Stack Projections (THE BAT X)

Top Stacks is a quick-and-dirty way of seeing which teams have the best value on today’s slate and may be good to stack. PTS/$ and CEILING PTS/$ are the average of the top 25 stacks (5-man for DK, 4-man for FD) for each team as a means of seeing which teams’ best stacks have the most point-per-dollar value. OWN_AVG is the average ownership of each player in each of these stacks. OWN_MULT is the ownership of each of those players multiplied together. This is the best way of calculating lineup ownership, since even a single 1% player will make your lineup very different, even if the additive ownership is exactly the same. “Top Stacks” are derived by looking at the the best stacks for today’s slate ranked by Total Points/$ for all players in the stack combined. So if, say, the Dodgers have “20” in “TOP_25_STACKS”, it means that of the 25 best stacks ((5-man for DK, 4-man for FD) according to Points/$, stacks with players from the Dodgers make up 20 of those best 25 lineups. If a team has a lot of Top Stacks and/or a high Pt/$ and is projected to be too low-owned, they could be a strong option to be heavier than the field on in your GPPs.

DK Overview by Team FD Overview by Team
DK 5-Man Stacks FD 4-Man Stacks
DK 3-Man Stacks FD 3-Man Stacks
SLATE TEAM TIME OPP_PITCHER OL POINTS PTS/$ CEILING CEILING_PTS/$ OWN_AVG OWN_MULT TOP_25_STACKS TOP_50_STACKS TOP_100_STACKS TOP_250_STACKS TOP_500_STACKS TOP_1000_STACKS
Main Cincinnati Reds 8:40 PM Kyle Freeland true 41.32 1.82 95.64 4.22 9.04 46658 0 0 0 0 0 20
Main New York Yankees 7:05 PM Jose Berrios true 40.36 1.92 93.76 4.46 6.58 7697 0 0 0 0 0 20
Main San Francisco Giants 10:15 PM Nathan Eovaldi true 36.33 1.86 86.66 4.44 2.59 88 0 0 0 0 0 20
Turbo (6:40pm) Washington Nationals 6:45 PM Kodai Senga true 35.38 1.95 86.44 4.77 33.67 34498951 0 0 0 0 0 20
Turbo (6:40pm) New York Mets 6:45 PM Jake Irvin true 36.47 2.12 86.36 5.03 53.62 373553482 0 0 0 6 45 82
Main Colorado Rockies 8:40 PM Andrew Abbott true 35.52 2.05 86.20 4.97 4.79 1773 0 0 0 0 9 32
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DerekCarty
Derek Carty (DerekCarty)

Derek Carty is the creator of THE BAT X (for MLB) and THE BLITZ (for NFL) projection systems, widely considered the gold standard for projections and the driving force behind multiple Milly Maker winners. You may also know him from ESPN.com, from his time on Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, or from his early career managing the fantasy sections for Baseball Prospectus and The Hardball Times. While perhaps best known for DFS, he also has an elite track record in both sports betting (career ~13% ROI on thousands of publicly-tracked bets as of the end of the 2023-24 NFL season) and season-long fantasy expert leagues (11 titles while placing in the top 3 in roughly half of all leagues). On the sports betting side, you may recognize his work from EV Analytics, ScoresAndOdds, Covers, and Unabated. For season-long fantasy, THE BAT X is prominently featured at FanGraphs. While known mostly for his analytical skills, he’s also proud to be the only active fantasy or betting analyst to have graduated from MLB’s exclusive Scout School. Follow Carty on Twitter – @DerekCarty