Building A Winner 1.25

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

• The incredibly soft pricing overall and number of underpriced players (especially pass catchers) on this Fanduel main slate is my first thought to consider as I start to build my main SE/3-Max lineups for this week.
  • Pricing has been out for a month, there have been injuries, trades, and roster cutdowns since then, and more players than usual appear significantly underpriced based on their assumed role/usage. It is especially exciting that many of these are highly drafted rookies or young veteran players who appear to be stepping into prominent roles in solid offenses.
  • While there appears to be value all over the place, there are only two QBs (Jayden Daniels, Joe Burrow) and eight skill players priced above $8,000 this week to spend all of the theoretical “savings” on. You can quickly build Burrow-Ja’Marr Chase-Tee Higgins lineups (the most expensive single-team stack possible on this slate) with five other reasonable players and a non-min-priced D/ST around them without needing to think too hard or by playing an iffy min-priced punt player. Everyone is going to like the Fanduel lineups they build for Week 1.