NFL DFS Week 2 Dart Board: Top Value Picks for DraftKings & FanDuel
Published: Sep 17, 2023
Welcome to the DFS Dart Board for NFL Week 2!
Who's building some GPP tournament lineups, baby??? This guy!!! Probably you as well or you wouldn't be reading this right now, right? If you're looking to get players like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Stefon Diggs and Bijan Robinson into your tournament lineups, you're going to need to save some salary somewhere, right? Well, where is the pay-down this week? Who are the NFL Week 2 DFS bargains? And are there enough? So many questions.
Before we get started, allow me to introduce what you are about to look at…
If you're new to Fantasy Alarm, the DFS Dart Board is an add-on to the Playbook that I started a few years ago. It came about when I was building GPP lineups and realized I needed more salary relief. As I dug through my notes to see who stood out the most among those players at a more affordable price, it hit me. When I put players in the Playbook, I am thinking primarily about cash lineup plays -- guys with a high floor who I could conceivably put into my core-group and build a lineup around. After those players, I would mix in a handful of guys who had boatloads of upside and were in soft match-ups, but I wasn’t paying as much attention to their salary as I should have. And that's where the Dart Board came into play.
Every now and then, when building lineups while using particular stacks, you need some salary relief. You need a guy who may not be minimally priced, but low enough to give you the flexibility you need to get someone like Justin Jefferson or Christian McCaffrey in as a flex play or something. Occasionally you may see a min-priced QB or TE in here, but more often than not, this space is reserved for running backs and wide receivers who are below $6,000 on FanDuel or $5,000 or lower on DraftKings.
Now while we call this a Dart Board, keep in mind that every player has been carefully researched. We're not up here picking players all willy-nilly, desperately hoping they hit. We're looking for the cheapest bargains possible who still have the strongest potential to give you at least a 3-5x return on what you pay.
All set? Great. Let's get to it and while you do, maybe give a listen to this week's NFL DFS Show with me & Jon Impemba.
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