Week 13 DFS Picks: Best Game and Team Stacks

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.

One of my favorite ways to play DFS from a tournament standpoint is small-field, single-entry to five-max games with fields of 5K or smaller.

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 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 these, I want to aggressively build around games that have 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.

Just because a player is not mentioned in those two pieces does not mean I will have zero exposure to them.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 13, but you can also tie these games into your stacks for other tournaments.

I will analyze the player selections and game writeups, but please refer to the Week 13 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Jaguars at Titans

With the way the NFL structured the holiday schedule this week, we are left with a truly gross Sunday slate.

There is no game with a total of 46 points or higher.

We are going to have to take some flyers on some games that would not have a ton of top-down appeal on a typical slate.

The first one that caught my attention during the game writeups was this one.

I already wrote up players like Trevor Lawrence, Cam Ward, Chimer Dike, Travis Etienne, and Brenton Strange in the core and tournament plays, so I will not go into the weeds on them here.

This game has boom or outright potential overall, and its pieces are affordable.

Stacking this game up through a simple Ward and Dike connection and Etienne coming back gives you a lot of roster flexibility to get to bigger pieces in De’Von Achane and Puka Nacua or Jaxon Smith-Njigba in the same lineups.

Bills at Steelers