Ben and I [Bales] are working on adding Showdown success to our resumes throughout the 2021 NFL season. We’ll be posting Showdown Core Plays for every Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night game of the season. These Core Plays will go along with our usual mains late Core Plays that we offer.
In this article, Ben will focus on a few of his favorite plays for the showdown slate, while I focus more on the strategy I’m deploying in tournaments, specifically single-entry leagues. If you want more access to us, join our free Discord chat.
Bales’ GPP Process
This is one of the weirdest showdown slates in quite some time, and I’ll be treating it as such. Each of these teams has such condensed production that I’ll likely be starting my lineups with those four players – Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, and Travis Kelce. The odd part of this slate comes in the fact that you can play these four players with any at captain or the salary won’t work.
Once I insert the four most expensive options on the slate, I have only $2,300 left per position, which includes the captain slot. It’s important to keep an eye on the status of Hollywood Brown for the Baltimore Ravens. If he’s out Devin Duvernay [also questionable], Tylan Wallace, or James Proche could be forced into bigger roles and make interesting options. Devonta Freeman was also quickly added from the Baltimore practice squad, and they’ve announced they’re going to take a hot-hand approach at running back in this game. If Freeman can find some early success, he could end up being a cheap source of fantasy points.
There isn’t much to consider for Kansas City after using Mahomes, Hill, and Kelce. The highest-priced option you can consider is DeMarcus Robinson, who does come with some upside because of the offense. Byron Pringle is the only other salary relief option I’d consider here.
As always, more goes into Showdown slates than solely what’s written in this article. You can get access to us in our Premium Discord along with our Thursday, Sunday, and Monday showdown Core Plays and our normal main slate Core Plays through our premium package.
