A Scouting report is the report card of one name on one site. It covers the name's tracked contests since October 2 and compares its lineups with the field and with the top 1% of the same contests. The report needs Power. See What is Scouting.
The report reads from top to bottom in the order you ask the questions: does the pro win, what does the pro do that the winners do not, how does the pro compare with you, and then every other number.
The header and the filters
The header holds the name, a DraftKings and FanDuel switch for a pro with a name on both sites, and Save. See Find and save pros.
| Filter | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Sport | One sport the name played on this site, or All sports. | All sports |
| Format | Classic, Showdown, or All formats. FanDuel single game counts as Showdown. | All formats |
| Dates | Since Oct 2, Last 7 days, Last 14 days, or Last 30 days. | Since Oct 2 |
Every number on the page follows the filters. The address bar keeps the name, the site, and the filters, so a copied link opens the same view.
The scoreboard
| Tile | What it means |
|---|---|
| NET | Payout minus entry fees in the tracked contests. The line under it gives the spend. |
| ROI | The net as a share of the entry fees. The line under it gives the payout. |
| TOP 1% | The top 1% finishes as a multiple of a random entry's. 4 vs 3.0 expected means 4 finishes where the same number of random entries in the same contests would reach 3.0. |
| TOP 10% | The same, for the top 10%. |
| CASHED | The same, for the entries that won more than their entry fee. |
| ENTRIES | The entries in the tracked contests, and the entries per contest. |
A multiple above 1.00x beats a random entry. A multiple shows once the expected count reaches 1.
The second row shows how the pro plays the lobby:
| Tile | What it means |
|---|---|
| MAIN FORMAT | The sport and format with the most spend, such as NFL Showdown, and its share of the spend. |
| CONTEST TYPE | The contest type with the most spend, such as GPP, 21 to 150 max. |
| AVG BUY-IN | The spend over the entries, and the buy-in band with the most spend. |
| MAXES ENTRIES | How often the pro enters as many entries as a contest allows, out of the contests that allow more than one. |
The line under the tiles counts the tracked contests and slates, names the best finish and its contest, and counts the takedowns. Point at the info icon beside a count to read what it covers.
What sets the pro apart
The section What sets name apart holds up to three notes: the biggest gaps between the pro and the top 1% of the same contests. Each note comes from a different part of the play style, ownership, salary, or stacks.
- The title names the gap in plain words, such as More contrarian lineups or Leaves salary more often.
- The large number is the pro's, with what it counts, such as 52.3% of lineups in the least-owned third.
- The line under it gives the top 1%, the field, and the number of contests.
- The bar shows the pro in purple growing left and the top 1% in green growing right.
A gap shows only when it is large enough to matter. The caption says when a note comes from one contest, which is a small sample.
The pro and you
The next section compares the pro with your own play on the same site and filters. See Compare a pro with your play.
Play style
Each metric is a row of the pro against the top 1% of the same contests, with the field under the metric name. The pro's bar is purple and the top 1%'s bar is green. Each part names how many contests it reads, or says Not enough data.
| Part | Metrics |
|---|---|
| Ownership | Total ownership: each lineup's players' ownership added up. Ownership percentile: where that total ranks among the lineups of its own contest, from 0 (the lowest owned) to 100. Ownership thirds: the share of lineups in the Chalk, Mid, and Low third of each contest, as one strip each for the pro, the top 1%, and the field. |
| Salary | Salary left: the salary a lineup leaves under the cap. Leaves salary: the share of lineups that leave any. When the contests have different caps, the row shows Salary used with no bars. |
| Stacks | Primary stack size: the players of the biggest team stack. Bring-back: the share of classic lineups with a player from the other team. Stack types: the five stack types the pro plays most. |
The stack types show as dots on one scale: the pro's purple dot and the top 1%'s dot with a line between them, and the field as a white tick. A label such as 4 | 2 means four players from one team and two from the other, 5 means five from one team, and QB + 2 | 1 means a quarterback with two teammates and one player from the other team.
Salary needs one sport, because each sport has its own cap. Stacks need one sport and one format, because each has its own stack rules. Pick a sport, and for stacks a format, to see them.
Contests
This section shows where the pro spends.
- By format, By contest type, By buy-in, and By field size each split the spend. The strip shows the four groups with the most spend in purple and the rest as Other.
- Each row gives the group's SPEND and ROI. The ROI bar starts at the break-even line, green for a profit and red for a loss.
- Each contest type also says how full the pro played it: fills 100.0% of cap means the pro entered the most entries the contests allow.
- Contests entered most lists the five contest names the pro enters most, with Times, Entries, Spend, and ROI. A contest name repeats from slate to slate.
Player pool
The numbers are averages over the slates where the pro has lineups.
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| PLAYERS PER SLATE | The players in the pro's lineups, and their share of the slate's players with a projection. |
| LINEUPS PER SLATE | The pro's lineups on a slate. |
| MIN UNIQUES | The fewest players by which two of the pro's lineups differ, in the middle contest. It counts as the Min Uniques build setting does. |
| AVG UNIQUES | The players by which two lineups differ, on average. |
| TOP EXPOSURE | The share of lineups that hold the pro's most played player. |
| PLAYERS AT 30%+ | The players in 30% or more of the pro's lineups. |
| DUPLICATED | The share of the pro's entries that another entry in the same contest also played. |
How the exposure falls off shows the share of lineups that hold the most played player, the second, and on to the 40th, from three players up. A steep fall means a pool built around a few players. A long shelf spreads the lineups. The dashed line marks 30%.
On a slate with a captain seat, a row shows the captain players per slate and the top captain's share. DraftKings calls the seat CPT and FanDuel calls it MVP.
The field is many players, so it has no pool. The player pool shows the pro's numbers only.
Slates
From three slates up, a chart shows the running net: each slate's net added to the slates before it, oldest on the left, from $0. Point at a slate, or use the arrow keys on the chart, to read its net and the running net.
The table lists every slate, newest first, with Day, Sport, Contests, Entries, Spend, and Net. Click a row to open the slate. See Open a slate in Scouting.
Tips
- Pick one sport and one format before you read stacks or salary. A mixed report hides them.
- Read a multiple with its counts. 3.00x on 1 expected finish is a much smaller sample than 1.50x on 20.
- Use Last 30 days to see how a pro plays now, and Since Oct 2 for the larger sample.
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