If you want to improve at DFS, you need to find the types of contests that allow you to have success and continue to play mainly in those. This enables you not only to have a greater chance of success each week but also to improve in identifying contest specific dynamics and trends.

I am a lower-stakes, small-field tournament player. I do not play cash games, and I do not play large field GPP contests unless I am just tossing in an entry for fun. The contests I am playing in typically have 60 entrants or less. These contests are my favorite because you do not need to get as many things right to get near the top of the leaderboard. Finding the right stacks in small fields is a great example of this. Most people do not stack enough in these types of contests and finding the right stacks and leverage points is a great way to vault up to the top of the leaderboard.

Each week I will post my favorite stacks of the week, especially those that are likely to be overlooked in the small-field tournaments. I’ll also provide my results from the prior week and talk about what went right, what went wrong, and most importantly, what we can we learn.

I talked on the Fantasy Football Report with Blair and Hasan about how much I liked the Eagles-Jaguars game. It was just too expensive to play Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, and Christian Kirk and still fit in Derrick Henry. There were a-lot of high-stakes names that I noticed in this contest and they all played Geno Smith. This lineup never really had a chance to cash when I faded Jamaal Williams and T.J. Hockenson at high-ownership. The lesson I did take away from this was my contest selection. Seeing all those high-stakes players in my contest made me realize I should try and find contests where those players can’t enter. This week I took my $27 and entered it into a single-entry casual contest with 64 people total. I’m looking forward to seeing if there is a big difference in the dynamics of the two contests.

Let’s move on and get into this weeks stacks!