Setting Goals & Lineups: Cash Games
If you have played daily fantasy sports before then you know that there is an inherent difference between cash games and tournaments. The payout structure is vastly different in the two types of leagues, which makes it important to adjust our lineup building strategy to the type of league that we are playing in.
You will often hear the terms ‘floor’ and ‘ceiling’ thrown around in this industry. A player’s floor is the number of fantasy points you can expect him to score in a bad outing. Some people like to use the term floor as a player’s absolute minimum possible fantasy point total, but I use it in a broader sense. In general, a player that is consistent has a higher floor than a player with high variance in his fantasy point outputs.