Quick Links to the League Dominator User Guide
You're in this to win. From savvy waiver wire pickups to start/sit recommendations, Matchup Dominator points the way to maximizing your chances of victory this week.
This article guides you through the steps of analyzing your starting lineup, identifying free agents who can help you (and your opponent!) this week, and setting your best lineup.
We'll give you insight into our expert projectors' opinions and identify specific player pairs in this week's matchup that may boost (or harm) your win probability.
Let's introduce you to all that Matchup Dominator has to offer.
Launching Matchup Dominator
You get to Matchup Dominator by first selecting League Dominator from the Tools dropdown.
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That will bring you to the Dominator homepage, the launching pad for a ton of great tools and content, including our 5-Second Primer, Weekly Rankings, Rest of Season Rankings, Trade Dominator, Waiver Wire Dominator, and the subject of this article, Matchup Dominator.
To get started, just click the Menu button, then select Matchup Dominator from the long list of options:
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Select the league you'd like to work on from the dropdown list that appears when you click in the League field (next to the Sync button).
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Whenever you want to be sure you have the latest projections, click the Sync button.
The current Week is selected by default, but you can choose any Week you'd like by selecting it from the dropdown list that appears when you click in the Week field. The current week is bolded and checked in the dropdown.
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Let's go with the current week and get to work building a lineup.
Setting Your Lineup
First, we'll look at this week's projected Outcome given our current lineup of Starters.
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Hmmmm, looks like a toss-up. Can we improve our win probability by changing the Current Lineup?
Let's select Best Lineup from the Lineup dropdown menu and revisit the Outcome projection.
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Bench players to the rescue! A 25% improvement in Win % just by revising our starting lineup from last week.
So what lineup changes will net this improvement? We'll scroll through our roster in the Lineup list and look for players tagged with a white exclamation point inside an orange circle. We'll add players found in the Start section to our lineup and remove those found in the Sit section.
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In the example above, Matchup Dominator recommends replacing Deebo Samuel Sr. in our starting lineup with Xavier Worthy, as Worthy is projected to score significantly more fantasy points this week.
It might be worth looking through our roster for players who were reasonably close to being a starter, as we may prefer alternate starters to those proposed by Lineup Dominator.
If, for example, we happen to like Sam Darnold's chances to outscore Jalen Hurts this week, we'd go with our gut when setting the lineup!
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Next, let's look to see if any free agents can help the cause this week by clicking the Free Agents checkbox.
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Good news! We can raise our Win % by five percentage points by acquiring key FAs off the waiver wire!
To identify free agents projected to improve our lineup this week, look in the Start sections for players shown in diagonal gray shading with a vertical "FA" strip on the right. One such player is Dameon Pierce, who would be a Flex starter for us this week.
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We'll definitely submit a Waivers claim for him.
One way to shield our chances of victory from decreasing is to pre-emptively pick up players who would make this week's opponent better. The Block FAs tab identifies such players and their corresponding fantasy point value to your opponent.
In this example, KaVontae Turpin would add 5.07 fantasy points to our opponent's projections this week.
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If we have the roster space, acquiring Turpin would ensure that he can't be used to improve our opponent's lineup.
Data Insights
There are two charts that give us a view of how the current week's matchup will unfold. The first is a graphical timeline of how fantasy points will be accumulated for us and our opponent. It is found on the Time tab.
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The second is a position-by-position comparison of starting lineups. This compares our starters to whom our opponent has starting at each roster spot. It is found on the Positions tab.
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In this example, it's clear that we have a solid advantage at TE and WR.
All League Matchups
Interested in the projected outcomes (scores and win %) for all the games in your league this week? Click the Menu button, then select the All League Matchups option:
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You'll be able to see the projected results for the current or best lineups (Lineup dropdown), and the impact fantasy Free Agents can have on the outcome (Free Agents dropdown) for each matchup in your league (League dropdown).
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Advanced Topics
Once you're comfortable with the basics of setting a competitive lineup, you may want to explore additional Matchup Dominator features that can improve your chances of winning.
Considering Individual Expert Projections
The main Lineup view discussed above gives you consensus start/sit recommendations from our team of experts. You can dig deeper into each expert's projections by selecting the Experts tab. You may find, over time, that you resonate more with one perspective than another.
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In this example, Maurile Tremblay would start Wan'Dale Robinson over Tucker Kraft this week as an offensive flex, and prefers to pick up and start fantasy free agent DB Mansoor Delane instead of Dane Belton or Robert Spillane.
Assessing the Impact of Player Stacks
A "stack" is when two players from the same NFL team (typically a QB with one of his receivers) are started in fantasy lineups, to set up the opportunity to accrue fantasy points from both players on the same play.
While starting a stack of players does not change the individual fantasy point projections, it sets up a more favorable 'boom-bust' outcome probability than that for two random players. This boosted 'boom' possibility improves the underdog's chances of closing the projection gap. And, to be clear, starting a stack also increases the probability that the underdog will not 'cover the spread' of the projected outcome.
What does this mean when setting our lineup? Let's say we have two receivers on our fantasy team with roughly equivalent projected fantasy points for the week, and our starting fantasy quarterback is on the same team as one of those receivers. We'd be better off starting the QB's teammate (creating a "stack") if we're the underdog, and not starting the QB's teammate if we're favored.
The Stacks tab highlights the key stacks in our fantasy matchup and notes which team benefits.
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Yellow dots represent players from our lineup. Grey dots represent players from our opponent's lineup. A split yellow and grey dot means one player from each lineup. The number of colored dots represents a Small, Medium, or Large impact.
Clicking the down caret to the right of the dots shows you whose fantasy lineup the stack favors, and why. For example:
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Final Words
Matchup Dominator helps you identify the players who put you in the best position to beat your opponent in this week's fantasy matchup. Go dominate!
