Hittin' The Nuts - Squirrelpatrol's Top Stacks: Week 1
Want to hit the nuts and take down 1st place in these massive contests posted by FanDuel and DraftKings? Who better to walk you through their favorite NFL DFS stacks than Squirrelpatrol! Undoubtedly one of the best DFS players in the game today, Squirrelpatrol has accumulated 90+ Live Final seats, most recently taking 2nd place in the 2023 DraftKings Fantasy Baseball World Championship for a $600,000 prize. Should we roster the chalk stack? How off-the-board should we get in large-field tournaments? Squirrelpatrol answers all of these questions and more below!
As DFS strategies get more advanced, moving from hunch-based decision-making to play-by-play simulations meant to measure how often certain players or stacks appear in the optimal lineup, it’s important to pair both quantitative and qualitative analysis when putting together our NFL DFS lineups. Each week, I’ll be taking a look at our Optimal Stack Tool for both FanDuel and DraftKings and giving some thoughts on what the best NFL DFS stacks will be for different contest types and sizes.
NFL DFS Top Stacks for Week 1
DraftKings Chalk Stack – Justin Herbert vs. Miami
The highest-owned QB on DraftKings this week according to our projections (as of Thursday night) will be Justin Herbert facing the Dolphins at home in Los Angeles. While our optimal stack tool shows a bit of negative leverage on Herbert this week, this is some chalk that I actually plan to be overweight on.
Herbert and the Chargers are playing at home, are favored by 3 points in the highest total game of the week, and have the highest implied point total on the slate. Herbert is just the 5th-most expensive QB on DraftKings this week, sitting $1,100 cheaper than Lamar Jackson, which should give you the salary to fit in your choice of stacking partners with Herbert. I like multiple pieces of this game for my DraftKings lineups and will make a point trying to find some creative game stacks with Herbert, such as pairing him with Austin Ekeler at RB or Gerald Everett at TE, and running the stack back with Dolphins, like Raheem Mostert or Tyreek Hill.
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