Fanduel Cash Game Strategy
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If you have been following me for a while, you know I’m a strategic kind of guy. I am a coach and have a background as a business student, so I love analyzing graphs and numbers for hours just to put myself at some sort of advantage. That is what we will be doing with this article today. While NBA cash games for DFS may seem simple, there is a little more strategy you can use to ensure you cash more often.
I am going to assume you know the basics about what a “cash game” contest is, but if you are unsure, just ask me on Twitter: @DFSFlurry. I also am pretty sure you have the basic strategy for cash games down. You obviously want players with higher floors and will pay a bit extra for consistency. Let’s take this a step further. I will warn you, there is a little bit of math involved. I will do my best to explain it very simply, but get some coffee and chocolate now if you think it’ll help.
For a FanDuel NBA lineup you will be given $60,000 to spend on nine players, which is an average of $6,667 each. The salaries for players will be important in a little bit. I have found that shooting for about 315 fantasy points scored will get you in the green for cash games, so my strategy is centered around getting the magic number of 315.
You can do the math that 315 fantasy points averaged out among nine players equals 35 points for each one. This is where I have seen some strategies stop, but I’m taking this one step further from a different direction.
Instead of averaging the 315 out among nine players, let’s average it out across the $60,000 we are allotted. There’s a lot of zeroes in 60,000 that will make this confusing, so from now on, we will talk about the cash in groups of 1,000. $60,000 = $60 and $6,500 = $6.5. Now if we average the 315 out among the money we are given, it comes out to 5.25 points per $1,000 we spend. This means a player needs to get approximately 5x their salary. We can use this as a measuring tool to gauge if we think a player is a good value or not.
Now I just said every player needs to get 5x their salary to be valuable, but this is not necessarily true. That is just the average. If a player’s salary is $10+, then 4x the points is pretty good. $4.8-$9.9 should be around 5x their salary, then those less than that (usually your sleepers or fliers) should get 6x.
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Time to use some examples to really make sure we are understanding this. For tonight, C.J. McCollum has a salary of $8.7. According to my strategy above, McCollum needs to get 43.5 points to reach his value ($8.7 x 5 = 43.5). While it’s possible, there is a good chance he may not reach this number. Al-Farouq Aminu is $4.6 tonight. For him to be valuable he needs to score 27.6 points, which is much more possible ($4.6 x 6 = 27.6). This means that I think Aminu is a better value play on FanDuel for this night.
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I used this strategy for the lineup below. You can see that some people greatly exceeded their value while some were just below it. The important think is, nobody flopped and I had enough upside players for my team to explode for 355!
So that’s my cash game strategy! If you have any questions at all, ask over on @DFSFlurry! If I have any big messages at all, I will either have them in my bio or as a pinned tweet, so always check those. Likes, RTs, comments are all appreciated, so let’s continue to grow our community!