Week 9 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 9 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 9, 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 9 Worksheet.

Cowboys at Falcons

There are paths for this game to fall short, but it has the highest total (51.5 points) on the slate, so it cannot be ignored.

The game has a cleanly correlated (albeit expensive) mini stack of CeeDee Lamb and Bijan Robinson.

Dallas has the worst rushing EPA on defense (-17.2).

Atlanta is 31st in points allowed to WR1 targets (19.3 per game).

In the worksheet, I wrote about how this is Dak Prescott's best matchup in a month. He is another addition to that stack.

If that pushes you to build double stacks with Prescott, Jake Ferguson, and Jalen Tolbert are still in play.

Atlanta also has mid- to high-tier pass catchers, with Drake London, Darnell Mooney, and Kyle Pitts, who have positive matchup notes (which leads to Kirk Cousins) if they build a full stack of this game this week.