Week 1 DFS Picks: Best Game and Team Stacks

Every week, I'll review the players I am targeting for DFS across all games, tournaments, and game stacks.

The idea is to paint a clearer picture of how to build lineups.

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, I go with full-game stacks.

You will likely lose a lot of weeks, but if you get the game right, you will gain a significant advantage.

Just cashing in on one of these over an 18-week season can make your entire year.

When doing this, I want to aggressively build around games with a wider range of outcomes.

Still, 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.

This is the spot where you will find some missing names from the core and tournament play sections.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 1, 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 Week 1 Worksheet, but we're playing solely for the upside here.

Rich's Week 1 DFS Game Stacks