Gimino: The Basics of Why Ownership Matters
The following article was written in year of our lord 2016, but still has plenty of relevance in today’s DFS world. In this course, you’ll get a sense of why ownership is a critical part of any long term winning GPP players overall strategy. The core principles haven’t changed in 4 years, though the sophistication of your opponents in understanding it has. Chris Gimino has been studying and predicting field behavior for years, and has a solid perspective on how you can apply it to your every thinking below.
One thing that can easily get lost in the daily grind is that DFS is a game against other players, and not exclusively a contest to make the most accurate predictions.
Obviously we want to be very good at understanding what is likely to happen, but we cannot get so sure of our ability to predict player performance that we forget the true goal of the contest. That goal is to defeat all of our opponents. This article is designed to help you achieve that goal.
In this article:
• Why does ownership matter?
• Are you good at predicting outcomes?
• Factors to consider when projecting ownership for yourself
• How to punish your opponents when they make a theoretical mistake