From my own experience, poker and DFS involve about the same level of skill and study to be consistently profitable. DFS just scales more easily. You said, &quot;In poker you play the player, not the hand. But in DFS, there is no equivalent.&quot; There actually is an equivalent. If you study DFS, you&#x27;ll find that there&#x27;s a cottage industry in figuring out what players will be most popularly owned in a given slate and then using that information to increase your own EV (e.g. in a tournament, if you projected Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton to score the same number of points but 80% of people would play Rodgers then you would want to play Cam Newton because <i>if</i> he does go off big time then you now ahead of 80% of your competitors).