Mike Johnson (MJohnson86) has racked up nearly $500,000 in DFS profit as an NFL tournament player with success in all styles of contests
Week 18 Slate
Ladies and gentlemen, we made it!! The best Afternoon Only slate of the year every year is the last week of the season. Perhaps I’m biased because the biggest win of my career came on an “Afternoon Only” slate in the final week of the 2020 season (January of 2021). This week, however, allows us to naturally condense our player pool while still giving us plenty of options due to there being an incredible seven games in the late window.
Something to consider is using lineups made for the Afternoon Only slate and putting them in the Main slate. Depending on how things break, winning scores could easily be the same and by not using any players from the early slate you increase your chances of being unique.
Pricing should allow us to play nearly anyone we want, as there are only five flex (RB/WR/TE) players priced at $7,000 or higher who are slated to see their normal playing time:
CeeDee Lamb
AJ Brown
Davante Adams
DK Metcalf
DJ Moore
The fact that all of those players are wide receivers will result in rosters being somewhat similar across the board. Three ways to approach this:
Have to pick the right one from this group. It’s likely that CeeDee Lamb will be the most popular but he’s also almost certainly in the best spot.
Load up on value elsewhere and grab multiple players from this group. There are enough spots where you can go uber-cheap that playing two or even three players from that group is very viable.
Live a little dangerously and build a more balanced roster across the board. It’s less comfortable, but will be unique and if none of the above players gets over 30 points you would be sitting in a pretty good position. This approach would be far less viable on a normal “Afternoon Only” slate, but having seven games gives us plenty of mid-range options and there are roughly seven RBs in very good spots this week that are priced in the $6,000-$6,9000 range.
