DraftKings GPP Domination Week 5

Photo: Kirby Lee, USA Today Sports

PSA

Hey everyone, Devin Knotts here as I’ll be doing this article for the remainder of the season. This will be a continued evolving article, so please provide feedback on either Twitter.com/devinknottsfbg or knotts@footballguys.com.

Apologies for the delay in the release, we are targeting to release this much earlier in a given week, however due to some time management items I failed to do that in my first week. This will be an evolving article that much like the Cracking FanDuel article that I do, the intent is to make it as good as possible, and the feedback is absolutely critical.

KNOW YOUR ENEMIES

If you want to finish at the top of the standings in a mid-to-large field GPP, your roster has to stand out from the crowd. Studying a list of projected roster percentages is a helpful first step, but it lacks the context of how the most popular players fit together under the salary cap.

To gain some insight into how the majority of entrants will allocate their cap space, so you can spend yours differently, let’s think about how the public is most likely to attack roster construction at each position.

Stacks

Top Stack

Justin Herbert, Mike Williams, Amari Cooper

Surprisingly, this stack could have almost fit into the “Under the Radar” stacks, as so many people are going to be on the Buffalo, Tampa Bay, and Philadelphia stacks this week. However, this is the second-highest projected scoring game of the week, and we saw last year that this could be a potential shootout of a contest. Last year, was a back and forth battle which ended up 47-42 between these two teams and while it is difficult to see it ending the same way, there are a lot of similar players. Mike Williams will see a significant amount of Denzel Ward who surprisingly this year has been one of the worst corners in football and played a significant role in the Browns struggles so far this season as he has allowed the 12^th most receiving yards while in coverage. With no Keenan Allen, and the Browns have been good against pass receiving running backs allowing just 23 receiving yards per game, Williams should be in an amazing spot this week.

Cooper is likely going to be less than 5% rostered mostly due to his poor performance last week, but the two prior games he topped 100 yards and scored a touchdown. The Browns are likely going to need to go with a pass heavy approach given that they’re home underdogs. The Chargers have allowed 18 or more DraftKings points to four wide receivers this season including 33 points to Davante Adams, and 24.5 to Zay Jones. This is a defense that can be beaten, especially with how poorly JC Jackson has been this season as he's clearly playing less than 100%.