A Hurdle That DFS Tournament Players Need To Overcome

There is no better way to guarantee failure than fearing failure.

You put yourself at a disadvantage when you fear losing. Thinking this way will wire your brain to focus on not losing. Focusing on not losing will blind you to the plays or strategy that have the upside to win you a tournament.

Before you know it, you are on a losing streak and the fear of losing grows stronger with each passing slate.

Your mind has now shifted to losing instead of focusing on what it takes to win.

It’s important to step back and take a broad look at what you’re trying to accomplish.

You’re trying to position yourself to win, but that doesn’t mean that you will win each slate. In fact, you will lose most slates as a tournament player. It’s essential that you become comfortable with losing — it’s one of the hurdles of becoming a profitable DFS tournament player.

You must embrace failing on a slate. You must embrace that a lineup you enter may lose, or even finish dead last.

It’s about your lineup having enough upside to place in one of the meaningful finishing spots. That means some of the upside built into your lineup will have lower floors, and those lower floors must be accepted to access that higher ceiling.

This quote by prominent tournament player Beepimmajeep explains just the importance of accepting losing: “If you are so worried about cashing and surviving you will just play like everyone else and lose, instead accepting losses actually allows you to take calculated risk and play with confidence”- Beepimmajeep

It’s only when you’ve accepted failure that you can have massive success. Embrace losing to access a higher ceiling for your DFS tournament play.