Week 16 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 16, 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 16 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Chargers at Cowboys

I did not have many individual writeups for this game, but I am still going to take a few bites at stacking each side of this one in those single-entry contests.

We never want to leave a game in Dallas uncovered, even if there is volatility given how the Chargers have played on offense since losing Joe Alt and how good their defense has been, allowing them to get by.

The Dallas pass defense has been an elixir for bad offenses this season.

This game has a 49.5-point total, the highest among the early games.

I prefer to stack Justin Herbert with Ladd McConkey, Oronde Gadsden, and Quentin Johnston (Tre Harris if Johnston sits or as a punt).

Omarion Hampton becomes an intriguing addition to the Chargers' team if Quinnen Williams is out.

CeeDee Lamb is the best Dallas piece to bring back or stack with Dak Prescott, while George Pickens still has more good than bad on his resume this season than what we have seen these past two weeks.

Bengals at Dolphins