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 16 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 16, 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 16 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
COWBOYS AT DOLPHINS
Gamers are going to start here since we have a ton of star power, an afternoon kickoff, and a 50.5-point game total.
Miami is averaging 2.90 points per drive at home, second in the league behind Dallas.
We have to acknowledge the upside potential of this game, but what we are also going to run into is this game is hard to stack with both sides.
Trying to fit both Tyreek Hill and CeeDee Lamb together into lineups is cost-prohibitive. Trying to get either quarterback paired with their top receiver and a running back bring back on the other side is nearly 50% of your salary on both sites.
Miami has no ancillary pieces we can entertain while Brandin Cooks and Jake Ferguson are the cheapest guys we can add to stacks in this one.
Most gamers are likely going to have to choose a side and just play an isolated stack.
The optimal way to play things here may be to play isolated mini-stacks without either quarterback. Lamb paired with your preferred Miami bringback while still playing down at quarterback.
There are enough cheaper options across the board this week to force some onslaughts of this game, but those lineups are just going to be high variance and better for larger-field tournaments versus what we typically look for when attempting an onslaught approach.
