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 7 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 7, 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 7 Worksheet for a fully detailed breakdown of the players and games.
CHARGERS AT CHIEFS
The game total has dropped from 51.5 down to 48 points since this game opened, but this is the highest total on the main slate.
These teams have combined for 51 or more points in five consecutive meetings and have played tight contests in all of those matchups.
The game total dipping is not as much of a concern as opposed to the fact that this game is outright hard to stack due to salary restrictions.
All of the core players here in Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Justin Herbert, Austin Ekeler, and Keenan Allen are the highest-priced players or just below that mark at their positions.
We will see both Isiah Pacheco and Josh Palmer be popular individual plays and a natural mini-stack in this game across all formats.
Rashee Rice is a way to get another piece of this game at a cheaper salary.
But you are going to have to work around not being able to jam all of the main pieces into a lineup here.
The Chargers side is a touch easier to work around if you are building out a Herbert + Allen + Palmer double as you can add Rice and or Pacheco and still get in some high-ceiling players elsewhere.
If going for a Mahomes + Kelce build where you are bringing back Ekeler or Allen, you are going to have to go into the weeds at multiple spots.
