Week 18 DFS Picks: Best Game and Team Stacks

Every week, I get asked about my favorite plays of the week or who is in my player pool that weekend for DFS.

This article series covers exactly that.

In the three articles linked below, 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.

Week 18 DFS Content:

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 games with fewer than 100 entries (albeit at a higher cost of entry) if you want to go after a small field.

In these contests, my approach is to go with full-game stacks.

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

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

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.

These are the games I am circling for those tournaments in Week 18, but you can also tie these games into your stacks for other tournaments.

Vikings at Lions

This game is only available on the main slate at FanDuel.

This game has a 56-point total, the highest for any NFL game this season.

These teams combined for 60 points back in Week 7, a game Detroit escaped with a narrow 31-29 victory.

Detroit averages a league-high 3.04 points per drive while Minnesota is 10th (2.24).

The Lions have dealt with several injuries on the defensive side of the ball and are allowing 3.0 points per drive over their past five games (31st in the league).

It is not cheap to stack this game, but Week 18 provides enough dart throws to build around the higher-end pieces from both sides of this one.