NFL DFS Lineup Optimizer

NFL lineup optimizer for DraftKings and FanDuel

Build optimal NFL lineups with quarterback-anchored stacking, bring-backs and exposure controls. This runs branch and bound rather than a greedy fill, so the lineup it returns is provably the highest-projected one available under your constraints. Ask for multiple lineups and it re-solves for each with a diversity penalty, so you get genuinely different rosters instead of the same core with one player swapped.

Why NFL stacks start at quarterback

A passing touchdown scores for two players at once. That is the cleanest correlation in DFS, and it is why almost every winning large-field NFL lineup pairs a quarterback with at least one of his own pass catchers. The quarterback is the anchor because every one of his good outcomes is somebody else's good outcome too.

A bring-back is a player from the opposing team, and it exists because shootouts are mutual. A game that produces 60 points produced them because both offences kept scoring, so the correlation runs across the game rather than only within one team.

The shape that follows is quarterback, one or two of his receivers, and one opposing pass catcher. Running backs correlate more weakly with their own quarterback, since rushing production often rises when a team is ahead and throwing less.

Building a set across a week

NFL slates are once a week, so exposure decisions carry more weight than in a daily sport. There is no next-day correction if a set is concentrated on one game that busts.

Cap exposure on the quarterback rather than only on skill players. Because stacks are built around him, an uncapped quarterback pulls his entire stack into most of your lineups and quietly concentrates the whole set on one game.

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