Prich has won over $300k the past 3 years and has found an edge in understanding the field biases and more importantly his own biases when building rosters.
Most of my friends, relatives, and even acquaintances have learned of my prowess for Daily Fantasy Sports. They know I have had a few six-digit and a host of five-digit wins that everyone dreams of when they build their lineups. The other day a friend who lives in another state came to visit. Shortly after the normal greetings and check-ins about life, he hits me with, “I was a Saquon Barkley TD away from showing you a 15k win!” But, in the process of the Showdown he was playing, he fell from 1st to 78th place and took home a modest prize. He wanted so badly to show me his screenshots of a big win.
Most of us who play DFS regularly have had this happen to us. Getting close is something I am confident 90% of DFS players have achieved and we probably all remember those moments. I was locked into 50k once until a relief pitcher allowed a two-out single in the 9th that eventually led to a Will Smith 2-run HR in a game the Dodgers were already up big. Another Dodger, Freddie Freeman, hit a two-out double in the 9th this past summer to “cheat” me out of another 17.5k. The point is, that taking first place is hard and we need to find ways to capitalize on the opportunities we have.
In Week 5, I was all over the Burrow/Chase stacks, but I purposely did not add Higgins to the stack in my SE and 3max builds, relying on data I had scoured through about the possibility of that stack hitting. My slow-thinking mind had crunched the numbers and figured out what the best plays were, and I built lineups only considering the data that led me to what I perceived were the “best” plays.
