Lineup 1$50,000 / $50,000
94.5proj
ceiling 158.2
CPTDane MarchettiQB · KCAMarek SowaTE · KCAKCA DefenseDST · KCASilas RennerQB · BUFJonah PikeRB · BUFAnders KrollWR · BUF
captain salary $16,800 ×1.5 applied
Single game
One game. Six slots. No coin flips.
Showdown is a different puzzle from a full slate: the captain doubles your points and your salary at the same time, and the roster has to span both teams. We solve it exactly over the pool we searched, then show you how many combinations that took.
Illustrative slate. The players are fictional and the salaries are a demonstration. The solver, the cap check, the captain multiplier and the search count are the real implementation. Nothing here is a promise of a result.
Single game · KCA at BUF
Showdown room
One captain at 1.5× points and 1.5× salary, five flex, both teams represented.
- Roster
- 1 CPT + 5 FLEX
- Capt. multiplier
- 1.5× points & salary
- Salary cap
- $50,000
- Teams
- Both required
Lineup 2$50,000 / $50,000
91.6proj
ceiling 161.9
CPTOwen VashWR · KCATrell BaskinRB · KCASilas RennerQB · BUFJonah PikeRB · BUFAnders KrollWR · BUFTeo VasquezTE · BUF
captain salary $11,400 ×1.5 applied
Lineup 3$48,500 / $50,000
88.6proj
ceiling 156.0
CPTTrell BaskinRB · KCACruz DelaineWR · KCASilas RennerQB · BUFJonah PikeRB · BUFAnders KrollWR · BUFRemy IbarraWR · BUF
captain salary $12,600 ×1.5 applied
Lineup 4$43,100 / $50,000
78.9proj
ceiling 144.9
CPTCruz DelaineWR · KCAMarek SowaTE · KCASilas RennerQB · BUFJonah PikeRB · BUFAnders KrollWR · BUFRemy IbarraWR · BUF
captain salary $7,800 ×1.5 applied
Searched 12 players · 12 captain candidates · 5,544 roster combinations evaluated. The whole pool fit inside the search bound, so the solve is exact over it. Diversified alternates: 4 re-solve(s) with each prior winner's captain excluded. Not a proven top-k by projection.
Showdown is a contest format, not a projection product: nothing on this page forecasts an outcome, and past results never predict future results. For the full-slate engine see the DFS tournament lab, and for how we grade ourselves see the calibration report.