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Lineup Studio Delivers: Tied for 1st in FanDuel's 100K-Entry MNF Hail Mary

By John Beringer

Week 1 Monday Night Football. FanDuel's Single Game Hail Mary contest. Over 100,000 entries. I finished tied for first.

I didn't get there by guessing. I got there with Lineup Studio — the Single Game optimizer and management tool we built, specifically for tournaments like this one. If you were scrolling through the leaderboard, you saw the FantasyFootballAnalysis.com logo sitting at the top.

The winning lineup:

  • MVP: Kenneth Walker
  • FLEX: Patrick Mahomes
  • FLEX: Rashee Rice
  • FLEX: Travis Kelce
  • FLEX: Evan Engram
  • DST: Kansas City Chiefs

My process:

150 entries into the Hail Mary contest at $0.25 each. All 150 built in Lineup Studio.

I started by picking the players I thought had a real shot at MVP, then spread the MVP slot across them based on who I liked best. Every lineup got a support player tied to that MVP — Kansas City DST with Kenneth Walker at MVP, Rashee Rice with Patrick Mahomes at MVP, that kind of pairing. Once the core was set, Lineup Studio's Auto Complete filled out the rest of each lineup, optimized by projected points and player exposure limits across the full 150-entry set.

From there: export from Lineup Studio, copy into the FanDuel CSV, import to FanDuel. No manual lineup building, no exposure guesswork.

Single-game contests are a different animal than full-slate GPPs. Correlation matters more. Ownership leverage matters more. One bring-back or one contrarian captain pick is the difference between cashing and printing. That's the exact problem Lineup Studio was built to solve — stacking, leverage, and exposure management in a format where six players decide everything.

This wasn't a lucky dart throw. It was a tool doing what it was designed to do, in the exact contest type it was designed for, on the biggest possible stage — a 100K-entry field.

The same optimizer is available to you right now, free, for the 2026 season. Sign up and get access to Lineup Studio and the rest of the FantasyFootballAnalysis.com toolset.