Xandamere is one of the most respected Showdown minds in DFS, and focuses his Main Slate play on mass-multi-entry
Week 15 and we’re closing in on the end of the regular season. I’ve already almost binked the Superdraft GPP five times now and I’m determined to do it this year. Maybe this is the week! We’re STILL seeing overlay every week on Superdraft. If you aren’t playing there….why not?
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First, all the normal NFL strategy about stacking and correlation still applies. It definitely makes sense to strongly consider pairing your QB with a receiver. Game stacks are entirely viable here. The good news is you don’t have to change your entire approach to be successful on Superdraft. All you have to do is change your mentality of player selection, since the multiplier introduces so many different strategy dynamics, as the primer goes over. With that, let’s take a look at Week 6. I’m not going to go game by game here (we have the Edge for that!), but rather, position by position, trying to spot where I think there are good opportunities to leverage attractive scoring multipliers.
Before I dig into the positions, I just want to note that this week is WILD with uncertainty. There are soooo many players being put on the Covid list and it’s quite likely that even though I’m writing this on Friday, the landscape of the slate could change significantly by Sunday morning. Be ready to adjust!
I’m always happy when my highest projected quarterbacks on Superdraft are actually good overall plays and not some dude like Jake Fromm. Phew. This week my top QBs are actual capable NFL quarterbacks! Tua Tagovailoa leads the way against the miserable Jets, with Jalen Hurts at a 1.25x multiplier coming in second. Aaron Rodgers at 1.25x feels too low for him, as does Matthew Stafford at 1.2x. Of the higher-multiplier quarterbacks, Teddy Bridgewater and Jimmy Garoppolo, at 1.55x and 1.5x respectively, have solid team totals in decent matchups.
Oh man, this is where we get into the land of uncertainty. Najee Harris is my highest projected back, but at a 1.1x multiplier, I don’t love the ceiling here in a tough matchup with a low total. James Conner is my favorite RB play (assuming that Chase Edmunds isn’t activated), with Elijah Mitchell a close second assuming that he plays (and if he doesn’t I’ll happily play Jeff Wilson or whoever the 49ers lead back is). We have uncertain RB situations with the Titans and the Lions, with timeshares that we could get some clarity on before Sunday (note that Craig Reynolds played a lot for Detroit last week, though he isn’t being projected for much in most places). Overall, the big question for me at running back is: do I want to play it safe with lower-multiplier backs whose roles I can feel highly confident in, or target more upside with backs in uncertain situations but higher multipliers? On a week with mostly low total games, I think I’m leaning more towards the former. Unless something really clear emerges, I think I want to primarily target the guys with strong roles where I know they’re going to touch the ball a lot (Conner, Mitchell, Darrell Henderson or Sony Michel, Mixon, Robinson primarily).
As always, I’ll discuss stacking options later, but in this section, I’ll just highlight receivers I’m comfortable using as floating plays in any roster:
We know the deal at tight end by now. I’ll play George Kittle and Mark Andrews at 1x multipliers because no other tight ends really have 30+ raw point ceilings. Dallas Goedert is my overall favorite tight end play on the slate because his raw ceiling isn’t all that much lower than Kittle and Andrews and he has a nice 1.3x multiplier. Other than that, I hate this position and will use it only in game stacks.
One thing that’s tougher about Superdraft sometimes is adjusting to the format when thinking about game stacks. Multipliers can attract us to different game stacks than we would use on a salary-based site, as just looking at projections makes “weird” things like Jake Fromm look viable. You can choose to trust the projections and use plays like that, but personally, I have a hard time seeing a ceiling there. I try to combine players who project well in Superdraft’s scoring format while also playing what I consider to be strong overall plays based on game environment, talent, and matchup. It’s more art than science sometimes (i.e. Roethlisberger projects well by median outcome, but does he really have the kind of ceiling we need in tournaments even at a high multiplier? I’d guess no, but could be wrong). Here are some stacks I think look attractive this week:
