Ive dabbled in MLB dfs but never had much success, what type of stacking is involved?
@RatrodGasser
Fanduel allows you 4 players on the same team, DK does 5.
The most obvious is just to jam in batters 1-3 or 1-4 of the highest projected total teams of the day, but that is also the obvious play so I think to mix it up in gpps, you need to go lower owned at the other spots if you do that or look for different ways to attack the stacks, especially in the high entry gpps.
One problem with the highlighted, is that a lot of times it's the best players on the best teams so you are probably dumpster diving the rest of the way to jam them in. So for Thursday I have a LU with 1-4 of the Yankees and to do that I would have to go pretty cheap at SS, 2B, and sub 7.5K at SP (Fanduel prices). So for a place holder I currently have Albies, Devers, Arcia, and Chase Anderson around that stack.
Personally, I have had a little more luck going the other route with the stacks and doing different things like:
1. Unconventional stacks:
- leaving out the popular player(s) - ie a Yankee stack like 1, 2, 4, 5 and leave out Stanton or Judge
- a middle - bottom of the order stack on teams with depth. ie an Astros stack with batters 4, 5, 6, 7.
- a wrap around stack - 9, 8, 1, 2.
2. Targeting teams not at the top, and looking for:
- teams travelling away from their normal run-suppressing ballparks (Oak)
- teams going against a bad SP and/or a bad bullpen
- away teams in general, to get that guaranteed 9th inning at bat.
- Usually these are cheaper stacks and I can get better bats or another stack around it and/or a better SP with it. Ie right now I have a Seattle 4man stack with Scherzer at SP and still had power upside with Gallo, JD Martinez, and Springer with it.
Hopefully it's free again, but rotogrinders introduced their PlateIQ last year which I thought was great. It helped us try to find batters that might be good to include for a stack that might go overlooked and SPs that might have success with their pitch profile vs. a teams' tendencies.
Long story short, it's an unpredictable sport, so I would experiment with what you like and have fun with. If I remember last year, I think I stacked more than others in here and was more likely to go with 2 different team stacks of 3-4 players each. Others just went with either no stacks or just one stack of 3 players.