Best NFL DFS Stacks Week 9: DraftKings & FanDuel Lineups

Every week, I'll review the players I am targeting for DFS across all games, tournaments, and game stacks.

The idea is to paint a clearer picture of how to build lineups.

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 also offer these types of games with fewer than 100 entries (albeit at a higher entry cost) if you want to go after a really small field.

In these contests, I go with full-game stacks.

You will likely lose a lot of weeks, but if you get the game right, you will gain a significant advantage.

Just cashing in on one of these over an 18-week season can make your entire year.

When doing this, I want to aggressively build around games with a wider range of outcomes.

Still, 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.

This is the spot where you will find some missing names from the core and tournament play sections.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 9, 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 Week 9 Worksheet, but we're playing solely for the upside here.

Rich's Week 9 DFS Game Stacks

Lions at Dolphins

Our weekly Lions matchup has a 50.5-point total.

This one isn't in Detroit, but Miami is expected to be 82 degrees and clear on Sunday.

The Lions average 2.74 points per drive, fourth in the league.

The Dolphins allow a league-high 2.66 points per drive.

We know what to do with Detroit, but Miami has been pushing back lately.

The Dolphins have scored a touchdown on 31% of their drives over the past three games (7th) compared to a 10.8% touchdown rate over the opening four weeks (32nd).

Miami makes it easier to fully stack this game since all their options are affordable.

It is not always easy to stack Jared Goff with Jahmyr Gibbs, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and one of Jameson Williams or Sam LaPorta, but you can do that with Caleb Douglas and Greg Dulcich.

If you are playing things through Malik Willis, you free up even more salary.

Especially with so many cheap ancillary plays on the slate outside this game, this is an easy game to full stack.