Step One: Know the Contest

The First Step in My Process Is to Actually Make Sure There Is a Single-Entry Contest I Want to Enter. We Know I’ll Be Entering My Lineup in the Single Entry Series, but I Will Also Enter It in Another Single-Entry Contest on Fanduel. I Am Now in the Fanduel Lobby, and I Have Selected Nfl Filtered for Single-Entry Contests Only. There Are Two Things I Am Personally Looking for Right Now: I Would Like a Relatively Large Field, and I Would Like a Five-Figure Top Prize. This Isn’t Something I Am Suggesting You Should Be Looking For, but It Is Something That I Am After. in Fact, We Should Be Looking at Several Factors Before Entering:

Step Two: Understand the Landscape of the Slate

I’ll Try to Keep This Concise, but One of the Most Important Factors to Constructing a Single Roster Is to Understand the Nfl Environment for the Week. I Start at the Macro Level, and Look at Each Game Individually Without Looking at Players. Some Factors to Consider for Each Game:

Step Three: Define Your Player Pool

We Have a Great Premium Article Here on Rotogrinders Where One of Our Experts Will Share Some of the Top Picks at Each Position in Their Player Pool. Narrowing Down the Many Available Options to Just a Few for Consideration Is Critical to Your Success in Single Entry. There Are a Number of Viable Strategies for Doing This, and I’ll Present One Below That I Find Effective.

Step Four: Consider Your Opponents

While We Often Think of Dfs as a Game of Accurate Predictions, One of the Most Important Predictions Is Often Overlooked or Misused. That Is the Prediction of What Our Opponents Will Do. We Are Looking to Climb to the Top of the Leaderboard, and Understanding How to Get There Is Important. in Order to Reach That Point with Consistency, We Should Have a Quality Understanding of How Our Opponents Are Likely to Behave Under Identical Conditions to the Ones We Face.

Step Five: Be Decisive, Show No Fear

You’ve Carefully Identified the Gpp You Want to Play, the Landscape of the Nfl Slate, the Player Pool from Which You Will Choose, and the Expected Behavior of Your Opponents. You Have the Ammunition to Make an Informed Decision, and Now It Is Time to Act. Do Not Waver on the Information You Have Collected. Do Not Allow Others to Influence Your Decisions Without Careful Scrutiny of Their Opinion. Do Not Fear Well Informed Bold Calls or Contrarian Strategy. We Are in the Business of Beating Our Opponents, and Our Roster Should Be Able to Tell the Story on How That Is Going to Happen. Which Players Give You the Advantage? Which Players Give Our Opponents a Disadvantage? Whoever Has Ended up in Your Roster at the End of This Single Entry Lineup Building Process, Make Sure You Can Look at Every Player in It and Tell a Story on How They’ll Succeed at Nfl Football and Simultaneously Vault You to the Top of the Single-Entry Leaderboard.

Fanduel Single Entry Series: Strategy Guide

By Sophia Al-Mansoor

• Oct 8, 2026 • 12 min read

Fanduel Single Entry Series: Strategy Guide

Direct Answer • Key Takeaway

The Fanduel Single Entry Series, Presented by Rotogrinders, Returned for Nfl, So It’s a Good Time to Talk About a Process That Can Help You Succeed When Building a Single Gpp Roster.

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