Week 8 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 8 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 8, 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 8 Worksheet.

Eagles at Bengals

We have two teams here that score touchdowns when they score points.

69.6% (16-of-23) of the scoring plays for the Eagles have been touchdowns, the highest rate in the league.

66.7% (20-of-30) of the scoring plays for the Bengals have been touchdowns, fifth in the league.

Both of these teams have slowed games down the past two weeks, but they also faced the same pair of opponents (the Browns and Giants), who provided marginal offensive firepower.

Both of these offenses should press the other while each defense still has question marks when facing capable competition.

This is an expensive game to stack, but both sites offer enough cheap pieces elsewhere to build out this game in either direction.

Both passing games are entirely in play for double stacks with bring backs on both sides.

You also can use Saquon Barkley and Chase Brown in builds of this game, depending on the route you take.