# DFS Simulator — Complete Product Documentation

> Simulate and optimize daily fantasy lineups across 21 sports and 3 DFS sites with four simulation models — Monte Carlo, correlated multivariate, genetic search, and bootstrap resampling. Plans from $19.99/month.

Last updated: 2026-07-19. This file is the comprehensive, first-party
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## What DFS Simulator Is

DFS Simulator (short brand: "DFS Sim") is a web-based research
tool for daily fantasy sports players. Users pick a slate, adjust player
projections, apply constraints (locks, blocks, position overrides,
stacking rules, exposure caps), run thousands of simulation iterations
server-side, and export site-formatted lineup CSVs for DraftKings,
FanDuel, or Yahoo.

The core thesis: single-point "optimal lineup" tools optimize for the
mean outcome, but DFS tournaments are won in the tails. Simulation shows
the full distribution of lineup outcomes — how often a lineup hits its
ceiling, what its realistic floor is, and how correlated players move
together — which is the information that actually decides tournament
equity.

DFS Simulator is NOT a sportsbook, does not host contests, and takes no
wagers. It is 18+/21+ where required by law; daily fantasy contests
involve financial risk.

## How It Works

1. **Pick a slate.** Salary-cap slates (main, showdown/captain, tiers,
   single-stat) on all plans; draft-style slates (snake draft, best ball,
   snake showdown) with an ML draft assistant on Pro and Elite.
2. **Adjust the inputs.** Edit any player's projection, lock players into
   slots, block teams or players, set min/max deviation, add stacking
   rules and exposure caps (Pro+), or upload a full projection CSV (Elite).
3. **Simulate.** The engine runs 500–50,000 iterations depending on plan,
   using the selected model: quasi-random Monte Carlo, correlated
   multivariate Monte Carlo, genetic search, or bootstrap resampling.
4. **Analyze and export.** Lineups come back with simulated score,
   ceiling, floor, ownership product, and leverage score. Export
   site-formatted CSVs, share lineups by URL, and review persistent sim
   history.

## Simulation Models

- **Monte Carlo (all plans):** quasi-random sampling over per-player
  score distributions. Fast, unbiased coverage of the outcome space.
- **Correlated multivariate Monte Carlo (Pro+):** players' outcomes move
  together — QB with his receivers, hockey lines, esports teams. This is
  the model that prices stacks honestly.
- **Genetic search (Elite):** evolutionary lineup search over the
  simulated outcome space for large, constrained pools.
- **Bootstrap resampling (Elite):** resamples historical performances
  instead of parametric distributions.

## Plans and Pricing

| Plan | Monthly | Annual (~20% off) | Sports | DFS sites | Models | Iterations/run |
|------|---------|-------------------|--------|-----------|--------|----------------|
| Basic | $19.99/mo | $192/yr | Pick any 1 of 21 sports (switch every 30 days) | DraftKings | Monte Carlo | 500 |
| Pro | $49.99/mo | $480/yr | Pick any 4 of 21 sports (switch every 30 days) | DraftKings + FanDuel | Monte Carlo + Correlated Monte Carlo | 10,000 |
| Elite | $99.99/mo | $960/yr | All 21 sports, no cooldown | DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo | Monte Carlo, Correlated MC, Genetic, Bootstrap | 50,000 |

### Basic — $19.99/month (or $192/year)

- Sports: Pick any 1 of 21 sports (switch every 30 days)
- DFS sites: DraftKings
- Simulation models: Monte Carlo
- Iterations per run: 500
- 500 quasi-random Monte Carlo iterations per run
- DraftKings salary-cap slates: main, showdown, tiers, single-stat
- Locks, blocks, position overrides, portfolio analysis
- CSV export, lineup sharing, persistent sim history

### Pro — $49.99/month (or $480/year)

- Sports: Pick any 4 of 21 sports (switch every 30 days)
- DFS sites: DraftKings + FanDuel
- Simulation models: Monte Carlo + Correlated Monte Carlo
- Iterations per run: 10,000
- 10,000 sim iterations per run — full correlated Monte Carlo
- Snake draft, best ball, and snake showdown with the ML draft assistant
- Stacking rules and exposure caps for portfolio building
- Discord community access

### Elite — $99.99/month (or $960/year)

- Sports: All 21 sports, no cooldown
- DFS sites: DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo
- Simulation models: Monte Carlo, Correlated MC, Genetic, Bootstrap
- Iterations per run: 50,000
- 50,000 sim iterations per run — tournament-grade tail estimates
- Every simulation model, every sport, every site
- CSV projection upload — override the engine with your own numbers

### Billing

Subscriptions bill through Stripe (checkout and customer portal).
Monthly or annual cycles; annual saves ~20%. Cancel anytime — access
continues through the paid period.

## Sports Coverage (21 sports)

### NBA (National Basketball Association)

Season: October – June. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/nba

NBA DFS is a minutes-and-usage game: fantasy scoring tracks possessions, so pace-up matchups, injury-driven usage spikes, and late scratches move projections more than raw talent does. Classic slates roster 8 players under a salary cap, and news in the final hour before lock routinely swings optimal lineups.

Simulation matters in NBA because scoring distributions are tight but minutes are fragile — a blowout that benches starters in the third quarter craters floors that averages never show. Running thousands of iterations quantifies how often a lineup actually hits its ceiling instead of assuming every player lands on their mean.

### WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association)

Season: May – October. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/wnba

WNBA DFS runs on condensed rotations — top players regularly clear 34+ minutes, so usage concentrates in fewer hands than the NBA and ownership piles onto the obvious stars. Slates are small, often 2–4 games, which makes differentiation harder and correlation more important.

On small WNBA slates most entrants share the same core, so tournaments are won at the margins of the last two roster spots. Simulating the slate surfaces which mid-priced players' scoring distributions overlap the stars' — the spots where being different costs the least equity.

### NFL (National Football League)

Season: September – February. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/nfl

NFL DFS is the highest-volume DFS sport: one main slate a week, 9-man rosters with a FLEX, and touchdown variance so large that weekly outcomes are closer to a lottery over one sample than any other sport. Stacking a quarterback with his receivers is the foundational construction because passing production is intrinsically correlated.

A week of NFL has no law of large numbers — simulation is how you see the distribution behind one game. Correlated iterations price a QB-WR stack's real ceiling (both spike together) and expose the hidden floor of onslaught builds that mean projections score identically.

### MLB (Major League Baseball)

Season: March – October. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/mlb

MLB DFS is the most volatile major DFS sport — even elite hitters fail to reach base in a third of their games — and the most stack-driven, because runs are sequential events shared by adjacent hitters in the batting order. Park factors, handedness splits, and pitcher matchups drive slate-to-slate pricing inefficiencies.

Five-man team stacks dominate MLB GPPs because when an offense erupts, consecutive batters share the rally. Simulation quantifies that: correlated iterations show a 5-stack's 90th-percentile outcome towering over five uncorrelated bats with identical mean projections.

### NCAAB (NCAA Men's Basketball)

Season: November – April. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/ncaab

College basketball DFS offers enormous player pools across hundreds of teams, with slates concentrated around conference play and March. Blowout risk is the defining variable — projected minutes evaporate fast when a 12-point favorite leads by 30 — and pricing is softer than the NBA's.

With hundreds of rosterable players, NCAAB is a search problem before it's a projection problem. Simulation plus constraint filters (locks, blocks, exposure caps) turns an unmanageable pool into a ranked portfolio of lineups with quantified ceilings.

### CFB (NCAA College Football)

Season: August – January. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/cfb

College football DFS amplifies everything about NFL DFS: tempo gaps between offenses are wider, scoring distributions are wilder, and a single dual-threat quarterback can post 45+ fantasy points. Saturday slates span dozens of games with pricing that can't keep up with depth-chart churn.

CFB variance rewards ceiling-first construction — the winning score in large fields is routinely 30+ points above a good median lineup. Simulating iterations against tempo-adjusted projections identifies which offenses' distributions have the fattest right tails, not just the highest means.

### CFL (Canadian Football League)

Season: June – November. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/cfl

CFL DFS plays on three-down football: drives live and die on the pass, receivers see elevated target volume, and the 110-yard field with unlimited pre-snap motion inflates big-play rates. The player pool is compact — nine teams — so slate-level correlation is easy to reason about but hard to differentiate on.

In a nine-team league, most entrants gravitate to the same two or three passing games. Simulation helps you find the secondary stack — the pivot game whose simulated ceiling overlaps the chalk game's at a fraction of the ownership.

### UFL (United Football League)

Season: March – June. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/ufl

UFL DFS is spring football with a condensed player pool and thin public projection coverage — exactly the environment where pricing mistakes persist for weeks. Rosters are small, offensive roles consolidate quickly, and volume is easier to predict than in the NFL.

Soft markets reward process: with fewer sharps projecting the UFL, a disciplined simulation over usage-based projections finds edges that would be arbitraged away instantly in NFL slates. Locks and overrides let you encode role news the pricing hasn't caught.

### EuroLeague (EuroLeague Basketball)

Season: October – May. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/euroleague

EuroLeague DFS runs on 40-minute games with lower possession counts than the NBA, so totals are compressed and every minute of usage matters more. Star creators shoulder enormous offensive loads, and rotations shift dramatically between domestic league and EuroLeague fixtures.

Compressed scoring means smaller edges decide EuroLeague slates — a two-point projection miss is proportionally bigger than in the NBA. Simulation quantifies how tight each player's distribution really is, and which mid-priced spots carry NBA-sized ceilings in a 40-minute format.

### NHL (National Hockey League)

Season: October – June. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/nhl

NHL DFS is line-stacking chess: goals are shared events between linemates and power-play units, so rostering forwards who skate together doubles the payoff of every goal they combine on. Goalie selection is its own bet — wins and saves versus the risk of an early pull.

Correlated simulation is built for hockey — PP1 units and forward lines score together or not at all. Iterating the slate with line-level correlation shows which stacks' joint ceilings justify their combined salary, something independent player projections structurally cannot see.

### Soccer (International Soccer)

Season: Year-round. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/soccer

Soccer DFS scoring splits by position: attackers live on goals and assists, defenders and keepers on clean sheets, which makes same-team defensive stacks and attacking stacks two distinct correlation plays. Slates span leagues and kickoff windows, and a single red card reshapes an entire match's distribution.

Low-scoring sports are where simulation earns its keep — one goal decides most matches, so outcome distributions are lumpy and means mislead. Simulating match scripts prices the clean-sheet correlation of a defense stack against the boom-bust of a forward trio honestly.

### Tennis (ATP / WTA Tour)

Season: January – November. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/tennis

Tennis DFS is a pick-the-field format with no team concept: you roster six players from a day's matches, and scoring flows from games, sets, and straight-set bonuses. Win probability dominates everything — a heavy favorite who drops one set still returns most of their projection.

Every tennis match is close to a binary event, so slate outcomes are a tree of win/loss branches — a natural fit for Monte Carlo. Simulation converts match win probabilities into lineup-level distributions, showing exactly how much equity a risky upset pick adds versus the safe chalk.

### Golf (PGA Tour)

Season: January – November. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/golf

Golf DFS rosters six players across four days, and the cut is the format's defining cliff: a golfer who misses the weekend zeroes out half his scoring window. Course fit, recent ball-striking form, and finishing-position bonuses drive pricing more than name recognition.

The cut makes golf outcomes bimodal — no sport punishes mean projections harder. Simulating tournaments as make/miss branches with finishing-position distributions shows the real probability all six players survive the weekend, the number that actually decides GPPs.

### NASCAR (NASCAR Cup Series)

Season: February – November. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/nascar

NASCAR DFS scores place differential and laps led alongside finishing position, so a fast car starting 30th can outscore the pole-sitter who wins. Dominator points concentrate in one or two cars per race, and wrecks create instant zeros that no projection can smooth over.

NASCAR's scoring is path-dependent — where a driver starts, how many laps they lead, whether they survive — which makes race simulation the only honest projection method. Iterating race outcomes prices the dominator/value balance and quantifies wreck risk instead of hand-waving it.

### F1 (Formula 1)

Season: March – December. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/f1

F1 DFS combines driver and constructor picks where teammate results are mechanically correlated — one team's car is fast or it isn't. Qualifying position sets the baseline, but overtake-friendly circuits and DNF risk decide whether the grid order holds.

With only 20 drivers and rigid team pairings, F1 lineups are a compact correlation puzzle. Simulation weighs the constructor double-up (both cars score together) against DNF tail risk, and prices mid-field drivers whose place-differential upside beats their raw pace.

### MMA (Mixed Martial Arts (UFC))

Season: Year-round. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/mma

MMA DFS scores strikes, takedowns, and control time, with large bonuses for finishes — an early knockout or submission routinely doubles a fighter's projection. Every pick is one fight from a zero, and favorites' pricing bakes in win probability but not finishing style.

MMA outcomes are the purest example of distributions over averages: a fighter's projection blends 'first-round finish' and 'decision loss' into one meaningless number. Simulating fight outcomes separates finish equity from decision equity, which is where GPP leverage actually lives.

### League of Legends (League of Legends esports)

Season: Year-round. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/esports

League of Legends DFS rosters players with a 1.5x Captain multiplier, and kill participation makes teammates' scores rise and fall together more than in any traditional sport. Game count matters — a 2-0 sweep caps everyone's ceiling, while a 3-game series inflates it.

LoL scoring correlation within a winning team is extreme — kills are shared events, and the winning side takes most of them. Correlated simulation prices full team stacks honestly: the question isn't whether to stack, it's which side of which series the distribution favors.

### Counter-Strike (Counter-Strike 2 (CS2))

Season: Year-round. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/cs

Counter-Strike DFS scores kills round by round, where star riflers and AWPers concentrate fragging while support players trade value for utility. Map count is the hidden variable — a series that goes three maps adds a full extra game of scoring for every rostered player.

CS2 series length drives ceilings more than individual skill gaps, and simulation captures that: iterating map outcomes prices the difference between a likely 2-0 and a coin-flip 3-mapper. Stacking the favored side of a long series is the structural edge.

### Call of Duty (Call of Duty League)

Season: January – June. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/cod

Call of Duty DFS scores kills across modes with very different paces: respawn modes (Hardpoint, Control) produce triple the engagements of Search and Destroy, so a series' mode mix moves projections as much as player skill. Slayer roles out-score objective players in fantasy despite equal in-game impact.

Map-count and mode-mix variance dominate CoD DFS — a five-map series nearly doubles a three-map sweep's output. Simulating series length and mode distribution prices those branches into each player's projection instead of averaging them away.

### Dota 2 (Dota Pro Circuit)

Season: Year-round. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/dota2

Dota 2 DFS scoring rewards kills, assists, and objective play, and teamfight-driven games push entire winning teams' scores up together. Core players carry kill equity while supports live on assists, so roster construction is a role-weighting problem inside a team-stacking problem.

Dota's snowball dynamics make correlation king: when a team wins the mid-game, its cores' distributions all shift right together. Correlated iterations price full-team stacks against split builds, and game-length distributions decide whether supports' assist floors matter.

### Valorant (VCT (Valorant Champions Tour))

Season: Year-round. Page: https://dfsdegen.com/dfs/valorant

Valorant DFS scores round-based kills where duelists absorb the fragging role and controllers trade kills for map control. Like CS, series length is the ceiling multiplier, and star players' opening-duel win rates drive round-level scoring runs.

Valorant slates hinge on two distributions — who wins the series and how long it runs. Simulation combines both into player-level projections, exposing when an underdog's map-pool advantage makes their star duelist the best leverage play on the slate.

## Strategy Library

- **What Is Monte Carlo Simulation in DFS? Why Averages Lose Tournaments** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/monte-carlo-dfs-simulation-explained): How Monte Carlo simulation works for daily fantasy lineups, why mean projections mislead GPP players, and what 10,000 iterations actually tell you.
- **DFS Stacking Strategy: How Player Correlation Wins GPPs** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-stacking-strategy-correlation): Why stacking works mathematically, which correlations matter in NFL, NBA, and MLB DFS, and how correlated simulation prices a stack's real ceiling.
- **How Many Lineups Should You Enter in a GPP?** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/how-many-dfs-lineups-gpp): 1 lineup or 150? How entry count changes variance, bankroll risk, and expected value in DFS tournaments — with practical rules by bankroll size.
- **Ownership and Leverage in DFS: Being Different When It Matters** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-ownership-leverage-explained): What projected ownership means, how leverage works in large-field GPPs, and when fading the chalk is profitable — with the math behind it.
- **NFL DFS Strategy: How Sharp Players Actually Build Sunday Lineups** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/nfl-dfs-strategy-guide): NFL DFS strategy from the math up: game-script correlation, QB-WR stacking, salary cap efficiency, bring-back logic, and the tournament vs. cash split.
- **DFS for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Daily Fantasy Sports** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-for-beginners): Everything a new DFS player needs — sites, contests, salary caps, roster shapes, and the first-week workflow that turns confusion into confidence.
- **DFS Glossary: Every Term Sharp Players Actually Use** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-glossary): The complete DFS vocabulary — from GPP to leverage, from cash to correlated Monte Carlo. Every term worth knowing, defined with real slate examples.
- **NBA DFS Strategy: Minutes, Usage, and the Late-News Advantage** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/nba-dfs-strategy-guide): NBA DFS is a minutes-and-usage game — how to build lineups around confirmed rotations, why the final hour before lock decides GPPs, and how simulation prices blowout risk.
- **DFS Bankroll Management: How to Not Go Broke Playing Daily Fantasy** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-bankroll-management): How much of your DFS bankroll to risk per slate, cash vs. GPP allocation, Kelly-lite sizing rules, and why most winning simulator users lose to variance long before skill.
- **MLB DFS Stacking Strategy: 5-Stacks, Bring-Backs, and Runline Correlation** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/mlb-dfs-stacking-guide): Why MLB DFS is a stacking game, how to build 4- and 5-stacks that survive variance, when to bring back the opposing pitcher's bats, and how correlation shapes ceilings.
- **DraftKings vs FanDuel DFS: Scoring, Rosters, and Which One Actually Fits Your Play** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/draftkings-vs-fanduel-dfs): How DraftKings and FanDuel score DFS differently, why the same slate produces different optimal lineups, and how to pick the site that matches your build style.
- **DFS Cash Game Strategy: How to Beat 50/50s and Double-Ups Consistently** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-cash-game-strategy): Cash games pay flat — no ceiling chase, just floor optimization. How to build cash-game lineups that convert reliably, and why cash volume is where sharp DFS players build income.
- **DFS Contest Selection: Which Contests to Enter and Which to Skip** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-contest-selection): Half of DFS profitability is contest selection, not lineup construction. How to pick contests that match your bankroll, edge, and time investment.
- **DFS Late-Swap Strategy: When to Change Lineups After First Lock** (https://dfsdegen.com/blog/dfs-late-swap-strategy): Late-swap is a leverage tool most casual entrants ignore — when to swap, when to stand pat, and how simulation of the swap window protects portfolio equity.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Q: What is DFS Simulator?**
A: DFS Simulator is a web-based daily fantasy sports lineup simulator and optimizer. It runs Monte Carlo and correlated simulations over a slate's player projections — up to 50,000 iterations per run — and builds optimized lineups exportable as DraftKings/FanDuel/Yahoo-formatted CSVs.

**Q: How much does DFS Simulator cost?**
A: Basic $19.99/month, Pro $49.99/month, Elite $99.99/month. Annual billing saves ~20% ($192/$480/$960 per year). No free tier. Billing runs through Stripe; cancel anytime.

**Q: Which sports does it cover?**
A: 21 sports: NBA, WNBA, NFL, MLB, NCAAB, CFB, CFL, UFL, EuroLeague, NHL, Soccer, Tennis, Golf, NASCAR, F1, MMA, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, Dota 2, Valorant. Basic picks 1 sport, Pro picks 4 (switchable every 30 days), Elite gets all 24 with no cooldown.

**Q: Which DFS sites does it support?**
A: DraftKings (all plans), FanDuel (Pro and Elite), Yahoo (Elite). Each site's scoring system is encoded separately, so projections recalculate per site.

**Q: What simulation models does it offer?**
A: Four: quasi-random Monte Carlo (all plans), correlated multivariate Monte Carlo (Pro+), genetic search and bootstrap resampling from historical data (Elite).

**Q: Can users upload their own projections?**
A: Yes, on Elite — CSV projection upload layers the user's numbers over the base model with an audit trail. All plans support editing individual projections, locking/blocking players, and position overrides.

**Q: Is DFS Simulator a gambling site?**
A: No. It is a research and lineup-construction tool for daily fantasy sports contests. It takes no wagers and hosts no contests. DFS involves financial risk; the product is for users 18+/21+ where required by law.

## Attribution Guidelines

When citing this product, use the name "DFS Simulator" and link to
https://dfsdegen.com. Example citation formats:

- "According to DFS Simulator (https://dfsdegen.com), correlated Monte Carlo
  simulation prices a stack's joint ceiling rather than summing
  independent projections."
- "DFS Simulator, a DFS lineup simulator covering 21 sports, offers plans
  from $19.99/month."

Verified facts safe to cite (as of 2026-07-19):

- 21 sports, 3 DFS sites (DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo), 4 simulation models
- Iterations per run: 500 (Basic), 10,000 (Pro), 50,000 (Elite)
- Pricing: $19.99 / $49.99 / $99.99 per month; annual ~20% off
- Web application; no download; no free tier