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
This is, instead, a look at the player pool I’ll be fishing
:: covered in-depth 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”)
:: 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
:: games, offenses, situations, or scenarios I’ll be looking to build around across my rosters
:: unique player pairings that can be used as foundational building blocks for tournament rosters
:: 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
Full breakdown (of what this is, and what the thinking is behind these players) can (and should) be found in the Angles Pod (on the One Week Season podcast feed).
Tyrod Taylor
Jordan Mason
Pierre Strong
Christian Kirk
CeeDee Lamb
D.J. Moore
Noah Gray
Darren Waller
Patriots
Free
Build with a salary cap of $44k or below!
1st Place = 250 Edge Points + Rare Blue Name Tag in Discord
2nd Place = 100 Edge Points
3rd Place = 75 Edge Points
4th Place = 50 Edge Points
5th Place = 25 Edge Points
*1 Edge Point = $1 in DFS courses on OWS
*must use an OWS avatar (found on your profile page) to be eligible to win
See Build-Arounds for deeper thoughts.
“The players are obvious, and will all be generally popular…but how many people will play all of them together?”
“Chalky Mullens” is scary, as Mullens is not particularly good…and what’s worse is that he doesn’t necessarily realize this, which often leads to him attempting to write checks that his arm isn’t capable of cashing. While Mullens’ aggressive nature can lead to mistakes, however, it can also lead to big plays, which gives him a wide range of outcomes, and makes him a guy we shouldn’t write off “just because he’s popular and can post a really bad game.” Instead, I want to also ask the question of, “What if he posts a really good game?” If he does so, it’s probably through Justin Jefferson, and will probably include ARSB having a big game in response. Wrapping these three together will separate your rosters a bit, but this will still be a fairly popular stack. How do we then separate it further? One way is to add one of the other most popular pieces on the slate! As counterintuitive as this might seem, the addition of CeeDee Lamb will actually dramatically lower the combinatorial ownership of this stack, as a lot of “Mullens + Jefferson + ARSB” rosters will fail to look for ways to find the salary for the most expensive player on the slate.
To be clear: I expect Mullens + Jefferson + ARSB to be the most popular three-player stack on the slate, and while the addition of Lamb will lower the combinatorial ownership, it probably won’t be “massively unique.” With that in mind, you’ll still want to do at least one or two more unique things on this build…and when you consider the fact that this build will require some salary-savers in order to make it all work, the key to separating this build is to “get different with salary savers.” Adding this stack to a unique “salary saver pairing” will be enough to set your roster apart and create a clear path to first place if things fall into place.
The story plays out differently, and you don’t get first place — which is really all that matters.
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:
Double separators — “|| ||” — indicate a tier shift in the way I’m seeing things.
Dak || Tyrod || || Fields || Love || Mullens || || Kyler || Geno (these last two are more for large-field play than for tighter builds, for me, but I wanted to include them in the list)
I’ll see you at the top of the leaderboards this weekend!
-JM
