Every Sunday in the weekly fantasy chats, I get asked about my favorite plays of the week or who is my player pool that weekend for DFS.
This article series covers exactly that.
I will go through the games that I am targeting for stacking purposes as well as the players I am targeting as core plays for all formats and players for tournaments.
The idea is that this will paint a clearer picture of framing lineups.
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For any that is new here, 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 types of games with fewer than 100 entries (albeit at a higher cost of entry) if you want to go after a really small field.
In these contests, my approach is to go with full-game stacks.
You are going to lose a lot of weeks, but if you get the game right, you gain a big advantage. Just cashing in one of these over an 18-week season can make your entire year.
When doing these, I want to aggressively build around games that have a wider range of outcomes, but 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 what our opponents likely will.
These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 3, but you can also tie these games into your stacks for other tournaments.
You can dig deeper into why I believe these games present some downside in the Worksheet, but we are solely playing for the upside outcome here in these games.
I will have some analysis on the player selections and game writeups, but check out the Week 3 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
CHARGERS AT VIKINGS
This will be the game that most gamers gravitate towards since it has the highest total of the slate and all of the makings of a potential shootout.
The only way this game lets down is if we see a ton of umbrella coverage and both teams run the ball more than we want, but it is an objectively strong spot for both offenses.
The Chargers have allowed 41.9 yards per opponent drive through two weeks, 30th in the NFL.
On offense, the Chargers have averaged 37.5 yards per drive themselves on offense, fifth in the league.
90.7% of the Minnesota yardage has come via passing, the highest rate in the league. The Chargers are allowing a league-high 9.0 yards per passing play.
There are a ton of possible mini-stacks to build out in this game, but it is a harder game to outright go wild with.
While this game will be popular, it is also largely expensive, so there will not be a ton of blanket chalk when building game stacks.
It is hard to put a lineup together of Justin Jefferson, Keenan Allen, and T.J. Hockenson with either quarterback in this game this week. It is also tough to run double stacks with each quarterback and their top two pass catchers. We will need to take shots with ancillary options here.
Putting Justin Herbert with both Allen and Mike Williams is going to cost you 40-45% of your cap on both sites.
Putting Kirk Cousins together with both Jefferson and Hockenson is just a shade under 42% of your salary on both sites.
That puts players like Joshua Kelley, Jordan Addison, and K.J. Osborn in play into builds centering around this game. We will even see Alexander Mattison draw some interest here in a game with a high total.
Something such as Cousins + Jefferson + Addison + Kelley is a clean way to build a correlated stack here. You can even add Big Mike on DraftKings at his cost there if you want to onslaught things.
