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Draft 2018 NFL Daily Fantasy Sports Primer

UW81 here. I’m a contributor over at DFS Army with a focus on playing on Draft. Give me a follow on Twitter to catch the latest news on Draft for MLB, PGA, and NFL.  As always, your best compliment is retweeting and/or sharing this information across social media.  Thank you! If you’re not familiar with DFSArmy and myself, we cover NFL and MLB in depth for Draft. In conjunction with our Slack Chat with over 60,000+ messages a month, we cover everything from high level strategy to what picks and pivots are great for every slate in every sport. We have a coach and expert for Joes to Pros at all bankroll levels.

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NFL DFS Draft Format

Draft’s primary focus in on the tradition snake drafting format you’re used to from your season long fantasy conquests. Ina stark difference from Fanduel, Draft Kings, and Fantasy Draft, there are no salaries to worry about. Here we are putting together the best team we can every slate, week in and week out. This format uses five (5) total players

  • Quarterback
  • 2x Running Backs
  • 2x Wide Receiver/Tight End

That’s it! no team restrictions. If you’re unfamiliar with snake drafting, here’s the catch. If you pick fist for example in a 6 man snake draft you get the first pick and then the twelfth pick. SO what do you do? Get that stud quarterback first and then the 5-6th best receiver or running back? Here at DFS Army we work all season to provide you with strategies for different contest sizes every week.

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NFL Scoring on Draft

*note Draft Kings has many other special circumstances unique to their system I did not include for points comparison. 

Scoring this season is exactly the same as Fanduel. Since Draft is now brought to you buy Fanduel, this isn’t a large surprise. We’ll dive into how to take advantage of this change for our VIPs in the weekly strategy article. The pro’s of having scoring being the same means it’ll cut your research time in half since a lot of what you’ll see for Fanduel projections will be applicable here on Draft. If you’re carrying over from baseball this year, you’ll notice the main difference in all five slots have ways to impact score as opposed to hitters. You’ll remember pitching had a cap of about 27 points. Here with Quarterback being the equivalent, the sky is the limit.

With a 1/2 point PPR for receivers,  similar to season long fantasy we’ll be targeting high volume WR1 studs as much as possible as opposed to boom or bust players like in MLB. NFl doesn’t have quite the level of variance that baseball did, so scores should be a little more predictable. There’s always that chance your stud WR goes for 0 though like in any sport. If we could predict what was going to happen, I probably wouldn’t be writing this today.

Draft Contests & the Ladder system

The great thing about draft is that you can construct any type of ladder system you want with their structure. 2 player – 10 player contests already exist in the lobby at different dollar limits. You can also create contests with the same amount of people at any dollar amount from $0 – $1,000 entries giving you a wide birth to manage your bankroll as you choose. Here’s an example of playing $10 a slate:

  • H2H: $5
  • 3-Man: $2
  • 10-Man: $1
  • 6-Man: $1
  • GPP: $1

Other Formats

Dream Team contests: Just like it sounds, you put together your 5 man dream team. No drafting and no restrictions. Think of it like pick-em on Draft Kings without the tiers. Dream Team formats let you control your destiny so to speak and put your best foot forward by picking your five favorite starters for the night. In the main lobby, you’ll mostly fine 56 and 111 man contests (think mini GPPs) that are all single entry.

Blind Auction Drafts: You get a salary of $100 and players are nominated to be bid on. Highest bid wins the player. Therefore, Team format remains the same(QB, 2x RB, 2x WR/TE) but just throws another variant in on the type of DFS games you can play.

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