Announcing the 2015 Daily Fantasy Tournament Player of the Year

2015 will be looked back on as one of the most important, groundbreaking years in DFS. We’ve seen record setting prize pools across various sports, legal disputes, sites tweaking their terms of service and a lot more over the past 12 months.

That hasn’t stopped the best of the best from continuing to showcase their DFS skill. And, after compiling and tallying all of the results, we’re pleased to announce 2015’s RotoGrinders Tournament Player of the Year: Erik “ehafner” Hafner!

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ehafner finished the season incredibly strong with a huge week in late December, winning or placing highly in all three of DraftKings’ biggest tournaments (including a $1,000,000 win in the NFL Main Event). That pushed him over the mighty maxdalury, who also closed strong, and TheClone, who held the TPOY lead for much of 2015. Congrats to all three of these guys for huge years – the drop from third to fourth place is an incredible 30,000 TPOY points.

In claiming the TPOY for 2015, Erik wins an expenses-paid trip to the 2016 RotoGrinders party, where he’ll join the TPOY Circle of Champs: DP47, Al_Smizzle, and McJester.

Here are ehafner’s top ten scores. Remember, the TPOY only counts a user’s 50 best scores. Only one score per tournament counts. His winning total was a staggering 89,454 points, with a lot of his biggest showings coming as the year came to a close.

1.) 2015-12-28 – NFL $4M MAIN EVENT [$1 MILLION TO 1ST!] – 9737.103404239704
2.) 2015-10-24 – NFL $1.25M Play-Action [$1.25 Million Guaranteed] – 4932.576777206775
3.) 2015-12-28 – NFL $1.75M CHOP BLOCK CHAMPIONSHIP [$150K TO 1ST!] – 3940.6262315382
4.) 2015-12-28 – NFL $1.2M FLEA FLICKER CHAMPIONSHIP [$100K TO 1ST!] – 3186.467214874691
5.) 2015-04-10 – $1 Million World Fantasy Basketball Championship – 2626.527804403767
6.) 2015-12-20 – $450K Sun NFL Monster ($75K to 1st) – 2625.89738729196
7.) 2015-12-20 – $1.75M NFL Sunday Million ($175K to 1st) – 2483.2765470919016
8.) 2015-10-10 – NFL $1.5M Play-Action [$1.5 Million Guaranteed] – 2386.6254568561785
9.) 2015-03-04 – $1 Million Wed NBA MEGA Slam – 2238.8017125944007
10.) 2015-09-08 – MLB $300K MEGA Perfect Game [$100,000 to 1st] – 2059.212605916607

Here’s a look at the Top 10 TPOY Finishers for 2015

Rank Player TPOY Points
1 ehafner 89,454
2 maxdalury 86,895
3 Theclone 83,880
4 AshyL4rry 54,431
5 scout326 54,147
6 ChipotleAddict 53,866
7 SamENole 52,614
8 mbomb44 50,644
9 draftcheat 50,632
10 stlcardinals84 49,176

Congrats to ehafner and the rest of the top finishers, namely RG contributors Peter “DraftCheat” Christensen and Justin “STLCardinals84” Van Zuiden, on a hugely successful year in daily fantasy sports!

About the Author

Bogality
Bogality

Eric O’Neil (bogality) is the assistant editor here at RotoGrinders. He has been playing fantasy sports for almost a decade, and began playing DFS in 2014. Twitter: @bogality