Total War: Double Up — A New DFS Format for Team-Based Fantasy Football

Forget picking players. Total War is a fresh, fast-paced DFS contest where your strategy revolves around entire NFL teams.

Fantasy football, reimagined.

Every week, millions of DFS players are locked in spreadsheets and salary caps, trying to decode player value under pressure. But what if you could play fantasy football with a sharper lens and cleaner edge?

Welcome to Total War: Double Up — a new kind of DFS game built for team-based strategy, no player injuries required.

🏋️ How It Works

In Total War: Double Up, each contest asks one simple question:

Which 5 NFL offenses will outperform expectations this week?

Total War Highest Expectations

You pick 5 teams from the full weekly slate. Your goal? Find the most undervalued matchups and ride those teams to glory 🏆

Each team scores points based on their real-life offensive output, adjusted by a special scoring multiplier. The multiplier rewards teams that Vegas expects to score less — giving you a powerful reason to go contrarian.

Example:

The 🦬 Buffalo Bills receive 7.84 points for every TD scored (7 points x 1.12) in week 1 of the 2024 NFL season. While the 🪖 Washington Commanders receive 10.71 points per touchdown (7 points x 1.53) that week.

Every NFL team has a posted multiplier on Tuesday. That number is locked in at an optimistic evaluation and doesn’t change based on weather, injuries, or late news 🗞️

Total War Pool After Lineup Lock

🌊 Lineup Lock & Game Flow

Lineups lock on Sundays @ 1a ET at kickoff then just sit back and watch your five teams push you up the leaderboard 😎

🎖️ The Double Up Format

Each Total War: Double Up pool is made up of 11 Players.

• The Top 5 finishers double their entry fee.

• The Bottom 6 win nothing.

This format rewards sharp game theory and weekly matchup intuition. There’s no rake, no odd payouts, no hidden mechanics.

Just you, the slate, and your five best shots.

⏰ Ready for Week 1?

Total War: Double Up contest launches Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season.

Enter Week 1 Contest

📚 Index

Normalization Multiplier

Each team has a weekly normalization multiplier is a programmatic value which uses the weekly expected teams totals to normalize a teams Total War points and is defined as:

Multiplier = Highest Team Expected Total / Team Expected Total

Note: The Multiplier is set and fixed on Tuesday each week by the total war team based on optimistic expectations (e.g., multiple doesn't change for weather, injuries, or other news).

Highest Multiple in 2024

🐶 Cleveland Browns hosted an impressive 2.73x multiplier on week 18 of the 2024 season when playing the 🐦‍⬛ Baltimore Ravens which had an implied score of 30 🐦‍⬛ to 🐶 11.

Total War Results: Week 1 Season 2024

⚜️ New Orleans was the highest scoring 👑 in both in-game points and total war points supported by a 1.32x multiplier (middle of pack). 🦁 Detroit set the multiple bar (1x) with an implied total of 29 points. 🇺🇸 New England has the highest multiple of 1.81x 🔝 with an implied total of 16 points. Below are the results ordered by performance.

Team	Points	Multiplier	Score
⚜️ New Orleans	62.04 👑	1.32	47
🤠 Dallas	47.85	1.45	33
🏴‍☠️ Tampa Bay	46.62	1.26	37
🐦‍🔥 Arizona	42.84	1.53	28
🌉 San Francisco	40.32	1.26	32
🦅 Philadelphia	39.44	1.16	34
😈 Minnesota	38.64	1.38	28
🦬 Buffalo	38.08	1.12	34
🐎 Indianapolis	35.64	1.32	27
🧀 Green Bay	35.09	1.21	29
🐂 Houston	33.64	1.16	29
🏹 Kansas City	32.67	1.21	27
🐴 Denver	32.2	1.61	20
🦆 Seattle	31.46	1.21	26
🪖 Washington	30.6	1.53	20
⚡️ Los Angeles	30.36	1.38	22
🐻 Chicago	30.24	1.26	24
🛩️ New York	29.07	1.53	19
🇺🇸 New England	28.96	1.81 🔝	16
🐦‍⬛ Baltimore	27.6	1.38	20
👷 Pittsburgh	27.54	1.53	18
🗡️ Tennessee	26.01	1.53	17
🦁 Detroit	26	1 🔮	26
🐏 Los Angeles	24.2	1.21	20
🐶 Cleveland	22.44	1.32	17
🐬 Miami	22.4	1.12	20
🐆 Jacksonville	21.42	1.26	17
🎲 Las Vegas	16.1	1.61	10
🐈‍⬛ Carolina	15.3	1.53	10
🐦‍🔥 Atlanta	12.6	1.26	10
🐅 Cincinnati	12.1	1.21	10
🗽 New York	8.7	1.45	6