Questions we get often, answered straight. If yours isn’t here, email management@dailyoverlay.com and we’ll answer it — and probably add it to this page.

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Do you grade your own picks too?

Yes, and that’s the whole premise of the site. Our own consensus is graded with the same ruler as everyone else’s and listed on the leaderboards alongside them — wherever it lands that week. On the DFS side you’ll find our consensus sitting in the same ranked table as the sites we grade. On the sportsbook side our card appears as two separate lines, STRONG and LEAN, because blending them would hide the thing the tag exists to tell you.

We’ve been grading the DFS industry in public since 2015. The full methodology is written up in the DailyOverlay Grading Process.

How do you grade a DFS expert’s picks?

After a slate finishes we pull the actual DraftKings points for every player, then grade each player an expert recommended on three separate measures:

• Value — their points per dollar against the best points-per-dollar at their position on that slate.
• Ranking — where they finished among everyone at their position in points scored.
• Gross score — their raw points against the top scorer at their position.

Each measure produces a letter grade, and the player’s final grade is the best of the three. A player can earn an A+ by being the outright top scorer, or by being a bargain nobody else matched — both are real ways to help a lineup, so we count both.

Positions are grouped by what actually matters in each sport: quarterback, running back, receiver, tight end and defense in football; hitters and pitchers in baseball; and in basketball everyone is treated as one pool.

What is a DailyOverlay Score?

It’s the number in every DFS grading table — the average of the grades earned by the players an expert recommended, weighted like this:

A+	10 points
A	5 points
B	3 points
C	2 points
D	1 point
F	0 points

Because it’s an average rather than a total, an expert who posts five plays isn’t punished against one who posts fifteen. Scores are tabulated per slate and across the season to produce the rankings.

What makes it a “weighted” consensus?

DailyOverlay Scores feed back into the next slate. A site that has been grading well carries more weight in the consensus than one that hasn’t, so the rankings you see aren’t a flat popularity count — they lean toward the sources that have actually been right this season.

Whose picks go into it?

We set a roster of at least fifteen experts and sites per sport before each season, and we pull from a deliberately wide mix: free articles, paid articles, optimizers and projection sets. Several are premium packages we pay for ourselves.

From written articles we take the primary plays the author actually emphasized, and we favour cash-game selections where they’re identified. From projection sets we sort by points per dollar and take the top few at each position. Optimizer picks are pulled as close to publication as we can manage, so they reflect the same information you’d have.

What happens if a recommended player doesn’t play?

They come out of that expert’s set for the slate entirely — nobody gets credit or blame for a late scratch. Same for any game that’s postponed or cancelled. A hitter scratched from the lineup an hour before first pitch simply doesn’t count.

Is this DraftKings or FanDuel?

DraftKings scoring and salaries are the basis for everything we grade, so the cleanest use of the consensus is on a DK slate. It travels fine to FanDuel and other sites — just check the salaries line up before you lean on it, because the relative value can shift.

Is the consensus for cash games or tournaments?

Both, used differently. Our collection leans toward cash-game selections where sources identify them, which makes the top of the consensus a solid cash foundation. For tournaments, most people build largely off the board and then go off it deliberately for a play or two — a stacking partner, a contrarian look, or simply what the salary left them.

There’s a full walkthrough with real lineups in How to use the Consensus Plays.

What do STRONG, LEAN and FADE-WATCH mean?

• STRONG — four or more handicappers published this same side, and at least 70% of the field that touched the game agrees. Highest conviction.
• LEAN — two or three sources, or agreement in the 55–69% range. A real edge, carrying less weight.
• FADE-WATCH — the public is heavy one way while the money and the experts lean the other. A line-movement play to watch, not a recommendation, and it’s kept out of the card’s record.

Do you just follow public betting percentages?

No. The card is built from picks handicappers actually published, with the line each one printed. Public betting splits are context we look at — never a source, and never something that puts a play on the card by itself.

Do all the experts count the same?

No, but the weighting is deliberately conservative. Nobody’s track record moves their weight at all until they have fifteen graded picks, and it’s damped after that so a hot fortnight doesn’t overwhelm a season. It can also only ever lower a play’s conviction, never raise it — a well-rated handicapper can’t promote a thin play into a STRONG one on their own.

How many experts are in a card?

On a full college football Saturday or NFL Sunday, somewhere between fifty and a hundred named writers, handicappers and betting models. Smaller slates scale down from there.

What does “units” mean on the grading pages?

Flat one-unit stakes on every play, priced at -110 where no number was published. No parlays and no varying bet sizes, so the records compare cleanly across experts and against us.

What about Sunday injuries and inactives?

The NFL card posts around 9:00 AM Central, which is ahead of official inactives — those land 90 minutes before kickoff. The card reflects everything reported up to the time it posts.

Where can I see how everyone is doing this season?

The running leaderboards are public: NFL and college football. Expert grading by sport goes back to 2015 under Expert Grading in the menu.

Times are US Central.

DFS

DFS depends entirely on when the experts post, so it moves around more than the sportsbook cards do.

• College football — usually the latest of the week. We publish Friday night when we can; if some experts don’t post until Saturday morning, it may not go up until 9:30–10:00 AM Saturday.
• NFL — usually done by Saturday afternoon.
• NBA — typically 1 to 2 hours before tip-off. We only post it when there are four or more games on the slate, and we don’t run NBA on weekends.

Sportsbook consensus

• College football — Thursday and Friday around 9:00 AM. Saturday at 8:00 AM, earlier on purpose so it’s up well ahead of the 11:00 kicks.
• NFL — game day, around 9:00 AM: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
• Grading and daily recaps — usually the morning after the games.
• Weekly Who’s Hot / Who’s Not — college football Sunday at 11:00 AM, NFL Tuesday at 11:00 AM.

Why do those times move sometimes?

We try to hold them, but there is some give, and we’d rather tell you why than pretend otherwise.

Our consensus is built from what actual experts publish, and we don’t control when they publish. If someone we weight heavily is running late, we’ll usually wait a set amount of time for them rather than put out a card without them. A card that’s twenty minutes late with the full field in it is worth more to you than one that’s punctual and thin.

Why does MLB coverage taper off late in the season?

It does, and there’s a real reason. Once rosters expand to the 40-man, lineups stop being predictable — teams rest regulars and run split squads of veterans and call-ups. The same experts who post reliable cards in June go quiet, because the information underneath them got unreliable too.

That’s also when football starts and the bulk of our coverage shifts. We’re a small staff, so we’d rather put our effort where the picks are solid than keep publishing cards we don’t have the same confidence in.

Last updated September 22, 2026.