Fantasy Cruncher Specific

• Consistency: a value that takes into account a players standard deviation and average. A low consistency number indicates that a player is less reliable and can be very streaky.

• Ceiling: an estimation of a players upside on a good night.

• Floor: an estimation of the lowest score a player is expected to score on a bad night.

• Projection: estimated fantasy score. Fantasy Cruncher takes into account previous performance and matchup difficulty to generate daily projections.

• Value: the number of points you expect per $1000 spent. If a player has a projected value of 5.0 and cost $10,000 you can expect that player to score 50 points.



DFS Glossary

• 50/50: A league with more 4 or more players. The payouts are structured in a way that half the player pool wins money. The payouts are flat so all winners receive the same amount of money.

• Cash game: these types of contest typically fall in to two categories, 50/50’s and head to heads. In both games every player has a 50% chance to win.

• Daily fantasy sports: one day or one week fantasy sports.

• Double-ups: a contest in which winners receive double their entry fee. Double-ups typically pay just under half of the player pool.

• DFS: an acronym for daily fantasy sports.

• Expected value: estimated return. Smart players look for positive expected value opportunities such as playing in a contest with overlay.

• Fade: avoiding a popular play.

• Freeroll: a free DFS competition. Several of the sites offer these on a regular basis. Freerolls usually include small cash prizes.

• GPP: guaranteed prize pool or a tournament style contest. Daily fantasy sports sites guarantee the payout and fix the contest size. The prizes will be paid out regardless of how many people join the contest.

• Late-Swap: some sites allow you to make changes up until a player’s game is scheduled to start. Changing out a player after the contest begins refers to a late swap.

• Lineup: The set of players you enter into a DFS league.

• Live final: One of the largest GPP’s a site offers, entry is obtained by winning a qualifier. The event takes place in a fun location and all contestants are invited to join. The winner of this GPP typically wins a very large cash prize.

• Lock: The time that a player or lineup can no longer be changed.

• Overlay: Occasionally a DFS site will run a GPP that does not fill. If the site pays out more money than they collect the contest had overlay. Overlay helps players because every dollar invested has positive expected value.

• Qualifier: a tournament in which the top prize is entry into a live final at the end of the season.

• ROI: return on investment, this is a measurement of a particular players success of failure. A positive ROI indicates a player who is winning money.

• Rake: the portion of entry fees that the site keeps and does not pay back to the player pool.


• Reverse Fade: Intentionally playing a popular play that stupid people will skip out on

• Satellite: a contest in which the top prize is a ticket into a more expensive contest

• Stack: playing multiple players on the same team in the same lineup.