When you begin entering your WinView contests, it’s nothing like any Daily Fantasy Sports site that you construct a roster on. We receive questions that we have to get right to accrue points. Building a strategy heading into each contest you enter is something that gives you an edge. Guessing is an option, but similar to season long and daily contests, doing research gives you a leg up.
When looking at the strategy you’re going to use for WinView, start off with a plan. If playing NBA, figure out matchups, pace, points per game for each team and how they’ve fared against one another throughout the year. For MLB, it’s similar, but obviously pace isn’t a factor while matchups are crucial. For football, how do the defenses fare against quarterbacks, running backs and pass catchers, amongst other things.
While making our predictions, we need to be smart distributing out the 5,000 points we are given. We will make more than 5K if we get our first few predictions correct, but the more we get wrong the fewer points we’ll have. Based on how confident we are on the prediction we are answering is how we should base the point value we spend on each. If the question is one you’re very confident about, you have to remember you have the “ONE SHOT” option once per contest.
If you’re playing baseball and you get a question that asks you to predict if Player X is going to strike out or hit a home run during his next at-bat, the research is there for you to take a guess. We can assume somebody like Joey Gallo has a good chance at doing either one of those two things while a player like Ichiro Suzuki, more often than not, won’t do either. You also generally have 15-to-25 questions to answer and if you’re not comfortable with one that pops up, you don’t HAVE to answer it.
That being said, keeping an eye on the leaderboard is crucial to the bets you make. If you’re falling behind, or need a big splash to get back into the money, putting down a 500 or 750 bet is more logical than a 250. Even using your “ONE SHOT” could be very beneficial as you will not lose any points if you get the question wrong but especially if you’re confident in the question you’re answering as it can be the difference between winning and losing. Conservative play comes to the forefront in a head-to-head situation or one when you check the leaderboard and you’re comfortably in the money already.
The Playbook’s we construct for the site weekly will help you build a better idea for the strategy to go along with this strategy. We’re excited to get started with WinView and hope this was a solid enough breakdown on how to launch your WinView experience!