Introduction to the Daily Fantasy Optimizer

Success in daily fantasy sports comes down to having the right tools and doing the necessary research and preparation (… and maybe a little bit of luck). The Daily Fantasy Optimizer is the powerful tool that you need to maximize the benefits of your fantasy football research and helps level the playing field with DFS sharks and fantasy pros.

At a basic level, the Daily Fantasy Optimizer uses the latest projections data and fantasy football rankings to select the best DFS lineup (i.e. the one with the highest total projected points) or collection of lineups with the restriction that all lineups stay within the salary cap. Since there are billions of possible player combinations, sophisticated mathematical algorithms are used under the hood to perform this analysis efficiently.

Having access to the Daily Fantasy Optimizer is a crucial first step, but player research and having a good DFS lineup optimizer strategy is still needed to maximize chances for success. You can easily leverage your research by locking in your top players and favorite fantasy sleepers for the week and building optimal lineups around them with this tool. Similarly, you can exclude or minimize exposure to players or teams that you think are fantasy busts for the week (e.g., those that don’t have favorable matchups).

To develop your own advanced DFS strategies for lineup building, the Daily Fantasy Optimizer provides a wide variety of customizable features. You can adjust player exposure to increase/decrease their appearance in your lineups, specify player or game stacks (e.g., QB+WR on the same team for NFL) to increase lineup upside, and manually edit projections to your liking. You can incrementally build a collection of lineups using different settings throughout or build them all in one go. Finally, you can then easily export a collection of optimized lineups for easy upload to DraftKings or FanDuel.

Your options for lineup construction are limitless with the Daily Fantasy Optimizer, and we're now happy to support NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB with more to come! Generating a basic collection of optimized lineups is as simple as a click of a button, but refining your own custom strategy for using the tool will take time and practice. For more pointers on getting started, see the Basic Optimizer Overview tutorial or join our Discord server to get involved with the community, ask questions, report bugs, or request new features!