Cracking FanDuel: Week 8

A weekly overview on cash game strategy, bankroll strategy, and sample cash game lineups.

by Devin Knotts, October 31 2020
Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports

SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE

No change to the primary cash lineup, but do have some thoughts below.

Jamaal Williams is in a great spot this week, and there will be two different types of cash builds for this week. The first is what I'm going with which is the Henry, Hunt, Bernard build.

QB Joe Burrow, CIN, $7,600
RB Derrick Henry, TEN, $9,500
RB Gio Bernard, CIN, $5,900
WR Denzel Mims, NYJ, $4,900
WR Keenan Allen, LAC, $7,400
WR Tyler Lockett, SEA, $7,200
TE Hunter Henry, LAC, $5,600
Flex RB Kareem Hunt, CLE, $8,200
TD New Orleans Saints, $3,600

I expect that you will see a lot of this build. To be honest, it's a good build, and you could strongly consider it for your contests this week. I prefer the one that I'm going with just because I think Derrick Henry's upside is too great this week. I have concerns about Alvin Kamara and the Bears ability to shut him down as they have not allowed a receiving running back to catch more than 40 yards in a game. Kamara's prop is only 49.5 yards which seems much lower than it otherwise should be.

QB Jimmy Garoppolo, SF, $6,600
RB Jamaal Williams, GB, $7,000
RB Alvin Kamara, NO, $9,000
WR TreQuan Smith, NO, $5,300
WR Keenan Allen, LAC, $7,400
WR Tyler Lockett, SEA, $7,200
TE Hunter Henry, LAC, $5,600
Flex RB Kareem Hunt, CLE, $8,200
TD New Orleans Saints, $3,600

SITUATIONS THAT STAND OUT TO THIS WEEK ON THE MAIN SLATE.

Kansas City (vs NYJ)- 34 points
Green Bay (vs Min)- 28 points
Seattle (vs SF)- 28 points
Tennessee (vs CIN)- 28 points

CASH GAME STRATEGY WEEK 8

Difficult Week

If you’ve followed along this year, hopefully you’re up this year as the primary cash lineup has absolutely crushed seemingly every week. Going to be honest this week, it is a difficult week, we are going to do our best to decipher through some of the craziness that is going on this week. Weather is a big concern, a significant amount of injuries. This is a week where you may want to consider diversification whether that is on multiple sites or multiple lineups as it is not nearly as straight forward as some of the prior weeks.

While most of the season we have said do not take unnecessary risks, this may be a week that you have to do that. Going down at wide receiver seems like the way to find salary relief with players such as Damiere Byrd, Tre’Quan Smith, Denzel Mims, Darnell Mooney are players who you could consider. The key this week will be to have a core group of players who score enough while getting just enough out of the low-end wide receiver.