Sonic’s MME Pool 10.23
Sonic is a Milly Maker winner and large-field tournament mastermind who focuses on mass-multi-entry play
Mindful, You Must Be
Listen to this on Sundays before lock. L.F.G.
After my family-induced bye week, I head into Week 10 with clarity and a sense of balance. This slate is guiding me towards the light, clicking on players that have a solid projection but also significant ownership. I’m also drawn to the dark side, with plays that appear scary at first, but carry the potential to separate my lineups from the masses.
I’m doing a lot of hand building this week and spending a lot of time focusing on rules and groups for my Bink Machine rosters. Lots of opportunities to leverage the chalk, and as JM has established in his Player Grid, it feels very much like a week based on correlation and leaning into specific game environments.
Secondary Core-Relations
We’re always hunting for those high-ceiling combinations to add to our existing game stacks. It’s better to aim at getting four things right instead of trying to hit a nine-way parlay. I’ll lean on a handful of core secondary stacks that will be finessed into lineups whenever feasible.
Calvin Ridley/Brandon Aiyuk (and/or Christian McCaffrey)
This grouping will obviously work fine with the associated quarterbacks, but I’ll be jamming these two or three players into stacks that feature other game environments as well. I think it’s very possible that this combo can reach a ceiling without Brock Purdy or Trevor Lawrence posting had-to-have-it scores. CMC will score at least one touchdown on the ground. It’s kind of his thing. If you’ve ever read anything I’ve ever written, you’ll know that if Christian McCaffrey is on a slate, I’ll be overweight. His current projection of 13% has me licking my chops.
With Jacksonville’s lacking ability to put pressure on the passer, Purdy should have time to allow Aiyuk to find weakness in the zones. CMC and Aiyuk lead the 49ers with eight and seven red zone targets respectively.
*I’ll feel much more conviction on this play if Trent Williams returns from injury.
With both teams coming off a bye, we can expect them to have spent time tweaking things that are “almost there”. For the Jags, that means converting some of Ridley’s air yards into touchdown production.
This game feels as likely as any to push into a back-and-forth affair. If that were to happen, these players, along with the immortal Deebo Samuel, would have had a say in the outcome.
Kenneth Walker/Seahawks DST
In a vacuum, the old-school RB/DST pairing doesn’t necessarily provide any significant correlative boost. But Walker provides leverage off Geno Smith stacks which are steaming in ownership as the week progresses, and the Seahawks defense is priced close enough to the potentially uber-chalk Cowboys DST to make for a nice pivot at about a third of the ownership.
Walker is a boom/bust play, but that’s why we get him at only 8%. In the absence of Montez Sweat and Chase Young, Rhamondre Stevenson broke off a 64-yard touchdown against Washington last week and yeah, New England is not an explosive unit.
Mike Evans/Nick Westbrook-Ikhine
Do you have a current lineup with two open WR spots, and $5300 per player to spare? You could go chalk with combinations of Tank Dell, Marquise Brown, Diontae Johnson, and Tyler Boyd. Those plays are all awesome. But if your cumulative ownership is already looking like a cash lineup, you may consider the combined ownership of 4% that Evans and NWI provide. We’ve seen Evans break multiple slates over the years and Will Levis’ arm strength is just silly. Throw in the leverage we get off teammates Rachaad White and DeAndre Hopkins, and this makes for a very juicy large-field tournament play.
