Week 12 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 12 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 12, 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 12 Worksheet.

Lions at Colts

This is the highest game total (50 points) as the Lions have the highest implied team total (28.75) on the slate.

My favorite piece on the Detroit side is Amon-Ran St. Brown, but we have seen firsthand the upside that Detroit represents and how you can onslaught this offense from a DFS stance (last week’s Milly winner had 7 Lions!).

This offense will be facing a largely static Indianapolis defense that plays a lot of Cover 3 regularly, something Detroit sees a lot given their ability to ruin and throw the football.

Jared Goff has faced Cover 3 on 118 dropbacks this season, the third most in the NFL.

Although the Detroit defense has been great, we still have some pieces on the Colts that are intriguing for stacking purposes.

Sunday was an encouraging reminder of how much upside Anthony Richardson has when everything comes together.

Detroit plays an aggressive defense that can allow rushing production to quarterbacks.

Josh Downs has been WR6 and WR11 in his past two games with Richardson.

Detroit is third in the league in yards allowed per target to outside receivers (6.8) but 25th in yards allowed per target to slot receivers (8.6).