It’s a tradeoff DFS pros will gladly make. The contests become more difficult to win when there are hundreds of thousands of entrants, but with a large portion of the new players being casual, the increase in difficulty pales in comparison to the increase in prize pools. As a result, DraftKings and FanDuel offer enormous contests with generous prize pools. That’s because a lot of casual fans enter the NFL DFS Showdown fray as a way to have some action on island games.
There were a lot of recurring themes on the show, but the most relevant for this article: DFS pros love NFL Showdown. On the High Stakes podcast I used to host for Stokastic, I interviewed DFS pros on a range of topics.
