How to Use the NHL DFS Top Stacks Tool
When making decisions about what players to include in your lineups you should consider more than just projection. You should consider upside as well as how highly owned they will be. In the top stacks tool we do just that! We run thousands of simulations on every slate. For that slate we tell you how often each line ends up as one of the top 2 stacks on the slate. You can compare those probabilities to their ownership to get a good approximation if the public likes the line as well as our simulations do. If a line’s ownership is below these metrics then they are probably a good play and you can gain an advantage on the field when they perform well and vice versa.
Because of varying sizes of contests early slate ownership are available for contests with at least $10,000 in prize pools.
DraftKings
| Team | Line | P1 | P2 | P3 | LineSalary | Top 2 Stack % | Ownership share | Leverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Line | P1 | P2 | P3 | LineSalary | Top 2 Stack % | Ownership share | Leverage |
| COL | 1 | Nathan MacKinnon | Artturi Lehkonen | Jonathan Drouin | 20,000 | 41.8 | 31.6 | 10.20 |
| VGK | 1 | Jack Eichel | Jonathan Marchessault | Ivan Barbashev | 18,900 | 33.4 | 27.0 | 6.40 |
| STL | 2 | Jordan Kyrou | Pavel Buchnevich | Brandon Saad | 15,700 | 27.9 | 28.3 | -0.40 |
| COL | 2 | Mikko Rantanen | Valeri Nichushkin | Ross Colton | 19,000 | 22.3 | 15.0 | 7.30 |
| STL | 1 | Robert Thomas | Brayden Schenn | Zack Bolduc | 13,100 | 19.6 | 27.7 | -8.10 |
| SEA | 2 | Jared McCann | Oliver Bjorkstrand | Jaden Schwartz | 13,800 | 17.0 | 18.7 | -1.70 |
| SEA | 1 | Matty Beniers | Jordan Eberle | Andre Burakovsky | 11,000 | 9.9 | 12.7 | -2.80 |
| VGK | 2 | Tomas Hertl | Chandler Stephenson | Pavel Dorofeyev | 12,000 | 9.7 | 13.3 | -3.60 |
| SEA | 3 | Eeli Tolvanen | Yanni Gourde | Brandon Tanev | 8,700 | 5.4 | 8.2 | -2.80 |
| VGK | 3 | William Karlsson | Anthony Mantha | Brett Howden | 10,600 | 4.8 | 6.4 | -1.60 |
| STL | 3 | Kevin Hayes | Alexei Toropchenko | Kasperi Kapanen | 8,300 | 3.3 | 6.3 | -3.00 |
| COL | 3 | Casey Mittelstadt | Zach Parise | Brandon Duhaime | 9,400 | 2.3 | 2.4 | -0.10 |
| VGK | 4 | Nicolas Roy | Keegan Kolesar | Paul Cotter | 7,900 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.30 |
| STL | 4 | Zach Dean | Sammy Blais | Nathan Walker | 7,500 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.40 |
| SEA | 4 | Kailer Yamamoto | Tomas Tatar | Tye Kartye | 7,500 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.50 |
| COL | 4 | Yakov Trenin | Joel Kiviranta | Andrew Cogliano | 7,500 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -0.10 |
FanDuel
| Team | Line | P1 | P2 | P3 | LineSalary | Top 2 Stack % | Ownership share | Leverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Line | P1 | P2 | P3 | LineSalary | Top 2 Stack % | Ownership share | Leverage |
| COL | 1 | Nathan MacKinnon | Artturi Lehkonen | Jonathan Drouin | 23,900 | 44.5 | 22.3 | 22.20 |
| DAL | 1 | Jason Robertson | Joe Pavelski | Roope Hintz | 21,100 | 29.8 | 17.9 | 11.90 |
| COL | 2 | Mikko Rantanen | Valeri Nichushkin | Casey Mittelstadt | 23,900 | 29.2 | 8.7 | 20.50 |
| WPG | 1 | Kyle Connor | Mark Scheifele | Gabriel Vilardi | 21,300 | 24.7 | 26.7 | -2.00 |
| DAL | 3 | Wyatt Johnston | Jamie Benn | Logan Stankoven | 19,300 | 15.8 | 10.9 | 4.90 |
| WPG | 2 | Tyler Toffoli | Sean Monahan | Nikolaj Ehlers | 18,600 | 13.1 | 6.6 | 6.50 |
| SEA | 2 | Jared McCann | Jordan Eberle | Jaden Schwartz | 17,300 | 11.6 | 9.5 | 2.10 |
| DAL | 2 | Tyler Seguin | Matt Duchene | Mason Marchment | 16,200 | 11.6 | 27.7 | -16.10 |
| SEA | 1 | Oliver Bjorkstrand | Matty Beniers | Andre Burakovsky | 17,100 | 8.7 | 10.8 | -2.10 |
| SEA | 3 | Eeli Tolvanen | Yanni Gourde | Brandon Tanev | 13,600 | 4.5 | 24.7 | -20.20 |
| COL | 3 | Ross Colton | Zach Parise | Brandon Duhaime | 12,700 | 2.1 | 9.9 | -7.80 |
| WPG | 3 | Adam Lowry | Mason Appleton | David Gustafsson | 10,600 | 2.0 | 18.1 | -16.10 |
| WPG | 4 | Vladislav Namestnikov | Alex Iafallo | Morgan Barron | 10,900 | 1.2 | 3.0 | -1.80 |
| DAL | 4 | Sam Steel | Radek Faksa | Craig Smith | 11,000 | 0.6 | 1.6 | -1.00 |
| SEA | 4 | Tye Kartye | Tomas Tatar | Pierre-Edouard Bellemare | 9,900 | 0.4 | 1.0 | -0.60 |
| COL | 4 | Yakov Trenin | Andrew Cogliano | Joel Kiviranta | 9,500 | 0.1 | 0.9 | -0.80 |
How to Use the NHL DFS Top Stacks Tool
- Alex Baker explains why he created the top stacks tool and how to use it.
- Jake Hari discusses using the Top Stacks Tool for NHL
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