Greetings, friends, and welcome to Week 18 of our Main Slate GPP Advice series. As always, we’ll be focused on GPP contests and players you can use to fill out your lineups while saving some of your budget. Let’s take a look at some of my favorite GPP targets for this week.
As I mentioned in this week’s DFS Pricing Exploitation piece, Week 18 is pure madness. Some teams are completely eliminated. Others have already secured their playoff spots, and the risk of injuring players outweighs the potential benefit of moving up a spot or two in playoff seeding. And some have locked up their spot entirely and are openly resting players. Oh, and COVID is still a factor. This is why most season-long leagues avoid the final week of the season. For DFS, this presents unique opportunities. We’ll take a look at some of them below.
GPP means we are going to look for value and take big swings. You shouldn’t have every player below in your DFS lineups. These are players with upside to target so that you can save money to use on higher-priced studs. We are going to identify value. We are going to monitor injury situations. We are going to take some risks. And most importantly, we are going to make some money.
As a general reminder, these are how most FanDuel and DraftKings contests are formatted:
- FanDuel $60,000 salary cap, 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex, 1 DEF ($6,667 average price per position)
- DraftKings: $50,000 salary cap, 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex, 1 DEF ($5,555 average price per position)
Have questions or just want to talk football or DFS? Feel free to reach out on Twitter @mikeMaher with questions or feedback anytime.
