How Contest Analysis works

Contest Analysis shows how the top finishers of the marquee NFL and NBA daily fantasy contests built their lineups, on DraftKings and FanDuel. Pick a contest at the top, by week for the NFL and by night for the NBA, to see the final standings: the rank, points, payout and number of entries of each user.

Open a user to see their build. The Players tab lists every player they used, how often they used him, and how often the whole field used him. The Lineups tab lists every lineup they entered, with its rank, points and payout.

Each marquee contest is open to everyone up to its top 100 entries, with every lineup of those users: each week's DraftKings Millionaire and FanDuel Sunday Million, the biggest DraftKings Showdown contest of each Thursday and Monday night game, and each NBA night's biggest DraftKings and FanDuel contest with an entry fee of $25 or less. Pro opens every contest, every user and every lineup, with CSV and JSON downloads.

Every number comes from the contest's lineup file, the same data the STAT-API API serves. "Get this data" shows the API request behind each view, in curl, TypeScript and Python.

The numbers

Exp

The exposure: the share of the user's own lineups that include the player.

Field

The share of all lineups in the contest that include the player, which is the player's ownership.

Leverage

Exp minus Field. A positive number means the user played the player more often than the field did.

Edge

The points per lineup that the player gained (+) or cost (−) the user against the field: Leverage ÷ 100 × (the player's points − the field's average points per roster spot).