Defense versus Position (DvP)
Defense versus Position (DvP) data is incredibly popular among NBA DFS players. As said before, basketball is such a daily sport – as compared to NFL where you have to wait a week between slates, in the NBA it’s less than 24 hours for months. Because of this, matchups become really important. DFS sites like DraftKings and FanDuel cannot wildly swing player salaries on a night-to-night basis, which means that players aren’t priced for matchups in NBA as much as other sports, making it a large factor that DFS users need to focus on.
However, there is one big issue with current, raw DvP data: