Week 4 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 4 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 4, 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 4 Worksheet.

Bengals at Panthers

This game is a testament to how fluid the NFL can be.

If you watched either of these teams in Week 1, you would have thought they were two of the worst teams in the sport.

These offenses have gotten on track differently, but both defenses appear exploitable.

Commanders and Cardinals will be a popular game stack, but this game has many parts at varying price points that can be creatively used as your centerpiece.

This total is 47.5 points, the second-highest total on the main slate.

With Andy Dalton's insertion into the lineup, Carolina could be a team we bookmark for weekly shootouts.

It was just one game with Dalton under center. Still, the results exceeded expectations, and Carolina is filled with cheaper options such as Dalton, Chuba Hubbard, Diontae Johnson, and Xavier Legette.

A Dalton double stack with Johnson and Legette will only run you 31.4% of your salary on DraftKings and 30.7% on FanDuel.

The Cincinnati side is more expensive, but you can fit in anyone you want to play paired with the cheaper options on the Carolina side.

Joe Burrow, paired with Ja’Marr Chase (28.7% of the cap on both sites), can be paired with Hubbard, Johnson, or Legette.

Tee Higgins returned and was on the field for 95% of the dropbacks.

You will get jammed up for the Burrow double stack of Chase plus Higgins, but it is not impossible.

Don’t overlook Zack Moss here, either.

If you want to be a real sicko in onslaughts of this game, Andrei Iosivas, Tommy Tremble, Mike Gesicki, and Erick All are all lower-tiered dart throws.