Building Your Dashboards
Evaluating Pillar, Springer, and Keuchel was a lot of work. When it comes time to think about dozens of possible combinations for your DFS lineups, you’ll want to make quick decisions at a glance. Once you have a short list together, then you can dive into deeper analysis. Thankfully, FanGraphs offers customizable dashboards.
In this lesson, I’ll recommend useful DFS-focused dashboards for hitters and pitchers. These things are your babies so feel free to adjust on the fly. I’ve also included a short tutorial video on setting up the dashboard at the end of the article.
The customization process is straightforward. You can access the dashboard editor by selecting “Customize” next to the Dashboard table header. If you already hid the default dashboard, the customize button moves to the middle of the page hitter (part of the gray band). I show this in the aforementioned video in case you’re not seeing it.
If you don’t like the dashboard concept, you can use the customization screen to hide it entirely. Similarly, you can hide minor league stats and player profiles by default. I expect these latter two options will prove more popular.
I like to use table breaks to break the dashboard into distinct sections. Starting with hitters, I have a section of descriptives, peripherals, and rate stats. FanGraphs has added two new options labeled FanDuel and DraftKings. I assume these will list prices. Here’s my DFS-centric dashboard.
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