DFS Q&A: Setting up your settings and filling your contests when playing different types of contests

Episode 18 May 10, 2022 00:59:35
DFS Q&A: Setting up your settings and filling your contests when playing different types of contests
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DFS Q&A: Setting up your settings and filling your contests when playing different types of contests

May 10 2022 | 00:59:35

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Show Notes

Jordan explains how to find the balance between building with the optimal settings for different contests and being efficient when playing many different contests.

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00:00 Intro
04:15 How to build and fill different contests of different types
15:35 Should you turn down your ownership fade slider if you're adjusting projections and exposures for ownership?
17:40 What are the best stack sizes to use, and why does an uncorrelated lineup win sometimes?
27:20 Tennis sims?
28:52 Building your own unique process
37:00 Explaining the "birthday paradox" and the analogy to DFS
41:24 Playing even with the field in different contest sizes
42:21 Batter and same team pitcher correlation
46:05 WNBA builder support
46:40 Research build process, research builds with correlation
50:50 Using research builds to determine stack sizes in MLB vs. NBA

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