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Every DraftKings contest on the board, with what the lobby will not tell you: where the prize money actually sits, what it costs you to play, and who is already in. Pick contests on the numbers, then build the week’s slate and take it straight to DraftKings.
Turn your phone sideways. These tables are wide, and landscape makes them a lot easier to read.
DraftKings only. DraftKings publishes its full contest lobby, which is what this tool reads. FanDuel does not publish contest data at all, so there is no FanDuel board to build.
Nothing here yet. Take a plan from Build me a slate, or go pick contests yourself in Add my own.
| Contest | Lineups | Buy-in | Cost | 1st | Enter |
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Put in the amount you are willing to spend this week, and the number you want to win. It reads every DraftKings payout table on the slate and spends that budget several different ways, ranked by the odds of actually getting there. Say how many lineups you are playing and it will build the plans around that number instead of choosing for you.
Which shape wins changes with your budget and your target, so move both. A small contest whose first prize lands near your number often beats spreading it around; a bigger target usually wants more separate swings.
How many entries you want to fire this week, all in. Leave it blank and the plans spend the whole budget however the odds come out best — which is what this did before. Put a number in and every plan is built to place exactly that many: $300 across one lineup is one big bullet, $300 across twenty is a different week entirely. If the budget cannot reach your number, the plan says so rather than quietly handing back fewer.
Does two jobs: it picks the kind of room you sit in, and it caps how many lineups you can put into one contest. Tick more than one and the plan is built from all of them — single-entry and 3-max is a perfectly normal way to play a week.
Contest type, entries, size and overlay are one set of choices, not two. Whatever you pick here is what Add my own is showing you further down, and clearing either one clears both.
Lineups in the same contest share players, so they tend to miss together. The odds discount for that. How steeply is our estimate, not a measured figure — treat it as a lean, not a law.
That you are an average player in that field, with no edge. Use them to compare the plans against each other, not as a forecast.
Tick nothing in a row and it means all of it. These are the same filters Add my own uses — change them here and they change there too. Overlay is DraftKings topping up a guaranteed prize pool that has not sold out; it only appears in the last day or so before lock.
What one entry costs.
How many lineups any one person may fire. SE is single entry — everyone in there is playing one lineup, same as you. 150-max means somebody is playing 150.
How many entries the contest holds when full.
How many of those seats are taken so far.
How high you must finish to get paid anything — the minimum-cash line. 22% means beat roughly four people in five. Almost every tournament pays its top quarter, so this rarely separates two contests on its own; open a row to see how much deeper you must go to double your money.
How high you must finish to make ten times your buy-in. A typical tournament wants about the top 1%; a flat one may never pay it at all, and shows a dash.
How high you must finish to take first — which is simply one entry in the whole field. In a 160,000-runner that is 0.0006%; in a 34-player contest it is 2.9%.
What DraftKings keeps — a full field’s entry fees minus the prize pool. Nine points separates the cheapest contests from the dearest.
What the winner takes home.
The share of the prize pool the first five finishers split. High means it is a race for the win; low means the money runs deep.
The share who have played 1,000 or more DraftKings contests. Worth a pinch of salt: at 150 lineups a week you get there in about five weeks, so it counts volume, not skill.
The share of lineups those same regulars hold. In a single-entry contest it matches the column beside it. In a 150-max contest it does not, because a handful of people can hold most of the field — and that gap is the thing worth seeing.
DraftKings guarantees the prize pool whether or not the seats sell. When a contest is close to lock and still short, the shortfall is overlay — money DraftKings is putting in on top of the entry fees. Fewer people, same prize pool. It only shows in the last day or so before kickoff, because early in the week every guaranteed contest looks empty.
A multiplier: every place paid takes home the same multiple of the buy-in. A 3× pays three times your entry to the top third or so — no ladder, no first prize, you either clear the line or you do not.
Regulars and Their lineups come from 99 people, not the whole field. DraftKings publishes only the first page of a contest’s entrants, and it is the first 99 who entered — not a random sample. In a thousand-runner that is a tenth of the room; in a big one it is a rounding error. Those early entrants are also the people who commit days ahead, so the figures sit high everywhere. Use them to hold two contests against each other, never as a count of the field: every contest here is measured the same way, so 60% really is softer than 95%. A dash means we have not read that one yet.
Tick nothing in a row and it means all of it. These are the same filters Build me a slate uses — change them here and they change there too. Overlay is DraftKings topping up a guaranteed prize pool that has not sold out; it only appears in the last day or so before lock.
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| Contest? | Buy-in? | Entry? | Field? | Full? | Cash? | 10×? | Win it? | Rake? | 1st? | Top 5? | Regulars? | Their lineups? |
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Refreshed through the week, every few minutes before Sunday’s lock. Identical copies of the same contest are folded into one row marked ×N. Head-to-heads, 3-player sit-and-gos and satellites are left out.
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