Introducing DraftKings Best Ball
NFL Best Ball
In Best Ball contests, participants will draft a lineup via a live snake draft and contests will last multiple weeks of the season. After the draft there are no trades or roster management. Each week of the contest your highest scoring players are automatically your starting lineup and count toward your team’s overall fantasy point total (rosters and scoring summarized below). Overall contest payouts are based on the cumulative fantasy points scored by your starting lineup each week.
Participation in each contest must be made only as specified in the Terms of Use. Failure to comply with these Terms of Use will result in disqualification and, if applicable, prize forfeiture.
Scoring
Offense
Passing TD
+4 Pts
25 Passing Yards
+1 Pt (+0.04 Pts/ Yards)
300+ Yard Passing Game
+3 Pts
Interception
-1 Pt
Rushing TD
+6 Pts
10 Rushing Yards
+1 Pt (+0.1 Pts/Yard)
100+ Yard Rushing Game
+3 Pts
Receiving TD
+6 Pts
10 Receiving Yards
+1 Pt (+0.1 Pts/Yard)
100+ Receiving Yard Game
+3 Pts
Reception
+1 Pt
Punt/Kickoff/FG Return for TD
+6 Pts
Fumble Lost
-1 Pt
2 Pt Conversion (Pass, Run, or Catch)
+2 Pts
Offensive Fumble Recovery TD
+6 Pts
Lineup Requirements
Lineups will consist of 20 players and must include players from at least 2 different NFL teams. Each week you will have 8 starting players and 12 bench players. The roster positions are:
1
QB
2
RB
3
WR
1
TE
1
FLEX
(RB/WR/TE)
12
BENCH
(QB,RB,WR,TE)
Each week your highest scoring players are automatically your starting lineup. Your non-starting players each week will make up your bench and their fantasy points will not count toward your team’s overall fantasy point total.
Player Pool
The Player Pool will consist of all NFL players expected to be on the active roster for any team scheduled to play in the contest Game Set. We may include players that are not on an NFL team at the time the player pool is created. If these players are signed to a team, we will update their team and they will be eligible to receive fantasy points.
If a player is traded we will update their team and they will be eligible to receive fantasy points for their new team.
Draft Start Time
Best Ball drafts will begin once the contest fills the required number of entrants. There will be a 1 minute countdown period between the time the contest fills and the time the countdown begins for the first pick of the draft. The draft order is determined at random once the contest fills. You can withdraw from a Best Ball contest at any time before the contest fills.
Pick Clock
Best Ball drafts will either have fast or slow draft settings.
Fast Drafts
You will have up to 30 seconds to make each pick. Fast drafts typically take a few minutes to a few hours to complete.
Slow Drafts
You will have up to 8 hours to make each pick. Slow drafts typically take a few days to complete.
One week before Best Ball contests are set to start, we will update the pick clock for slow drafts to 30 minutes per pick. This is to ensure that all drafts finish before the contest start time. The pick clock change will apply to all upcoming and currently drafting slow drafts.
Draft Requirements
In order to be eligible for prizes in the Best Ball contests you must either edit the pre-draft rankings, add a player to your queue during the draft, or make a manual draft pick during the draft. Failure to take at least one of the prior three actions will result in an invalid entry and you will not be eligible for prizes and your entry fee will be forfeited.
Pre-Draft Rankings
You can create your own personalized ordering of a Best Ball player pool by editing the pre-draft rankings. Your last saved version of the pre-draft rankings are automatically imported for you as soon as a draft starts. You can edit your pre-draft rankings at any time and it will apply to every upcoming draft in the game set. If you do not edit the pre-draft rankings before a draft starts, you will use the default DraftKings player rankings.
Auto-Draft
If you do not make a pick before your pick clock expires, we will draft a player for you based on the following logic:
We will pick the highest player from your queue
We will pick the highest ranked player from your pre-draft rankings
Note: We will not auto-draft more than 4QBs, 6RBs, 7WRs, or 3TEs for your team.
If you fail to make 2 consecutive manual selections we will automatically turn auto-draft on for you. You can turn auto-draft on or off in the draft settings. When you are on auto-draft you will not receive push notifications for the contest.
Contest Cancellations
If for any reason a draft does not finish before the contest goes live, the contest will be cancelled and all users will be refunded.
In order to ensure all drafts finish before the contest goes live, we will cancel and refund all unfilled contests two hours before the contest start time.
Suspended, Postponed, and Rescheduled Games
The Scoring Period each week for these NFL contests is Thursday through the following Wednesday.
In the event a game is suspended, any statistics generated before the game is suspended will count in the scoring period the game is started. Any statistics generated on a later date will count in the scoring period the game is picked back up.
In the event a game is postponed and rescheduled to a new date or time, the game will count for the scoring period in which it is played.
An exception is if a player plays in more than one game in a scoring period. In this case only the first full game played will count for scoring purposes.
Scheduling Changes
DraftKings reserves the right to alter, settle, or cancel any Best Ball contest in DraftKings’ sole discretion in the event the NFL makes any scheduling changes for any reason (including, but not limited to, shortening the season or making scheduling or gameplay changes due to COVID-19 or any other pandemic or event) prior to the completion of the Best Ball contest.
Collusion
DraftKings has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to collusion. If DraftKings suspects there was collusion in a contest, the contest may be cancelled. The users suspected of collusion will not be refunded and may be permanently banned from DraftKings.
Collusion is any action or decision that is made between two or more users in a draft with the intention of gaining an unfair advantage over other users, or otherwise, in DraftKings sole discretion, may compromise the integrity of the contest.
Tournaments
Tournaments are Best Ball drafts that are played out over multiple rounds of contests. Our season-long tournaments are played out over 4 rounds.
Round 1: NFL Weeks 1 - 13
Round 2: NFL Week 14
Round 3: NFL Week 15
Round 4: NFL Week 16
At the end of each round, a specified number of entrants from each contest advances to the next round based on their placement in the contest standings. Each tournament will have specified contest sizes for each round, number of advancing entries per contest for each round, and maximum number of round 1 contests you can enter.
Advancing entries are randomly matched up against other advancing entries in rounds 2 through 4. If you have multiple entries advancing in a Tournament, we will avoid matching you up against yourself, whenever possible.
Advancing entries keep the same lineup they drafted during round 1. There is no redrafting between any rounds.
If there are not enough advancing entries to fill future round contests, there will be wild card entries that advance. Wild card entries are the entries that scored the highest fantasy points among the non-automatically advancing entries.
Example: There is a tournament with a maximum of 12,000 12-man round 1 contests, where the top finisher in each contest advances to round 2. Round 2 is made up of 1,000 12-man contests (12,000 total entries). If only 11,000 round 1 contests were to fill, only 11,000 entries would automatically advance. We would make up the additional 1,000 entries with wild card spots.
If there is a tie for an advancing entry or wild card spot, the advancing entry/wild card spot will be the one with the highest scoring single week in that round If still tied, it will be the entry with the second highest scoring week in that round. This process will continue through the lowest scoring week in the round. If still tied, the advancing entry will be the one with the overall highest scoring player in that round. If still tied, it will be the entry with the second overall highest scoring player in that round. This process will continue through the lowest scoring player in the round.
If you are self excluded at the time when entries are advanced to future rounds, you will not be eligible to advance rounds and your spot will be given to a wild card.
