MLB Stacking

If you’ve played NFL Best Ball (or DFS), you’re no doubt familiar with the concept of stacking – having multiple players from the same team because when one guy has a ceiling performance, it’s likely other guys do too. In NFL this is primarily about a quarterback and his pass catchers, but running backs can be included as well as if a team scores more points than expected, there can be opportunity for everyone.

In MLB the same principle applies. When a guy scores a run, someone else probably drove him in and gets an RBI. If a guy hits a home run, everyone on base scores. In MLB DFS, we stack because baseball is a sport of high correlation – when an offense has a big game, lots of players generally put up big scores. It’s the same in Best Ball. We’re seeking out spiked weeks, and a team having 1 or 2 big games in a week can drive multiple spiked performances from its players. Anecdotally from doing hundreds of MLB Best Ball drafts over the past couple of seasons, the field is not stacking enough. Not NEARLY enough. The majority of rosters I see drafted are completely unstacked or have just 1 or 2 groups of 2 players from the same team. You don’t need a team’s entire lineup on every build, but you should look to stack more aggressively than that as stacking a strong play to capture upside and it’s also a contrarian way to build rosters until the field catches on here.