DFS Q&A: Building 95th Percentile Lineups

Episode 109 • September 29, 2022 • 01:09:18
DFS Q&A: Building 95th Percentile Lineups
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DFS Q&A: Building 95th Percentile Lineups

Sep 29 2022 | 01:09:18

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Show Notes

Andrew discusses the idea of building lineups based on a player's 95th percentile outcome and how this is something the team is discussing in the latest Behind the Sims episode.

 

00:00 Jordan Intro/Hand-off

03:01 Ownership and Randomness in Unsupported Sports

05:27 95th Percentile Projections

08:12 Getting More Players in Your Player Pool

11:05 How Many +EV lineups are there for an NFL Main Slate

13:05 Only Getting the Stack Types you Want

15:10 What is a Runback and Stack Types Explained

20:34 Telling the Builder What you Don't Want Upfront Pt. 1

23:41 Rule for Only WRs in a Stack

26:10 Adjusting Players vs Team Projections Explained

30:15 Running Builds at Adjusted Slider Settings for Research

33:21 Is a Runback a Must for NFL GPPs

35:25 Quick Swap vs Late Swap Use-Cases

38:50 Allow Stack Types for Specific Teams

41:58 Telling the Builder What you Don't Want Upfront Pt. 2

46:30 Feature Request % of Lineups with a Rule

48:10 Research Outside of SaberSim

50:53 Bug with Lineup CSV

53:18 Issue with Rules and No. of Lineups Generated

54:32 Single Entry Strategy

1:03:40 DFS Profit Plan

1:06:10 Single Entry Satellite vs Single Entry GPP

 

 

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