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 5 DFS Content:
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 5, 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 5 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
CHIEFS AT VIKINGS
The highest total on the board this weekend and this game is indoors in Minnesota.
Since the start of last season, games in Minnesota have averaged 51.2 combined points.
The Chiefs are always a tougher team to stack since both Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are always the highest-priced players at their positions, and you are allocating top-dollar to a pair of “onesie” positions.
You also will have a hard time running back that pairing with Justin Jefferson.
Mahomes + Kelce + Jefferson takes up 50.4% of your cap at DraftKings and 45.3% on FanDuel.
You can get creative with a full Minnesota double stack of Kirk Cousins + Jefferson + T.J. Hockenson and have some extra salary with a similar structure as the former.
That avenue also allows you to play cheaper Kansas City runbacks in Isiah Pacheco and Rashee Rice.
From an onslaught perspective in this game, that is the cleanest path to take where you are not playing multiple punts.
If you do not pay up for Hockenson, Jordan Addison becomes viable with Minnesota anticipated to throw the football heavily here.
