Editor’s Note: We may not write up every player we consider to be a top play. Be sure to consult the chart at the bottom of the page. This page will be updated, if necessary.
You don’t have to play cash games to understand why it’s important to grasp them. Players we consider for cash are the ones we believe are the most underpriced, have the best floor/ceiling combo, and feature a relatively tight range of outcomes.
In other words, these are the best plays on the board once price, slate context, and positional depth are accounted for. Those sound like pretty good options for GPPs as well.
The optimal GPP lineup will mix some of these cash-type plays with higher-variance options in correlated lineups. In cash games (where roughly 50% of the field gets paid out), we don’t worry about ownership or game stacks or correlation. In large-field tournaments, our ACO (average cumulative ownership) should stay reasonably low. Please read this article and listen to Episode 237 of the podcast for more on large-field tournament strategy.
With all that said, these are our Top Plays considering the following factors: median 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.”
QUARTERBACK
Max Duggan ($9,500) – We made it to Conference Championship weekend and the league’s four best fantasy QBs are still alive. That makes parsing through which one(s) are the best DFS plays on Sunday that much more difficult, as evidenced by our base projections for this quartet, separated by just 1.5 DraftKings points. Ultimately, we could argue every single one of them is live to be considered the slate’s top overall play at the position, but Duggan separates ever so slightly from his peers thanks in large part to just how much value he is adding with his legs. In his five games as the team’s full-time starter, Duggan has handled a 35% rush share, averaging 5.3 yards per carry with a team-best nine explosive runs. Now he’ll face a D.C. defense that has allowed 8/84/0 to Alex McGough, 4/38/0 to Manny Wilkins, and 9/76/1 to Bryce Perkins. We know he has his flaws as a passer but are confident that can be overcome — at least for fantasy purposes — with his rushing ability.
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