Week 2 Sunday main slate on DraftKings and FanDuel, which means it's time to argue with a spreadsheet and then build lineups anyway. CBS Sports has published its Week 2 DFS picks from Mike McClure, the guy whose simulations have made him a daily fantasy multimillionaire, and his lineup construction for the Sunday slate is worth your ten minutes even if you fade every single play.

McClure's whole thing is the simulation model. He runs game scripts thousands of times, watches where the projected points and the salary disagreement lives, and builds from there. The picks that matter are the ones where his number is way off the field's number, because that gap is where tournament leverage actually exists. Pay up for the obvious chalk and you get a shared roster and a shared 50th percentile finish.

The classic Week 2 trap is overreacting to Week 1. One big game and a salary jumps 20 percent while the underlying usage didn't move. One quiet game and a guy gets overlooked even though his snap count and target share were fine. McClure's approach is built to filter exactly that noise, which is why I always read these columns even when I only take two or three players into my own builds. You're not copying lineups, you're stealing the logic.

My own quick frame for the Sunday slate, layered on top of his picks: stack where the weather is clean, fade the running backs whose Week 1 touchdown came on one broken play, and remember that Week 2 ownership is emotional. Everyone who lost money on a chalky play last week is going the other way this week. You want to be ahead of that crowd, not with it.

Usual disclaimer, and I mean it every time I write one of these: DFS and anything adjacent to it is entertainment, not an income stream. I keep a public ledger of my calls precisely so I can't pretend I'm smarter than my results. McClure's track record is elite and even his lineups are variance delivery vehicles on any given Sunday. Play what you can afford to lose, treat the buy-in as tuition, and enjoy the sweat.

Ray Delgado will read this over my shoulder and tell me the model doesn't know the game's played with heart, and then the model will go 6-for-6 and he'll grumble about spreadsheets. Deb will ask why I'm fading a receiver she loves and I'll show her the target distribution and she'll call me a robot. Somehow we all end up in the same group chat by the 4 o'clock games anyway.

Full picks, salaries and the complete lineup builds are in the CBS Sports piece. So whose salary are you punting on this week, the second receiver in a good offense or the tight end nobody's watching?