RotoGrinders NFL 2020 Premium Content Rundown
The NFL is back, and this season RotoGrinders is focusing our efforts more than ever on the most critical elements that matter for DFS success. We’ve put together a package of tools and premium content that can help you in all aspects of your DFS play, and we’re excited to get down to business delivering the support you need to crush in 2020.
A few highlights from the 2020 NFL Premium content offerings:
- DFS Optimizer: LineupHQ
- Integrated Premium Content in Optimizer
- Industry Leading Mobile Optimizer: Web and App Based
- Premium DFS Projections
- Projected Ownership
- Expert Rankings and Analysis
- Complete Game-By-Game Coverage
- DFS Expert Recommendations
- Advanced Stats and Data
- Subscriber-Exclusive Media
- Strategy Articles and Learning Tools
Below, we’ll walk through the content we offer and how it applies to the elements that matter for DFS success.
Projections and Forecasting
Strong player projections and sports forecasts are essential for most long term winning players. We have you totally covered on this, and we’re excited to bring your our 2020 content that serves this need.
LineupHQ Optimizer: Live all week long. Successful DFS pros are using optimizers to their advantage to win fortunes, and we’re obsessed with delivering the best tool possible for you to earn some money of your own. Our projections power the optimizer, and the LineupHQ tool will help you build strong DFS lineups that meet your exact specifications. It’s a must-have tool included with every Core4 subscription.
Premium Player Projections: Published Tuesday weekly and constantly updated. Strong player forecasts are essential to DFS success, and this year we’ve brought in more sharp minds and improved our modeling to deliver our best projections solution ever.
Floor, Ceiling, and Range of Outcomes:. Published Tuesday weekly and constantly updated. We know from experience that considering just the most likely outcome won’t cut it when trying to win tournaments. RotoGrinders will create and manage player volatility ranges with accuracy to help you consider both the upside and downside of DFS options for the week.
The BLITZ Projections by Derek Carty: Premium Add-On, updated through the week. Derek Carty is one of the most accurate forecasters of player projections in the industry. His BLITZ projections system is both battle-tested and fully integrated in LineupHQ for those that subscribe. His add-on tool includes floor, ceiling, and percentile projections as well. Get it today for access to all the resources and extras included with the subscription.
Smash Percentage Tool: Published by Wednesday each week and updated daily. We use our knowledge of past tournament viable score thresholds to estimate how often a player will contribute successfully to the ultimate goal. Using this tool will provide guidance on high upside tournament options, but also coach you on the concept of probabilistic thinking. The best players think about their choices in terms of probability, and the smash% tool is a great visualizer to help you think about your decisions in the same way.
Core Plays by Notorious: Published by Thursday each week. This is a highly curated list of the best possible options for the week, per the assessment of DFS OG Derek “Notorious” Farnsworth. No single list of DFS recommendations will ever be enough to be a long term winner on its own, but reading Noto’s thoughts and insights as to “why” he selected each player can help you learn and develop your own criteria for evaluation as you progress on your DFS journey.
The NFL Grind Down – Strong Projections Recommendations: Published by Friday each week. The Grind Down is a game-by-game rundown of the NFL slate that includes statistical analysis and DFS strategy for each contest. To help you understand the projections, you’ll get a look under the hood at every single player and an opinion from our analysts on which projections look the best for the upcoming week.
GridironIQ – Projections Underlying Metrics: Live each Wednesday. When forecasting the week, our GridironIQ tool has thousands of advanced data points and usage metrics that can help you review and modify player projections for the week. Use GridironIQ to gain an understanding of what is driving projections and make educated assessments on how you can customize your vantage point for the week.
Weekly Usage Trends Article by Alex Sonty: Published each Tuesday night. Alex Sonty dives deep into the usage data to help us spot trends and changes, focusing only on what we need to know for DFS and player projections. A great tool to help us understand what matters: opportunity.
Correlated Lineup Construction
Winning NFL DFS tournaments requires you to be creating well correlated DFS lineups. We’ve got multiple tools to help accomplish this.
LineupHQ Player Stacks Tool: Available all week. We’ve learned over time that winning DFS tournament lineups not only have one 2+ player correlation from a game, but also includes a second stack from another game frequently. Our DFS stacks tool allows you to program the optimizer to give you full control of the stacks you want each week, and put multiple stacks into your lineups with ease. We’ve also got a stack finder tool embedded that helps you identify high potential stacks. The stack tools and build rules provided in LineupHQ are exactly what you need to build highly correlated lineups with upside each week.
LineupHQ Groups Feature: Available all week. Correlating lineups can sometimes be as much about who does NOT appear together as who does. The LineupHQ groups function gives you incredible powers to instruct the optimizer on who should and should not be allowed to appear together in a given lineup. Take command of your builds with this incredible feature.
Core Stacks Article by STLCardinals84: Published Friday weekly. Looking for recommendations on strong correlated plays for the week? Justin Van Zuiden will deliver a select group for your consideration each week, with explicit details on why he thinks they’ll help you take down a GPP for the week.
The NFL Grind Down – Strong Correlations Recommendations: Published by Friday each week. The Grind Down is a game-by-game rundown of the NFL slate that includes statistical analysis and DFS strategy for each contest. From a correlations standpoint, you’ll get a look at stack options fo every single team and an opinion from our analysts on which stacks look the best for the upcoming week.
Lineup Differentiation
Projected Player Ownership: Published on Tuesday weekly and updated all week. Understanding the roster percentage of a player can help you construct lineups that provide the best chance of reaching the top of tournaments via proper differentiation. We provide an accurate estimation of player own % for all NFL classic slates and top showdowns. We also provide setting in LineupHQ to help you control the overall ownership of your Lineup and filter out undesirable constructions.
LineupHQ Premium Filters – Conviction Plays: Published Thursday weekly and updated. We ask some highly experienced tournament players who have been there before to guide us with some players they think will help them succeed in tournaments for the week. LineupHQ makes it simple to identify these selections directly in the optimizer with our premium filters. Simply click on the analyst, and see his most trusted GPP picks for the week. Lineup differentiation is often at the top of mind when making these highly curated recommendations from our analysts, and you’ll be sure to find some good ideas there.
The NFL Grind Down – Strong Differentiation Recommendations: Published by Friday each week. The Grind Down is a game-by-game rundown of the NFL slate that includes statistical analysis and DFS strategy for each contest. From a differentiation standpoint, you’ll get a look at every single team and an opinion from our analysts on which players can help us differentiate lineups for the upcoming week.
Q-Hunting Video with SquirrelPatrol and EBeimfohr: Published Friday Each Week. Two of the best at qualifying for live finals prepare a video breakdown of the upcoming slate, and review the strategies necessary to create high upside lineups with proper differentiation to take down 1st place in top-heavy contests.
The Ownership Report Video: Published each Saturday. Escot4 and ChrisGimino walk through each position for a projected ownership standpoint, and deliver opinions on how to effectively leverage this information for tournaments roster construction.
Roster Construction & Lineup Diversity
We help you piece together lineup perfection and a well-diversified portfolio in a number of ways.
LineupHQ Build Settings and Exposure Controls: Live all Week. There are far too many settings to list here, but our optimizer software is designed to help you get the kinds of roster constructions you demand while ensuring your preferred level of lineup diversity. Both diversification and proper roster construction have been shown to be a critical area of focus among top DFS winners. LineupHQ empowers you to demand the kinds of outputs you need to execute your personal strategy.
Consensus Value Rankings: Published by Wednesday. Each week, we ask a group of skilled DFS analysts to rank NFL players at every position in relation to their projections and salary for the week. The result is an awesome “wisdom of the crowd” roster construction tool that will rise the best values to the top of the list. A fantastic way to identify DFS values.
LineupHQ Premium Filters – Value Plays: Published by Thursday each week. Low salary options are often necessary to complete high upside roster construction, and we provide a list of the top options each week integrated within our LineupHQ optimizer
SlateIQ: Published by Friday each week. We identify past similar slate using a nearest neighbor algorithm, and display the roster construction characteristics of winning lineups on those slates. Learn salary distribution by position, stack type usage, historical ownership by position, and more. Learn from the past to help you make better lineup decisions in the future.
Site-Specific Recommendation Articles: Published by Friday each week. Salary consideration and roster construction is often very different on a site by site basis. We will have a top analyst with experience on a given DFS provide us with their opinion on site-specific players we can leverage in tournaments.
Millionaire Maker and Showdown Review Articles using ResultsDB: Published periodically. We study the actions of winning players across the highest entry contests, and deliver actionable roster construction insights and strategies to help us attempt to replicate that success. Once again: Learn from the past to help you make better lineup decisions in the future.
The NFL Grind Down – Roster Construction Recommendations: Published by Friday each week. The Grind Down is a game-by-game rundown of the NFL slate that includes statistical analysis and DFS strategy for each contest. From a construction standpoint, you’ll get a look at every single team and an opinion from our analysts on which players can help us save salary efficiently.
LineupHQ Express: Located in the RotoGrinders alerts app, this is an easy-to-use version of our optimizer that can help you construct effective lineups from your mobile device. Powered by RG projections and insights.
Information and News
DFS Injury Report – The Situation Room: Published Tuesday weekly and constantly updated. We track the status of DFS relevant players and provide analysis on the impact of player availability.
GridironIQ: Published Wednesday weekly and constantly updated. An easy to use advanced metrics dashboard powered data from SportRadar, Sport Info Solutions, Football Outsiders, and PlayerProfiler.com. Easily visualize the matchups and usage with this helpful tool.
Targets, Touches, and Advanced Data App: Published Tuesday weekly and constantly updated. A robust and easy to use history of targets, air yards, snap counts, and more from the brain of JoshADHD.
DFS Alerts App: Constantly Updated. Stay instantly informed on critical information with push alerts from our industry-leading mobile application.
DFS Weather and Weather Edge: Published weekly and constantly updated. Kevin Roth and our proprietary weather edge data tool both give us unique insights on how Mother Nature can impact player performances.
RotoGrinders Browser Extensions: Always live. Get premium content and highly useful DFS information posted directly into your browser while working on the DFS sites themselves. See site fees on each contests, projections, projected ownership, and more. Download it today!
New Contest Selection Guide Article: Published weekly. We search all the DFS sites to help you find the top contests that best suite your style. We’ll help you find some great contests no matter if you are a penny pincher looking for the best way to MME, or a high stake grinder seeking the best chance at overlay.
WR vs. CB Matchup Chart: Published Wednesday weekly and constantly updated. We compare pass catchers to secondary defenders and then rate the matchup, searching for exploitable scenarios to target and avoid. A classic tool to help select wide receivers for the help.
Schedule Adjusted Fantasy Points Allowed: Published Tuesday weekly. We take traditional points allowed data and adjust for the quality of opponent. No DVP metric is highly predictive, but this adjusted version gives you a better description of past team performances.
Starting Lineups – DFS Depth Chart and Information: Updated by Tuesday weekly. We track all 32 teams and list their key offensive players alongside other useful DFS data points. Learn position depth charts, see betting market lines and totals, and more.
RotoAcademy: Always Live. Strategy articles and videos to help you become a better DFS player.
Content That Hits Them All
Expert Survey: Published by Thursday weekly. We ask multiple top experts to share their views on some of the most helpful questions across all areas of DFS play. Get their takes while learning how they think about their weekly DFS decisions.
Premium Summary: Published by Friday weekly. The ultimate cheat sheet to help you quickly digest the highest quality plays and information from all of our weekly premium content. A phenomenal tool to check your lineups against our projections and opinions.
The BLITZ Premium Show: Published by Saturday weekly. Derek Carty and company walk you through the week in DFS using The BLITZ projection system as a backbone of discussion.
DFS Game Plan Premium Show: Each Sunday morning, our analysts will provide a brief rundown on the slate and detail their plan of attack for the week.
DFS Showdown Content: Published no later than game day Thursday, Sunday, and Monday. Projections, projected ownership (found in LineupHQ) a dedicated Expert Survey, and a show for each contest highlight our deep focus on helping you win during the island games. We’ve got you WELL covered when it comes to showdown slates.
RotoGrinders Premium Discord: Always Live. A community of Grinders. We come together there to talk football, life, and whatever else is on our minds. Come join us today!
Summary
During the NFL season, we’ll have you covered top to bottom on all the topics that can actually help you win at NFL DFS. We hope you’ll find actionable use for all of our tools and content as you look to take down your contests throughout the season.
If you aren’t a premium member, be sure to check us out soon! We’ll be here… crushing all season long. Good luck!