Week 17 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 17 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 17, 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 17 Worksheet.

Panthers at Bucs

This game is tied for the slate's highest total (48.5 points).

These teams combined for 49 points in Week 13.

Several players here were littered in the core and tournament plays this week, so check those out for the player breakdowns.

Being an early kickoff allows us to make stacks here that we can adjust via late swapping based on the results.

We can also stack this game from both sides, which allows us creative paths.

Baker Mayfield double stacks with Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan are affordable, accounting for 38% of your salary at DraftKings and 37.8% at FanDuel.

You can shave that down to one Tampa Bay pass catcher or add Bucky Irving (the best play in this game) for the full team onslaught in small field tournaments.

You can even add Payne Durham as a cheap punt play at tight end.

Carolina has a bring back option in Adam Thielen while Bryce Young can be played in approaches to this game as well.