Sonic’s MME Pool 13.24
Sonic is a Milly Maker winner and large-field tournament mastermind who focuses on mass-multi-entry play
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
This week was a tryptophan-ridden nightmare for some of us, but that’s behind us now. Deep breaths. Let’s find solace in sweating Sunday’s tournament rosters. Onto the Week 13 main slate.
These are contrarian moves I’ll be mixing into my rosters to differentiate from the masses. Sometimes we’ll miss, but the ones that do hit will help us lap the field.
Secondary Core-Relations
We’re always hunting for those high-ceiling combinations to add to our existing game stacks. It’s better to aim at getting four things right instead of trying to hit a nine-way parlay. I’ll lean on a handful of core secondary stacks that will be finessed into lineups whenever feasible.
Ja’Marr Chase/Calvin Austin
Ja’Marr Chase is doing Ja’Marr Chase things — leading all wide receivers in fantasy points this season. The Steelers are no cupcake matchup, but elite players are matchup-proof, and Chase is sitting at a juicy 6% pOWN. Added bonus is the leverage created off the slate’s chalkiest play, teammate Chase Brown.
Need a salary saver with real upside? Enter Calvin Austin. At just $3,300, he has the kind of game-breaking speed to deliver on his price tag in one play. He’s boom/bust but at 1% pOWN, he’s the kind of dart throw that can swing a tournament if things break your way.
Noah Brown/Nick Westbrook-Ikhine
Scoring in six of his last seven games isn’t variance—it’s a trend. We have to accept the reality: NWI is simply a guy who finds the end zone. At 2.3% pOWN, I can get 4x the field exposure and still have around 135 rosters without him if he whiffs. That’s a risk-reward balance I’m happy to exploit.
Meanwhile, Noah Brown (7.6% pOWN) has been quietly commanding 6.5 targets per game over his last five outings, and they’re not empty looks. His aDOT (average depth of target) lives in the same neighborhood as Nico Collins, Tee Higgins, and Mike Evans. At $4,400, on a slate starving for cheap value, that kind of upside becomes tough to ignore.
Derek Carr/Marquez Valdes-Scantling/Juwan Johnson
If you think the Saints offense can get the job done against the Rams, it’s time to embrace variance. Instead of riding the wave with chalky Alvin Kamara and Taysom Hill—both projected at over 20% ownership—consider this pivot: an inexpensive Carr stack that should combine for just 8% ownership, giving you access to upside from the same offense without diving into the crowded chalk pool.
Is this stack likely to outperform Kamara or Hill? Hell no. But if the touchdowns happen to flow through this stack, the leverage is absurd. Carr isn’t the flashiest QB, but he has enough juice to make this work. MVS has the game-breaking speed to flip a slate, and Juwan Johnson is always lurking as a red-zone assassin. By leveraging these low-owned options, you’re not just playing the Saints — you’re flipping the script.
