4 FanDuel Stacks to Target in the Divisional Round

Stacking in daily fantasy football on FanDuel is a key strategy and a way to shoot for upside. There are a few different ways to correlate lineups that can help us maximize our ceiling.

The classic stack is a quarterback with one of his pass-catchers. Sometimes, it makes sense to use two pass catchers with their signal-caller, especially when the target share is concentrated around two players.

In other situations, we can pair a running back and a defense on the same team. This makes sense when a team is a huge favorite and expected to dominate, which can lead to carries for the back and chances for sacks and turnovers for the D/ST. We also can look to deploy a game stack -- rostering a QB, one of his pass-catchers, and a pass-catcher from the other team. Game stacks can work best in matchups that have high totals and close spreads.

Our Brandon Gdula did a study on stacking that is worth checking out before you make your lineups.

Here are four of the best stacks to zero in on in NFL DFS for the slate which includes all four games on Saturday and Sunday.

NFL DFS Stacks

Detroit Lions

Jared Goff ($7,600), Amon-Ra St. Brown ($9,200)

We'll stick with a stack that we've liked for most of the season, especially down the stretch.

The Detroit Lions won their first playoff game in more than 30 years last week, and this week, the Lions' passing game again finds itself in a favorable home matchup. They are 6.5-point favorites, with a 27.5-point implied team total.

Detroit has a lot of good players at the skill positions, but Amon-Ra St. Brown stands out above the rest. He now has five straight games with more than 100 scrimmage yards, and he has recorded at least 100 yards in 11 of his 17 games this season.

Jared Goff didn't have the best fantasy game in the Wild Card round, but he was efficient with his passing. He completed 22 of 27 attempts against the Los Angeles Rams in the win. Goff had a solid season for fantasy overall, finishing with the seventh-most fantasy points among QBs.

The Lions will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home. Tampa ranked 20th against the pass by numberFire's metrics but third against the run. That could lead to more passing from the Lions.

Amon-Ra is arguably the best receiver left in the playoffs, so it's nice to get him into lineups through this stack.

San Francisco 49ers

Brock Purdy ($7,800), George Kittle ($6,400)

After a bye week, the San Francisco 49ers will kick off their quest for a Super Bowl title on Saturday night.

The Niners finished with the best passing offense in the NFL, per numberFire's metrics. You'd think that would always make them a fun team to stack, but with the low volume and the target distribution, it can be difficult to nail them down.

At the beginning of the season, it didn't seem like Brock Purdy was going to be an exciting fantasy QB. It turns out that he didn't need to do much, just get the ball to his talented playmakers in this great offensive scheme. That led to him finishing as the overall QB6.

The playmaker who is perhaps the most intriguing on this slate for SF -- at least in my eyes -- is George Kittle. He's more of an up-and-down producer than we prefer, but his ceiling makes him a great play -- especially as a tight end with a relatively low salary. Kittle finished the season with a 20% target share and ranked as the TE5 in half-PPR scoring.

San Francisco will play the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers this week. Green Bay is a good matchup for Kittle. They ranked 28th in adjusted fantasy points per target allowed to tight ends and are the easiest matchup for TEs among the remaining teams.

With the highest implied point total on the slate (30.0), the 49ers are expected to score plenty of points. This stack allows you to get a piece of them while still being able to get other high-upside players in your lineup.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Baker Mayfield ($7,300), Mike Evans ($7,600), Chris Godwin ($6,900)

Lions' games have often made sense to target both sides of in recent weeks, and this one is no different.

Tampa Bay had a lot of success passing the ball last week and could do the same this coming Sunday. Overall, their passing offense was the 10th-best by numberFire's metrics in what was a great bounce-back campaign for Baker Mayfield.

A week ago, Baker cooked the Philadelphia Eagles to the tune of 337 yards and three touchdowns in his second-best fantasy performance of the year. Perhaps the biggest surprise was that in Mayfield's big game, Mike Evans was quiet. Evans did see his fair share of volume down the field, with 43% of the team's air yards, but he and Baker weren't able to connect very often.

Chris Godwin also didn't see a ton of targets, but he found the end zone on his five looks. His salary remains low enough to warrant adding him to this stack.

Detroit's defense has been getting torched through the air lately. They've allowed at least 345 yards to opposing QBs in each of the last four weeks. Overall, on the season, they ranked 30th against the pass, according to numberFire. The Lions were also 26th in adjusted fantasy points per target to WRs, so both Evans and Godwin should have a chance to eat.

It makes sense to target both teams in this week's only indoor game, and the potential game script sets up well for Tampa's passing attack.

Baltimore Ravens

Lamar Jackson ($8,700), Zay Flowers ($7,000)

The AFC's number one seed, the Baltimore Ravens, have an excellent chance of winning the Super Bowl.

From a fantasy standpoint, they aren't our favorite offense to zero in on. They tend to spread the ball around in both the passing and running game, and the Ravens sometimes don't throw it as much as we'd like them to from a DFS perspective.

The offense is obviously conducted by Lamar Jackson, clearly the most reliable fantasy asset on the team. Jackson was fourth in points per game for QBs this season and led all signal-callers with 821 rushing yards.

When Mark Andrews went down, the Ravens desperately needed a number-one target to step up for Lamar -- especially in the red zone. That ended up being rookie Zay Flowers. Flowers saw a 23% target share on the season and logged 40% of the end zone targets after Andrews went down.

Andrews is listed as questionable for this game, but even if he suits up, the star tight end could be limited with how many snaps he plays. That means we can still likely rely on Flowers to get a lot of target volume in this game.

Baltimore is a 9.5-point favorite against the Houston Texans this week. Houston allowed the fourth-most adjusted fantasy points per target to receivers, so they are exploitable.

This stack may not be as popular as some of the others listed above, but we've seen big games for Lamar and Zay. This could easily be another one.

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