College Football DFS Projections, Tools, and Advice to Help You Win

In college football DFS, the main slate is the biggest set of Saturday games on DraftKings and FanDuel. DraftKings often also splits Saturday into separate early and late slates, and both sites run smaller Thursday and Friday night slates. Our CFB projections cover all three days.

All week. Our data team updates projections as injury news, depth chart changes and Vegas line moves come in, and this page refreshes with the latest numbers every 10 minutes. The biggest updates come as availability news breaks close to kickoff. Next week’s projections go up shortly after DraftKings and FanDuel release salaries.

Every CFB plan includes projections and ownership for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday slates on DraftKings and FanDuel, plus Showdown projections and ownership for college football single-game slates. On Saturday, The Stone 2.0 lets you work the early and late DraftKings slates separately, so every lineup you build fits one contest.

Partly. This page shows free projections, ceilings and points-per-dollar for the five highest-priced quarterbacks, running backs and receivers on the slate. Members get projections, ceilings and ownership for every player, plus The Stone 2.0, where you can build lineups by hand or hit Optimize and save your lineups.

DraftKings is full PPR, a point per reception, and pays a 3-point bonus for 300 passing yards or for 100 rushing or receiving yards. FanDuel is half PPR with no yardage bonuses. That makes high-volume pass catchers more valuable on DraftKings, while touchdown-dependent running backs hold their value better on FanDuel. The rosters differ too. DraftKings uses eight spots under a $50,000 cap: a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, a FLEX and a SUPERFLEX that can hold a second quarterback. FanDuel uses seven spots under a $60,000 cap: a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers and a SUPERFLEX. Neither site has a tight end or defense position.

The SUPERFLEX lets you play two quarterbacks, so most tournament lineups are built around two passing games, often pairing each quarterback with one of his receivers. Many also add a bring-back from the other team in a game expected to shoot out. In cash games, most lineups still play two quarterbacks for their high floors but stack more lightly. Our guide to DFS correlation explains when each build makes sense.

Cash games, such as 50/50s, double-ups and head-to-heads, pay roughly the top half of the field, so you build around safe, high-volume players, usually two quarterbacks and running backs who get most of their team’s carries. GPPs, short for guaranteed prize pools, pay around the top 20 to 25 percent of the field, with most of the money at the very top. Big Saturday slates spread ownership across dozens of teams, so a strong play from a less-watched game can set your lineup apart. Slate Station and our Core Report show who our experts are building around.

College football Showdowns are single-game contests, usually for the biggest games of the week. On DraftKings you pick a Captain and on FanDuel an MVP, and on both sites that player scores 1.5 times the points at 1.5 times the salary. You then add five flex players, under a $50,000 cap on DraftKings and a $60,000 cap on FanDuel, and your lineup needs players from both teams. Because the boosted slot costs more, the best Captain or MVP isn’t always the top scorer. A cheaper player with upside can leave room for a stronger lineup around him. Our Showdown projections, ownership, Showdown Stone 2.0 and Showdown Slate Station cover college football Showdowns on both sites. Our guide to building Showdown lineups in sets shows how to put several lineups together.

Yes, with a membership. Members can sort, filter and export our full CFB projections, including ceilings and ownership. The Stone 2.0 also saves your lineups as upload-ready CSV files for DraftKings and FanDuel. The free preview on this page is view-only.

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