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NFL Fantasy Football: Where should you play NFL DFS? An Unbiased Perspective

By Chris Aliperto

CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 16: The fantasy sports website DraftKings is shown on October 16, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. DraftKings and its rival FanDuel have been under scrutiny after accusations surfaced of employees participating in the contests with insider information. An employee recently finished second in a contest on FanDuel, winning $350,000. Nevada recently banned the sites. (Photo illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 16: The fantasy sports website DraftKings is shown on October 16, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. DraftKings and its rival FanDuel have been under scrutiny after accusations surfaced of employees participating in the contests with insider information. An employee recently finished second in a contest on FanDuel, winning $350,000. Nevada recently banned the sites. (Photo illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images) /
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ORCHARD PARK, NY – NOVEMBER 25: A referee cap with the NFL Shield logo sets on the field’s sideline during the game between the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars at New Era Field on November 25, 2018 in Orchard Park, New York. Buffalo defeats Jacksonville 24-21. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***
ORCHARD PARK, NY – NOVEMBER 25: A referee cap with the NFL Shield logo sets on the field’s sideline during the game between the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars at New Era Field on November 25, 2018 in Orchard Park, New York. Buffalo defeats Jacksonville 24-21. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** /

NFL Fantasy Football: NFL DFS on Fantasy Draft

Roster Construction and Scoring

As far as scoring goes, Fantasy Draft uses the DraftKings model for NFL Fantasy Football for the most part, in a sense that scores will be higher being it is a full PPR scoring system, and there are also bonus points awarded for 100-yard rushing and receiving games. This is not a direct link, but for the full Fantasy Draft scoring system, you should be able to find it from here.

Fantasy Draft is also very different from the others because of their roster construction. It is only July, and I am currently spacing on who even has a kicker anymore and who doesn’t, but I am almost certain the kicker only remains on FanDuel. Here on Fantasy Draft, you will roster one QB, two RB’s, two WR’s, one TE, two FLEX spots, and a defense. This gives us six players in the skill positions with the extra flex spot and the flexibility of rostering up to four WR’s or four RB’s if you choose to do so.

Contests

In the past, Fantasy Draft has had some huge freerolls for NFL, but they have been thinning them out as of late, and doing different things like Twitter giveaways. I have no idea what to expect from them this NFL season, but one constant about Fantasy Draft over their four or five-year run in the industry is overlay.

We have seen a lot of overlay in the nightly $25 MLB contest this season, and depending on if they can gain any new customers, we may continue to see this trend for NFL. I am an overlay hunter by nature, and this is often the site I find it the most. Along with the fun roster construction style, the overlay is just another reason I like to play here a good bit.

As far as cash games go, we usually get a couple of solid large field single-entry 50/50’s, as well as some double-up’s and triple-up’s that allow up to three entries. H2H contests are rake free on Fantasy Draft as well, and while the competition is pretty stiff, obviously getting $10 back instead of $9 on your $5 match will be much more profitable in the long run. I do not may play much H2H in general, but when I do, I do it on the Yahoo Quick-Match, or here on Fantasy Draft where there is no rake.

Rake

On average, you will pay a little more in rake fees for GPP’s than you will on Yahoo, but a little less on Fantasy Draft that you will on FanDuel and DraftKings. However, this is all subject to whenever Fantasy Draft finally does indeed launch its new Rake Free DFS platform. For now, the average rake on large field GPP’s is usually right under 15%, and payouts are a little flatter than some of those lopsided contests on FanDuel and DraftKings.

UPDATE – as of July 30th, Rake Free DFS is now available on FantasyDraft with a subscription-based model in play. Player’s can now play up to $100/month in entry fees with a free subscription and 100% rake-free while you can step up to play up to $1,000/month for just $5.99/month.

The potential to win life-changing money on will not present itself on Fantasy Draft, but when guaranteed prize pool contests do not fill up, the chance at much easier money does present itself. As long as that continues, I expect to play some Daily NFL Fantasy Football on Fantasy Draft this season.