The contest sim
The contest sim plays your lineups against a field drawn from projected ownership, in one contest, on 1,000 simulated slates. It runs in your browser.
The sim ranks your lineups against each other. It shows no expected return, because real contests do not support its absolute numbers. It does not tell you how much you can win.
On a FanDuel slate, the sim uses the estimated ownership and FanDuel's own payout table of the contest. If DFS Studio has not read that table yet, the sim draws one from the contest's total prizes and places paid, and the sim says "payouts estimated".
Run the sim
- Open the slate and click Contest sim. On a phone, tap the Sim tab.
- Choose the contest at the top of the sim. With no entries file, the sim uses a sample contest of the slate.
- Choose the lineups in Lineups to sim: a build's pool, or the contest's entries.
- Click Run sim on N lineups.
What the numbers are
- # (the sim rank): 1 is the best lineup of the lineups simmed together.
- Sim score: the lineup against the mean of the lineups simmed with it. 100 is your average lineup. It is not a return.
- Proj: the lineup's projection.
- The players table: each player's share of your lineups, his projected ownership, and the difference (vs field).
The rank and the score use our projections. They are not a measured edge.
Pick by sim
- Set the number of lineups to play beside Play in the Lineups pane. With an entries file, the sim picks one lineup for each entry of the contest.
- Type a Max exposure if you want one. A player in every lineup (a lock) is free of it.
- Click Pick N by sim.
- Click Put N picks in N entries.
- Click Go to Entries to download, then download and upload the file.
Undo in the steps takes the picks out again. With no entries file, the picks become your lineups to play in the Lineups pane, and its Download gives the file for DraftKings > Upload Lineups, or for FanDuel's Upload Lineups from CSV.