{"id":323462,"date":"2025-12-01T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323462\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:50:10","slug":"levitans-dfs-cash-lineup-review-week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323462\/","title":{"rendered":"Levitan\u2019s DFS Cash Lineup Review: Week 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

I play around 60% of my action each week in \u201ccash games.\u201d Cash games refer to any contest in which roughly 50% of the field gets paid out, such as head-to-head, double up or 50\/50. I try to get as much head-to-head action as I can every week and then supplement that with other cash games. I make one cash lineup for DraftKings and one for FanDuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Each week, I\u2019ll review my cash-game lineups in this space. Sometimes I\u2019ll lose, but hopefully I\u2019ll win more often. Either way, I\u2019ll post it here and give you my thought process.<\/p>\n

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This was a brutal slate. The highest game total was just 45.5 points, and both sites priced up players in a way that left very few standout options. It\u2019s far from the setup I think I do best in. \u00a0
Note: Unless stated otherwise, the discussion below is about DraftKings.<\/p>\n

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MY MUST PLAYS
* Both sites aggressively priced almost all the stars this week. The one they left behind was De\u2019Von Achane. At just $8300, Achane\u2019s outrageous pass-catching plus workhorse role in a home game against the lowly Saints was a stone cold lock. Achane was our top salary-adjusted play on the slate<\/a> by one of the biggest margins of the season.<\/p>\n

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* There were real signs Kenneth Walker\u2019s role had changed recently. A ton of strong coachspeak talking up Walker\u2019s role had coincided with actual separation from Zach Charbonnet in all usage categories. So with the Seahawks a heavy home favorite against the Vikings, the $5300 tag on Walker was too cheap relative to his talent and volume projection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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MY WANT PLAYS
* This was a brutally bad quarterback slate. My favorite for cash was Jacoby Brissett, and I did get to him on FanDuel. But on DraftKings, finding the $800 to get from CJ Stroud to Brissett wasn\u2019t easy. I also looked at some Tyrod Taylor teams, but didn\u2019t love what the $700 got me. So I settled for Stroud, who was in a dome with all his weaponry and projected to be in a trailing script. The $5000 tag was around $500 too cheap.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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* I knew I wanted to play three RBs on this slate. Both TE and WR were a mess. The final RB spot came down to Kimani Vidal or Breece Hall. I liked both a lot at their cost and in these matchups. In the end I simply decided to roll with our projections, which had Breece 1.9 points clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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* The wide receiver position was brutally overpriced across the board. I liked both Puka Nacua and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, but they were fully priced. In the end, I decided that although JSN was all the way up at $9500, this slate called for a player who could break it. So I went with the \u201cstars and scrubs\u201d approach at WR in JSN and Jayden Higgins, who I considered the safest sub-$4K WR. I also looked at AD Mitchell and John Metchie for cheap.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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* I struggled mightily\u00a0 with the tight end position this week. On really tightly priced slates, I think it is typically \u201cright\u201d to punt at both QB and TE. And I was all set to punt with one of Taysom Hill, Colby Parkinson, or AJ Barner. But at the last minute I decided to come off of Parkinson and Jaylen Waddle for Orande Gadsden and Khalil Shakir. On what I expected to be a very low-scoring slate, I wanted to find two upside spots here instead of just one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

* The only two D\/STs I considered were the punts: Titans against Trevor Lawrence, or Jets D\/ST against Kirk Cousins. I preferred Jets as Cousins is more likely to generate strip sacks and pick-6s, but I was always going to play whatever fit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Week 13 Results
I\u2019m fine with the CJ Stroud play on DK. Yes he failed, but he dropped back nearly 40 times in a dome with all his weapons healthy\u2026 and simply ran bad on TDs. The play I\u2019d like to have back is forcing in Jaxson Smith-Njigba on such a tightly-priced slate. Paying $9500 for a receiving in a home game against \u201cMax Brosmer\u201d was stretching it, and prevented me from upgrading at QB and WR. That said, there simply weren\u2019t many mid-range WRs worth paying for \u2013 I liked Jaylen Waddle, Ladd McConkey, Chris Olave, but all were a bit overpriced. Khalil Shakir dropping a TD plus Gadsden getting stopped at the 1-yard line were tough beats, but I don\u2019t think this DK team was one of my best. Luckily I ran into a big Alec Pierce and Brissett game on FanDuel, plus got the Kyle Pitts TE decision right.<\/p>\n

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YEAR-TO-DATE RESULTS
Week 1 DraftKings: 111.32 points, won 37.0% of head-to-heads
Week 2 DraftKings: 145.40 points, won 76.5% of head-to-heads
Week 3 DraftKings: 168.68 points, won 70.6% of head-to-heads
Week 4 DraftKings: Did not play
Week 5 Draftkings: 192.22 points, won 87.5% of head-to-heads
Week 6 DraftKings: 153.92 points, won 56.8% of head-to-heads
Week 7 DraftKings: 186.04 points, won 94.9% of head-to-heads
Week 8 DraftKings: 95.48 points, won 11.4% of head-to-heads
Week 9 DraftKings: 179.04 points, won 86.8% of head-to-heads
Week 10 DraftKings: 189.72 points, won 86.4% of head-to-heads
Week 11 DraftKings: 154.88 points, won 75.7% of head-to-heads
Week 12 DraftKings: 200.28 points, won 77.0% of head-to-heads
Week 13 DraftKings: 82.44 points, won 2.9% of head-to-heads<\/p>\n

Week 1 FanDuel: 114.22 points, won 92.3% of head-to-heads
Week 2 FanDuel: 119.00 points, won 95.2% of head-to-heads
Week 3 FanDuel: 149.42 points, won 82.6% of head-to-heads
Week 4 FanDuel: Did not play
Week 5 FanDuel: 177.7 points, won 89.4% of head-to-heads
Week 6 FanDuel: 149.62 points, won 90.1% of head-to-heads
Week 7 FanDuel: 160.44 points, won 66.7% of head-to-heads
Week 8 FanDuel: 158.18 points, won 100% of head-to-heads
Week 9 FanDuel: 120.2 points, won 42.9% of head-to-heads
Week 10 FanDuel: 137.32 points, won 58.8% of head-to-heads
Week 11 FanDuel: 94.9 points, won 46.7% of head-to-heads
Week 12 FanDuel: 158.56 points, won 52.2% of head-to-heads
Week 13 FanDuel: 122.84 points, won 100% of head-to-heads<\/p>\n

* Note: Win percentages do not include ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I play around 60% of my action each week in \u201ccash games.\u201d Cash games refer to any contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}