NFL Week 6 gets underway with a Thursday Night Football showdown between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Philadelphia Eagles at 8:20 p.m. ET.
If you’re unfamiliar with the single-game NFL DFS format, it differs a bit on DraftKings and FanDuel. On DraftKings, you have one “captain” spot and five flexes. The captain will score 1.5x fantasy points, but he also costs 1.5x salary. That means if you want to roster Tom Brady at Captain and take advantage of the scoring boost, you’ll have to pay $18,600 as opposed to $12,400.
FanDuel’s single-game format features one “MVP” spot and four flexes. The MVP also scores 1.5x fantasy points, but he doesn’t cost any additional salary. That takes away a bit of the strategy and makes the goal simple: Get your highest-scoring player in the MVP spot.
In these articles, I’ll be using various FantasyLabs tools to break down the slate. And don’t forget to check out our Lineup Builder if you like to hand build your lineups or our Lineup Optimizer for those of you that like to enter multiple lineups.
Studs
Brady is the most expensive player on this slate, and he remains as good as ever at 44 years old. He’s coming off a monster performance last week, racking up 411 passing yards and five touchdowns en route to 40.74 DraftKings points. He’s scored at least 30.64 DraftKings points in four of five games, making him the second-highest scoring quarterback so far this season.
The Eagles have an above-average pass defense – they rank 10th in DVOA per Football Outsiders – giving Brady an Opponent Plus/Minus of -3.1 on DraftKings. Still, Brady is essentially matchup-proof, and he leads all players in our NFL Models in Median and Ceiling Projection.
