In this series of blog posts, we look at some of the features of RotoTracker+, an exclusive set of advanced features available to all subscribers of our Bronze, Silver and Gold plans.
As you improve at Daily Fantasy Sports, you'll be moving up in stakes, and that means competing for bigger prizes. Knowing how well you do in the bigger field tournaments compared to smaller GPPs is critical to understanding your results.
RotoTracker is the best product out there for understanding your performance by prize pool, and new features on RotoTracker+ gives you even more tools to help you understand this properly.
First, it is important to keep in mind that not all entry history files provide you with complete information about the size of the prize pool in the contests you enter. DraftKings does it right and outputs the exact prize pool for every contest you enter, so data from this site will always be accurate on RotoTracker.
Unfortunately, for other sites, this information is not directly provided. Still, in this case, RotoTracker will try to work out the prize pool, based on analyzing the contest title. Particularly for GPPs, this is often quite accurate.
RotoTracker is unique in how it handles prize pool data, and one of the many reasons why you'll find RotoTracker the best tool for understanding your DFS results. Still, it is important to remember that this is not infallible, and sometimes the prize pool size from Fanduel and Yahoo will be empty.
For more information on how this works, check out this FAQ. And if you see a way we can improve our prize pool support, please let us know!
One of the first places you want to go to understand how well you perform in different size contests is the prize pool cohort.
As you would expect, this shows all your key stats — total contests and entries entered, your ITM and ROI, your average score, total wagered and net profit/loss — separated by distinct prize pool band — Up to $10, $10-$100, $100 to $1000, etc.
(One important thing to note: These bands are exclusive; a contest with a $100 prize pool will be in the "Up to $100" band, not in the "Up to $1K band.")
Does your ROI dip in higher prize pool contests? Are you scoring the same? Is it easier to make the money at lower prize pools? This table will show you all that at a glance, using the ROI, Av Score, and Av Win Score columns, respectively (to learn more about these columns, see the FAQs What do all the stats mean on the reports? and What is average score and average win score?)
As with every report in RotoTracker, the prize pool cohort supports a whole host of extra features:
Understanding how you perform in certain prize pools is not limited to the prize pool cohort — prize pool filtering lets you filter every report to a certain prize pool range.
Under the prize pool dropdown in the filters on the left-hand side, you'll find options for selecting a preset range, or entering in your own custom range. Any filter you set here will work across every report — whether it is a dates report, your list of contests or entries, another cohort, or your profit/loss graphs.
One thing to note is that, unlike in cohort, these bands are inclusive — so a filtered range of $10K-$25K, for example, will include all contests that have a prize pool between these numbers, including both $10K and $25K.
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First, all you need to do is sign up for a free RotoTracker account which you can do quickly and easily in just a few clicks. You will receive an automated email from us prompting you to log in and set a password. Once you have done this you are ready to get started on the data-driven road to DFS analysis.
Now all you need to do is get your DFS results data into RotoTracker.
Go to DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo, FantasyDraft or DraftDay and download your CSV files. For example, if you want your DraftKings data:
Now upload the CSV files on the RotoTracker Uploads page by dragging and dropping or use the file uploader. Or you can use RotoTracker Sync - but more information on that in a sec.
RotoTracker Sync - our browser extension- will automatically will check for updates in your CSV files along with updating your data from FanDuel, DraftKings, Yahoo and DraftDay in just a few clicks. RotoTracker Sync will only send up the latest data making syncing fast and fuss free so that you can get right to the good stuff (your DFS results data) straight away.
RotoTracker Sync supports CSV files that are hundreds of thousands of lines long - it can handle all the data you can throw at it so it is perfect for all levels of DFS player. RotoTracker Sync is also in-line with all the policies of DFS sites including DraftKings, so you dont have to have any worries that you are complying to the latest Ts and Cs of the site, because we are!
Once your CSV files have been processed which should only take a few minutes you are now ready to begin tracking your DFS bankroll and find where your strengths and weaknesses lie.
For more about our comprehensive filter, opponent analysis and prize pool filtering on our FAQ page.
Update 12:24pm EST: The issue has been resolved.
We have been alerted by our users that the DraftKings CSV download is currently not working — when you click to download your entry history file, the DraftKings server is sending a file with no data. This occurs with a manual download as well as using the RotoTracker Sync browser extension. If you try uploading this empty file to RotoTracker is will (naturally) fail.
We have contacted DraftKings and will update the blog when we have more details. Hopefully just a temporary hitch!
New "game type" column now handled gracefully - RotoTracker Sync update coming soon!
DraftKings updated their CSV format today to add in a new column - game type. This broke both our importer and the extension.
Within the hour, we had a fix for RotoTracker Importer so this new file format is handled. Right now we're ignoring the new column (we'll look to support this retroactively once we understand what this new field does!). But at least for now, your new files will import as before.
We are working to get a similar fix for the Sync browser extension as soon as possible. This can take a little while because it has to go through the submission process at both Chrome and Firefox app stores, so please be patient! We'll update the blog and Twitter once the update is live.