Stokastic DFS Winner
By Sam Smith
September 14, 2026
A Stokastic member turned Stokastic Sims into a $60,000 third-place finish in DraftKings' NFL Millionaire Maker on September 13, 2026. The entry finished 13.98 points out of first. I am going to come back to that number, because it is the most honest thing on the final leaderboard and it is the part every winner article leaves out. First, the practical note, since this page exists to answer one question and that question is "would this have worked for me": the tool in the middle of this story is Stokastic Sims, it is a paid product inside the DFS Weekly and Monthly packages, and code CASH15 discounts it at checkout.
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The Quick Answer
A Stokastic member playing as KBader0101 finished third in the NFL $3.5M Fantasy Football Millionaire on DraftKings on September 13, 2026, scoring 260.00 points for $60,000, with a lineup built using Stokastic Sims. The account tagged Stokastic's Hall of Fame and wrote that the tools were unmatched. Stokastic Sims is the paid simulation engine that ships inside the DFS Weekly and Monthly packages, and code CASH15 takes money off either one.
Below: what that contest was, what the Sims actually put on a subscriber's screen that Sunday, and the arithmetic of finishing 13.98 points from seven figures.
The Setup: NFL Week 1 Sunday, The $3.5M Millionaire Maker
The contest was the DraftKings NFL Millionaire Maker, the one DFS players call the Milly. This edition was the NFL $3.5M Fantasy Football Millionaire with $1M to first, scored on the Week 1 Sunday main slate of the 2026 NFL season. DraftKings classic NFL rules apply: nine roster spots, one salary cap to fit them all under.
Here is where it finished. These are the top three rows of the final board, as they finished:
| Finish | Entry | Score | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jwussow28 | 273.98 | $1,000,000 |
| 2 | jmurray67 | 267.20 | $100,000 |
| 3 | KBader0101 | 260.00 | $60,000 |
Read that prize column top to bottom and you have the personality of a Millionaire Maker in three rows. Third place is an excellent week by any measure, and it paid six percent of first. None of that is a complaint about the payout structure, it is the structure working as designed, and it is why the lineup that gets you there has to be built for the top of the board rather than the middle of it.
There is no guessing here about the entry fee, the field size, or how many lineups were in the pool, because none of that is on the screen that got posted, and a plausible-sounding guess about somebody's real entry is how a page like this stops being true. What is on the screen is a score, a finish, a prize, and a thank-you to the tools.
"@StokasticHOF these tools are unmatched! Can't thank everyone enough for taking 3rd in the Milly!" — Kellen Bader, @KellenB23
What Stokastic Sims Puts On The Screen
Stokastic Sims plays the slate out tens of thousands of times instead. Every player carries a full distribution rather than a point estimate, so the tool can answer questions a static column cannot: how often does this player finish as a top scorer at his position, how often does this lineup beat the number it needs, how does the whole build hold up when the slate goes sideways. Out of those runs come the numbers a tournament build is made of.
DFS edge comes from two things working together: accurate projected value, and leverage against the ownership the field shows up with at lock. A player whose top-150 exposure sits well above the ownership the field actually locks in is a player the field is likely to under-roster in the lineups that win, and finding that gap before lock is what the ROI-ranked pool is for. Our guide to how to win DFS tournaments covers the leverage framework in full, and Milly Maker DFS strategy covers how that changes when the contest is this top-heavy.
Those screens are in the DFS Weekly and Monthly packages, and CASH15 discounts both.
What This $60,000 Does And Does Not Mean
Here is the part I would rather write than have you find out on your own.
$60,000 is one outcome and it is not a typical one. Large-field NFL tournaments are top-heavy on purpose, which means most entries lose, most weeks, for everybody, including people running very good tools. Nothing on this page is a promise that Stokastic Sims produces this on any schedule, and it is not an income stream. Nobody can promise you this result, and anyone who does is selling you something other than a tool.
The one number this page will not stretch: one. One member, one documented third-place finish, one $60,000. That is the whole evidence base on this page, and inflating it would be the fastest way to make the rest of it worthless.
One documented winner is evidence of exactly one documented winner. You will not find a headcount of everyone else who has done it on this page, because a number I cannot show you the receipts for is a number you should not believe. Every figure above comes from that one post and the board attached to it, and where a detail was not in it, this page leaves it out rather than guessing. The other results we can show receipts for live in the Stokastic Hall of Fame and in our $30,000-in-a-month case study and $230,000 DraftKings case study.
The Sims do not remove risk. They improve process, which is the only part of DFS anyone controls. The 13.98 points between third and first is the cleanest proof of that anywhere on this page: two builds, both excellent, both the product of real work, separated by an amount of football nobody can engineer. Process is why that lineup was in the conversation at all. Variance decided where in it the lineup landed.
How To Run The Same Setup
If this is a world you play in, here is the same path, in order.
- Pick a DFS package that includes the Sims for your sport. For this contest that is an NFL package with Sims access, Weekly or Monthly.
- Work the slate's inputs first. Work the NFL DFS projections, ownership and stacks in the DataHub until you know which players are cheap relative to what they project and where the field is going to pile in.
- Run the Sims for your contest type, then sort the ROI-ranked lineup pool instead of sorting by projection. You are hunting one thing: players whose top-150 exposure sits clearly above the ownership the field will actually lock in on them. That gap is the only reason a build separates from the board.
- Build for ceiling concentration, not for a high average. The question on every spot, and especially the FLEX, is not "can this player hit his projection," it is "can this player post a 30-burger." A 260.00 needs two or three of those and almost no zeros. If a name cannot get there, it belongs in a cash lineup, not this one.
- Take the discount on the way in. Code CASH15 comes off DFS Weekly or Monthly packages, and the link below carries it into checkout for you.
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Stokastic Sims FAQ
Is a $60,000 Millionaire Maker finish repeatable? Not as a result, and I would not trust a page that told you it was. Look at what 260.00 required: two or three outlier games and almost nothing that went for zero. Nobody schedules that. What does repeat is the process that put a build in position for it, which is the same simulation output sitting on the screen every slate. Most weeks it produces a lineup that goes nowhere.
Does code CASH15 discount the free cheat sheets? It does not, and nothing does, because they are already free. CASH15 comes off the paid DFS Weekly and Monthly packages, which is where Stokastic Sims lives. The free material is a preview of what the Sims produce, not the Sims themselves.
What does it cost to run the same tools? Stokastic Inc. sells DFS access per sport and as multi-sport bundles, so the number depends on how much you want and for how long. CASH15 applies to the DFS Weekly and Monthly packages. Current pricing is on the checkout page, and the code is pre-loaded in every link on this page.
What is top-150 exposure, in one sentence? It is how often a player shows up in the top-150 scoring lineups across tens of thousands of simulated slates, which makes it a measure of appearing in winning lineups rather than a measure of average output.
Do I need Stokastic Sims to play the Millionaire Maker? You do not. What you need it for is the question a projection column cannot answer, which is how often a build clears the score third place actually took. Whether that is worth paying for is the judgment this page is asking you to make with real numbers instead of a testimonial.
So, back where this started. 13.98 points is the distance between $60,000 and $1,000,000, and nothing on a screen closes it. What Stokastic Sims did is narrower and more useful than that: it got a member to the row on the final board where 13.98 points was the only thing left. Most Sundays you are nowhere near that row. The Sims are how you build the kind of lineup that can be in that row at all, and code CASH15 is what they cost with the discount on.