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Week 8 NFL Box Checkers
Quarterbacks
5 categories lead to making value historically. Home NFL QBs perform better than road QBs. Favored teams are implied to score more points, and their QBs do the scoring. Game totals make sense to follow, the higher the better. And, efficiency trumps volume! Volume is nice, but efficient QBs are proven to put up more fantasy points than those banking on volume alone. To finish, salary. You can price yourself out of making value unless putting up a true ceiling performance. In the NFL, we find staying under $8000 in Draftkings salary helps…in fact, the cheaper the better.
Sorry, guys, I reversed them again…..this week green is the core type play that checks all the boxes. Blue is our “missing one box,” but still very solid play. Everything else is a varying degree of a gpp-only type of play.
Look at all these QBs to choose from! Stacks will be fun this week. Sky’s the limit. But, Justin Herbert looks like he might edge the field in terms of checking every possible box historically leading to a player that pays off his salary. And, believe it or not, Ryan Tannehill finds his way back onto the efficiency list ranking as a top 12 QBR NFL quarterback. Jalen Hurts isn’t in the neighborhood of “efficient,” but he is the overall QB2 in terms of fantasy scoring so far in 2021. Like I said, every “system” has its flaws….but the general concept here is gold.
Running Backs
Once again, home teams matter for RBs, and being favored obviously affects game scripts in a positive way. High scoring game environments help push those touchdowns around, landing on running backs. We want volume at all positions not QB. 18 touches (rushes + receptions) is the goal here. Passing game work gives us safety when the game script flips. Red Zone work matters…especially inside the 10. And, salary works here again. Staying under $8000 like our NFL QBs helps the running backs, too.
We get TWO top notch plays this week, and I’m loving that their ownerships are projected very low (under 15% both sites for Ekeler, under 10% both sites for Taylor). Yum!! This is often where Box Checkers shines. These guys are safe enough for a cash game, but you might not use them there if you find 30% or 40% NFL RBs. They do, however, make sneaky high-quality pivot plays in tourneys or even multipliers and leagues. My “Ladder System” absolutely feasts off plays like these.
Kamara and Fournette are also solid plays. And, I suspect Eli Mitchell might be a popular play at only $5400 on Draftkings, but he doesn’t catch a lot of passes (PPR Scoring) and he only checks one box. That may change, but I think you’d also agree that playing Antonio Gibson is a risky proposition this year (when we didn’t think so at the beginning of the season)…just look at him checking zero boxes for confirmation.
Wide Receivers
Home field advantage proves negligible for NFL WRs. But, being favored is still important to hitting fantasy value. High totals matter, but when favored, we want team totals over 25 points. When the dog, we want UNDER 22 points indicating garbage time potential. Volume matters again. We’d like to see more than 7 targets per game on the average, and we want to see more than about 25% usage in the Red Zone…especially on Fanduel. Salary is key again, so we stay under $7000 here. Remember, this position is volatile as hell. But, we have backtested 250+ contests and found the top 3 Milli-Maker lineups contain someone meeting these criteria almost 60% of the time…..good odds for a crapshoot like WR.
WR is a volatile position! These are great spots to get your gamble on. And, with only one solid play (on paper), the position is as wide open as receivers always claim to be.
Good luck on Fanduel where you can’t really count on many of these guys in the red zone.
Tight Ends
Here we go with the home and favorite stuff again. NFL TE depends on it. We want volume, so focus on 7+ targets again, too. Red Zone work goes without saying at TE. And, we’ve discovered they also benefit from closer games, under 7 point spreads. If favored, you want ITTs over 26 points, and if the dog, under 24 points. Cheap plays, too!! On Draftkings, $3000-$5000 seems to be landing in the Milli a ridiculous 68% of the time…..and until week 1 this year, we had no recorded example of an 8k TE appearing in the Milli winner. That changes with Travis Kelce, and you can speculate all the previous slates he might not have been a part of due to prime time or Monday Night games. Fact is….the super high-priced TE is rare and likely cost prohibitive most times. Tend to pay down.
Our most solid play is Jared Cook? Well, see for yourself. He’s just shy of a clean sweep by about half a target per game….and the price is right.
Let’s not get carried away, though. Don’t tell me Kyle Pitts isn’t solid. Don’t tell me TJ Hockenson can’t be overrated/inconsistent. Such is the nature of the position. Remember, these boxes are set up by Shark Autopsy’s analysis of what players typically land in the Milli-Maker lineups, too. We have our safety plays, but we are also shooting for upside.
Where to Use These DFS Players
Box Checkers players are typically obvious, chalky (see our NFL Chalkboard Tool) and highly owned. Occasionally, we get some that slip under the radar (see our Leverage Stacks components).
However, these players can be used in ANY format from NFL cash games to big tourneys (or “Ladder Lineups” combining both!). The key to tourney play is using a core of these players and adding in some other lower owned pieces to give your lineup some uniqueness and creativity with the upside to beat a lot of competitors. As the DFS NFL world becomes more and more advanced, sometimes simplifying our process actually goes a little against the grain.
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Box Checkers Setup NFL Week 8
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