Week 9 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 9, 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 9 Worksheet for a detailed breakdown of the players and games.

Chiefs at Bills

The crown jewel of the afternoon slate.

The best rivalry in the league right now has a 52.5-point game total, the highest on the main slate.

The Chiefs average 2.89 points per drive, second in the league.

Buffalo averages 2.80 points per drive, third in the league.

The Bills are second in the league in offensive success rate per play (48.4%).

The Chiefs are third (47.1%).

It is not cheap to stack this game, but with Kansas City playing on Monday night last week, players like Kareem Hunt and Travis Kelce ended up underpriced, making things a touch easier.

A simple Patrick Mahomes and Rashee Rice stack is going to cost 27.8% of the cap at FanDuel and 29.4% of the cap on DraftKings.

Add Kelce to that, and it will be 37.5% at FanDuel and 38.6% at DraftKings.

Xavier Worthy is an intriguing addition and a potential pivot off Rice if you believe Buffalo can keep him out of the end zone, especially on FanDuel.

DraftKings' full-PPR scoring gives Rice added outs to still have a strong game without a score.

Hunt can be played with Buffalo pass catchers or as part of the Kansas City onslaught in an effort to corner all the offensive touchdowns.

Dalton Kincaid and Khalil Shakir are cheap enough to work into any build with Josh Allen.

James Cook is the hardest piece to squeeze in, no matter which side you are playing through, but if you forego Rice on the Kansas City side, he can fit around the other pieces of this game.

Colts at Steelers