Cowboys at Packers is the Week 6 Sunday night showdown, a projected 53 point shootout at Lambeau Field with the Packers a slight favorite and Josh Jacobs out. Below is the game type, the captain pool, the full FTA projection board for the DraftKings showdown, the captain leverage board, the optimal lineup against the ownership capped build, and the low owned screen.
Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers kicks off on Sunday October 18 at 8:20 PM Eastern at Lambeau Field, and it is a one game slate. Below is the full FTA projection board for the DraftKings showdown, the optimal lineup, the captain leverage board and the low owned screen, with every number taken from the same simulation set that feeds our tools.
Game type: Pick'em, shootout
Neither side is a clear favorite. In our study, pick'em games sent the captain to the favorite 66 percent of the time, so the underdog captain is live in a way it rarely is.
How to build it: Split captains close to evenly between the Packers and the Cowboys, and lean on the bigger implied total only slightly. A high total rewards pass catchers on both sides and four-to-two builds.
What the slate shape says before you look at a single player
Our simulations put this game at 53.3 total points, with the Packers at 26.9 and the Cowboys at 26.4. That is a spread under one point, which puts it in the pick'em band. Across our study of 163 showdown slates, pick'em spread games sent the captain to the favorite 66 percent of the time.
So neither side is a rule. The same study found the perfect lineup took players from both sides in almost every slate, with a three to three or four to two split accounting for the clear majority. Building entirely on one team is the single most common way to lose a showdown you had right.
The top of the DraftKings board
The eight highest projections on the slate. The full board of 28 players, the value board, the captain leverage board and the optimal lineup are below for FTA+ members.
That is the free preview
You are seeing the top projections on this single game slate. The full player board, the value board, the captain and MVP leverage board, the optimal lineup with its projected ownership and the low owned screen are in FTA+.
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