We speak fluent DFS — here's the shorthand, plain and quick, so nothing on the live board catches you out.
- Sweat
- Watching your lineup score live — the nervy stretch where every play swings your night.
- Projection
- Your expected fantasy points for a player — the number live scoring is measured against. Yours or imported.
- Pace
- Whether a player is scoring fast enough to beat their projection, or falling behind it.
- Hot / cold
- Hot means scoring above pace right now; cold means lagging behind it.
- Optimal lineup
- The best lineup you could have built from this slate — your benchmark for what was on the table.
- Value
- Points per $1,000 of salary — how much production you're getting for what a player costs.
- Salary cap
- The budget you build under — every player costs salary and your lineup has to fit within it.
- Slate
- The set of games and the player pool you build lineups from.
- FPts
- Fantasy points — real-game stats converted into points by the contest's scoring rules.