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.
Week 6 DFS Content:
For any who are 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 6, 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 6 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
SEAHAWKS AT BENGALS
This game has the most star power on both sides of the matchup paired with a 44.5-point game total.
There were some early-week weather concerns here, but things appear to be better than initially assumed. Still, keep tabs on things Sunday morning.
Joe Burrow is coming off the best game he has had all season and appears to have more mobility, even if he still is not 100%.
Ja’Marr Chase has been stacking targets over the past three weeks. We are expected to see Tee Higgins be active, but Chase had 32.6% of the team targets in the last full game that Higgins played.
The easiest correlated stack here will be Chase paired with Kenneth Walker.
The Bengals are allowing 5.01 YPC to running backs (28th) and are 31st in the league in allowing a run of 10 or more yards on 17.5% of opponent rushing attempts.
DK Metcalf has been playing through a rib injury but still carries touchdown upside every week.
From a matchup stance, I do like Tyler Lockett here.
The Bengals have allowed a 10.0% touchdown rate to opposing slot receivers, 30th in the league. They also allow 5.2 receptions per game to interior wide receivers, which is 21st in the league.
Lockett is playing 34.2% of his snaps in the slot compared to a 13.5% rate for Metcalf.
If you believe that Jaxon Smith-Njigba has a larger role out of the bye week, that also could give him a pulse as a 1-2% play in large field tournaments.