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 I am targeting for stacking purposes here as well as the players I am targeting as core plays and tournament plays in other articles.
The idea is that this will paint a clearer picture of framing lineups.
Week 9 DFS Content:
For any who are new here, one of my favorite ways to play DFS from a tournament stance 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.
However, 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 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 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 9 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
Cowboys at Eagles
This is an afternoon game with late-swapping appeal.
The last time these teams played, they combined for 74 points. Jalen Hurts did not even play in that one.
This game has multiple stacking angles through both Hurts and Dak Prescott with no shortage of bring-back options.
CeeDee Lamb and A.J. Brown are your core plays on both sides.
DeVonta Smith is leverage off of Brown and a double partner for Hurts, albeit a pricey one.
Do not overlook both Dallas Goedert and Jake Ferguson in this game. Both of these defenses have been inefficient against tight ends. I prefer Goedert in doubles with Hurts to Smith.
The Eagles have struggled against wide receivers, so both Michael Gallup and Brandin Cooks are cheaper options to run through Prescott. I prefer Gallup of the two given Philadelphia’s struggles on the exterior.
He is not an objectively good play, but Tony Pollard is in the reverse spot of Lamb last week as a leverage option.
