Week 8 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 my player pool that weekend for DFS.

This article series covers exactly that.

I will go through the games that I am targeting for stacking purposes as well as the players I am targeting as core plays for all formats and players for tournaments.

The idea is that this will paint a clearer picture of framing lineups.

Week 8 DFS Content:

• Week 8 DFS Core Players
• Week 8 DFS Tournament Picks
• Week 8 DFS Values

For any who are new here, 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 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, but 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 what our opponents likely will.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 8, 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 8 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Saints at Colts

You know that if the Colts are on the main slate, then they are going to be involved in game stacking.

Games featuring the Colts are averaging a league-high 137.1 combined plays per game, and Indianapolis games are averaging 52.7 combined points per game, the second-most in the league.

This one already has sound core plays in Alvin Kamara, Chris Olave, and Josh Downs that offer mini-stacks, while Jonathan Taylor, Michael Pittman, and Rashid Shaheed are higher-variance pieces that can be added to onslaughts.

Michael Thomas has not shown much of a ceiling but is earning targets weekly as well.

You do not have to force in either quarterback, but both Gardner Minshew and Derek Carr have had massive volume in recent weeks.