FanDuel MLB DFS Cheat Sheet: Aug. 20 Picks And Stacks

Today's free FanDuel MLB DFS cheat sheet from Stokastic settles the hardest slot first: Gavin Williams leads the Aug. 20 board at 36.52 projected FanDuel points and 49.6% ownership. On a one-pitcher site, a solved arm means every real decision tonight is a bat, and the biggest is Bobby Witt Jr., whose row I'll turn into a build below.

The Quick Answer

Pay the Williams chalk against the Giants: his projection clears second-place Ian Seymour by 6.59 points, the widest gap on the board. Then separate where the Sims separate: Witt is the No. 1 leverage play at 27.9% (54.7% top-150 exposure against 26.1% ownership), and Cleveland is the top 4-stack at 11.3%, correlated with Williams in the same uniform. The full board, the four-batter cap math, and the Witt build are below.

Today's Board For Aug. 20

All five projection names are arms, and FanDuel's single pitcher slot puts the whole build's variance on one of them. That 6.59-point edge is worth absorbing salary for, with no second pitcher to fund. The Sims still play Williams in just 28.7% of their best builds; an arm half the field shares can't separate you. Robert Gasser (27.00 against Seattle, 15.5% leverage) is the printed pivot.

Stacks On A Four-Batter Cap

Cleveland's 11.3% stack rides with Williams: four bats plus their own starter is the sheet's cleanest correlation. Tampa Bay at 10.7% is the same shape off a different arm: Seymour starts that game, so Junior Caminero (36.7% exposure, 19.9% leverage) and Chandler Simpson (3.88 value) stack in front of him. Great American prints both sides at 9.3%; Elly De La Cruz (40.7% exposure) anchors the Cincinnati half; pick one side. The four-batter cap leaves four hitter slots outside your primary stack, and since FanDuel pays a walk like a single, spend them on one-off leverage bats rather than a forced second stack (the FanDuel vs. DraftKings breakdown covers why). Mine: Rafael Devers (13.7%, the bring-back on Cleveland's game), Lawrence Butler (4.06) and Jeff McNeil (4.05).

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Worked Example: Witt's Row To A Lineup

Witt's row (54.7% exposure, 26.1% ownership, 27.9% leverage) becomes tonight's entry:

1. Lock him in every tournament build; the Sims roster him twice as often as the field will.
2. Extend to a Kansas City mini-stack with Maikel García (3.78 value).
3. Respect the conflict: the 10.0% Athletics stack and Gage Jump (27.21) both face Kansas City, so my Witt builds carry neither.
4. Fill the remaining slots from the value column: after Butler, Jeff McNeil (4.05) and Cal Raleigh (3.76) are the board's next-best points-per-dollar prints, and the full MLB DFS projections, ownership and stacks in the DataHub sorts the order.

Every panel above comes from the Stokastic Sims playing this slate tens of thousands of times with correlation intact: Ownership Projections modeled as a distribution, the top-150 sim-ROI lineups becoming the exposure and leverage columns. The cheat sheet is free every day; code CHEAT takes 15% off your first week or month of the paid Stokastic MLB DFS packages, where the full Sims and Boom/Bust tables live.

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The field already solved the pitcher; that 49.6% on Williams says so. Witt's 27.9% is where Aug. 20 gets won. 21+.