Michael Dubner continues his deep dive series in stacking for Best Ball Tournaments. So far we’ve touched on historical success of the most popular stacks and we uncovered three successful stacks that the Best Ball community is ignoring.
Single-stacks are flooding best ball draft boards, but like in DFS, fantasy football managers should take it to the next level with double stacks. Here we’ll see how double stacks have historically performed in best ball, and how you can utilize them for your tournament rosters.
The Most Common Double Stacks
Frequency: When you sort the Stack Explorer by the most frequently drafted stacks, you have to go to the second page before you find the most popular double stacks. While the most popular single-stack has a draft count of 82,027, the frequency plummets for double stacks with QB1-TE1-WR1 drafted just 7,718 times, or just 2.3% of the 329,000 total teams.
Success: While the most common single-stacks had win rates in the 8.1-8.9% range, popular double stacks seem to provide more impressive win rates, albeit on a smaller sample size. The most frequently drafted double stacks had win rates ranging from 7.9%-to-9.6%, with most of these eclipsing the 8.3% baseline rate.
Interesting to note that the win rates are impressive, but the double-stack top-2 percentile rates are disappointing, which is surprising because we typically think about correlation as a way to widen your range of outcomes.
