Soccer

Soccer runs all year across the Premier League, MLS, European cups, and international windows, so a slate can appear on any day of the week. Goals are rare, so lineups live or die on a few events, and confirmed lineups matter more than in any other sport. DFS Hero supports soccer on DraftKings and FanDuel in classic and single-game formats.

Sites and formats

Slot rules that matter:

• DraftKings UTIL takes a D, an M, or an F. It never takes a goalkeeper.
• FanDuel classic prices players in a 100-point budget, not dollars. The Salary Range field in Build Settings uses the same scale.
• The DraftKings Showdown pool holds every position, goalkeepers included. The FanDuel Single-game pool holds no goalkeepers, and its MVP must be a forward or a midfielder.
• The CPT and MVP slots score 1.5 times the player's points and cost 1.5 times the salary.

Team and game limits:

• DraftKings classic needs at least 3 teams.
• FanDuel classic allows at most 4 players from one team and needs at least 3 teams.
• Showdown and Single-game allow at most 5 players from one team.

The Player Pool

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Soccer adds the Start column on every slate: a green check for a confirmed starter, a yellow circle for a projected starter, and a gray X for a bench player. The Filters popover adds a Player Status section with Confirmed Starter, Projected Starter, and Non-Starter.

Build Settings

Sport Rules

Open Build, then expand SPORT RULES on the Basic tab.

Min Unique Players goes up to 7 on DraftKings and 6 on FanDuel.

Stacks

Use a Position Stack rule to pair an F with at least 1 M from the same team, and a Team Stack rule for a fixed count from one team. Showdown and Single-game slates use the Showdown Distribution table instead. No stack is on by default.

Min/Max

On classic slates, MAX PLAYERS PER TEAM and GENERAL PER TEAM default to a maximum of 6 on DraftKings, the most the site allows, because a lineup needs players from at least 3 teams. FanDuel classic caps at 4 per team. On both sites the setting can only go lower.

Features that apply

Stack shapes

The standard soccer GPP stack is 3 attackers from the team most likely to score 2 or more goals, often with the goalkeeper and a defender from the team most likely to keep a clean sheet. A Team Stack rule with Stack Size 3 and the Pair GK With At Least One DEF From Same Team rule builds both halves. In a large field, a bring-back attacker from the opponent of your stack adds a path when the game opens up.

Tips

• Build a provisional pool early if you like, but rebuild after lineups are confirmed and before you export. Filter to Confirmed Starter, then set the pool to the visible players with Pool = visible.
• Use Game Sim to find the games with the highest goal totals. Stack the favorite in the game with the most expected goals.
• Turn on Pair GK With At Least One DEF From Same Team in cash contests. A clean sheet is the most stable points source on the slate.
• In a GPP, run 3-player attacking stacks and raise Min Unique Players to 3. Soccer chalk misses often, so a wide pool of stacks pays off.
• On FanDuel, the 100-point budget and the 4 per team cap change the value math. Sort by Value rather than by salary.
• On a slate with staggered kickoffs, run Late Swap with Re-optimize after the first lock to drop a player who was left out of a late lineup.

Related

• Supported sports and sites
• Showdown and single-game slates
• Lock, exclude, and filter players
• Sport rules by sport
• Stacks tab
• Game Sim
• What Late Swap does