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Is there anything out there like the Draft Best Ball tournament this year?

They should’ve been more clear, but the way I understand it if you advance, even as a wildcard, your entry is treated the same way as it would be as if you won the 1st round. The consolation prizes would move to the next in line.

This is how they define those payouts:

Round 1
14,401st – 28,800th – $30
28,801st – 43,200th – $20

So if you advance out of the 1st, no matter how, you wouldn’t be in those payouts placings.

About 1/2 way down on this page link it has the present entry count for the tourney contests:
https://www.draftkings.com/lp/best-ball

Towards the bottom of the page, the 4th FAQ has info on how many entries advance after the initial round (weeks 1 – 13) and future rounds.

thanks

posting the current counts:

20: 68.5k
3: 83.7k
333 1269
1000 170

You’re welcome. This is my first time playing Best Ball as well and I wouldn’t have considered it had DK not offered it.

I started with the slow drafts and they progress far too slow, as it took my first couple drafts over two weeks to finalize. My entries since then have been the regular paced rounds, which are rapid on a per pick basis, and it takes about 45 min to complete the entire draft.

Good luck if you give it a shot!

https://www.draftkings.com/lp/best-ball

they’re speeding up the slow drafts this week so that they finish on time

probably only worthwhile to do slow drafts in the final week, otherwise slow becomes too slow

I love these best ball tourneys, how are they not filling did they start them too late? I hope they offer them next year even if there is a overlay. Dk is doing it the correct way. How dis the draft contest fill so quickly. Makes me wonder if draft.com was legitimate. Was the sudden shut down of draft.con to cover something up before they got caught

Draft.com got bought out by FanDuel and they immediately shut it down as all they wanted was the player base and technology of snake drafts to incorporate into their own site. So they did nothing down and it was kind of a surprised how FanDuel bought them out just to immediately shut them down at the end of last year instead of keeping it going until they were ready to add snake drafts to their main site.

I have not ton a tons of drafts this year but in my small sample size I felt like I was able to draft much better teams in the fast drafts vs. the slow ones. Just because there are many dead players on the board and every fast draft I have been in has had people take those early due to getting autodrafted and not having a queue properly filled. When you have an 8 hour clock it is hard to get timed out twice to move into autodraft mode.

18 hours later:

20: 74.2k
3: 89.1k
333: 1364
1000: 180

i think best option is FD
NFL players quiz
this is a cool NFL related entertainment that only the most real fans can pass

doing my first DK best ball now

I accidentally set my rankings for sit n go so they’re worthless

having a bad draft

all the RBs and TEs went really quickly

QB: Dak, Matt Ryan (autopick8)
RB: David Johnson, Fournette (auto6), Swift, T.Coleman, Pollard, Justin Jackson, John Kelley
WR: Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Sterling Shephard, Golden Tate, Shenault, Sanu, Isabella
TE: Gesicki, Goedert, Hockenson

imo this bestball thing is a FAIL unless they change criteria

recommend checking DK accounts to see if you got a ticket today

Bruh I just got a MT Mahomes Kelce stack. I doubt many have those 3 , they play week 15 might as well ship me to the finals to week 16 already.

In a “slow” draft now that was 10 minutes per pick but now it changed to 8 hours per pick middle of round 8. Not sure what that is all about but it’s quite frustrating. half the folks turned on auto draft and it appears guy on the clock plans on using entire time. I really don’t want to auto pick but it may just have to be that way. I’m new to this, thoughts on the start of draft: Barkely, Sanders, Ridley, McLaurin, Fuller, Kittle and Mostert. Was going to go QB possibly with next pick if Ryan is still there or pivot.

My bad just saw the rules: Tuesday 9/8 at 10am ET – the slow draft pick clock will move to 10 minutes per pick. The pick clock will revert to 8 hours per pick between the hours of 10pm ET to 10am ET. Wednesday 9/9 at 7:30pm ET – the slow draft pick clock will move to 2 minutes per pick. There will be no overnight period after this change.

Is there anywhere where you can view the teams that you drafted? Can’t find it on any place on the app or website.

on the app, tap upcoming at the bottom

I’m on my 5th draft and I always end up having to reach at a position because too many guys got taken there quickly

You only took 2 QBs ?
They both have the same Bye Week (week 10).

Yeah the second was an auto pick. I was attempting to select Josh Allen when the 30 second clock timed out and gave me Ryan instead

I should’ve noticed it auto picked a bad bye and picked a third

Ugly team. It also has Sanu, who is not even on a team. DK still lists him as being with NE, as it lists Fournette as being with JAX

All my teams are bad. I’m lousy at this best ball stuff.

Hey guys so I never play Football in DK, usually just hockey so I don’t have the best sense of Football. I earned a $20 ticket for the best ball snake draft. I had the 7th pick which in my opinion seemed to be pretty shitty because it was 12 people so 7 is like directly in the middle of the snake. Anyways, Id like to know how my team looks for being the 7th pick and what I should expect.

QB Matt Ryan
RB Alvin Kamara
RB Austin Ekeler
WR Chris Godwin
WR Calvin Ridley
WR Christian Kirk
TE Rob Gronkowski
FLEX Leonard Fournette

Bench
D’Andre Swift
Austin Hooper
Sterling Shepard
Cam Newton
Boston Scott
Duke Johnson
James Washington
O.J. Howard
Sam Darnold
Steven Sims Jr.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Darren Fells

I got a $20 ticket to enter on DK but when I open the contests it doesn’t give me the option to enter with the ticket….anyone else having this issue?

YES!!! Was going to ask the same question.

Is that Free ticket contingent on entering something else first? I thought I saw that originally, could be wrong though. Yet I have the ticket regardless.

Hey guys so I never play Football in DK, usually just hockey so I don’t have the best sense of Football. I earned a $20 ticket for the best ball snake draft. I had the 7th pick which in my opinion seemed to be pretty shitty because it was 12 people so 7 is like directly in the middle of the snake. Anyways, Id like to know how my team looks for being the 7th pick and what I should expect.

QB Matt Ryan
RB Alvin Kamara
RB Austin Ekeler
WR Chris Godwin
WR Calvin Ridley
WR Christian Kirk
TE Rob Gronkowski
FLEX Leonard Fournette

Bench
D’Andre Swift
Austin Hooper
Sterling Shepard
Cam Newton
Boston Scott
Duke Johnson
James Washington
O.J. Howard
Sam Darnold
Steven Sims Jr.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Darren Fells

Not good buddy- You drafted 4 QBs and only paired (stacked) 1 with one other?? You need way more correlation and high WR variance to take one of these down. sorry