My 2020 Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) Review
A short reflection on playing DFS on sites like DraftKings and Fanduel
Preface:
2020 was the first year I started taking Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) somewhat seriously.
In 2019, I was lucky — emphasis on lucky — enough to win a showdown/single game tournament in NBA on DraftKings and later in the year finish second place in an NFL contest on FanDuel. Those achievements not only provided a nice bankroll to splash around with in small stakes DFS contests going forward, but they also made me want to get better and continue that initial success, because, well, winning and profiting off fantasy sports is fun, exhilarating even.
It was during the latter half of the 2019 NFL season that I discovered DFS player and content creator Joe Holka, who would essentially analyze and talk through the NFL slate of games each week from the DFS player’s perspective. To that end, he provided his own data sheet to his Twitch subscribers, which compiled many of the key stats pertinent for fantasy football and which piqued my overall interest in the predictive nature of DFS.
It likely goes without saying, but if you can best predict how football games will go and how the players in those games will perform, you will set yourself on the right path…
