Week 15 DFS Picks: Best Game and Team Stacks

Every Sunday in the weekly fantasy chats, I get asked about my favorite plays of the week or who is in my player pool that weekend for DFS.

This article series covers exactly that.

Every week, I will go through the players I am targeting to play in DFS for all games, tournaments, and game stacks.

The idea is that this will paint a clearer picture of framing lineups.

Week 15 DFS Content:

One of my favorite ways to play DFS from a tournament stance is small-field, single-to-five-max entry games with 5K or smaller fields.

Both sites even offer these games with fewer than 100 entries (albeit at a higher cost of entry) if you want to go after a small field.

In these contests, my approach is to go with full-game stacks.

You lose a lot of weeks, but if you get the game right, you gain a big advantage.

Cashing in one of these over an 18-week season can make your entire year.

With the reduced number of entries, you can also eat some chalky game stacks because we are going further in the overall game stack than our opponents likely will.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 15, but you can also tie these games into your stacks for other tournaments.

I will analyze the player selections and game writeups, but for a detailed breakdown of the players and games, check out the Week 15 Worksheet.

Bills at Lions

This will be the most popular game on the slate.

The game total is sitting at 54.5 points.

The next closest game has a 46.5-point total.

We are coming off the Bills playing a shootout in Los Angeles, where you had to have pieces from the game to take down tournaments.

The Bills have scored 30-plus points in seven straight games.

Buffalo leads the NFL in points per drive (2.92).

Detroit is second, averaging 2.88 points per drive.

This game has expensive pieces that can be used as mini-stacks, but there are enough ancillary pieces to offer a full path to fully investing in it.

The slate also has enough value on it to jam in Josh Allen, Amon-Ra St. Brown, your favorite Detroit running back, and one or two of Amari Cooper, Keon Coleman, or Dalton Kincaid without running into issues punting a spot.

Jameson Williams, Sam LaPorta, and Tim Patrick have pricing that can be worked around.

On FanDuel, this is feasible while still getting in chalky pieces such as Chuba Hubbard and Zach Charbonnet (should Kenneth Waler miss another game).

It is trickier on DraftKings to go completely wild here without using a pay-down player like Stone Smartt.

You have a cheaper avenue playing the game through Jared Goff, but you can also play with the pieces above and not run into much trouble getting Khalil Shakir in the lineups with Allen.

Using both Detroit running backs is a way to get unique across from Allen builds.