Draftbug.com offers daily fantasy sports contests. Players compete in real money or play money contests. Registration is free and takes less than a minute. Deposits can be made by credit card or Paypal, and withdrawals are paid by check. Compete in salary cap or live draft formats. No need to commit to a full season - draft today, win tomorrow!
Anyone registering prior to March 1st will receive 4,000 player points free, which will allow entry in $4 of real money contests. As a special limited promotion, Draftbug will provide $10 more of free player points to select expert players - send an email to Jonah (puckyourself@live.com) for details. NBA basketball and NHL hockey contests are running now, and MLB Opening Day is April 5th.
Register via the link here, or simply go to draftbug.com and enter puckyourself in the promotional code field.
And now, here is a guest article from Alex Zelvin, of Draftbug.com fame, on how to clean up in fantasy hockey matches:
Traffic is beginning to increase on Draftbug. It’s likely that within the next few weeks, larger fantasy hockey contests will be available, with 6, 10, 20, or more players in each. To succeed in these, you’ll need to keep one important principle in mind: in large tournaments with top heavy payouts, always use a high variance strategy. In other words, it does you no good to play it safe and go for second place in a winner take all contest.
This principle applies to all types of contests or tournaments, whether you’re playing fantasy sports, poker, or anything else. However, it’s easier to apply in some arenas than in others. Draftbug fantasy hockey may just be the easiest place to profit from it.
One of the best ways to increase variance in your score in any fantasy contest is to pick players whose scores will be highly correlated. Draftbug hockey uses a scoring system that makes this very easy to do. Picking players who play on the same line is one of the keys. Whenever one scores a goal, the others are likely to get assists. Most of the time, they’re either all going to have good games on the same day…which is the key to running up a high enough score to win a large contest with six or more people entered. Additionally, players are rewarded for their plus/minus…which is generally going to correlate well with whether their goalie scores fifteen points for winning the game, and also will have some correlation with the goalies’ success at preventing goals.
So the key to winning at Draftbug hockey is pretty simple…as much as possible, pick line mates and their goalie. Draftbug’s hockey scoring system allows such great correlation between picks that this strategy should make you a consistent long term winner.
Just two warnings related to it. The first is that high variance only helps you in large tournaments. In a head to head contest, you should simply focus on picking the best team you can, without regard to the correlation among your players’ scores. The second warning is that Draftbug does not allow you to pick all your players from the same team. To maintain its status as fantasy sports rather than gambling, anybody who uses an entire team made up of players from the same team needs to be disqualified. So make sure that you mix at least one other player into your squad.
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