If you want to improve at DFS, you need to find the types of contests that allow you to have success and continue to play mainly in those. This enables you not only to have a greater chance of success each week but also to improve in identifying contest specific dynamics and trends.

I am a lower-stakes, small-field tournament player. I do not play cash games, and I do not play large field GPP contests unless I am just tossing in an entry for fun. The contests I am playing in typically have 60 entrants or fewer. These contests are my favorite because you do not need to get as many things right to get near the top of the leaderboard. Finding the right stacks in small fields is a great example of this. Most people do not stack enough in these types of contests and finding the right stacks and leverage points is a great way to vault up to the top of the leaderboard.

Each week I will post my favorite stacks of the week, especially those that are likely to be overlooked in the small-field tournaments. I’ll also provide my results from the prior week and talk about what went right, what went wrong, and most importantly, what we can we learn.

This is a $27 Single-Entry contest with 43 totals entries. The Herbert stack did not hit in the way I was expecting. I did not have Justin Fields, Joe Mixon, or Davante Adams. Those were players needed to cash in Week 9. I went back and forth on the Raiders or Chargers stack all weekend and ultimately landed on the Chargers because of the salary it allowed me to save, which resulted in a balanced build I really liked. This was a unique build, and it had upside. It just didn’t hit in a big enough way on a slate where a running back scored 60 points and a Quarterback scored 45.