Your Score

Your book · 25 teams · DraftKings

Build Score

55build score

Build Score grades how you built your teams — the shapes and stacks the data keeps rewarding. It breaks into four measured signals, each scored against the field. For each one: what the research says, where your book lands, and the one number for how well they line up.

Draft Capital

42vs field

Research says how each number of early picks (through Round 6) has actually advanced in Best Ball Mania. The number is what research says; the bar is where your teams land. Line them up: are your bars on the green rows?

Across 2023–2025, early RB carries the steepest advance edge — the curve peaks around 3–4 RBs by Round 6.
WR is a gentler curve: the field's best-advancing count sits near 3 WRs, tailing off on either side.
Every early QB or TE costs advance rate — the field advances most with zero of each through Round 6.
Because the field itself under-drafts early RB, the sweet spot is where an edge is still available.

+2.0ppadvance captured

Advance captured is the one number for how well your build lines up with the research: each count's advance rate, weighted by the share of your teams there. Your early-capital shape earns +2.0pp of advance vs the field. Most of the headroom is RB.

RByou draft 2.2 RBscaptures +1.2 of +2.6pp

#fieldadvyour teams

07%-5.5—

131%-1.61

245%+1.018

316%+2.25

41%+2.61

50%+1.4—

60%-4.6—

Sweet spot 3–5 RBs · 6/25 land there

WRyou draft 3.0 WRscaptures +0.3 of +0.6pp

#fieldadvyour teams

00%-3.5—

12%-1.1—

216%+0.16

340%+0.614

433%-0.25

58%-2.1—

61%-3.3—

Sweet spot 3 WRs · 14/25 land there

TEyou draft 0.4 TEscaptures -0.1 of +0.7pp

#fieldadvyour teams

058%+0.715

140%-0.89

22%-4.01

30%-8.1—

40%-16.7—

50%-16.7—

Sweet spot 0 TEs · 15/25 land there

QByou draft 0.3 QBscaptures +0.6 of +1.3pp

#fieldadvyour teams

049%+1.319

148%-1.15

22%-4.51

30%-9.1—

40%-14.8—

50%-16.7—

60%-16.7—

Sweet spot 0 QBs · 19/25 land there

Advance rates: actual Underdog Best Ball Mania results, 2023–2025 — the share of entries that reached the playoffs at each build (field average 16.7%). Faded rows are <500-entry samples.

Your takeawayYour book clusters at 2 RB / 3 WR early. On RB you sit just below the 3–5 sweet spot — the biggest lever in the whole metric. On WR you land right in the spot. QB and TE both sit exactly where the research wants them.

Lineup Depth

37vs field

Lineup Depth values your finished QB-RB-WR-TE shape by how often that exact build has advanced in DraftKings best ball — the positional balance a lineup card can't show you, scored.

Winning DraftKings builds anchor on 6 RB with 8–9 WR and 2–3 TE.
The 3-6-8-3 shape carries the highest advance edge (+2.3); 2-7-8-3 the worst (-1.8).
Dropping below 6 RB, or crowding to 4 TE, gives back advance rate.
It's a small move with a big swing — a single roster slot moves you between rungs.

-0.2ppadvance captured

Same idea as Draft Capital: each final shape's advance-rate edge, weighted by the share of your teams that built it. Your shapes earn -0.2pp of advance vs the field, out of a +2.3pp ceiling (the 3-6-8-3 build). Nudging your weaker-rung teams up the ladder is the lever.

3-6-8-3

+2.3

3-6-9-2

+1.8

2-6-9-3

+1.2

2-6-8-4

-0.3

3-5-9-3

-1.2

2-7-8-3

-1.8

other

Rungs = the six measured shapes, best (+2.3) to worst (-1.8). Bar length = your teams on each; number at right = advance-rate edge.

04RB·4TE

35RB·4TE

76RB·4TE

14RB·3TE

15RB·3TE

86RB·3TE

04RB·2TE

05RB·2TE

06RB·2TE

Teams by RB×TE count. Lime outline = the 6RB·3TE sweet spot; drift away = penalty shapes.

Your takeawayMost of your 25 teams build outside the six measured shapes — each is graded by its nearest measured build. Moving them toward 3-6-8-3 (the +2.3 winning shape) is the lever.

Stack Quality · Regular Season

59vs field

Research says teams that stack their QB with his own pass-catchers advance at a higher rate. Each row is a stack pattern, how much the field runs it, its advance-rate lift, and the share of your teams that use it.

The two patterns that carry real lift are the broad ones: any pass stack (+2.8pp) and QB + WR (+2.5pp).
Deeper patterns — QB + WR + TE, QB + 2 WR — add only a fraction of a point on their own.
A QB + RB pairing barely moves the needle (+0.3pp) — that pairing hardly correlates.
Presence is table stakes; the separation is in stack depth and quality, not whether you stack at all.

+2.8ppadvance captured

Advance captured mirrors Draft Capital. You run a pass stack — the umbrella pattern worth +2.8pp — on 100% of teams (field 92%), capturing its full lift. You're maxed on presence; the remaining edge is stack depth, not whether you stack at all.

stack patternfieldadvyour teams (tick = field)

Any pass stack

QB with a WR or TE from his team

92.5%+2.8100%

QB + WR

QB with a same-team WR

87.7%+2.5100%

QB + WR + TE

the classic game stack

37.2%+0.944%

QB + TE

QB with a same-team TE

55.8%+0.552%

QB + 2 WR

QB doubled with two WRs

32.5%+0.344%

QB + RB

QB with a same-team RB

51.7%+0.356%

lime = a stack carrying real lift (the sweet spot). Advance-rate lift by stack pattern: actual Underdog Best Ball Mania results.

Your takeawayYou run a pass stack on 100% of teams and QB+WR on 100% — above the field on every pattern. You're maxed on presence; your remaining regular-season edge is adding depth to the stacks you already have.

Stack Quality · Playoffs

72vs field

This blends your regular-season stack spread with your Week-17 game stacks — same-team catchers plus opposing bring-backs — weighted 65% toward the finals. One shared blow-up in the title week is a six-figure score.

Stacking one team is table stakes; titles come from covering several correlated game environments in the finals.
Week-17 is weighted about 65% of this score — the week that actually pays.
A game stack — your QB + catchers + the opposing bring-back — covers the whole game environment.
Coverage value climbs to about 6 finals game-stacked players, then plateaus.
The sweet spot is 4–7 finals game-stacked players per team.

8.1avg finals game-stacks

Playoffs is a coverage signal, not a field advance-rate table — so its summary is where you land, not a captured pp. Your book averages 8.1 finals game-stacked players, right at the top of the 4–7 sweet spot; 10 of 25 teams sit inside it and most of the rest are just above.

4–7 sweet spot · finals game-stacked players per team (your avg 8.1)

MIA · WAS76%

LAC · MIA68%

PHI · SF64%

CHI · GB56%

BUF · MIA56%

BAL · PHI56%

HOU · PHI52%

CHI · DET48%

The eight most-covered Week-17 games and the share of your teams stacked into each game environment.

Your takeawayYour book averages 7.0 finals game-stacked players — right in the sweet spot. Your heaviest finals coverage is JAX·WAS (45% of teams); lighter games are where a targeted bring-back adds fresh correlated ceiling.