LIONS ARE KINGS
Divisional DFS stack starts in Detroit
AS WE wake up this Saturday morning, it is the final Saturday of football for months. No NFL, no college, no football.
Well, at least not “real” football. I don’t even know what days of the week has games for whatever spring league is in operation this season. But if they do play on Saturdays, they don’t count.
With the end of the season comes shorter slates, and with shorters slates come fewer choices, and with fewer choices comes fewer opportunities to “uniqueify” your rosters. There are just four games this week, and none of the main contests at either at primary DFS sites features all four games, because ... well, we don’t know. It doesn’t make sense to us either. But there are some smaller contests with all four games at FanDuel.
Last week, we spread out our roster a bit, but our primary stack the Rams-Lions game, expecting a shootout. That didn’t materialize, but it hasn’t spoiled our affinity for the Lions. We think they could boat race the Buccaneers, and we want some exposure to what we expect to be a rout.
The problem is, we can’t afford too many Lions on the same roster, especially since we are definiely also using Christian McCaffrey ($10,000).
We start our Lions stack with Jared Goff ($7,600), and we pair him with his favorite target, Amon-Ra St. Brown ($9,200). We counter on the other side with Mike Evans ($7,600).
Make no mistake, all these guys will be popular picks. But in short slates, you have to find some cheap options to fill out the roster, so we’ll look for our “unique-ification” there.
The Ravens’ backfield is a mess, so much so newly added Dalvin Cook was put on the 53-man roster. At $4,500, we’ll take it and hope for a cheap TD. We’ll opt for the cheapest defense. Uhoh, that’s the Packers against the 49ers. Never mind. We’ll go next-cheapest, the Texans ($3,400), with visions of nasty weather and a continuation of Lamar Jackson’s postseason struggles.
We want a tight end who at least plays, so we go with Luke Musgrave ($5,100). That leaves us enough room to squeeze in another Lion, David Montgomery ($7,000) at Flex with enough leftover for a deep Houston WR option, Xavier Hutchinson ($4,800), who has some upside with Noah Brown injured. So we have what we think is a solid Lions stack and enough other legitimate options filling out the roster that we can enter the divisional round with dollar signs in our eyes.