Build lineups

A slate page opens on the player table. On a computer, the bar above it holds your entries, Lineups, and Contest sim at the left, and Settings, the lineup count, and Build lineups at the right. Your entries, Lineups, and Contest sim open as panels at the right side. On a phone, the same views are the tabs at the bottom: Entries, Players, Lineups, and Sim.

Lock and exclude players

1. Open the slate. Its first screen is the player table.
2. Find the player's row.
3. Click Lock to put the player in every lineup of the build. The key is L.
4. Click Exclude to keep the player out of every lineup. The key is X.

On a phone, tap the row, then tap Lock or Exclude. Lock and Exclude apply to the build in view.

Settings › Player groups sets how many of some players a lineup can have: Add a group, add 2 or more players, choose At most or At least and the number, and Save group. "At most 1" of two stars keeps them apart, and "At least 2" of a team's players builds them together.

Build a pool

1. Click Settings to change the build settings.
2. Set the lineup count in the box before Build lineups.
3. Click Build lineups. DFS Studio builds the pool in your browser.

The pool is 500 lineups by default, up to 5,000. The build settings include the projections, the randomness, the most players from one team, the stacks of each sport, and the minimum salary. Rebuild replaces the pool. It asks you a second time before it starts.

In Settings, My defaults › Save these keeps the settings for every new slate of the same kind, as FanDuel NBA Full Roster. Locks, excludes, caps, and team stacks stay with their slate. An agent's new builds start from them too. Clear goes back to the app's settings.

Pick the lineups to play

The pick chooses the lineups to play from the pool. It changes at once when you change it.

• Best: the highest projections, each different from the others by at least the players you set in Differ by (1 to 4; 1 gives the highest projections).
• Balanced: each player's share of your lineups matches his share of the pool.

Open Lineups to see the pool. Set the number of lineups to play in Play, and choose Best or Balanced in How to pick. In Your contests, each contest has its own Lineups choice.

Max per player keeps every player in at most that share of the lineups to play: at 40%, no player is in more than 8 of 20. In Exposure, each player's Min % and Max % set his own share; his own max wins over Max per player. A player's panel has the same two fields.

Use your own projections

You can build on your own projections. Make a CSV file with a header row. It needs a projection column (Projection, Proj, FPTS, or Points) and a player column: the site's player ID or the player's name. Team and Position tell two players of one name apart. An Ownership column is optional.

1. Click Settings.
2. Click the Projections row at the top.
3. Click Upload a CSV and choose your file.
4. Check the match: the rows that match a player, each row that matches no player and why, and the slate players not in your file.
5. Click Save.

Then pick the numbers to use: DFS Studio, Yours, or Blend with the share of yours. A player not in your file keeps our projection, or gets 0. The builds, the fill, late swap, and the contest sim use the numbers you pick. Your numbers are private to your account.

Download ours as CSV gives our projections in the same columns. Change the numbers and upload the file again.

To change one player, open his row and type your number in Your projection. It replaces ours for him in every build of the slate. Empty the field to use ours again.

More than one build

A slate keeps up to 5 builds. Each build is a pool with its own settings, locks, and pick. Click New build in Lineups to add one. The build tabs in Lineups switch between the builds.

In Your contests, open a contest and choose the build in Lineups from. Delete removes the build in view. It asks you in place first.

Build a lineup by hand

By hand, beside Build lineups, makes a hand build and opens Build a lineup. Tap a slot, then pick a player from the ones who fit it, by Proj, Value, Own, or Leverage. Leverage is the player's share of your built lineups (with none, of a pool of 150 lineups that the app builds) minus the field's ownership. With a hand build selected, a player's panel in the player list has Add to my lineup: it puts him in the first open slot he fits. The line on top shows the salary left, the salary per open slot, the points, the ownership, and the slate's best lineup.

Fill the rest finishes the lineup with the best projections around your players, with the site's rules. Save lineup adds it to the hand build.

A hand build's lineups work like any build's: download them for new contests, put them in your entries, or sim them. Remove lineup, in a lineup's card, takes one out.

Lineups for new contests

With no entries file, the Lineups pane has Download lineups beside Play. The file holds your lineups to play as new lineups. The line under the button names the page that takes the file.

On DraftKings, upload it on DraftKings > Upload Lineups.

On FanDuel, upload it on the FanDuel website with Upload Lineups from CSV, in a contest that allows more than one entry. Import and fill FanDuel entries tells how.