In Sunday night’s Showdown, the Washington football team visits the Dallas Cowboys in a divisional matchup. For a breakdown of this game, check out Rich Hribar’s Fantasy Football Worksheet.

The Cowboys are large favorites at home and their players should dominate rostership, so there will probably be a disproportionate percentage of 5–1 and 4–2 Cowboys lineups. For easy differentiation, you can build with any Washington CPT or use four or more WFT players.

Strategy

As usual, we have a gigantic discrepancy between the projected utilization of onslaught’s featuring five favorites (>21%) compared to that with five underdog players(<1%). It’s also one of the larger differences between lineups featuring four players from a team as well, with Cowboys at 45% and Washington just over 6%. 3–3 builds are expected to exceed 27%.

Dak Prescott should be the most Rostered player by far, greater than 22% CPT and 88% overall. Antonio Gibson, CeeDee Lamb and Ezekiel Elliott are next in expected rostership between 10–13% CPT. Eliott is my favorite feed for the slate, as he’s been terribly inefficient and I much prefer Tony Pollard, who makes great leverage tonight. Some other under-utilized players who could pop are Amari Cooper, Terry McLaurin, Michael Gallup and Taylor Heinicke.

DK Values

  • Greg Zuerlein ($4200)
  • Dallas Cowboys DST ($4000)

DK Leverage

  • Adam Humphries ($5200)
  • Ricky Seals-Jones ($4600)

DK Build Ideas

  • Max 1 DST, Max 1 K
  • Max 2 depth WR/TE/RB
  • If CPT QB, include one depth option in stack 
  • If CPT RB, negative boost opposing DST/K
  • If CPT WR/TE boost team QB and force at least 1 QB (either team)
  • Cumulative ownership under 250%
  • Leave salary unspent 

FD Values

  • Greg Zuerlein ($9500)
  • Michael Gallup ($9500)

FD Leverage

  • Anyone under $9,000

FD Build Ideas

  • No K or TE at MVP
  • Focus on 3-2 build construction
  • No solo CPT in 1-4 construction
  • Negative boost opposing QBs (Lineups with both only win 30%)
  • If WR CPT, boost QB
  • QB is overused but RB and WR are underutilized at MVP
  • Don’t stack 3 pass catchers from the same team
  • Don’t force the max salary

For more optimizer build rules to consider, check out the list for each DK and FD here.