A measure is one way to describe a lineup, such as its Stack type, its TE salary, or its Players under 10% owned. Its bands split the lineups, such as Game stack, No bring-back, Naked, and Opponent only. For each band, the report sets the share of the group's lineups beside the share of the field's.
A section and its measures
Each section shows one measure at a time.
- The list on the left names every measure of the section. The measures with a steady row come first, the widest gap first.
- Each name says what the measure holds: 1 edge, 2 fades, Within noise, or Thin sample.
- Click a name to show that measure. On a narrow screen, pick it from the menu at the top of the section.
- The caption counts the measures with a steady row, for example 5 of 11 measures hold a steady row.
The measures depend on the sport and the format. For example, NFL classic has Stack type, QB teammates, Bring-backs, Positional build, and QB with his own RB under Stacks, and a salary measure for each roster slot under Where to spend.
The best row and the chart
The measure opens with its widest steady row: the band, the leverage, both shares, and the slates above the field, for example Top 1% 69.2%, field 57.0%. Above the field on 12 of 16 slates. A measure with no steady row says how far its lifts reach, for example Within noise, x0.69 to x1.19.
The chart shows each band's share for the field in gray and for the group in purple, on one axis. Your own share shows in a third color when you have lineups in the report's contests. A measure with many bands shows thin bars under each band in place of a chart.
The band table
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Band | The band's name, with Edge, Fade, or Thin under it. A band with no label is within noise. |
| Field | The share of the field's lineups in the band. |
| The group | The share of the group's lineups in the band, such as Top 1%. |
| You | Your own share, when you have lineups in the report's contests. A band you never played reads 0.0%. |
| Leverage | The gap to the field in points over the lift. +12.2 over x1.21 means the group holds the band 12.2 points more often, which is 1.21 times as often. |
| Range | A dot at the lift on a line that shows the 90% range. The center line is x1, and the scale runs from x0.5 to x2 on every row of the report. |
| Field ROI | What every lineup in the band won over what it paid, minus 1. |
| Actions | On Power, a menu on a steady edge that a build setting can hold. See Apply a finding to your build. |
On a narrow table, only the band, the group's share, and the leverage show. Open a row to read the rest.
Only a steady row colors its leverage: green for a steady edge and red for a steady fade. A thin row is dimmed. A measure with many bands, such as Positional build, shows the steady rows and the largest other rows first, and Show N more opens the rest.
How DFS Hero decides a verdict
Lift is how often the group holds the band, over how often the field holds it. DFS Hero counts it contest by contest. Each contest expects the group to hold the band as often as the field of that same contest does. So a band that is common in large fields does not look better for the top 0.1%, which only large fields hold.
The 90% range shows how far the lift moves when the slates change. DFS Hero draws the report's slates again 400 times, at random and with repeats, and reads the lift each time. The range holds the middle 90% of those lifts. A lift that rests on one or two big slates gets a wide range.
| Verdict | The rule |
|---|---|
| Thin sample | Fewer than 20 of the group's lineups hold the band, or the field holds the band on fewer than 4 slates. |
| Steady edge | The whole 90% range is above x1, and the lift is x1.05 or more. |
| Steady fade | The whole 90% range is under x1, and the lift is x0.95 or less. |
| Within noise | Every other row. |
A row with a wide gap can still read within noise. That means a few slates made the gap, and it is no reason to change a build.
A row slate by slate
Click a row to open it. The open view shows every number of the row: the field's share, the group's share and lineups, the leverage, the lift, the 90% range, the verdict, Field ROI, and your share.
Under the numbers, Above the field on N of M slates sits over a bar for each week. A week runs from Tuesday to Monday. Each bar is that week's lift, up from the x1 line when the group held the band more than the field, and down when less. A week with under one lineup expected draws faint, since one lineup swings it. Point at a bar or tap it to read its week, its lineups, and the lineups expected.
A steady edge with most bars above the line holds from week to week. A row whose bars jump up and down rests on a few weeks.
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