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- (MH) – This player is a Must-Have in your lineups
- ^ – There is a pinned post that discusses this player
- (GPP) – This player carries high risk and low ownership
- (Cash/Chalk) – This player carries low risk and high ownership
- (FDuel) – This player is most valuable on FanDuel
- (DK) – This player is most valuable on DraftKings
- (if stacking) – This player is most valuable if you are also using his advised teammates
- Optimal Targets – These are the players we suggest building your lineups around
- Elite – We think this player is extremely good value at their salary
- Fantasy Four-Pack – These players are four of our favorite value plays for the slate
- Bo1 – One game, winner takes all
- Bo3 – Best of three series
- Bo5 – Best of five series
- PPD – Postponed; players won’t score any points and can’t be swapped if the scheduled start time for the game has passed
- SPEED – A stack of players with high potential for getting on base and stealing
- Elite – High-priced options that our analysts like
- Value – Low-priced options that our analysts like
- L1, L2, etc – line 1, line 2, etc
- PP1, PP2, etc – power play 1, power play 2, etc
- Elite Spotlight – Our analysts’ favorite expensive
  golfer
- Value Play – Our analysts’ favorite cheap golfer
- Honorable Mentions – Golfers our analysts like that you can use to finish filling out your lineups
- Core Compliments – Our analysts believe these value players go well with the optimal targets

What DFI Membership Gets You

Welcome to the DFI community! If you’re reading this, you’re either thinking about purchasing a membership, or now have access to our exclusive DFI War Rooms!

Once you’re signed up, you can easily navigate to the War Rooms by selecting from the Sports drop down at the top of your screen.

WHAT YOU’RE GETTING

What are the War Rooms?

The War Rooms are forums custom-built to meet the needs of the DFS community. You can access the War Rooms by selecting a Sport and then choosing the War Room tab on the drop down menu.

Each main slate will have it’s own War Room with a header outlining our top picks and other pertinent information, from injury and weather updates to important lineup information.

Below the header are questions that YOU and other members submit—with corresponding analysis from our Insiders. The Insiders will pin the most useful questions and answers to the top as well as in-depth analysis.

Short on time and need to build a lineup fast? Read the header and then look through the pinned posts. You’ll be able to find a ton of useful information to build a lineup in minutes.

After you read a question and the corresponding replies, you can click “hide” to minimize the whole post. This will allow you to see which questions you’ve already read and which ones are new—even if you leave the webpage and come back to it later or open it on a different device! If additional replies are made on a post you’ve already hidden, you’ll see this icon ? next to the question to let you know to unhide that post and see the new comments.

Wondering about a specific player? Search his name with the search bar located in the top right of your screen on your computer and the bottom of the page on your mobile devices. This will bring up any mention of the player anywhere in that specific War Room.

Still don’t see what you’re looking for? Use the question box under the header to submit a query for the Insiders.

Now you get access to even more unique, in-depth strategies for each specific slate, from value plays to specific stacks to even entire slate breakdowns. These articles will provide you with the strategic analysis behind our Insiders’ deepest research and help you understand how they reached those conclusions. You can find these articles contained within the War Room for easy access to everything you need on one page!

This super intuitive format keeps you up to date on all the info you need in the most efficient possible way. While our Insiders narrow the field to the best picks on the slate and lock in our favorite guys, the finishing touches are still up to you. This allows us to preserve the competitive nature of DFS, and it allows you to take pride in your winning lineups.

War Rooms typically open two hours before daily slates begin (often one hour before on Sundays). For the bigger, weekly sports like NFL and PGA, we start them days in advance so you have plenty of time to ask questions and prepare for the slate.

Our members are really enjoying the improvements we’ve made since we first launched our website, and we think you will too. The DFI community loves to see each other succeed and we look forward to having you join us.

Read-Only vs. Interactive Memberships

The difference between a Read-Only membership and an Interactive membership is the ability to ask questions and comment on other people’s questions in the War Rooms. As we grow the DFI community, we have to make sure the War Rooms didn’t get too crowded with questions. We like to answer our users’ questions very quickly and we can only do that if we limit the number of people who can ask them, which is why Interactive Access is often Sold Out. Read-Only Access still allows you to view all of the content, and the majority of the DFI community actually prefers to save money with these memberships as our analysts post high-quality content that usually answers all the questions you’ll have. If you want Interactive Access but it is sold out, you can sign up for a Read-Only membership and join the wait list for Interactive Access.

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The convenience of our service is unmatched within the industry. Push notifications for all of our Bets are just one click away, making it very easy to access our well-respected picks.

What Makes us Different?

Our team has consistently provided top tier content, but what really makes us different is our community. We have a lot of fun sweating games together on our Discord as well as our Twitter (@DFIBets).

Our Dedication to Transparency

We track every pick we post and the results are displayed publicly on our site at all times for complete transparency and proof of performance. Our mission is to provide the most convenient and efficient betting service that allows our community to effortlessly build their bankroll.

What’s Next?

If you’ve never used a DFI product before, then we want to get you started off right. The coupon code “TryBets” will get you a trial month of our picks and all we ask for in exchange is your feedback. If you’re a returning user then we encourage you to check out our pricing options.

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Free trials are for new users only. We honestly hate that it has to be this way because our founders used to get pissed at other companies when they would offer special deals only for new members.

But now that we are on the other side of it, we realize it’s just a necessary function of trying to grow a business.

We can’t give away our services for free to everyone or none of our employees would get paid and we’d be bankrupt within a month. We hope you understand and we’re sorry that’s how it has to be. We recognize that it’s annoying.

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How To Use War Rooms

If you’re relatively new to the War Rooms, they may seem a bit overwhelming. This short video from our CEO Justin MacMahan will help you feel more comfortable and allow you to maximize your time.

We welcome feedback, so if you have any suggestions for how we could make your experience better or any concerns with your account, please email us at [email protected] or message us on Twitter @dfitakeover.

Contest Selection & Bankroll Management

One of the most important aspects of succeeding in DFS is choosing the right contests. Our CEO Justin MacMahan recorded this short video to help you manage your bankroll in a way that will lead to long-run profitability and we highly recommend that you give it a watch before you start joining contests for the next slate.

We welcome feedback, so if you have any suggestions for how we could make your experience better or any concerns with your account, please email us at [email protected] or message us on Twitter @dfitakeover.

Official Policies

Please be respectful to the entire DFI community by ensuring that your experience doesn’t hinder someone else’s.

On most main slates, our Insiders will be in the War Room for two hours before the slate locks. Feel free to submit your questions at any time after the War Room for each slate is created and our Insiders will answer them as soon as possible.

If a question is submitted in regards to a player who has already been discussed in a Pinned Post, the Insiders will assume that you no longer have a question about the situation. If the post didn’t address something specific you wanted to know, feel free to reply to that post with a question.

If you submit your lineup as a question, we will only comment if we see a player we wouldn’t recommend using. If we approve of your lineup, we will simply leave it be. Please keep in mind that we can’t make a final decision for you if you ask us to choose between two players that are both in the header. We will do our best to respond to questions between two players if both players are not mentioned in the header or a Pinned Post. If one is in the header and one is not, it should be obvious. If both are, that is a decision for you to make. If we made that choice for you at every position, everyone would end up with identical lineups. Not only would that be against the rules set by the DFS sites, but it would be a disadvantage for all of us.

We hope you enjoy the War Rooms and understand that these policies are for the greater good of the entire DFI community. We understand that some of you would like reassurance about your lineup each day before submitting it, but the majority of our users would prefer our analysts to answer questions about specific players and the slate as a whole so everyone can benefit. This way the War Room is not overcrowded with things that don’t concern anyone else. If you have questions about any of this, feel free to email us or send a direct message to our Twitter account, @dfitakeover.

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WHAT ARE THE WAR ROOMS?

The War Rooms are forums custom-built to meet the needs of the DFS community. You can access the War Rooms by selecting from the Sports drop down at the top of your screen.

Each main slate will have it’s own War Room with a header outlining our top picks and other pertinent information, from injury and weather updates to important lineup information.

Below the header are questions that YOU and other members submit—with corresponding analysis from our Insiders. The Insiders will pin the most useful questions and answers to the top as well as in-depth analysis.

Short on time and need to build a lineup fast? Read the header and then look through the pinned posts. You’ll be able to find a ton of useful information to build a lineup in minutes.

After you read a question and the corresponding replies, you can click “hide” to minimize the whole post. This will allow you to see which questions you’ve already read and which ones are new—even if you leave the webpage and come back to it later or open it on a different device! If additional replies are made on a post you’ve already hidden, you’ll see this icon ? next to the question to let you know to unhide that post and see the new comments.

Wondering about a specific player? Search his name with the search bar located in the top right of your screen on your computer and the bottom of the page on your mobile devices. This will bring up any mention of the player anywhere in that specific War Room.

Still don’t see what you’re looking for? Use the question box under the header to submit a query for the Insiders.

Read our DFI Must-Haves and Spotlights on DailyFantasyInsider.com? Now you get access to even more unique, in-depth strategies for each specific slate, from value plays to specific stacks to even entire slate breakdowns. These articles will provide you with the strategic analysis behind our Insiders’ deepest research and help you understand how they reached those conclusions. You can find these articles contained within the War Room for easy access to everything you need on one page!