Welcome to Playoff DFS! This week I will break down both games on the two-game Saturday slate and the best ways to attack them from a DFS perspective, with a focus on small-field tournament play. Later this week we’ll look at the Sunday slate.
We will see a large chunk of the field playing “cash” lineups in small-field tournaments. This presents a unique opportunity to play a lineup you would expect to see in a larger field tournament. Even if you hit the right stack in a large field tournament, it may not be enough even to hit the cash line because all the other players in that tournament are game stacking.
In smaller fields, with only a small percentage of the field stacking games, when your stack hits in a big way, not only are you all but certain to cash, but more often than not, you are live to win the tournament. (I consider small fields 500 people or fewer, but I primarily play in contests with fewer than 100 entries.)