NFL DFS Expert Survey: Week 3 - Monday Night Football

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Our panel of experts is here to give you their NFL DFS advice for this week’s main slate by answering a handful of questions to help you make crucial lineup-building decisions. Want to know Noto’s three favorite players for cash games? Or SquirrelPatrol’s favorite correlation? Find out below!

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NFL DFS Picks: DraftKings & FanDuel Expert Survey for Week 3 (Monday Night Football)

Rank your three favorite players for cash games, in order:

Analyst Rank 1 Rank 2 Rank 3
Notorious Josh Allen Travis Etienne Christian Kirk
SquirrelPatrol Ja’Marr Chase James Cook Zack Moss
Stevietpfl Ja’Marr Chase James Cook Brenton Strange
Krayton Josh Allen James Cook Ja’Marr Chase
ebeimfohr Josh Allen James Cook Ja’Marr Chase
ncorfield8k Ja’Marr Chase James Cook Zack Moss
Davis Mattek Josh Allen James Cook Brenton Strange

What is your preferred tournament format (e.g. large-field, single-entry) to play this week? How do you plan to beat that field of opponents? What tactic or strategy will set you apart?

Notorious: I play single-entry and small-field tournaments. It’s scary, but my plan of attack is to be underweight on the Bengals passing attack. I know they have the highest implied team total on the slate and have an amazing matchup, but I could see Cincy having a lot of success on the ground and Joe Burrow spreading the ball around. I’ll be overweight on Josh Allen and on the pass catchers for the Jaguars.

SquirrelPatrol: I’ll play the largest-field tournaments and aim to get an intelligent amount of players projecting for low ownership into each of my lineups. It’s almost difficult to spend all of our salary on this slate, so both hand-builders and lineup optimizers will look to fill in the most expensive plays. I’ll leave plenty of salary on the table in my lineups, but I’ll look to keep correlation in my lineups through game stacks.

Stevietpfl: I will build 1-3 main lineups and then make a 20-entry-max build around some stacks I like. I plan on being underweight on the Bills passing game. Josh Allen has been spreading the ball out the first two weeks. No player has more than 100 receiving yards, and no one has a target rate over 20%. I’ll play some Allen alone, but I’m going to be underweight on the pass catchers.

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Krayton: Even on a 2-game slate, I will continue to play single-entry and 3-entry-max type of tournaments. I plan on being overweight on Josh Allen and James Cook and will mix-and-match Dalton Kincaid, Keon Coleman, and Khalil Shakir in my lineups. I love stacking this game and bringing it back with Travis Etienne and at least one of Christian Kirk or Gabe Davis. I really like this game, and with the WAS/CIN game projecting to be popular, I like focusing more on the JAX/BUF game and over-stacking it.

ebeimfohr: I particularly enjoy the small-field tournaments on small slates like this one. If you can find your own unique path that creates your winning scenario, you have so few lineups you need to beat when it comes through because there is such an insane amount of lineup overlap.

ncorfield8k: Large-field tournaments – Ownership tends to condense around the “best” plays on small slates, so I like to mix in a low-pOWN% dart throw or two in just about every lineup. I also like to get looser with my constructions. Over-stacking, playing defenses against quarterbacks, leaving significant salary on the table—all viable on a 2-game slate.

Davis Mattek: I actually like single-entry and 3-max a bit more for 2-gamers, as opposed to MME on Showdowns. It is pretty easy to use a chalky build and then make one or two simple pivots to get off the chalk. For example, if you go with Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, James Cook, and Brenton Strange but play someone like Gabe Davis or Keon Coleman, you are already in a less populated part of the game tree.

What’s a strategy you use on a 2-game slate that you may not use on a full slate?

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