Dummy Grid 17.25

JMToWin is a high-stakes tournament champion (Thunderdome, Luxury Box, Game Changer, Wildcat, King of the Hill/Beach, Spy, etc.) who focuses on the DraftKings Main Slate

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OWS Fam ::

This is not a complete list of all the good plays on the slate

This is, instead, a look at the player pool I’ll be fishing

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The Grid ::

Bottom-Up Build

:: covered in the Angles Pod (it’s highly recommended that you listen to the breakdown of the roster in order to see the thinking behind it, and in order to understand what we’re talking about when we look at a “bottom-up build”)

Blue Chips

:: my “Tier 1” plays: the plays I feel confident leaning into across different types of builds; these players have a high ceiling and a low likelihood of price-considered failure

Build-Arounds

:: games, offenses, situations, or scenarios I’ll be looking to build around across my rosters

Building Blocks

:: unique player pairings that can be used as foundational building blocks for tournament rosters

Bonuses

:: players who don’t fit into the categories above — either Upside pieces who don’t have the floor to be Blue Chips (and are not being focused on within my game-focused builds) or players who may not have a strong shot at ceiling, but are worth keeping in mind from a “role” perspective

Beta

:: players who are not going to be “featured” on my tighter builds (i.e., one could show up on a tighter build, but they are not being prioritized as such), but who I will be mixing and matching across some portion of my MME builds

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Bottom-Up Build

Bottom-Up Build
DK Salary Remaining :: $6.1K

Geno Smith
Kenneth Gainwell
Michael Carter
Ja’Marr Chase
Kyle Williams
Tre Tucker
Jack Bech
Trey McBride
Panthers

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Blue Chips

Trey McBride

See Cardinals // Bengals Build-Around

“Light Blue” Chips

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Build-Arounds

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Building Blocks

“Not Picking First”

Geno Smith + Tre Tucker + Jack Bech

Story:

“Unlocking salary is important this week (especially if the cheap stack can still hit)”

Why It Works:

The main idea here is that this could turn into a slate where “saving money with our stack” proves to be more important than any other considerations at the position. If Brissett posts his typical 20-24 points at $5.7k, Burrow posts a score in the mid- to low-20s instead of in the 30s, Trevor Lawrence has a strong real-life game but fails to pile up a bunch of end zone visits, and Bills // Eagles plays to the game total, then we suddenly have a slate where paying up at quarterback isn’t doing a whole lot for us. And on a slate that also includes several high-priced running backs capable of hitting, JSN and Ja’Marr Chase capable of posting monster games, and Trey McBride in his best matchup of the season, “none of the higher-priced QBs hitting” would probably open the door for some pay-down QB option to be what unlocks the optimal approach to the slate. In order to maximize our chances of winning a tourney with the pay-down approach, however, we ideally want to select a quarterback // stack that does have pathways to high-end production, and this is where Geno becomes especially intriguing.

In addition to posting 13+ in five consecutive games against “not Denver,” Geno has games this year of 26.1 and 27.3. With Jakobi Meyers in Jacksonville and Brock Bowers on IR, we also get cheap stacking options, with Jeanty and Mayer (touched on in the Bonus section, below) obviously in play, but with Tre Tucker and Jack Bech, in particular, standing out to me here.

Tucker has received alpha treatment in the past, and has over 25% of the team’s targets with Bowers off the field since Jakobi was traded. He also has a matchup against a Giants defense that ranks bottom eight in production to WR1s, production to perimeter wideouts, and completions of 20+ yards. Bech, of course, has also seen his role ramped up at the end of a lost season, with a 72.2% snap rate last week, and with recent target counts of 3 // 3 // 6 // 3.

How It Works:

I also like the idea of rolling out Geno + Tucker, Geno + Tucker + Jeanty, and Geno + Tucker + Mayer as primary starting points; but part of the particular power of the block listed here is the mega leverage gained over a pair of likely-popular pieces in Jeanty and Mayer if Tucker and Bech are hitting instead.

Regardless of how you put together this stack, however, the core point still stands: you can free up salary to “win the slate through other means,” and you can do so with a stack that also has pathways to high-end production of its own.

POTENTIAL DOWNSIDE:

The story plays out differently, and you don’t get first place — which is really all that matters.

“March In”

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Bink Machine

A look at some of the rules I’ll be applying in the Bink Machine this week.

“No Hitting On The Infield” (named by my six-year-old)

This is similar to our featured rule from last week, in that I want to run this rule through a few hundred rosters in order to see what’s possible. What do rosters look like if I lock in Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Ja’Marr Chase, and Trey McBride? Is it possible to have a set of options I really like with these three high-priced players included? By putting this rule into the Bink Machine and allowing it to build hundreds of rosters from this starting point, we can get a much better idea of what’s possible here.

This rule says, “On 100% of rosters, include all three players from this pool.”

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The Bink Machine is not just for MME players(!). It’s an incredibly powerful process-enhancer for SE/3-Max // hand-building as well.

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Bonuses

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If Building For Single-Entry // Three-Entry Max

This is my narrowest pool, which means it’s the pool likeliest to change a bit as I move deeper into builds. If it changes throughout Saturday night, I’ll add an update in this space.

If I were building for single-entry // three-entry Max, my tightened-up player pool would be:

QB ::

Joe Burrow || Trevor Lawrence || Jacoby Brissett || Tyler Shough || Geno Smith

RB ::

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A Wrap ::

I’ll see you at the top of the leaderboards this weekend!

-JM