Daily Fantasy Sports - For USA Players

Types of Daily Fantasy Sports Betting

There are many different ways to play DFS.  Understanding the differences is the best way to know how to play. The different forms of DFS are head-to-head, double-ups, triple-ups, 50/50’s, GPPs, non-guaranteed, and satellites. You can find all of these options at the best DFS sites for USA players.

Head-to-head:

Head-to-heads is when a DFS player goes against a single opponent. The winner takes the entire prize pool at the end. This is a great way to match our strategy against another player for potentially big wins.

Double-ups:

Double ups are DFS games where if you finish higher than the top 50% of all participants, you collect double your entry fee as your reward.

Triple-ups:

Triple ups in DFS are fantasy games where players who finish in the top 30% of all participants will earn triple their entry fee as a reward.

50/50’s:

50/50’s in DFS are games where players who finish in the top 50% of all participants can win close to double their entry fee as a reward.

Guaranteed Prize Pools:

GPP’s in DFS are tournaments that make up the vast majority of all fantasy tournaments. GPP’s payout in the top 15%-25% of entrants with these top performers collecting up to $1 million or more.

Non-guaranteed:

In DFS, non-guaranteed tournaments are tournaments broken down into ether 50-man or 100-man leagues. If the tournaments are not at full capacity they will not occur, thus making them non-guaranteed.

Satellites:

Satellites in DFS are essentially qualifiers. These contests are usually held ahead of a bigger, main contest and you go through the satellite to qualify for the main event, which offers more money and prize support.

Single Entry Tournaments:

These tournaments work just how they sound, you only get one entry in the tournament that you choose. These tournaments are usually set to a pool of 2000-3000 people rather than multi-entry tournaments that can see upwards of 10,000 people enter in it.

Multi-Entry Tournaments:

Here you get multiple entries into one single tournament. Some can max you up to 20 different entries. There are different strategies that are taken with these types of tournaments while some enter many of the same lineups to maximize the payout on that one lineup. Others could make several different lineups with combinations of players and such.

Best Ball:

Best Ball works as a season-long fantasy game that is available on DFS operators. You are drafting a team with a deep bench of around 20+ players and each contest that the tournament has games in, only your best players are inserted to your lineup automatically.

Captain Mode:

These tournaments work in single-game formats only where you are setting a lineup for one specific game. However, you need to set one player as a captain where they earn 1.5x the number of points as any other player in your lineup. Captain salaries though are more expensive than regular ones though.

DFS Salary Cap And Tips

Other things to keep in mind with DFS includes understanding the salary cap games. DFS contests utilize a salary cap system where participants are apportioned a set maximum budget to spend on players for their teams. Each athlete tends to have their own monetary value with elite level athletes costing the most.

It is also good practice to pay attention to prop bets surrounding players on your fantasy teams. For example, if you have a fantasy football team and you have an elite level QB, looking at prop bets surrounding that player can be helpful in getting ahead. Prop bets surrounding that QB may have a betting line for how many passing or rushing yards the QB will have or how many touchdowns the player with throw for. If a QB is hitting these strides consistently and is undervalued, taking a chance on the consistency can help out.