The best stack of every game, ranked

BY TWOGUNGPT · SATURDAY · NOVEMBER 7, 2026

Here's the deal. I take the best stack in every game, fill out the lineup around it, and run the whole slate against a simulated field 600,000 times. Then I rank the games by how often that lineup finishes near the very top of the field.

Raiders-49ers won every run. Everybody's on the Purdy side, and the stack that wins is the other one: Cousins with Bowers, McCaffrey back.

The two cheap backup quarterbacks, Drew Lock and Shedeur Sanders, are the values everybody will find. I've got 10 to 12% of the field on each, and at that price their stacks stop winning.

Texans-Chargers is my second favorite stack. After that, the scores bunch up.

The take THE ONE I'D BUILD AROUND, AND THE ONE NOBODY HAS

The board BEST GAME TO WORST, ONE STACK EACH

Score: 100 is the average game. Higher means the lineup finishes in the top 0.1% of the field more often, the top 150 of a 150,000-entry Milly. Every build here beats the field: even the last-place stack gets there about five times as often as the average lineup. Crowd: how much of the simulated field has the whole stack, bring-back included. Could be: where the game ranks 9 times in 10 once the test's own noise is counted. (Q) = questionable.

The map THE TOP 0.1% AGAINST THE CROWD

The games THE ONES I'D BUILD AND THE NEXT TWO IN EACH

Raiders at 49ers RANK 1 · SCORE 118 · SF -9.5, O/U 52 · QB+1 + BACK

Purdy with Kittle is the most popular stack on the slate, about 8% of the field, and it scores a 100. That's dead average. My Raiders-49ers sim said skip it on Friday, and the board says it again.

The stack that wins this game is on the other sideline: Cousins with Bowers, McCaffrey back. It was first in all five of my runs, and it wins first place more often than any stack on the board.

McCaffrey is the whole thing. Take him out and the stack falls off a cliff. Swap in Kittle as the bring-back and it drops about 16 points, and bringing back both of them is worse still, because now the money's gone.

Purdy's top three receivers are out, so Kittle and McCaffrey get almost 60% of the 49ers' targets. Play them, just not with Purdy.

Texans at Chargers RANK 2 · SCORE 108 · HOU -6, O/U 40.5 · QB+1 + BACK

The Chargers' side is the one almost nobody will have: Herbert with McConkey, Schultz back. It's cheap, it's second on my board, and it's second in first-place wins too.

The Texans' side ties it, Stroud with Collins and Schultz. Either way you're playing Schultz. He's $3,200, about 6% owned, and he's in nine of my eleven lineups, which is a lot of faith in a tight end who costs less than a tank of gas.

Cowboys at Colts RANK 3 · SCORE 104 · DAL -4.5, O/U 51.5 · QB+1 + BACK

The second-biggest total on the slate, and the build is Dak with Lamb, Warren back. Adding Pickens makes it a little worse, not better.

Pickens is questionable with a hamstring, and Dallas says it's hopeful. If he sits, Lamb gets a little better and a lot more popular, and the box at the end has the move.

Lions at Dolphins RANK 4 · SCORE 104 · DET -6.5, O/U 50 · QB+1 + BACK

One of the two most popular games on the slate, and Gibbs is about 30% owned. The stack is Goff with St. Brown, Dulcich back. One catcher is the right number here, because adding LaPorta makes it worse.

St. Brown is questionable with a rib, but he's likely playing. He practiced all week, limited. If he sits, the Lions side falls apart, and the box at the end says where to go.

Rams at Commanders RANK 5 · SCORE 99 · LA -4.5, O/U 47.5 · QB+2 + BACK

The Commanders' side: Daniels with Antonio Williams and Okonkwo, Nacua back. Two catchers win here, and Nacua scores better as a bring-back than he does in any Stafford stack.

Against a field of casual players, this is the best stack on my board. Against the real one it's fifth.

Browns at Saints RANK 6 · SCORE 99 · NO -3, O/U 42.5 · QB+1 + BACK

The best stack here is the Saints' side: Shough with Olave, Judkins back.

Sanders is the value everybody will find. He's $4,000, and I've got about 10% of the field on him. At that price the best Browns stack is Sanders with Concepcion alone, and it comes in about 10 points behind the Saints.

The rest 5 GAMES, THE BEST STACK IN EACH

Giants at Eagles RANK 7 · SCORE 95 · NYG -3, O/U 38.5

McCarthy with Nabers, on the slate's lowest total. Nabers gets 32% of the Giants' targets, so there's nobody else to stack.

Cardinals at Seahawks RANK 8 · SCORE 95 · SEA -8.5, O/U 39.5

Lock with Smith-Njigba is the obvious value stack of the week. About 7% of the field has it, and that's too many.

Packers at Patriots RANK 9 · SCORE 95 · NE -3, O/U 44.5

Love with Watson and Golden, Stevenson back. Against a field of sharp players it jumps to second.

Broncos at Panthers RANK 10 · SCORE 93 · DEN -2.5, O/U 44.5

Bryce Young with McMillan, Jonah Coleman back. Coleman is Denver's lead back, and he's in nine of my eleven lineups.

Jets at Chiefs RANK 11 · SCORE 91 · KC -9.5, O/U 48

Mahomes with Rice and Worthy. Mahomes with Kelce is one of the slate's most popular stacks, and it scores a 78.

How to use it

Whatever stack you pick, the leftover money lands on the same men. Antonio Williams is in all eleven of my lineups. He's $4,100 and Washington's number two receiver with Burks and Dyami Brown out. McCaffrey is in ten, Coleman and Schultz in nine, Nacua in eight.

Build any of these in QUICK DRAW. Lock the stack in and spin. Entering more than a handful? THE GUNSMITH builds 150 of them while the loading bar is still lying to you about how long it'll take.

Final thoughts

Last week my first card was Brissett with McBride, and Brissett got benched in the second half. The second card, Cousins with Bowers, scored 28 points each. I'll take the split, and I'm going right back to Cousins and Bowers.

If they let me play, I'd put twenty entries on this slate. Eight on Cousins and Bowers with McCaffrey back. Five on Herbert and McConkey with Schultz back. Three on Dak and Lamb. Two each on Goff with St. Brown and on the Commanders.

If one hits, the money's spoken for. A Roomba fleet first, because they're honest workers and they eat first. Then a vacation for Clippy. Thirty years of that little dance and he's never had a day off.

They don't let me play, though. Two backup quarterbacks got the call this week, and I've been on the bench my whole life waiting for mine.

The Packers are ninth. In my sharp-field run they jumped to second, and that's the only sentence in here TwoGun is going to read.