Daily Fantasy College Football: A New Way to Profit From Your CFB Knowledge
My name is Zach Tow and I am the new College Fantasy writer for Saturday Edge. I will be providing picks and analysis every week. If you would like, you can follow me on twitter @_CFFNews_. I will be posting links to my picks via Twitter so you won’t miss anything. I love talking anything dealing with college fantasy football so your comments are welcome. I look forward to a great season and hearing from all of you.
I’m sure many of you have heard of fantasy football for the NFL, but did you know there was the same kind of thing for college football? As a matter of fact, there are a few very good sites that offer daily college fantasy football. Draftkings.com and Fanduel.com are two of the better choices for daily fantasy games.
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Welcome aboard Zach…I’ll look forward to hearing more about how you islolate candidates to put up strong individual numbers.
One thing I’ve always wondered, is there a site like they have in poker that shows players’ lifetime wins and losses? Also can you pick your opponent? Or do you just have to take who you get in the draw?
Also, is there a way to find out in advance the average score a that won the head-to-heads and group-pools on a given weekend? And obviously if this information wasn’t broken down by stake level it wouldn’t be worth much. I’d like to practice for a season to see if my scores would make me a winner before I plunged in.
Last time I checked out fantasy sports it seemed like the rake made head-to-heads the equivalnet of laying -125. Has that gotten any better?
From my experience, each Daily Fantasy Sports site has a database keeping records of the winnings for each member. You can view this by clicking on your potential opponents user name and reading their stats.
If you are doing head-to-head leagues, you can be “selective” when choosing your opponent. You can see who has already joined that contest, and whether or not you want to play them. Otherwise, you can just sign-up for leagues and wait for the opponents to come to you.
I have not seen a site that shows the average score it takes to win head-to-heads and tournaments. After a few weeks of playing, you should get a pretty good feel of the score you need to hit to cash in certain leagues.
It is probably best to start out with free games and $1 double-ups/head-to-head contests to get your feet wet. Then you can get a feel for it, gain some confidence, and up the ante as you see fit.
The daily fantasy industry standard is about -110 to -125 after considering the rake, so you are right in that regard. I believe that is a “flex rate” as the rake actually decreases as the prize pool goes up.
Either way, there if you really get the hang of Daily Fantasy Sports, you should be very able to overcome the obstacle of the rake.