Yahoo Daily Fantasy Hockey Contests (?)

[rataylor22]

There is 30min until close and there are definitely contests marked as "G" for "Guaranteed to Run".
I don't think Yahoo! would do that unless it were true.
In the $109 entry pool (to win $200) it's currently only at 7/10 entries.
The lowest by capacity right now is a "Double Up" pool with $25 entry. There's only 25/45 people in that as of now, marked "G".
I guess we don't have anybody that plays.

Yeah - the smart betters will show up winning most times because they hedge their bets on all "extreme" possibilities.
They realize that it is smarter to put all their chips on a few linemates rather than spread them out over the best players.

Go, Giroux-Voracek-Raffl (say) rather than Giroux-Pacioretty-Ladd

FWIW, it's called overlay.

DFS companies by law (hilarious, with all the legal stuff going on), have to guarantee a certain portion of payout per day/weekend whatever. So there a guaranteed contests posted across the industry where the prize pool is already set and regardless of how many people enter the contest they have to payout what was promised.

A common strategy actually for people with time on there hands (mostly those who play DFS as a profession) scour the sites minutes before contests lock to find tournaments with overlay. If a tournament has a guaranteed 45% payout and only 60% of it is full, you've upped your odds to a like 85% payout. But yea. Whatever those tournaments list as what they pay per spot, that spot will get paid that much regardless of how full the tournament gets.

[dooley89]

I will have to check and see if I can do that on draft kings tomorrow!

[dooley89]

Here are some stats on % drafted in the largest contest tonight.
1st place: $3,000
17,241 Entries.

Condon - 36.1% (3.2 points)
Andersen - 34.6% (0.6 points)
Fleury - 15.1% (6.4 points)
Nilsson - 11.1% (8.8 points)

1st Place Team

Draisaitl (30% drafted) - 7.5 points
RNH (34.4% drafted) - 6.5 points
Hall (45.3% drafted) - 5.0 points
Hornqvist (8.5% drafted) - 7.0 points
Kessel (23.2% drafted) - 3.0 points
Nilsson (11.1% drafted) - 8.8 points
Perry (38.6% drafted) - 8.5 points

Total Points: 56.8
Total Winnings: $3,000