DraftKings NFL Strategy: Analyzing Winning GPP Lineups Week 16 – FantasyCruncher.com DFS Articles & Insights – fantasycruncher.com

How do you win NFL tournaments on DraftKings? Let’s dig in and find out.

The Milly Maker ended with 160 users max entering 150 lineups, while 15 turned a profit. None of the top 5 placing lineups was entered by a 150 max user. bmorela3 won the day with four entries, 22 players used, and four unique teams stacked. bmorela3 cashed two lineups and took home the one million dollar purse.

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Breaking it all down.

In this series of articles, I’ll be referencing the players directly correlated to the QB as “primary stacks,” any other correlation will be counted as a “secondary stack.”

This lineup features a five-player CIN QB/RB/2WR/OPP-TE primary stack, spending $33,100. We’ll also be keeping track of the FLEX spot, and this lineup goes with an RB, spending $5,600. In total, the lineup used $50,000 in salary and carried a 117.4% ownership percentage sum.

Takeaways and observations.

No Burrow, no money. 1st place through 66th place in this tournament featured Burrow at the quarterback position. QB/WR (19.9%) was the most popular stack construction in this tournament, followed by QB/WR/OPP (10%).


The Slant ended with 45 users max entering 150 lineups, while 7 turned a profit. Of the top 5 placing lineups, two were entered by a 150 max user. Ultimately, billsfan777 won the day with 150 entries, 55 players used, and 12 unique teams stacked. billsfan777 cashed 136 lineups and took home the 10k purse.

Breaking it all down.

In this series of articles, I’ll be referencing the players directly correlated to the QB as “primary stacks,” any other correlation will be counted as a “secondary stack.”

This lineup features a three-player CIN QB/WR/OPP-TE primary stack, spending $19,100. We have a two-player LAR@MIN RB/WR secondary stack, spending $15,900. We’ll also be keeping track of the FLEX spot, and this lineup goes with a WR, spending $9,100. The lineup used $49,900 in salary and carried a 197% ownership percentage sum.

Takeaways and observations.

This tournament’s most popular stack construction was QB/WR (16.1%), followed by QB/WR/OPP (13.2%). Billsfan777 was able to land four lineups in the top 10 and 6 lineups in the top 15 in this tournament, totaling $18,355 in profits.


Final Thoughts

In this weekly article, we will continue to try and answer the question,How do you win NFL Tournaments on DraftKings?

You won’t find Air Yards or recency bias in this article as we focus on what matters most. Hopefully, the thoughts and ideas shared here inspire improvement in your own NFL DFS process, and as always, we’ll be here to run it back for week 17.


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