Brandon C. Williams 
Week Eight was by far my most profitable week on the 2019 DFS season. We absolutely smashed our cash games and finished top-five in multiple single entry NFL DFS GPP tournaments! Hell, even the sample lineup from last week’s Stick’s Stacks scored 202.2 DraftKings points! I hope you played it!
As you saw in my articles last week and heard on the Win Daily Sunday Livestream, my three favorite spots to get exposure to were the following:
- Oakland Raiders @ Houston Texans
- New York Giants @ Detroit Lions (had a lot of exposure to Darius Slayton, Barkley, and Stafford/Golladay)
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Mike Evans as our top WR play on the slate)
Let’s keep it rolling again in Week Nine where we have one of our smaller slates on the year with just 10 games on the main slate. If you read the article and have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly on Twitter or sign up for Premium Gold to join our Slack channel.
Like usual, it’s another great week to use 50% or more of your bankroll towards single entry cash games. Please check out my Cash Game Checkdown before you set your DFS lineups for Sunday. Lets get to work on Stick’s Stacks for Week Nine.
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The purpose of this weekly article is to identify team/game stacks that we are going to use for an NFL DFS GPP. For those of you that don’t know, a “team stack” is simply multiple players from the same team (I rarely ever use more than three players on a given team).
A “game stack” is similar, except we are going to use players from both teams in a given game. Focusing on team stacks and game stacks is incredibly useful in the NFL DFS GPP environment. That being said, let’s get to this week’s top NFL DFS stacks for DraftKings!
Top NFL DFS GPP Game Stacks
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Seattle Seahawks (-6) O/U (52.5)
This game in Seattle looks to be one of the heavier chalk games on the slate in the DFS world – and I’ll probably be overweight on it as well. There’s obviously plenty of reasons to love the Seahawks’ passing game here so we won’t go into detail on that. Opposing teams are throwing over 64% of the time against Seattle, so for Tampa, we just need Jameis Winston to play well and not throw five picks for him to hit value.
Tampa has a top-five run defense and has been a pass-funnel defense all year long, so there is clearly merit with loving the Seahawks’ air attack this week. If they can put up points in a hurry, Jameis Winston and the Bucs should be forced to throw it 45+ times and lead to a shootout.
What’s great about this game is it’s not difficult to handicap where the production is going to come from on either team. This is a perfect game to stack up!
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Chris Godwin ($7,300) – I’m much higher on Godwin this week in comparison to Evans. Only using Evans in lineups where I stack this game.
- Mike Evans ($7,200)
- Jameis Winston ($6,100)
- Cameron Brate ($3,100)
Seattle Seahawks
- Russell Wilson ($7,100)
- Tyler Lockett ($7,500)
- Chris Carson ($7,200)
- DK Metcalf ($5,700)
- Jacob Hollister ($2,800) – Large field GPP only.
Detroit Lions @ Oakland Raiders (-2) O/U (50.5)
Back to back weeks of having a lot of interest in both the Lions’ and Raiders’ offenses. Both of these defenses have struggled of late and it’s one of the highest expected totals on the slate with a tight spread.
The Lions’ running game looked absolutely broken last week now that Kerryon Johnson is on IR. This is another week where we can be confident in Stafford and company moving the ball via the pass. That slow-paced, run-first Lions’ gamescript is no longer a thing. In addition, the Raiders have allowed the most DraftKings points to opposing QB’s over the past month.
On the other side, the Raiders should have no issues moving the ball as the Lions have allowed the fourth most DraftKings’ points to both opposing QB’s and RB’s in their last three games. Keep an eye on whether or not Darius Slay suits up for this one, but I don’t think he’s anything you need to be truly concerned about from a DFS perspective.
Detroit Lions
- Kenny Golladay ($7,700)
- Matthew Stafford ($6,800)
- Danny Amendola ($4,700) – Wish he was cheaper, but this is a great spot for a guy coming off of back to back weeks of nearly 70% snap share. He should destroy Lamarcus Joyner.
- Marvin Jones Jr. ($6,000)
- T.J. Hockenson ($3,700)
Oakland Raiders
- Darren Waller ($6,300)
- Josh Jacobs ($6,500)
- Derek Carr ($5,500)
- Tyrell Williams ($5,900)
- Zay Jones ($3,000) – MME punt play.
Minnesota Vikings @ Kansas City Chiefs (TBD) O/U (TBD)
At first glance, it’s looking like this game isn’t drawing much attention from the DFS community early in the week. This can obviously change quickly if Patrick Mahomes were to be ruled in, but all signs point to Matt Moore being under center for this one.
I don’t want to completely stack this game up, but I will have exposure to both of these offenses in my NFL DFS GPP roster builds.
Minnesota Vikings
- Dalvin Cook ($9,500)
- Stefon Diggs ($7,600)
- Kirk Cousins ($6,700)
- Adam Thielen ($7,800) – Keep an eye on his injury status
Kansas City Chiefs
- Tyreek Hill ($7,400)
- Travis Kelce ($6,900)
- Sammy Watkins ($4,900)
- Matt Moore ($4,800)
Top DFS GPP Team Stacks
Carolina Panthers
Naturally, I like to be a little contrarian with some of my GPP builds and stacks for larger field GPPs. Last week, I had faith in the Bears and they let me down a bit, but my lineups with David Montgomery absolutely smashed. This week, I’m going to do a stack or two with the Carolina Panthers.
Tampa Bay paid off for us last week, so why not pick on this Tennessee secondary once again this week? They’re extremely banged up and truthfully, I don’t respect their secondary when healthy. McCaffrey is always in play, but if you want to leverage away from McCaffrey ownership in a GPP, use Kyle Allen and one or two of these wideouts.
- D.J. Moore ($4,800) – Absolutely love his spot this week. He will probably be a lock for me in cash games and heavily involved as salary relief in my main GPP builds.
- Christian McCaffrey ($10,000)
- Curtis Samuel ($4,300)
- Kyle Allen ($5,200)
- Greg Olsen ($3,500)
Chicago Bears
Who am I kidding? I’ll go back to the well once more this week in one or two large-field GPP tournaments with a Bears stack (probably safer to just use two Bears at most). You don’t need them to go off as they really open up your ability to pay up for a pair of top-tier RBs (just look at last week’s sample GPP lineup!). We’ve been picking on this Eagles’ pass defense all year so there’s no reason to stop now.
- Allen Robinson ($6,800)
- Mitch Trubisky ($5,000)
- Taylor Gabriel ($3,900)
- Anthony Miller ($3,700)
- David Montgomery ($5,200)
Sample NFL DFS GPP Lineup
QB: Mitch Trubisky
RB: Dalvin Cook
RB: Jaylen Samuels (make sure Conner is out)
WR: Allen Robinson
WR: Tyler Lockett
WR: D.J. Moore
TE: Cameron Brate
FLEX: Nick Chubb
DST: Washington Redskins
