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 15 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 15, 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 15 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
COMMANDERS AT RAMS
I believe a lot of this slate will come down to the pieces in this game.
This game is tied for the highest total on the main slate and has more accessible pieces through salary than the Cowboys at Bills have.
The most popular way gamers are going to play this game is through Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp, and Puka Nacua. Stafford double stacks are certainly on the table here given how porous the Washington pass defense has been.
We also have Kyren Williams in a fantastic matchup that can be added in onslaught builds and as potential leverage against the Los Angeles passing game.
When leading in the second half of games this season, the Rams have a 42.5% dropback rate, 25th in the NFL. This happened in both games when we wanted to attack the passing game against Arizona.
The Washington side offers a myriad of inexpensive options to bring back with the Rams side.
Sam Howell has regularly found his way to fantasy points if you are outright playing Williams as leverage against the passing game but still want to stack the Washington side.
Nobody throws the ball more than the Commanders.
They are dropping back to pass on a league-high 70.0% of their plays, which is 6% above expectation.
My favorite players on that side are Antonio Gibson and Curtis Samuel, but both Terry McLaurin and Logan Thomas fit into things here as well.