RotoAcademy

How to Play and Win at MLB DFS

This is a course for both new and experienced players to become acquainted with the time tested elements of successful MLB DFS strategy.

CheeseIsGood's GPP Guide for MLB DFS (Video)

This is a video course with Dave Potts (CheeseIsGood) and JMToWin discussing strategies for MLB tournament play. They go through the different types of tournaments and how lineup construction should vary depending upon various factors, such as size of the field, the number of entries, and payout structure. There is a never-ending array of metrics to look at in baseball, and Cheese guides you through the most important factors to focus on to help you filter out the noise. The goal of this course is to help you set a plan for your tournament play that gives you the best chance of success in MLB DFS.

In this course, Cheese and JM cover:

• Types of GPPs and having a plan of attack
• Multi-entry tournaments
• Risk vs. reward
• Stacking
• Qualifiers
• Stats That Matter

PlateIQ: Learn MLB Analytics with CheeseIsGood and Notorious

In this course, MLB DFS legends CheeseIsGood and Notorious walk you through the MLB analytics that can help you make better informed DFS selections.

Finding the Pitcher Stats that Matter in Daily Fantasy Baseball

Finding the Pitching Statistics that Matter in Daily Fantasy Baseball is a comprehensive breakdown of which numbers are significant when evaluating pitchers for daily fantasy baseball and which numbers are simply noise.

In this course, you’ll learn:

• Which metrics measure a pitcher’s true skill
• What kind of pitchers to target in cash games and tourneys
• The role strikeout rates play in a pitcher’s success and a batter’s struggles
• The importance of platoon splits for batters and pitchers
• Why ground-ball rates are critical in both batter and pitcher evaluation

Right Off the Bat: How to Utilize Batted Ball Statistics

Right Off the Bat: How to Utilize Batted Ball Statistics is, first and foremost, a course with a long name. Second, it’s a guide to understanding batted ball profiles, why fly balls are good and very exploitable, and how to utilize this widely available data to create a big edge in daily fantasy baseball.

In this course, you’ll learn:

• Why fly balls are good and ground balls are bad
• Why batted ball profiles are extremely consistent
• Which types of hitters excel versus specific pitcher types
• Whether or not batted ball profiles are properly accounted for by DFS sites
• How to implement this knowledge into a competitive advantage

The Hidden Edge: How to Use Weather to Win MLB

The Hidden Edge: How to Use Weather to Win Daily Fantasy Baseball is a comprehensive breakdown of how various weather factors—such as temperature, wind, and precipitation—affect MLB player and team performances, as well as how to leverage that information into a competitive advantage.

In this course, you’ll learn:

• How and where to research important weather factors
• How rain probability can be leveraged into profit
• The relationship between temperature and fantasy scoring
• Why wind’s impact on fantasy scoring isn’t what you think
• How to predict home runs using my weather-based model

Winning at DFS Tournaments: Strategy Articles from GPP Winners

In this series, we invite Daily Fantasy Tournament winners to share their wisdom on reaching the top of the leaderboards.