UFC Optimizer

Lineup optimizer

Six fighters under a $50,000 cap, drawn from a single card, with no positional rules.

Loaded with the current DraftKings slate: 24 players at today’s real salaries, across 12 games. The projection column is blank on purpose, and you have to fill it before this can solve anything. We publish no projections for this sport, and inventing numbers to make the button work would produce a lineup that looks authoritative and means nothing. Type your own projected score for the 6+ players you are considering, delete the rows you are not, then press Re-solve. The solver is exact — for a roster this size it returns the true optimum, not a greedy approximation.

Six fighters, and half the card loses

You select six fighters under a cap. Every fight has exactly one winner, so roughly half of all available selections produce a poor score by construction. There is no equivalent of a losing team's receiver still catching eight passes.

Finish bonuses dominate the scoring

Scoring rewards significant strikes, takedowns and control time, but a first-round finish typically outscores a competitive three-round decision. That pushes lineup construction toward fighters with genuine finishing ability rather than point-accumulating grinders.

A small pool means high overlap

A card carries a dozen or so fights. With six roster spots drawn from that pool, duplicate lineups are common and differentiation is expensive. Correctly fading a heavy favourite is the primary source of leverage.

Common questions

How many fighters in a UFC DFS lineup?

Six, drawn from the card, under a salary cap with no positional rules.

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