Building A Winner 7.25

Tony focuses his DFS play on FanDuel single-entry and 3-max contests. He thrives in unique formats and positional twists, always looking for hidden edges that others overlook

This article is designed to complement Mike’s weekly Fanduel Player Grid and other OWS Fanduel scroll content by giving you my view on the slate from my perspective as a Fanduel player who focuses on smaller-field, SE/3-max types of tournaments. My usual process is to build a handful of unique lineups for these types of contests each slate and a majority of my weekly DFS bankroll is dedicated to them.

As you will see as you go through the article, based on the week at hand, I find what I think is the critical starting point I want to use for my rosters. This could be a certain game environment, a specific position or positional dynamics, extreme chalk pieces, or low-owned stacks that I am interested in. Each week is unique, so the “Starting Point” for each week will be dynamic and the rest of my thoughts will build from there, helping you see how I am building my lineups and allowing you to form your own thoughts.

Starting Point

• Week 7 provides another 10-game main slate with the Bills and Ravens on bye, another early London game, and another double-header on MNF. This week, we are back to six early kickoffs and four in the late afternoon. 
• The Commanders at Cowboys game kicking off in the later window is getting lots of DFS love, for good reason, with an astronomical 54.5 implied point total that is six points higher than any other game on the slate. Dallas (27.5) has the 2nd highest team total on the slate, while Washington (26.5) has the 3rd.
• The Chiefs (28.75) are the only team with a higher implied total; they host the Raiders in the early window. After those three, four of the next six highest implied team totals on the main slate also come from the afternoon window:
  • Packers (25.75) at the Cardinals (19.25)
  • Chargers (25.0) hosting the Colts (23.5)
  • The Broncos (23.75) are hosting the Giants (16.75)
• While I don’t see myself playing much from the Denver game, I do intend to play several gamestacks and other correlations across the other three afternoon games.
• The starting point for my SE/3-Max builds this week is simply to be strategic about who I’m playing from the early set of games, and in which combinations, so that I can get plenty of exposure to the set of later kickoffs with some of the slate’s top implied team totals.

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