DraftKings & FanDuel NFL DFS Week 7 Cash Strategy & Picks

Oct 17, 2025

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Whether you are interested in turning $1 into $1.80 or $50 into $90, deploying a sound cash game strategy when you are building your lineup for Sunday main slates is crucial. Cash game fantasy grinders can run into pitfalls when they fail to recognize the main goal of cash games is to maximize median and beat, often, a small group of opponents (or maybe just one) in the quest to do so.

Ceiling outcomes should be narrowly considered relative to maximizing your lineup’s projectable floor. You can save those high-upside strategies for the $1 million dollar to first place contests on DraftKings or FanDuel, where you should focus on trading median for things like leverage, correlation, and low duplication. In cash games, there’s no reason to shy away from the player with 10x point-per-dollar value just because “everyone else is playing” him. If everyone else is playing him, it is probably a good indication that the market is aware of significant value.

4for4 has all the tools available to help you build your cash game lineups. This article is merely one of them. In the quest to grind out a solid edge (58%-62% win rates is very favorable), the most important tools at your disposal are mean projections, median projections, projection variance, point-per-dollar value, and a way to piece it all together (an advanced calculator is one option).

My goal for this weekly article is to consolidate all the crucial insights from our tools that can be used to gain an edge over your cash game opponents and help you put it all together to build lineups that have positive expected value.

Slate Context

Following the Chiefs’ convincing Sunday Night Football win over the Lions, we’re dubbing this week “Kansas City Cash-Game Kings Week”—and everyone’s invited. If watching Patrick Mahomes torch one of the worst teams on the West Coast isn’t your Week 7 vibe, cash-game players should buckle up for a juggernaut East Coast battle between the Dillon Gabriel–led Browns and the Miami Dolphins. The value isn’t pretty this week; it may not be your favorite slate to sweat in real time, but the value is there, and it’s relatively straightforward.