PGA DFS Lineup Optimizer

PGA lineup optimizer for DraftKings golf

Build optimal six-golfer lineups for this week's event with projections, ownership 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.

Golf DFS has no positions and no stacking

A PGA roster is six golfers against a salary cap with no positional requirements at all, which makes it the purest optimization problem in DFS and also the one where lineups converge hardest. Without positions to differentiate, everyone solving the same projections arrives at similar rosters, so differentiation has to come from exposure and ownership rather than from construction.

There is also nothing to stack. Golfers do not interact, so correlation between them is close to zero. The tournament levers are which golfers you are overweight on and how much you are willing to pay for a made cut.

Cut risk is the constraint that matters

Missing the cut is close to a zero for the weekend, and with six roster spots a couple of missed cuts usually ends a lineup. That makes golf the sport where floor and ceiling diverge most sharply, since the highest-ceiling golfers are frequently the most volatile ones.

The practical approach is to treat the roster as a mix rather than six independent picks. A lineup entirely of high-variance golfers has a real chance of being finished by Friday afternoon, no matter how good the projections were.

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