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You just spent the last 17 weeks of your life researching stats just so you could win a stupid trophy?!?!
Have you ever had that phrase screamed at you before? It’s a phrase I’ve heard from my wife at the end of every NFL season (and if I’m being honest, it’s a question I used to ask myself when I realized how much time I spent on my fantasy football team).
It’s no secret that fantasy sports have evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, but Average Joe Fantasy Owner never really saw much of that money. If we were lucky, we might win a couple hundred dollars from our home leagues, but most of us were more than happy to settle for the aforementioned trophy and (perhaps more importantly) bragging rights over our college buddies for the entire offseason. There is, however, a relatively a new way that you can put your money where your self-proclaimed fantasy expert mouth is and win some cold, hard cash: daily fantasy sports.
Daily Fantasy Sports contests are a relatively new phenomenon that let you draft as many teams in as many sports as you want (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAAF, NCAAB). You can then pit these teams against other fantasy gamers in one-day or (one-weekend) tournaments that pay the winner (and sometimes winners) real cash prizes. There are more and more daily fantasy sports outlets popping up every month, but let’s take a look at how you can win on the Grand Poobah of them all, FanDuel.
FanDuel is inarguably the gold-standard of the daily fantasy sports industry and offers a variety of games on a user-friendly interface. Game buy-ins range from free to over $500 and you can play anything from head-to-head matchups to large GPP (Guaranteed Prize Pool) tournaments. DraftKings is rapidly gaining market share from FanDuel, so it should be fun to watch the 2 big dogs of #DFS battle over the next few years.
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Here are my 5 daily fantasy sports rules that will help you win on FanDuel.
1. Mix It Up As I mentioned, FanDuel offers a variety of league types: head-to-head leagues, 5-man tournaments, 10-player tournaments, large GPP’s, and large freerolls (which are exactly what they sound like: free to enter).There are pros and cons to each type of game, but generally, H2H leagues offer a greater chance at winning with a smaller reward, while larger leagues offer a smaller chance at winning with a larger reward. After you play a few different types of games, you’ll more than likely find that you’re more successful at one more than another, but keep mixing it up to ensure yourself the best chance at winning.
2. Know Thy Opponent One of the benefits of FanDuel is that it allows you to see the user profile of the fantasy owner(s) you’re going up against. As you’re selecting the game you want to enter, click through profiles of the entrants. You’ll notice that these gamers range from newbies who have only played a few games, all the way up to FanDuel veterans who have literally played thousands of contests. It should go without saying that you’ll want to seek out the newbies to play against. Some of you may equate this to playing a video game on “rookie mode”, but you don’t get style points for seeking out the tougher match-ups.3. Stay Informed If you’re going to spend hours researching your fantasy team when all you can win is a trophy, you better make sure you’re ready to spend even more time researching your daily fantasy team that gives you a chance to win money. Is your running back going against a team is horrible against the run? Did a star power forward just get injured and open up minutes for a promising rookie? Does the pitcher you selected excel against lefties? Is it going to rain in Philadelphia? Those are the types of questions you should be asking yourself as you select your lineup, and those are all questions that you can easily find the answer to using various websites and Twitter (just make sure you follow lots of good beat-writers and other various experts).
4. Work The Cap Daily fantasy sports allow you to select a team using a salary cap. The key to assembling a winning team is going all-in on the right star players and (more importantly) picking the right value plays. Since you can’t afford to have an entire roster of Adrian Peterson’s, Kevin Durant’s and Mike Trout’s, you’ll need to find the bargain-basement players that have an advantageous matchup or just saw a bump in playing time. Everyone can draft the name-brand stars, but the most successful daily fantasy sports owners are the ones that can find that daily game “sleeper” who comes with a low price tag.
5. Manage Your Bankroll If you’re anything like me, you’ll notice that it’s very easy to get carried away with selecting daily rosters. After all, the draft is the best part of fantasy sports, right? That may be true, but it’s also the best way to lose your entire bankroll when you’re playing daily fantasy sports. The most successful daily gamers are the ones who show discipline and manage their bankroll. Try to be patient and set yourself a daily limit (say, 20-25% of your bankroll) so that you don’t find yourself cursing yourself the next morning for risking it all in one night.
FanDuel Sportsbook is one of the most popular sportsbooks in the country, and for a good reason. FanDuel provides a wide range of sports betting options. From Australian Rules Football to Tennis, if you want to bet it, odds are FanDuel Sportsbook has it. Another reason they are a great sportsbook, their number of live betting options. You can access the FanDuel Sportsbook virtually any time of the day and see live odds continually changing.
NFLOdds Boosts
This is one of the best features that separates FanDuel Sportsbook from the rest of the competition. Each day FanDuel offers players a chance to win a little extra money with their “Odds Boosts” bets. What are Odds Boosts? Odds Boosts are an added value to a bet or parlay. Examples of this could include “Yankees win, and Mets lose,” and the value could be boosted from +150 to plus +200. It could also be as simple as “Serena to win Wimbledon” boosted from +100 to +175. There is a max bet associated with most Odds Boost bets, but for the added value, it is certainly worth the limitations.
Explaining How Odds Work
For those who are new to sports betting, a sportsbook can look a little confusing at first, but it is straightforward to understand everything you are seeing. You may see a number attached to a certain bet, such as +150 or -110. These are the odds that payout for that particular bet. If you see a bet selection with +150, that means for every $100 you risk, you win $150 in return. So if you bet $300, you would win $450 on that bet. When you see a -150, that will work the opposite way. You would have to wager $150 to win $100. So if a bet has a line of -120, you would need to bet $120 to win $100. If you bet $100 on that -120, you would only win $83.33.
Don’t worry. The FanDuel Sportsbook does all the calculations for you; all you have to do is input your desired betting amount. The bet slip will show you how much you can win for the particular bet you have chosen.
Common Types of Bets
There are a lot of different betting options, but we are going to stick to the basics for now. The most common types of betting are “Money Line”, “Spread”(sometimes referred to the “Run Line” in baseball and the “Puck Line” in hockey), and “Total”.
Money Line
“Money Line” betting is the simplest and most common form of betting. This means you are betting who will win the game or match. It is that simple. If you would want to bet on the Green Bay Packers to win against the Pittsburgh Steelers, no matter by how much, all you would do is place a Money Line bet. For favorites, the payouts are smaller on Money Line bets. For underdogs, the payouts are higher.
Spread
The “Spread” is the score set by the sportsbooks that your bet must either win by if they are the favorite or “cover” if they are the underdog. Covering means an underdog doesn’t lose by the amount of the spread or more. An example of this would be if the Packers were favored by seven points. You would see Green Bay-7 in the sportsbook, and in return, you would see Dallas+7. This means if you bet the spread, the Packers have to win by more than seven for that bet to win. If you take Dallas, they can lose by as many as six points or even win the game, and you win your bet. The Spread is how a sportsbook evens the playing field for underdogs.
Total
The “Total” is another simple and common way of betting. This means you are betting the “Over” or “Under” on a specific game. In an NFL game, you could see a total of 40 points. If you bet the Under, you would need the combined score of the two teams playing in that game to be less than 40 points to win your bet. If you take the Over, any total in that game higher than 40 points will get you the win.
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