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If you came up on salary-cap daily fantasy and the products you are being shown now feel unfamiliar, that is because they are a different game. Here is the distinction, and where salary-cap lineup contests still run.
Salary-cap DFS gives every player a price and asks you to build a roster under a budget. Your nine selections compete as a unit against every other entrant's roster. The skill is roster construction: finding value, managing the cap, deciding where to spend and where to save.
Pick-em works differently. The operator publishes a statistical line for an individual player and you take over or under. There is no roster, no salary cap, no lineup pool and no construction decision. It is a faster product and it has found a large audience, but it is not the same game and it does not reward the same skills.
PrizePicks and Underdog Fantasy built their businesses on pick-em. The format has since spread across the industry: DraftKings runs its own pick-em product, Pick6, alongside its salary-cap contests. FanDuel and DraftKings both still run salary-cap lineup contests, as does Lineup Combo Master.
Nothing here is a criticism of pick-em. It is a legitimate product with a real audience, and plenty of people prefer it. The problem is for the player who wants roster construction and keeps getting routed toward over/under selections instead, because that is where the industry's product attention has gone.
The clearest place this shows up is the WNBA. As pick-em formats grew, WNBA fantasy coverage at the major operators moved heavily toward pick-em — most of what DraftKings publishes for WNBA now concerns Pick6 rather than salary-cap contests. Lineup Combo Master runs daily salary-cap WNBA contests with the same nine-spot structure and the same cap as every other league on the platform, not as a reduced offering.
The combo lineup format is the subject of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/910,202. Full detail is on the how it works page.
In salary-cap daily fantasy you build a roster under a budget and finish against other entrants’ rosters. In pick-em the operator sets a statistical line for individual players and you take over or under. Pick-em has no roster construction, no salary cap and no lineup pool.
DraftKings and FanDuel both run salary-cap contests where you build a roster under a budget, as does Lineup Combo Master(hence the name). Several operators now run pick-em alongside or instead of salary cap, including DraftKings, whose Pick6 product competes directly with PrizePicks and Underdog Fantasy.
Lineup Combo Master runs daily salary-cap WNBA contests using the same nine-spot format and structure as its other sports. Major operators have moved much of their WNBA fantasy coverage toward pick-em formats, where you select over or under on individual player projections rather than building a roster.
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