Welcome to the 14th edition of GPP Leverage for NFL DFS. This article is going to be a catch-all space for my GPP thoughts during the course of the NFL season. In this space, we’ll mix some macro and micro concepts to help improve your odds in tournaments. The goal is to differentiate your play in an intelligent and correlated way that gives you a better chance to get paid off when you’re right.
I think it’s important to note I’m not a football guy who plays DFS. I’m a professional DFS player who plays NFL. So my play is largely through the prism of using resources around me to do what I do best: Play the game of DFS within the context of the NFL. Whether this is you or you’re a football guy who has a better handle on the schemes and the mismatches, there should be something in here for you to improve your game as a DFS GPP player.
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WEEK 13 ANALYSIS
After a pretty good run of macro recommendations, Week 13 was a disaster for Leverage. We recommended fading the Bears chalk, finding contrarian bring backs among chalky game stacks, finding contrarian game stacks like ARI-LAR, differentiating at RB, and avoiding an uncorrelated Keke Coutee who projected as a chalky cheap option with a questionable floor.
The results: