Read a Game Plan report

A report reads every contest of one tournament and sets each finish group beside the field of the same contests. This article goes through a report from the top down. To read one measure's rows, see Read a measure.

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The top of the report

• All tournaments goes back to the list. On Essential it reads Featured reports.
• The title names the tournament, its site, its sport, and its format.
• The line under it counts what the report reads now, for example 32 contests · 58,870 entries · 16 slates, with the first and the last day.
• Save keeps the report in your saved reports. See Pick a tournament.

Filter the report

On Power, a row of menus sits under the title. A menu shows only when the tournament holds a choice for it, and a menu that holds a pick is tinted. Clear filters removes every pick.

This season starts on the league's start day: August 1 for NFL and CFB, October 1 for NBA and NHL, November 1 for CBB, March 1 for MLB, May 1 for the WNBA, and January 1 for the other sports. Last 30 days moves with the calendar, so a saved report always reads the newest 30 days.

When no contest matches the filters, the report says so and shows Clear filters.

The scoreboard

Wagered, the house edge, and the cash rate read only the contests with payout data, since a board with no payouts is no $0 result.

Pick a finish group

The switch under the scoreboard picks the group the report studies: Winners, Top 0.1%, Top 1%, Top 10%, or Cash. The report opens on Top 1%. The switch stays at the top of the screen while you scroll, so you can change the group at any part of the report. On a wide screen, the links beside it jump to Findings and to each section.

The line under the switch counts the group's lineups and contests, for example 572 lineups finished in the top 1%, in 32 contests. When you have lineups in the report's contests, the line counts them too.

What the group's lineups do differently

This panel lists the steady rows of the whole report that lean furthest from the field, the largest gap first. The caption counts the steady rows, for example 13 of 309 rows read steady.

• More often than the field lists the steady edges.
• Less often than the field lists the steady fades.

Each row shows the measure and its band, the lift, the verdict, the group's share beside the field's, the gap in points, and Above the field on N of M slates over a bar per week. Click the measure's name to open it in its section. On Power, an edge that a build setting can hold has Apply. See Apply a finding to your build.

A report with no steady row says so. Every row is then within noise or thin, and none is a reason to change a build.

The short version

The short version is an AI read of the report's steady rows, in a few sentences. It names only numbers from the report.

• On Power, it writes itself when you open a report that has steady rows. You do not click anything. While it writes, the panel reads Reading the report. This takes up to a minute.
• DFS Hero keeps the text, so the next reader of the same report and group reads it at once.
• When newer contests reach the report, the caption says the text came before them, so a number can differ. DFS Hero writes a new text on a later open.
• A report with no steady row has nothing to summarize, so this part does not show.
• You can start up to 30 new short versions a day. Past that, the report asks you to open it again tomorrow.

On Essential, this part shows the Power lock.

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From the field to the winners

This table sets every finish group side by side, so you can see how a number changes from the cash line up to first place. Each cell holds the group's mean and, under it, the gap to the field in the same contests. The bar draws that gap, right of the center line when the group is above the field.

The rows: Lineups, Total ownership, Highest owned, Salary used, Salary left, Maxed the cap, Left $500+, Left $1K+, and Copies. A number that rests on under 20 lineups reads quieter. Click a column's name to switch the report to that group. A You column joins when you have lineups in the report's contests. A points-cap sport has no salary rows.

When a new contest lands while you read, a line says so. Click Refresh to read the report again.

The sections

The sections follow: Stacks, Ownership, Where to spend, Game environment, and Duplicates, with the measures each sport holds. Each section shows one measure at a time. See Read a measure.

Two charts sit inside the sections:

• Total ownership shows the field as an area and the group as a line, on one axis, with each mean as a dashed line.
• Copies by salary left, under Duplicates, shows how many copies of each roster the field and the group entered, by how much salary they left.

The slate and its field

This panel describes the player pool of the contests: the average most-owned player, the average player ownership, the share of the pool under 10% and under 30% owned, the average games on the slate, the share of unique rosters, the average copies, and Solo winners, the share of winners whose lineup no other entry held.

Contests

The last part lists the report's contests, newest first, with the slate, the start day, the fee, the field, and the entry limit. It shows the newest 10. Click Show with the count, such as Show 32, to see up to 500. Click a row to open the contest in the Contest Analyzer on its Pro Tendencies tab. See Contest results.

Related articles

• Read a measure
• Apply a finding to your build
• Pick a tournament
• What is Game Plan