trying to gain customers new DFS sites will often create contests that are a bit too large

[01:49] expectation that they probably won't fill because they're trying to draw in new customers currently you can find this on owners box it's week 13 as I'm on owners box haven't filled all year yet they continue to put out contests

[02:03] with large prize polls that consistently have overlay or reduced rate check it out if you haven't already done so a lot of people know Underdog for their best ball and pick them contests but the daily contests go overlooked as a great

[02:15] not familiar they're basically DFS contests but rather than having a salary cap and giving each player a salary you draft your team against other entrance usually drafting with three to five other people but after the draft you're

[02:28] competing with a much larger pool in a gpp style contest there are a few things that I love about Underdog dailies number one lower rake than is typical on other sites currently the Battle Royale contest for week 14 NFL for example has

[02:42] 11.1% rake most of the flagship contests on other sites are around 15% so a dailies number two flatter payout structures the Week 14 NFL Battle Royale structures the Week 14 NFL Battle Royale just as an example had a $300,000 prize

[02:57] pool it's 30,000 to First 20,000 a second 15,000 to3rd Etc much easier to sustain a bank roll relative to standard DFS contest where 20 to 25% of the prize pool goes to first place number three it's just like regular DFS except much

[03:12] softer than the more popular sites the same considerations apply like factoring in ownership correlation leverage Etc but it's a lot softer DFS Pros don't entries so they just don't bother playing on underdog if you just look at

[03:26] premium player projections you can some times find players with great projections going well later than players who project worse many drafters are more casual on Underdog and a lot more lineups won't be correlated at all

[03:39] same players since they're ranked by ADP if you just don't draft by ADP you can and also get some rare player combos they are great contest in a vacuum and players and fewer Pros if you haven't checked out the dailies on Underdog I

[03:55] highly recommend giving them a shot this third suggestion is fairly nich if you don't love NFL fast forward but if you are an NFL Enthusiast like I am there is a lot of edge in Flash drafts on DraftKings during Prime Time games

[04:10] specifically you can also play Flash drafts during regular NFL sites but if you're not familiar with flash drafts here's an overview contests are for are typically several different drafts for each quarter of the game each being

[04:24] unique each draft typically has several different Buy in levels from $1 to hundreds you can enter at just one Buy in level or several but they're run same for all prize pools for each contest are scaled based on the number

[04:36] of entrance and generally they have nice flat payout structures the draft itself questions with three possible answers each asking who will score the most answers are a single player but some questions will have choices with

[04:49] multiple players or give a multiplier to a player or two often certain players will show up in multiple questions in the same draft drafters are given 15 written artic article on flash draft strategy and I'll make sure to link that

[05:02] just correlate like crazy choose the same player multiple times if possible question try to skip that player again if they come up again it is astounding how few drafters factor in their past picks with each new multiple choice set

[05:16] if you haven't already first three suggestions have all been about contest selection these last two are about tools that might not make sense right away if but can help you to really elevate your game once you built up your bank roll a

[05:30] bit my fourth suggestion is one that if you followed me for long you probably heard me talk about it I think it is the best value tool in the industry by far I lineup generator which you can get for NFL NBA MLB the list is expanding the

[05:45] get the power of stochastic Sims product for a fraction of the price every single one that has been run through tens of thousands of Sims and shows up as profitable in those Sims I'll give three pieces of advice that I think are

[05:59] comes to the lineup generator first try to wait until close to lock for NFL inactives come out 90 minutes before games lock typically I recommend running the lineup generator within 60 Minutes of lock so you can be confident all the

[06:12] late breaking news the closer you can get to lock the better second the lineup but there is no reason you need to just take the first 20 lineups it gives you the lineup generator has thousands of lineups that look good in The Sims so

[06:26] choosing lineups you like finding the right balance with your player exposures Etc third if you really want to create your own lineups the lineup Jer is still a great tool for studying both which players look good on a given slate and

[06:39] haven't already checked it out I can't recommend it highly enough finally once you're either playing high volume or high stakes I believe the stochastic market you can start with the first stage of the Sims which is the contest

[06:54] level package you can generate a field of up to 10,000 lineups if you'd rather lineups and upload them from an outside Source either way once you've got your lineups you can put them through the pre-contest simulator at a contest level

[07:09] into it tens of thousands of times and tell you exactly how each lineup did over those many thousand Sims it'll tell you which had the highest Roi in The frequently and much more and in case you're wondering yes it has functions

[07:24] for every lever you want to consider for DFS projections ownership correlation all of this is factored into the Sims as an added bonus you also get access to PO post contest Sims which will tell you which lineups had the best expected Roi

[07:38] once we know all the actual lineups that were entered into a contest this is an extremely powerful tool with a ton of customizability and flexibility if you have questions about the Sims or any other products go find me on Twitter X

[07:50] whatever you want to call it I'm player Q DFS and my DMs are open thanks for watching this video and good luck building your bank building your bank roll