It’s go time. An offseason without preseason football games has made the time between NFL action feel excruciatingly long. And it has created a ripple effect throughout the football and fantasy football industries. Week 1 of the 2020 season could go down as the most random campaign, from a fantasy perspective, that any of us have experienced.
One way we can cut down on randomness in DFS is to target and stack players with high correlations to each other. The team level stack that pairs one quarterback with a wide receiver is the most basic approach, but that alone typically doesn’t offer enough upside to win a guaranteed prize pool (GPP) tournament.