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 10 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 10, 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 10 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
Texans at Bengals
I am not expecting a repeat of the Texans-Bucs game that we had last week, but this game becomes an intriguing stacking based on all of the moving parts due to injuries on both sides paired with the confidence that we now have in Joe Burrow.
With both Tee Higgins and Nico Collins expected to miss this game, it strengthens the upside for Ja’Marr Chase and Tank Dell while opening up the potential for ancillary pass catchers such as Noah Brown, Robert Woods, Tyler Boyd, and Trenton Irwin to be utilized at depressed costs.
We also have Dalton Schultz in a strong spot against a Cincinnati defense that has struggled against tight ends.
Ending up on a combination of Burrow or C.J. Stroud paired with Chase, Dell, and Schultz is palatable with the inclusion of one of those ancillary receivers.
We also have Joe Mixon as an outright underpriced play (more so on DraftKings) to create leverage points when betting on a component of this game.