The Myth of Mass Entries
Okay, you read the last lesson. You already know what we’re getting at here in terms of “the myth of mass entries,” but before we move forward and start digging into the meat of what goes into a successful single-entry approach, I want to take a quick moment to explicitly explore the misconception so many have about mass-entry DFS play.
“The only way you can make money is by buying up a ton of entries.”
Again, this is the fallacious understanding many DFSers and non-DFSers have about DFS success. What’s interesting to me about this line of thinking is that nearly every single person who plays DFS has enough money to “buy up a ton of entries.” In fact, if you don’t have enough money to “buy up a ton of entries,” you probably cannot responsibly justify playing DFS in the first place.
Why do I say this? Because there are large-field tournaments that cost as little as twenty-five cents to enter.
Want to throw a couple dozen entries into a tournament at once? Think that’s the only way to succeed in DFS?
Great! That will cost you six dollars in a large-field tournament at twenty-five cents an entry.
You think it will take a few days to really allow this approach to play out? That’s fine, too: let’s give it five days. That’s thirty dollars in all, and a total of 120 entries.
All the time, I see people complain that “If I had the money to buy up a ton of entries, I would be making money in DFS.” But…what? These individuals can’t spare thirty dollars to put themselves on the path to life-changing money?
The actual truth of the matter is, simply buying up a ton of entries is not a guaranteed path to DFS success. In fact, for most people, buying up a ton of entries usually guarantees nothing but that they will lose their money more quickly.
If you don’t believe me, I encourage you to try it yourself. Listen: I’ve done it, too. After a full year of successful DFS play, I spent a couple weeks dabbling in mass-entry play, in order to see if I could gain an edge on the field with that approach. Thankfully, I did this in an experimental manner, playing mostly in twenty-five cent tourneys and one-dollar tourneys. Yup – I led into that with “Thankfully” because all I did during those couple weeks was lose most of the money I put in play.
There are a lot of things that go into DFS success – a lot of fundamental study, knowledge, and understanding that is required, and a lot of advanced strategical thinking – but “buying up a ton of entries at once” is not one of those “things that go into DFS success.” Sure, there are successful DFS players who achieve success through the purchase of a massive amount of entries at once, but these individuals enjoy this success because of their DFS prowess, not because they are buying up a bunch of entries at once.
Let me say that again, because I think it’s an important point to grab hold of:
There are highly-skilled DFS players who make consistent profit through mass-entries due to their advanced understanding of how to succeed with this approach, but there are no unskilled DFS players who make consistent profit through mass-entries “just because they’re buying up a bunch of entries”!
Here’s something that’s really cool, though: The fundamentals of any form of successful DFS play grow from the fundamentals of successful single-entry DFS play.
Crap. Am I going to annoy you if I repeat that as well? Probably – but that’s worth repeating nonetheless:
The fundamentals of any form of successful DFS play grow from the fundamentals of successful single-entry DFS play.
If you want to develop into a successful limited-entry player, the things you learn in the next few lessons will lay the foundation for you to get there.
If you want to develop into a successful multi-entry player, or even into a successful mass-entry player, the things you learn in the next few lessons will lay the foundation for you to get there.
If you want to be a successful DFS player in any way, shape, or form, you are about to pick up a whole lot of information that will vault you forward in this area.
You ready? Enough “introduction,” right? Enough “talk.” It’s time to dive in.