Your Practical Guide To Play Daily Fantasy Football Like A Boss

MyDFS
MyDFS
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3 min readAug 20, 2018

MyDFS cares for its community and that’s why we are here to help the neophytes to get started with fantasy sports. The focus of this article will revolve around the nitty gritties to be considered before jumping into the pool of Fantasy football. We hope this guide turns out to be as useful to you as we imagined it to be.

It may seem a challenging, taxing, maybe even a fearsome task to draft the best team especially when money is at stake. This guide will help you ease out some of your fears and increase your chances to bag the highest reward. So sit back and enjoy the read.

  • First and foremost consideration to be taken into account is the point system of the application. Different platforms have varied point system. Before getting indulged into the fantasy world, make sure you get the nuances about point system cleared. The aim is to score maximum points.
  • The best form of knowledge is firsthand knowledge: our next advice would be to watch games and follow player-by-player statistics. For instance, in football you must stay abreast with latest happenings with your team’s goalkeeper, defenders etc. You must keep a track of their performance in terms of numbers so that your personal bias doesn’t overshadow your decisions. With time as your knowledge pertaining to the team expands, you would find yourself in a position to predict scenario of further matches. This supernatural sense of “prediction” (so-called expertise) comes after watching a lot of games.
  • You must not only follow your player’s performance statistics but also events related to them: injuries faced by them, disqualifications and possible line-ups, otherwise you risk to choose players who won’t even take part in the match and lose points.
  • Keep your budget in your mind at all times. A rookie mistake to make would be to waste all your money to gather the star players. Some beginners can take Neymar and Ronaldo and be lack of funds for good defender, then they choose any available player who won’t give them any points and this is a big mistake. If you want to win you have to keep balance, all your players have to bring points for you. It is okay to have a team of average but consistently performing players rather than having one great player and remaining underperforming players.
  • The best practice is to keep updating your dream fantasy team on a regular basis to score maximum points. The players in your team should be in good physical condition for you to get maximum score. The best way to check their health is to follow their preceding matches: see their moves. If they played well and got many point in every game probably they will continue in the same vein.

These were some tips and tricks we wished to share with you. Even though they sound very simple, that’s the way to go about it. After all playing fantasy sports isn’t that tough also! We hope these simple advices can help you to win the biggest prize pool.

In the next article we will talk how to choose the best defenders, midfielders and other players in your team. So stay tuned!

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