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NFL DFS Strategy | Exploiting Trends to Win $1,000,000 in 2022

Aug 27, 2022; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (12) points at a teammate during the first quarter of the game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Marc Lebryk-USA TODAY Sports

If you have invested in bettering yourself as a DFS player, one trend you’ll spot among the top players in the industry is their dedication to studying past slates.

Whether they’re downloading their CSV’s to dissect their process, studying the MME strategy of DFS Pros, back testing the optimizer like DFS Army’s Kevin Allen, or reviewing the leaderboard lineups after every slate, studying past slates is a key ingredient to being successful.

You can beat out 11 of your leaguemates by simply knowing more about football than them and having some positive variance on your side. However, beating out a field of 200,000+ requires looking at this game from a number’s perspective. If the field is playing player A, how much leverage can I gain on the field by playing Player B? If the field is stacking this game 1, what happens if this game 2 ends up shooting out?

“This scenario might be less likely to happen, but it is still likely to happen. I can point to Week 3 of this contest where it happened and this DFS player made a Million Dollars because of it.”

By studying past slates and the moves of the top players in the world, we can begin to dissect their thought process and start to think like them.

Or as J Cole said on Middle Child, 

“Was watchin’ you when you was pavin’ the ground

I copied your cadence, I mirrored your style

I studied the greats, I’m the greatest right now.”

One can Dream…

With that said, this year I’ll continue to bring the Milli Maker review every week and I’ll also be broadcasting a livestream looking at the tournament strategy of top DFS Pros at DFSARMY.COM.

With the start of the 2022 Season just days away, let’s take a deep dive into the 2021 Milli Maker winning trends and how they compare to 2020. 

Total Team Ownership %

Week 1 – 78%
Week 2 – 77%
Week 3 – 87%
Week 4 – 88%
Week 5 – 115%
Week 6 – 93%
Week 7 – 91%
Week 8 – 114%
Week 9 – 103%
Week 10 – 121.87%
Week 11 – 28.01%
Week 12 – 91.51%
Week 13 – 116%
Week 14 – 82.88%
Week 15 – 120%
Week 16 – 117.4%
Week 17 – 114.59%

2021 Season Overall – 96.36%

2020 Season Overall – 108%

With 11 weeks under 100%, this was a big change from 2020 when there were 7 weeks under 100% total ownership. A big drop of 12% in the average from 2020 to 2021.

Macro level look into ownership: When constructing lineups for the Milli Maker, overall ownership percentage is one rule you want to put into the optimizer so that your lineups aren’t too chalky to win the contest. Luckily at DFS Army, the Domination Station is very accurate in projecting ownership percentages, so you can build lineups in the optimizer with a max ownership cap and trust that you’re getting ownership projections that will be as close as they possibly can be; This will prevent you from exceeding a total ownership % that is too high to take down a large field GPP like the Milli Maker.

Micro level look into Ownership: One thing I wanted to identify was ownership percentage trends specific to certain positions. If we can spot trends and find specific reasons for them, then we can be ahead of the field when those events happen in the future. These positional ownership totals are as follows:

Ownership % by Position

QB: 

Week 1: 3%
Week 2: 13.4%
Week 3: 5.4%
Week 4: 6.8%
Week 5: 6.39%
Week 6: 1.73%
Week 7: 13.43%
Week 8: 8%
Week 9: 3.5%
Week 10: 9.7%
Week 11: 9.33%
Week 12: 3.46%
Week 13: 11.69%
Week 14: 9.55%
Week 15: 2.64%
Week 16: 12.4%
Week 17: 7.97%

2021 Total AVG: 7.55%

The highest percentage we saw all season was 13.4% (twice) and we saw many weeks of less than 5% ownership, with a seasonal average of 7.55%. I think the thought process here is that if we’re stacking, and the QB is chalky, the pass catchers will be too and thus the lineup will not be differentiated enough to leverage the field in a contest as large as the Milli Maker. 

Stacking considerations always play a role in Positive EV tournament builds. If everyone is playing a Cousins/Jefferson (combined 40% ownership) stack on the slate, then maybe the way to get different is a 7% owned Brady & a 10% owned Godwin stack in a different game… or like Week 5 when a Brady/Evans/Brown stack combined for only 26.5% ownership while most of the field was on Prescott/Lamb stack that combined for 34.1% ownership between only 2 players.

A lower owned stack starts with the QB and under 14% is the trend we’re identifying here as we saw 2 weeks of 13% ownership and never higher than that.

RB: 

Week 1: 8.4%
Week 2: 5.9%
Week 3: 10.5%
Week 4: 9.76%
Week 5: 20.89%
Week 6: 20.04%
Week 7: 9.80%
Week 8: 8.51%
Week 9: 10.4%
Week 10: 25.96%
Week 11: 2.46%
Week 12: 9.85%
Week 13: 21.65%
Week 14: 7.79%
Week 15: 11.81%
Week 16: 18.56%
Week 17: 16.04%

2021 Total AVG: 12.84%

This was the chalkiest position group and it’s really not a surprise as when value hits the slate, players flock to those high floor players who can really 4-6X their salary and provide that salary relief to pay up at QB and WR. 

For example, Week 3 when Dalvin Cook is ruled out and Alexander Mattison scores 26 points at 6K, to 4.35X his salary. His ownership numbers were almost 15% and honestly the field should’ve been much higher on him than 15% and probably would’ve if news came out sooner that he would get the start. The salary savings allowed the Milli Maker winner that week to pay up for Josh Allen, DK Metcalf, and Justin Jefferson. That lineup construction looks much different with 8k-9k Dalvin Cook.

As the season goes on, the average ownership % for RB’s continues to climb as the player pool condenses and the field locks on many of the same players as we see below:

Weeks 1-8: 93.8%

Weeks 9-16: 108.48%

This is a trend to keep in mind as the season goes on and the injuries start to stack up.

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WR:

Week 1: 10.65%
Week 2: 9%
Week 3: 6.95%
Week 4: 12.53%
Week 5: 13.75%
Week 6: 3.91%
Week 7: 13.41%
Week 8: 20.04%
Week 9: 17.2
Week 10: 8.97%
Week 11: 2.93%
Week 12: 6.11%
Week 13: 13.89%
Week 14: 9%
Week 15: 19.69%
Week 16: 10.46%
Week 17: 13.53%

2021 Total AVG: 11.29%

11.29% was the second highest ownership average. In most weeks, you generally have one elite WR that ends up being chalky but still fits into the winning build as the lineup gets different elsewhere. For example, 23.6% Adams in week 5, 20.3% Kupp in Week 2, 26.5% Pittman in Week 8, 28.3% Hollywood Brown in Week 9, etc. 

With 1-2 Chalky Wide Receivers in the winning lineup most weeks, the 11.29% average is a bit higher than we saw at QB, TE, & DST.

It’s also a reminder that it is okay to have a chalky stud in your lineup as long as you get different elsewhere. Studs bring the ceiling needed to win and the field is on them for good reason.

TE: 

Week 1: 14.4%
Week 2: 17.8%
Week 3: 1.2%
Week 4: 9.6%
Week 5: 4.46%
Week 6: 12.29%
Week 7: 2.04%
Week 8: 4.52%
Week 9: 15.7
Week 10: 4.05%
Week 11: .05 %
Week 12: 36.35%
Week 13: 6.89%
Week 14: 7.16%
Week 15: 11.29%
Week 16: 8.7%
Week 17: 6.89%

2021 Total AVG: 9.61%

With Tight Ends, there is generally a lot of variance so 9.61% average ownership reflects that as it’s lower than both the RB and WR group. Gronk frequented Milli Maker winning builds last season and if you take out his 36% week 12 ownership percentage, you have an average ownership percentage of less than 8%.

DST:

Week 1: 1.3%
Week 2: 8.9%
Week 3: 16.8%
Week 4: 5.3%
Week 5: 8.08%
Week 6: 14.89%
Week 7: 2.84%
Week 8: 5.1%
Week 9: 3%
Week 10: 3.31%
Week 11: 2.43%
Week 12: 3.8%
Week 13: 5.82%
Week 14: 14.52%
Week 15: 3.66%
Week 16: 9.2%
Week 17: 10.96%

2021 Total Avg: 7.05%

When it comes to Defenses, we know there’s a lot of variance so embrace it. Embracing the variance is one the best ways you can gain an advantage in any given week – you do that by finding a low owned defense and hope you’re on the positive side of variance that week.

With 10 weeks at 5% ownership or less, only a few weeks over 10% raised the average ownership of defenses to 7%. 

Optimize Your Flex

What do the numbers show in regard to what positional group to put into the flex?

Week 1 – WR in the Flex
Week 2 – WR in the Flex
Week 3- WR in the Flex
Week 4 – RB in the Flex
Week 5- WR in the Flex
Week 6 – TE in the Flex
Week 7 – WR in the Flex
Week 8 – WR in the Flex
Week 9 – RB in the Flex
Week 10 – RB in the Flex
Week 11 – RB in the Flex
Week 12 – RB in the Flex
Week 13 – TE in the Flex
Week 14 – WR in the Flex
Week 15 – WR in the Flex
Week 16 – RB in the Flex
Week 17 – RB in the Flex

In 2021 WR in the Flex about 47% of the time.

In 2021 RB in the Flex about 41% of the time.

In 2021 TE in the Flex about 12% of the time.

In 2020 WR in the Flex about 56% of the time.

In 2020 RB in the Flex about 25% of the time.

In 2020 TE in the Flex about 19% of the time.

Over thinking the Flex is something we’ve all done and probably will continue to do with the numbers continuing to fluctuate. RB was in the flex 41% of the time last year in winning Milli Maker Lineups. This was up 16% from 2020. Why? I think one of the reasons for this was in the final 6 out of 9 weeks, there was no Henry, no CMC, Cook missed some time, and Kamara missed 4 games.

Fewer elite options came with the cap savings that allowed flexibility and more 5-7K backs to be played as opposed to looking for a 3-4K WR or Tight End in lineup constructions which is what we saw more often in 2020. This 16% rise in RB’s in the flex had WR’s and TE’s in the flex fewer times, obviously. (Down 9%, and 7%, respectively.)

Positional Pricing

QB:

Week 1: 5700
Week 2: 6900
Week 3: 7000
Week 4: 6700
Week 5: 7400
Week 6: 5900
Week 7: 7100
Week 8: 5700
Week 9: 7000
Week 10: 7900
Week 11: 5100
Week 12: 7100
Week 13: 4000
Week 14: 7800
Week 15: 5400
Week 16: 5900
Week 17: 6900

2021 Total: $6441

2020 Total: $6831

There was a slight drop off in QB pricing in 2021 and really, I think it can be attributed to Burrow being underpriced at under 6K multiple times and appearances from Baker, Wentz, Cam, and Minshew that averaged $5175 among the 4. Generally, the higher priced QB’s were in winning lineups such as Brady, (twice) Allen, (3 times) Stafford, (twice) Herbert and Rodgers. 

RB:

Week 1: 5750
Week 2: 6700
Week 3: 5900
Week 4: 5800 (3 RB’s)
Week 5: 5750
Week 6: 6500
Week 7: 5850
Week 8: 5150
Week 9: 5766 (3 RB’s)
Week 10: 4566 (3 RB’s)
Week 11: 6766 (3 RB’s)
Week 12: 6700 (3 RB’s)
Week 13: 4850
Week 14: 5400
Week 15: 5100
Week 16: 5566 (3 RB’s)
Week 17: 5466 (3 RB’s)

2021 Total: $5740

2020 Total: $6946

As I alluded to previously, with so many elite options missing consecutive games and also not having as many ceiling games as they did in 2020, there were far more 5-7K priced RBs in winning Milli Maker Lineups and the $5740 average price was a $1200 drop from 2020.

WR: 

Week 1: 5600 (4 WRs in the Flex)
Week 2: 5475 (4 WRs in the Flex)
Week 3: 5875 (4 WRs in the Flex)
Week 4: 6033
Week 5: 6050 (4 WRs in the Flex)
Week 6: 5266
Week 7: 6175 (4 WRs in the Flex)
Week 8: 6900 (4 WRs in the Flex)
Week 9: 6100
Week 10: 7166
Week 11: 6666
Week 12: 5200
Week 13: 7200
Week 14: 5575 (4 WRs)
Week 15: 6300 (4 WRs)
Week 16: 5600
Week 17: 5766

2021 Total: $6055

2020 Total: $5939

The WR pricing from 2020 & 2021 was very similar. The slight rise can probably be attributed to Cooper Kupp’s price rising throughout the season as he continued to smash, even at 9k.

TE: 

Week 1: 8300
Week 2: 4700
Week 3: 4700
Week 4: 3400
Week 5: 3700
Week 6: 5900 (2 TE’S)
Week 7: 2500
Week 8: 3600
Week 9: 4900
Week 10: 4100
Week 11: 2500
Week 12: 4400
Week 13: 5200  (2 TE’s)
Week 14: 5900
Week 15: 6400
Week 16: 7000
Week 17: 6200

2021 Total: $4905

2020 Total: $4500

We saw a slightly higher average in TE pricing and really it was a reflection of Kelce, Andrews, and Gronk each being in the winning build multiple times. 

DST:

Week 1: 2100
Week 2: 2900
Week 3: 3000
Week 4: 4300
Week 5: 3000
Week 6: 3500
Week 7: 4000
Week 8: 2800
Week 9: 2500
Week 10: 2700
Week 11: 2100
Week 12: 2800
Week 13: 4000
Week 14: 3100
Week 15: 2800
Week 16: 3600
Week 17: 3200

2021 Total: $3082

2020 Total: $3000

DST pricing was almost identical in 2020 & 2021. The trend of continuing to find a DST in the 3k range held steady and thus we’ll continue to pay up for Defenses in the Milli Maker.  

QB was the most expensive position in 2021 winning Milli Maker builds – a change up from 2020 when RB was the most expensive position. The story here was more about the RB price dropping in 2021 than it was the QB pricing because the QB pricing actually dropped in 2021 from 2020 – despite it being the most expensive position.

Another thing to note is that every winning Milli Maker lineup had at least one player that 6X’d his salary. More times than not, this will come from a low-priced player that vastly outperformed his salary on the positive side of variance. For example, $3700 Gabriel Davis in Week 15, scoring 25.50 points and $4500 R. Stevenson scoring 30.60 points in Week 10.

The Vegas Lines

I wanted to touch on this because we talk about the Vegas lines A LOT in the DFS industry and after watching the highest projected games fail to live up to the hype over and over again last year, I thought I would dive into the numbers a bit and see just how good they are at predicting scoring and what that means for DFS.

Here’s what I found: 10 out of 17 weeks we saw a winning lineup that featured stacks in games OUTSIDE of the top 5 highest projected game totals.

My question is, how many times do you catch yourself looking at that top game and wanting to stack it several ways? Probably eating more chalk than you should. What is the fail rate on that top game? The highest projected game total on the slate hit 35% of the time with some sort of stack from that game. (6 out of 17 weeks)

While on the surface this doesn’t look horrible, only 17% of the time was there a QB + Pass Catcher + in that winning lineup. 

Only 11% of the time was there a QB + Pass catcher and a bring back option.

0% of the time there was a QB + Two + and a Bring back option. 

Out of the 5 highest projected games in Weeks 1-17, the Winning Milli Maker Lineup had an average of 4.76 players from these games. (4.76 out of 9 roster spots.) 4.76 players out of 10 teams from these top 5 projected games each week speaks to how inconsistent these game totals were in projecting fantasy scoring. However, it does show that there are pieces you can take from these games without forcing heavy stacks and weighing so much of your lineup construction into these Vegas lines.

If your process had you look at these games for smaller stacks, individual player projections, value plays, and to stack more contrarian games, you probably did much better in GPP’s last season. For example, 58% of the time, A Winning Milli Maker Lineup had a stack consisting of players from games outside the top 5 in projected game totals.

These weeks were as follows:

Week 3: Allen + Beasley + Sanders + Thomas. (QB + WR + WR + Opp. TE)
Week 6: Taylor + Colts DST (RB + DST)
Week 7: Godwin + Tampa DST (WR + DST)
Week 9: Chubb + CLE DST. (RB + DST) Waddle + Gesicki (WR + TE)
Week 10: Stevenson + Henry + D. Johnson (RB + TE + Opp. RB)
Week 11: Cam + Tremble + Mclaurin. (QB + TE + Opp. WR) Swift + DET DST (RB + DST)
Week 12: Waddle + MIA DST + Anderson (WR + DST + Opp. WR)
Week 13: Minshew + Goedert (QB + TE)
Week 14: Penny + SEA DST (RB + DST)
Week 15: Huntley + Andrews + Adams (QB + TE + Opp. WR)

The Vegas lines are very much a guide and based on 2021 data, about half of your lineup construction should come from games outside of the top 5 highest projected game totals.

Leverage Matters

Leverage takes an understanding of what the field is going to be doing, and thus trying to get leverage on the field to find a path to climb the leaderboards. This can be done in a multitude of ways via playing a back that is 5% owned over a back that is 25% owned or direct leverage in a game by playing the low owned WR instead of the high owned RB or vice versa. Each winning lineup you see has leveraged the field in many ways and that is reflected in total ownership %.

Let’s look at the Week 5 Lineup to dissect the plays that were used to get leverage on the field:

Brady – 6.39%
Hubbard – 6.37%
Mattison – 35.41%
Adams – 23.55%
Evans – 5.44%
Brown – 14.67%
H Henry – 4.46%
Toney – 11.36%
Vikings – 8.08%

Total Ownership: 115%

Even though this winning lineup was chalkier than most weeks of the Milli Maker, there were still a lot of leverage plays here.

As we pointed out earlier, most of the field was on a Prescott/Lamb stack that was a combined 34% ownership. The Brady/Evans/Brown stack combined for 26.5% ownership – a player average of 8% which was far lower than the 17% player average of the Prescott/Lamb stack. It was also a direct leverage play off of 22.8% rostered Leonard Fournette.

Even though chalky Mattison was rostered here at 35%, this was made possible by 6.37% owned Hubbard getting leverage on the field with chalkier plays such as Williams (17%) and Henry (35%).

Hunter Henry here at 4% was leverage off of chalkier plays such as Dalton Schultz (20%) and Gesicki at 16%. 

Last, Kadarius Toney was direct leverage off of Lamb who was about 20% owned in the same game.

Each week when we break down the winning Milli Maker lineup, we can find leverage at nearly every position. Knowing what the field is going to do is so incredibly important in zigging while others zag when constructing lineups. 

Stacking and Correlation

If you aren’t stacking, your chances of winning a large field GPP are much lower than the already slim odds. With stacks, you have slim odds. Without them, you’ll fall in the range of slim to none. 

Below is each stacking combination used in the winning lineup:

Week 1 – 2 team stacks for a total of 5 players. (QB+RB+WR) + (WR+TE)
Week 2 – 3 stacks for a total of 7 players.  (QB+RB+TE) +(RB+Opp.WR)+(WR+DST) 2 team stacks and 1 small game stack of 2 players.
Week 3 – 2 game stacks for a total of 7 players. (QB+WR+WR+Opp.TE) + (RB+WR+Opp.WR)
Week 4 – 1 game stack for a total of 3 players. (QB+TE+Opp.WR)
Week 5 – 2 team stacks for a total of 5 players. (QB+WR+WR) + (RB+DST)
Week 6 – 2 team stacks for a total of 4 players. (QB+WR) + (RB+DST)
Week 7 – 2 stacks for a total of 6 players (QB+WR+WR+Opp.RB) + (WR+DST) 1 game stack and 1 team stack.
Week 8 – 1 game stack for a total of 3 players. (QB+WR+Opp.WR)
Week 9 – 3 team stacks for a total of 6 players. (QB+WR) +(WR+TE) +(RB+DST)
Week 10 – 2 stacks for a total of 5 players. (QB + WR) + (RB + TE + Opp. RB) 1 team stack. 1 game stack.
Week 11 – 2 stacks for a total of 5 players. (QB + TE + Opp. WR) + (RB + DST 1 game stack and 1 team stack.
Week 12 – 3 stacks for a total of 8 players (QB + RB + WR) +(RB + TE) + (WR +DST +Op WR) 2 team stacks and 1 game stack.
Week 13 – 3 stacks for a total of 6 players (QB + TE) + (WR + Op. RB) + (RB + DST) 2 team stacks and 1 game stack.
Week 14 – 2 team stacks for a total of 4 players (QB + WR) + (RB + DST)
Week 15 – 3 stacks for a total of 7 players (QB + TE + Op. WR) + (WR + Opp. WR) + (WR + DST) 2 game stacks and 1 team stack.
Week 16 – 1 game stack consisting of 5 players (QB + RB + WR + WR + Opp. TE)
Week 17 – 2 game stacks consisting of 5 players (QB + WR + Opp. RB) + (WR + Opp. TE) 

Total Average: 2 Stacks consisting of 5 players. 

While stacking is still King, what we saw in 2021 was a shift away from the heavy game stacks that were more prevalent in 2020 winning lineups. If you spent each week constructing lineups with heavy game stacks, you probably lost quite a bit of money last season. What we saw work more frequently was taking pieces of various games via either team stacks or small game stacks – thus avoiding more of the QB + WR + WR + Bring Back that we saw win the Milli Maker more often in 2020. (4 or more players from the same game made up 43% of the winning lineups in 2020.)

In 2021, we only saw 4 or more players from the same game in 17% of the Winning Milli Maker Lineups – despite seeing 15 total game stacks in 2021 winning Lineups. We actually saw more team stacks throughout the season than game stacks, but due to the nature of game stacks, the total number of players ended up being about equal.

Winning Milli Maker Stacks by the Numbers:

22 Team stacks for a total of 44 players. 

15 Game stacks for a total of 45 players.

Another stacking trend was Stacking the Defense with either an RB or WR. In total, we saw a Defense stacked in 10 of 17 Milli Maker winners in 2021. For years we’ve known that RB’s and DSTs can be stacked together as they have a positive correlation. (When a team has a big lead, they tend to run the ball.)

In the 10 weeks we saw a DST stack, 6 times it was with a Running Back. The other 4 times? A Wide Receiver was stacked with a DST. Generally, if the game is shooting out, you don’t want your DST stacked in that game, as they lose points as points are scored against them. (Negative correlation) However, if you think the game is going to be a mismatch, it makes sense to do a team stack with the DST included.

This happened in Week 7 of the 2021 season when we had Brady’s Bucs vs the Chicago Bears. The Bucs won 38-3 and the Godwin/DST stack combined for 48 points for the Week 7 Milli Maker Winner. Stacking Godwin/DST and using a bring back like Montgomery would’ve been a negative EV decision. The rule here is do it with team stacks but avoid game stacks.

10 out of 17 weeks we saw a DST stacked in the winning lineup so more times than not, you’d want to incorporate that into your build. What’s obvious here is that stacking is still paramount to have the kind of Ceiling needed to take down a large field GPP like the Milli Maker, but simply starting your lineup with a game stack of QB, WR, WR, and a bring back option wasn’t nearly as effective in 2021 as it was in 2020. We must continue to analyze the matchups and find ways to leverage the field via stacking in other ways.

Shoot for a Ceiling

Week 1: 222.54
Week 2: 233.34
Week 3: 223.92
Week 4: 255.32
Week 5: 260.84
Week 6: 231.86
Week 7: 237.06
Week 8: 226.24
Week 9: 205.34
Week 10: 213.14
Week 11: 230.16
Week 12: 225.28
Week 13: 242.08
Week 14: 222.82
Week 15: 220.40
Week 16: 268.50
Week 17: 250.64

2021 Total Average: 233.49

2020 Total Average: 243

Overall scoring was down in 2021 compared to 2020. We saw fewer shootouts as many of the games that were projected as high scoring went under the game totals. Not surprisingly, we saw more team stacks in 2021 than game stacks in winning lineups. When you look at scoring being down in contests by an average of 10 points over the entire season, it was no wonder why we saw such a reduction of game stacks of 4 or more players from 43% in 2020 to 17% in 2021. 

From a player ceiling perspective, it doesn’t change much. Whether you’re talking 250 points or 233.49, you still need an average of about 25-27 points per position. To achieve this, you generally need a core of players with a high floor + high ceiling and some high variance players who might not have the week-to-week floor to play in your cash games but have the ceiling to occasionally pop off and can score 25+ points for your GPP builds.

In some instances, you’re not even asking them to score 25+ points but are hoping that if they’re the right salary and in a good game environment, they can really pay off their salary and be carried by the ceiling of other players. If you have a player in the 3-4K range that doesn’t score 25+ points but hits 4X his salary, you can live with that if you use the salary savings to pay up for studs like Kupp who have a 40+ point ceiling. This is where stacks are essential to the ceiling of your lineup – whether either a team stack or game stack.

For example, in Week 7 we had a Milli Maker winning lineup that scored 237 points and yet Van Jefferson was in the lineup with only 14 points. How?

Well, he was a part of the thickest game stack of the season with Stafford, Kupp, and Swift. Stafford scored 30.16, Kupp scored 40.60, and Swift scored 28.40, so the 4-player total with Van Jefferson’s 14, too, totaled 113.46 points. This averaged 28.36 points for the 4 players and is exactly the type of game environment you need to carry a low floor + low ceiling player in a GPP winning lineup like the Milli Maker.

Spotting winning Milli Maker trends, backtesting at the DFS Army’s Domination Station, & studying DFS Pros’ tournament strategy, stay with us all season as we continue to dive into the numbers to leverage the field and put those DFS Army Avatars at the top of the Leaderboards. Subscribe on youtube so you never miss an episode DFS Army – Daily Fantasy Sports – YouTube.

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