CFB DFS Top Plays: Week 5 (Saturday Night)

Understanding optimal lineups for cash games is extremely important, even if you only play tournaments. Players in our cash pool are the ones we believe are the most underpriced, have the best floor/ceiling combo, and typically feature a relatively tight range of outcomes. These are the best plays on the board when considering price, context, and positional scarcity. These are usually pretty good options for GPPs as well.

The optimal GPP lineup will typically mix some of these cash-type plays with higher-variance options, often in correlated lineups. In cash games (where roughly 50% of the field gets paid out), we don’t worry about ownership, game stacks, or correlation. In large-field tournaments, we should be much more mindful of ownership. These are our Top Plays considering the following factors: mean projection, matchup, upside, and value. Ownership is NOT considered here. Generally speaking, these players are what we consider to be “head-to-head and 50/50 considerations.”

They are listed in price descending order (NOT ranked by “best play”). At the bottom, you’ll find suggested rankings by site once salary is accounted for.

QUARTERBACK

Ajani Sheppard (TEMP – DK $4,700) – This play is just really about the price, as he’s sub-$5,000 on a slate with underwhelming QB options, with no QB projecting for more than 25 DraftKings points. He won’t pile up pass attempts (just 21 attempts per game), as Temple has been run-heavy in his two starts. However, he does have some running ability with 10 and 15 carries in those two starts, which is primarily what we want in a sub-$5,000 QB.