Sonic is a Milly Maker winner and large-field tournament mastermind who focuses on mass-multi-entry play
Damnit! I told Mrs. Sonic that I’d lighten my DFS load this week and take her out for an extended Saturday night date. But after delving into this slate, I’ve realized that I want as much exposure to these games as possible. Sadly, this makes it less likely that I’ll be exposing myself to Mrs. Sonic.
This is a tough game we play.
There are plenty of good plays on this slate that will come in at double-digit ownership. We’re going to want plenty of those guys. Our mission here is to find some contrarian spots and correlations to offset our chalky pieces.
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.
These two appear to be falling into my “ride or die” bucket this season. They both have those attributes that make for a great GPP play.
I don’t want to watch these guys catch back-to-back long touchdowns on Sunday, only to scramble to my laptop and see that I’m under the field.
In three games where they were both on the field, Jimmy Garoppolo has targeted Meyers 10, 12, and 10 times. This has resulted in non-touchdown DK scores (shoutout to JMToWin) of 17.1, 15.5, and 14.5 points. Add the fact that six of Jakobi’s targets have come inside the 10-yard line, and we have a solid play at $5800 and 11% ownership.
Yes, the Josh McDaniels/Jakobi Meyers/Jimmy G trio would love to pile up points against the Patriots and kick Bill Belichick while he’s down. But it’s not even necessary to put faith in revenge narratives here. It’s clear that Jimmy loves Jakobi like Joannie loves Chachi.
Gesicki is just here because he’s a cheap tight end ($2600). New England clearly spent this week searching for touchdowns and big plays, and Juju Smith-Schuster and Demario Douglas are both out. Kendrick Bourne is projecting among the top five owned receivers, while Gesicki should be around 3%. Do I think Bourne has 5x the chance of producing a ceiling game? No.
This is a large-tournament, ownership-driven, leverage-against-teammates play.
Yes, I get paid by-the-hyphen.
The Dolphins don’t need the Panthers to keep pace to eclipse their implied point total, but it sure would help. There will be three significant chalk pieces in this game with Raheem Mostert (27%), Tyreek Hill (18%), and Chuba Hubbard (25%) drawing clicks.
Waddle is currently projected for less than 3% ownership. No one is going to want to have multiple Panthers in a lineup, so Thielen’s number shouldn’t get much higher than 10%.
We’re still waiting on the Waddle breakout, but at 13% ownership combined, he and Thielen make for an interesting pairing.
This game is supposed to be a slow-paced slog, but what if it isn’t? These are the guys that would ignite this environment.
