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NFL DFS Playbooks

NFL Playbooks

Our library of NFL DFS strategy reports and studies — read them right here in the app.

Cracking the DFS Code

The foundation: what tournament-winning lineups actually look like. This is the book that started it all — the full main-slate breakdown. Using the Warehouse's archive of real large-field GPP results, we dissected the anatomy of winning lineups: how they stack, how they treat chalk, where they punt, and why the field's favorite habits quietly lose money. This is the data layer that informs both handcrafted main-slate lineups AND every optimization approach we teach for large-field GPPs. If you only read one thing before you build another lineup, make it this.

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The Showdown Codex

350 real showdown contests, decoded into game scripts you can actually play. Showdown looks simple — one game, six spots — and that's exactly why most of the field plays it wrong. The Codex is our deep study of 350 real showdown contests, built around the two things that decide these slates: correlation and game archetype. We identified the recurring archetypes a single NFL game falls into, and for each one the Codex gives you the script: the recommended approach to the Captain spot, the correlations that pay, and the ones that trap you. Stop guessing which game you're in. Learn to recognize it — then build for it.

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How to Stack Showdowns

This is where the money is made. The Codex tells you what wins showdowns. This report tells you how to BUILD it — button by button. After backtesting millions of showdown lineups against real contests, we settled the optimizer settings and stacking approaches that produced win rates as high as 26% in our testing — with the heavy lifting done by simulation boost rules and correlation settings that force your builds to look like the lineups that actually take these contests down. Copy the settings, understand the why behind each one, and turn every showdown slate into a repeatable process instead of a coin flip.

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The Main Slate Settings: The Backtesting Journey

More than 150 setting combinations. Nearly ten million lineups. 404 real tournaments. One champion build. This is the biggest research project we’ve ever run. We rebuilt 62 NFL Sundays from four seasons inside the optimizer and waged an all-out war between every settings combination we could think of. Every run was scored against the real final leaderboards of 404 real tournaments, and every promising idea was re-tested before we believed it. The result is the ideal core settings for attacking the main slate — a build that outscored the real Millionaire Maker winning score on five different Sundays in our testing — plus the graveyard of popular ideas that measurably lose, and the honest math on what to expect across an 18-week season. This isn’t opinion. It’s the most tested build in DFS.

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The Shark Study

How the top tracked NFL DraftKings GPP players by volume really build — 1,120 max sets, exposed. We captured every verified 150-entry max set the eighteen highest-volume tracked players entered into large-field NFL GPPs across two seasons — 167,000+ lineups, over $9 million in real entries. What we found changes how you should think about your own game: the winners do NOT share one approach. One goes all-in on a few core convictions — 96% of his lineups on a 7%-owned quarterback the week it paid him over a million dollars. Another aggressively fades the chalk every single week and won a Millionaire doing it. What every winner shares is an IDENTITY — a unique, repeatable style that shapes their player pool week after week. The lesson: run the ideal base settings, add the sim boosts, then pick YOUR style and show up with it every Sunday. Includes in-depth "Winning Week" profiles of the biggest scores.

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