Originally Posted by
chinamaniac
Ya that can be important but that is also taking a chance on an unknown. Most of the winning lineups I saw when I was following earlier in the year had good consistent players who had fair or below market salary. Also if you do happen to land a Jonas Gray type for the week you still have to nail all of the other guys. Obv it makes it easier with cheaper salary dudes
Its a function of price/production, strategies vary depending on the field size/game type etc.
Just like poker, you don't want to or need to take such huge risk in a 10 player 50/50 field. There is no need to "stretch the boundaries" so wide, when just trying to score higher than 9 other combos,or 40 other combos, but to outpace and outright win over a field of 57k combos, yes your strategy needs to differ. To just need to finish in the top 50% of a 50/50 you want to take a more "central tendency" approach, with less risk than you would trying to win a big field top heavy contest.
You will also outright win the 50/50s with a boundary stretched lineup, although it is unnecessary to take such risks, when the reward is only double your bi, and a field of 9 other combos, or say 50 you have to outpace. So right and wrong you are.
My initial post was examples of how to win the BIG money, big fields, which most people are interested in, especially on an NFL Sunday. Strategy does differ for different types of structures of course. I was not trying to get too crazy in depth on the entire nuisances/techniques of plugging optimal DFS lineups, and was trying to more or less make a thread for solid value plays relative to price for people to be able to mull through and over.