Fantasy Sports Terminology

A

Action

Action in fantasy sports refers to the amount of money you have staked on predicting an outcome.

ADP (Average Draft Position)

ADP describes the location where players are drafted in fantasy sports. Managers get to pick their players at the ADP on draft days.

Auction Draft

An auction draft describes an occasion where managers get to build up their team through bidding. In an Auction draft, the highest bidding manager gets to recruit the player.

B

Bankroll

Bankroll describes the total amount of money you intend to play daily fantasy sports with.

Bench Players

Bench players refer to the members of the playing team who are not in the start-up line.

Bearish

Bearish refers to your negative views or perspectives about a particular player or team. When you are bearish on a player, that player is unlikely to be included in the lineup.

Blind Bidding

Blind bidding is a type of bidding whereby managers are allowed to place their bids without exposing the amount to other teams/ potential bidders. Different online fantasy sports employ this form of bidding to prevent any form of cheating.

Breakout

A player is said to breakout he/she performs well above what is expected.

Bullish

Bullish refers to the positive thoughts you have about a certain player or team. If a manager holds a bullish on a player, such a player is likely to be among the lineup.

Bust

In fantasy sports, a bust occurs when a player performs below what is generally expected of him/her.

Buy-In

Buy-in, also known as entry fee, is the amount of money or cost to gain entry into a fantasy sport contest.

C

Cash Game

Cash games are used to describe safe fantasy sport contests where there is a 45-50% chance of winning. Cash games include games like head-to-head contests, double up leagues, 50/50's etc.

Ceiling

In fantasy sports, ceiling refers to the best point or performance that you can expect either from a team or a player.

Chalk

Chalk in fantasy sports, is used to highly skilled players who are very expensive to recruit

Commission

Commission, also known as rake, is used to describe the fee that is charged by fantasy sport sites to play. Commissions are normally 10% of the total buy-in.

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out or confirm the truth about an already existing belief about fantasy sports.

Contrarian

A contrarian can be described as a person who thinks differently than other people in fantasy sports. Contrarians often go for things that are neglected by other people, like usings a player who every manager nobody wants to draft

D

DFS

DFS is an acronym for Daily fantasy sports.

Deep Leagues

Deep leagues refer to leagues that are in the DFS

Donkey

Donkey is used to describe a poor DFS player.

Double Up

To double up means for winners to double their entry cost.

E

EV

EV is an acronym for expected value.

Exposure

Exposure is used to describe the total amount of money or percentage of your bankroll that is placed as a bet on a player.

F

Fade

Fade means for a participant to evade a particular game or player.

FD

Acronym for FanDuel.

Fish

A Fish is used to describe an inexperienced or low skilled player on DFS.

Flier

A flier/flyer is a player who is added to a team as a free agent upon the realization of his potential and the possibility of him/she performing extremely well.

Floor

Floor refers to the worst point score or performance that you can expect from either a player or a team.

Freeroll

A freeroll is used to describe a league that requires no entry fee although it does have a cash price.

Free Agent

In fantasy sports, a free agent can be described as a player who isn't recruited by any team in the league.

G

GOAT

Acronym for Greatest Of All Time.

GPP

Acronym for Guaranteed Pool Prize.

Game Versions

Game versions are used to describe the type of contest that are offered in different fantasy sport sites.

Grinders

Grinders refers to players whose aim of playing is to scale up profits and also participate in cash contests.

H

Half PPR

Half PPR is used to describe a DFS scoring system that awards 0.5 points per reception.

Hedge

In fantasy sports, hedge refers to the measures a player takes in order to reduce or avoid the risk of losing a particular percentage of his/her bankroll.

High-Low

High-low is when expensive players are drafted together with lowly-paid players to attain balance. It's also known as Stars and Scrubs.

High-Stakes

High stakes are used to refer to contests that require a high entry fee.

K

Keeper

A keeper refers to a player who the same owner keeps for more than 1 season.

L

Late Swap

In fantasy sport, to perform a late swap means to edit your selected lineup at the very last minute.

LU

LU is an acronym for lineup. It is also called Rooster.

M

Manager

A manager is used to describe the individual who is in charge of the entire decision taking of a team. The manager gets to control everything, right from the drafting to the lineup.

Minimum Salary

Minimum salary refers to the lowest amount that can be paid to a player at a particular position.

Mock Draft

In fantasy sport, a mock draft is regarded as a drafting practice where managers can test and create drafting strategies.

Multiple Entry

You gain multiple entries when some contests allow you to enter multiple lineups at the same time.

O

Overlay

An overlay occurs when a fantasy sport site pays more money than the total amount of entry fees collected.

P

Pay Up

You pay up when you spend money on a very expensive player.

Pick Up

A pickup refers to a free agent who was selected by a team.

Player Pool

A player pool is used to describe the players that are available for drafting.

Prize Pool

Prize pool is used to describe the total amount of money that is to be paid out after a particular contest.

Projections

Projections refer to the prediction of a team or player's performance either in a season or week.

R

ROI

ROI (Return on investment) in fantasy sports refers to the percentage of your entry fees that is returned back to you.

S

Salary Cap

The salary cap is used to describe the total amount spent in drafting a lineup for a team.

Shark

A shark refers to an experienced fantasy sports player.

Sleeper

A sleeper can be described as a low-value player who has a lot of untapped potential.

Snake Draft

A snake draft refers to a pattern of drafting in which the team to draft first in the very first round will be the team to draft last in the next round.

Stacking

Stacking refers to the process where many players are selected either from the same game or team.

T

Trade

To trade in fantasy sports means to exchange players between two teams.

Transactions

Transactions in fantasy sports refer to actions like trading, shipping, drafting etc.

Triple Up

Triple-up contests are games where players stand a chance to win three times their entry fee.

U

Undroppables

An undroppable refers to a player that the team cannot afford to exclude from the lineup because of their high value.

W

Waivers

A player is said to be on waiver if he/she is dropped from a team.