DFS Q&A: Late Swapping in MLB DFS

Episode 35 June 08, 2022 01:24:39
DFS Q&A: Late Swapping in MLB DFS
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DFS Q&A: Late Swapping in MLB DFS

Jun 08 2022 | 01:24:39

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Show Notes

Jordan walks through how to take advantage of SaberSim's powerful swap tools to deal with a few different common swap scenarios in MLB DFS.

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00:00 Intro
04:09 Late swapping when games get PPD
08:04 Best player available or best player from same team swap
12:40 How to set your settings if you're playing a lot of different contests?
20:12 Stack rules in MLB
25:02 Hiding removed players from pool
26:23 Research builds, ranking sims, sim precision
32:30 SaberScore in Showdown
34:27 100-man leagues
38:15 0/0/0 builds
41:50 More on research builds and sims
47:13 Proj score vs. SaberScore
48:38 Chalk in small MLB slates
52:15 EV in lineups vs. players
57:15 Overlay semantics
59:10 Ownership update schedule
1:00:14 New contest selection principles in Yahoo
1:04:20 Weather in MLB DFS
1:08:17 How many teams to stack?
1:11:42 Ownership projection model
1:12:30 Pool Size
1:13:07 Late Swap pool
1:14:10 Exposures for late swap
1:16:59 GiantSquid and high-volume downswings
1:18:41 Handling building for many different contest types
1:21:00 Min Uniques and sacrificing EV

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