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Best Ball Stack Rankings Details & FAQ
This data is intended to help draft exceptional fantasy football teams for Best Ball on sites like Underdog Fantasy and DraftKings.
Best Ball is a popular form of fantasy football with no roster management. Simply join a league or tournament on Underdog Fantasy and DraftKings, and draft 18 to 20 players per team. The software will automatically construct your best possible lineup each week of the season. Regular season league champions will advance in tournament formats to compete for huge cash prizes in the playoffs.
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Stacking in Best Ball is the act of influencing variance by selecting players who can perform well in tandem. As example, a quarterback and wide receiver have correlated performance because they both accrue stats at the same time. In Best Ball tournaments, the theory is that stacking best ball teams will increase your volatility and therefore your chances of reaching the highest peaks in a given week should one of your stacks perform well. Only the top teams advance, and receive the largest payouts in the final week.
We have curated the top picks from our Best Ball Rankings and created this table to help quickly identify players to target for your best ball stacks. Factors that we considered in making our selections:
- Overall projections including floor and ceiling
- Average draft position (ADP) vs. Performance expectations
- Best Ball format and prize award structure
- Opponent expected behaviors and tendency
- Playoff schedule and end game strategy
We offer up the rated list of stacks to target, expected range of the draft to target each player, and an assessment of the draft capital you must invest. Use this cheat sheet to quickly identify stacks to target in this season’s best ball drafts by balancing the projections and average draft position.
Glossary
- UDRating: The combined grade of QB projection, weighted skill player projections, and ADP for a stack on Underdog.
- DKRating: The combined grade of QB projection, weighted skill player projections, and ADP for a stack on DraftKings.
- Price: The weighted ADP score assessment of team skill players.
- QBRangeUD: The range of ADP to expect for drafting the QB.
- Week 16 and 17: The week 16 and 17 opponent for the stack.
- DefRank: The RG power ranking of the week 16 and 17 opponent defense.
- ADP-(POS): The ADP and player name for skill player in a stack by position
- ADP-(POS) (2nd and 3rd line): The ADP and player name for comparable week 16 (line 2) and 17 (line 3) opponent.
TEAM | QUARTERBACK | UDRATING | DKRATING | PRICE | QBRANGE | WEEK16 | 16DEFRANK | WEEK17 | 17DEFRANK | ADP-WR1 | ADP-WR2 | ADP-WR3 | ADP-TE1 | ADP-RB1 |
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CIN | Joe Burrow | 72.43 | 72.31 | Mid | 78-102 | CLE | 4 | DEN | 29 | 4-Ja'Marr Chase 41-Amari Cooper 95-Courtland Sutton | 43-Tee Higgins 123-Jerry Jeudy 178-Marvin Mims | 205-Andrei Iosivas 229-Elijah Moore 237-Josh Reynolds | 206-Mike Gesicki 100-David Njoku 216-Greg Dulcich | 98-Zack Moss 126-Jerome Ford 112-Javonte Williams |
KCC | Patrick Mahomes | 66.6 | 66.79 | High | 33-57 | HOU | 19 | PIT | 6 | 57-Rashee Rice 16-Nico Collins 40-George Pickens | 53-Marquise Brown 32-Stefon Diggs 187-Roman Wilson | 64-Xavier Worthy 34-Tank Dell 252-Van Jefferson | 38-Travis Kelce 133-Dalton Schultz 130-Pat Freiermuth | 39-Isiah Pacheco 62-Joe Mixon 87-Jaylen Warren |
BUF | Josh Allen | 64.68 | 62.44 | Mid | 25-49 | NEP | 17 | NYJ | 3 | 110-Khalil Shakir 129-Ja'Lynn Polk 10-Garrett Wilson | 87-Curtis Samuel 155-Demario Douglas 137-Mike Williams | 77-Keon Coleman 248-Kendrick Bourne 248-Allen Lazard | 51-Dalton Kincaid 157-Hunter Henry 170-Tyler Conklin | 55-James Cook 81-Rhamondre Stevenson 8-Breece Hall |
DAL | Dak Prescott | 64.18 | 63.19 | Mid | 82-106 | TBB | 26 | PHI | 15 | 2-CeeDee Lamb 24-Mike Evans 9-A.J. Brown | 115-Brandin Cooks 61-Chris Godwin 25-DeVonta Smith | 201-Jalen Tolbert 175-Jalen McMillan 271-Parris Campbell | 85-Jake Ferguson 176-Cade Otton 116-Dallas Goedert | 136-Rico Dowdle 63-Rachaad White 19-Saquon Barkley |
DET | Jared Goff | 63.84 | 66.62 | High | 113-137 | CHI | 21 | SFO | 8 | 6-Amon-Ra St. Brown 31-D.J. Moore 23-Brandon Aiyuk | 84-Jameson Williams 54-Keenan Allen 17-Deebo Samuel | 229-Kalif Raymond 66-Rome Odunze 244-Jauan Jennings | 35-Sam LaPorta 143-Cole Kmet 65-George Kittle | 12-Jahmyr Gibbs 92-D'Andre Swift 1-Christian McCaffrey |
ATL | Kirk Cousins | 61.8 | 60.36 | High | 133-157 | NYG | 30 | WAS | 32 | 14-Drake London 27-Malik Nabers 50-Terry McLaurin | 146-Darnell Mooney 167-Wan'Dale Robinson 138-Jahan Dotson | 250-Ray-Ray McCloud 220-Jalin Hyatt 192-Luke McCaffrey | 60-Kyle Pitts 221-Theo Johnson 231-Zach Ertz | 7-Bijan Robinson 109-Devin Singletary 103-Brian Robinson |
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