The fee and the prizeTake every lineup that rostered the player. Add up the entry fees they paid
and the prize money they won (ties split the tied places’ prizes evenly, DraftKings’ rule). ROI = (won − paid) ÷ paid.
Blank lineups still paid a fee; they count in the field and in the ownership math, but no player gets credit for them.
Why “without 1st place” existsIn the Milly Maker the winning ticket is a million dollars
— more than a quarter of the whole pool. Whoever sat in that one lineup looks like a genius in the full column.
The second ROI column takes the 1st-place prize out, so you can see what a player did for everyone else.
Season to dateFees and winnings sum across weeks, player by player, then ROI is recomputed on the
totals. Ownership is lineups across all weeks over entries across all weeks. Points are the season total. A player who
played one great week and vanished still carries that week — that’s a ledger for you. Wks on slate is how many
main slates he was on so far: a team in a Thursday, Sunday-night or Monday game isn’t on that week’s main slate, so
some players have fewer weeks in the book than others.
Rake outRake out = DraftKings’ cut put back in the pool. The field returns 0%, and every number is the
decision alone. A what-if, not a ledger entry: the page opens with the rake in, the touting contest and the front page
score on the raked number, and $ won stays the real dollars. Each week gives back its own cut before the weeks are added up.