Daily Fantasy 101 – GPP Strategies for the new MLB DFS player

Daily Fantasy 101 - GPP Strategies for MLB New Users Opening Day for the 2018 MLB season is just around the corner and that means another great year for daily fantasy baseball. In this article, I am going to cover some of the basics but most important strategies when making your lineups for GPP tournaments across the industry. While these are separated into sections, there is a lot of intertwined ideas between it all. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Stacking Let’s get the most obvious one out of the way early. Stacking is a vital strategy when it comes to building your tournament teams. What is stacking? This is when you take anywhere from three to five batters that hit in succession and use them all in the same lineup. The reason you do this is that if that team scores a bunch of runs, you are most likely to cash in on that as you’re going to get points for every hit, run (R) and run batted in (RBI) that occurs with your players. For example, if your first player gets a single, your second player gets a single and your third one hits a home run (HR) with your first two on base, you are going to get all of those points and jump up the standings really quick. Of course, there is the downside of stacking as well. If you have four or five batters from the same team and that team only puts up one run, you are not going to cash anything. This is a volatile strategy but it is also the most commonly used in tournaments as it has the highest upside. Take a look at the top of the leaderboard over the first couple weeks of the season and you will notice that almost all of the teams in the top 10 will have utilized this strategy. Take a look at this example of a stack of Phillies players that put up great numbers, but individually they may not have been that valuable because there were no home runs hit. Another aspect I want to bring your attention to is the three runs that the Phillies scored in the ninth inning. If they were the home team, they would not have gotten to bat in the bottom of the ninth so. Using teams that are on the road...