So I played my one day on DK. As I mentioned, some of the "game" aspects are much improved - salaries for one are pretty well done. At least you can't draft an all star team. There were still some puzzling players that were at the minimum value who shouldn't have been (Benoit last night was one of them).

A couple things that I found inferior to other sites. First, the roster is really small. I think that this limits the advantage of a good player. Second, fewer scoring categories (e.g., no +-). Fewer stats just make it less fun to follow.

As to the site itself, I found that the withdrawal option was kind of "hidden". I had no idea to click on the little cog thing. Second, I still have no idea what to do with frequent player points. Other sites have a store or similar to redeem, which seems way more convenient.

-hf

Playing my first DS NHL game today. $5 guaranteed money 50/50.
Despite being a hockey fan definitely gonna be a larger barrier to entry than NFL just because of the amount of players and game frequency.

From what I've read seems like stacking scoring/PP lines against bad teams is the way to go and that you can find good value picks at D. Did pretty limited research for today's games but we'll see how it goes.

I have two lineups tonight. That is generally trouble.

Couldn't decide between St. Louis + Tatar or Iginla + Backstrom.

So I went with both.

One is bound to suck.

Well that was decided quickly.

The standard for DFS NHL is 9 slots which is what we have, there is 1 site that has extremely deep rosters for all sports. It seems the majority of people getting in DFS right now, especially in sports like NHL, prefer rosters of short to medium depth.

+/- as a stat creates a lot of correlation between players on the same team, hockey is already the most correlated sports so we removed it to break some of that and add roster diversity.

There is an FPP store in the works but you can email support@draftkings.com at any time and you'll be told which tickets you can swap your tickets out for.

Playing 3 double ups tomorrow on DS.

Right now I'm sitting on a lot of DAL and MON players. Thought about stacking Sedin/Sedin/Kesler but that's quite a bit of salary. Might be able to do it if I knew the value players better.

Well that went better than expected

legit brag, nice work

time to move up where they respect your lineups

If only I were actually good lol. Got lucky last night with Kane/Saad/Mirri hitting hard

Edit: First night playing DD NHL, salaries seem low across the board. I'm rolling out:

Halak
Stamkos
Getzlaf
JVR
Galchenyuk
Kessel
Perry
J. Benn (D)
Oduya

Not a huge fan of that lineup, but it's not the worst thing I've ever seen. Not the way you'll see me going in 50/50s or h2hs. It's def high upside, but I worry about it's floor more than you might think. Pretty easy for me to be wrong about that though, but I'm putting a marginal amount of faith in Mason tonight and thinking this road trip has to catch up to the Ducks sooner or later.

I ended up going with

Halak
Tavares/Vanek
Backes/Steen
JVR/Kessel
Benn
Oduya

Gonna end up doing alright I think, Kessel pretty much saved my team.

Not gonna play tomorrow since there are so few games. Don't think I know the lower cost value players enough to do well.

Yeah, Kessel saved me as well. Vanek/Tavares did nothing, but Tavares saved value a bit with a last minute misconduct. Had 2 lineups and neither was stellar, though both were fine and cashed most everything. Unfortunately finished like 4th-2nd in every qualifier I played though.

Tomorrow's slate is less than exciting for DFS. I'll probably play anyway, but it looks low scoring which really ups variance. Picking value players is super important like you mentioned and in particular value defenseman, especially on a day with only a few games.

Decided to play a few 50/50s on DD but think I'm gonna skip DS since line up construction there is significantly harder imo.

Right now my roster is:

Bernier (assuming he plays)
Kessel
Kadri
JVR
Kesler
D. Sedin
Burrows
Vlasic
Franson

Definitely wanna stack Kessel/Kadri/JVR again. That line just seems too good to pass up. Thoughts on the resT?

Ugh, kind of a lame night. Literally everyone is going to have at least 5 of the players you have there. I think it's mostly fine tho, I'm not likely playing Crosby or his teammates today either.

I love Rotogrinders - they give some of the worst lineup advice imaginable. Essentially it consists of "these top all stars are good plays and here is a random and uninformed shot at sleepers, which will ultimately suck".

Lol you talking about the Daily NHL Plays articles?

They are basically touts. Player X is a great play tonight. Player Y is a sleeper. Avoid player Z. When they hit on one of their predictions then they promote the tout as a fantasy expert.

Let's see, draftday I'm rolling out:

Elliot
Crosby
Stamkos
Datsyuk
Zetterberg
Alfredson
Bertuzzi
Shattenkirk
Leopold

Draftsteeet I'm also stacking Detroit but can't remember the rest of my lineup.

Used exactly 0 DET players on either of my DD lineups. Was a ton of good options today and I just felt like I had better options. STL guys vs DET guys was close tho.

I'm completely prepared to pay for my sins for not playing players vs Calgary though. Good start to the day so far tho with Mason being scored on and Kunitz already grabbing a goal from the Croz.

Blues stack looking good. Hopefully DET goes ape****, my teams aren't looking great right now. I think I should stop playing NHL during the week, end up making my rosters quickly at work, not really a good recipe for winning.

um yeah crazy day

lol

errybody scoring

If the wangz don't slow down I'll probably be owned on the night.

What an insane night. Pretty sure more people faded the Caps completely lol. My two DS teams sucked by cashed in all of my DD 50/50s so made out with a small profit.

Hrmmmm.

Need Quick Alfredsson Couture to best the Militard tonight.

Making up like 10 points.

We'll see.