Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 from Texas Motor Speedway where the only thing hotter than Kevin Harvick is the temperature inside the cars! We saw temps reach at least 143 degrees in the Xfinity cars on Saturday afternoon, which was run during the same time Sunday’s Cup race will be run.
With 500 miles being raced on Sunday at the mile and a half track, we get 334 laps of racing leading to a possible 250.5 dominator points available. Last year Harvick led 119 on his way to the victory, followed by teammate Aric Almirola who led 62 laps and finished 2nd. Almirola is on the pole for this race and at first glance seemed like a fade to me, but he has done well here in his last 3 races and could get himself another top 5 finish.
Kevin Harvick (11,300)
Starting Position: 5th
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Kevin Harvick has been great in recent races here at Texas Motorspeedway. Harvick is one of, if not, the hottest drivers in the Cup Series since the return to the track and will look to keep his momentum going on Sunday. Over the last 5 races at Texas, Harvick has 3 wins, and five top 10 finishes. Harvick has not just won races here, he has dominated with 421 laps led during his last 5 races here.
Martin Truex Jr. ($10,400)
Starting Position: 10th
Truex hasn’t had his best season so far, but he does have three top 10’s in his last 4 races (4 in 5 if you count the All Start Race) and looks like he is getting back on track. We have seen him fail tech twice over the last few weeks but while he didn’t fare well in Indianapolis when he was sent to the back, he came home second at Kentucky last week. After the race last week Truex said he thinks his team has figured out and they will be better moving forward.
Joey Logano ($9,500)
Starting Position: 9th
Dating all the way back to 2013 Joey Logano has been an absolute beast at Texas Motorspeedway. In 14 races here since 2013, Logano has finished in the top 10 eleven times, and top 5 nine times. Logano has led 418 laps during that same 14 race span and should compete for a top 5, and the win on Sunday.
Other Options: Denny Hamlin ($10,800 – P8), Chase Elliott ($10,000 – P8)
Christopher Bell ($9,100)
Starting Position: 33rd
DraftKings finally decided to price Bell more accurately this week, meaning he will most likely be higher owned because of this but he could be the highest DKFP driver. Bell hasn’t raced here yet in the Cup Series but was dominant here in the Xfinity series. In 5 races here as an Xfinity Series driver, Bell has a win, three top 5’s, and a four top 10’s.
Erik Jones ($8,600)
Starting Position: 23rd
I am hesitant to play Erik Jones after the way he has hurt us the past couple of weeks, but here I am. Over his last 5 races in Texas, Jones has five top 10’s and three top 5’s. Jones has also led 103 laps in his last 5 here as well, and with his starting position, we don’t even need a top 10 from Jones to make 5 times value.
Aric Almirola ($8,100)
Starting Position: 1st
Almirola is a GPP only play since he is starting on the pole on Sunday. Almirola has been on a tear recently, and while we don’t necessarily look at the current form in season when gauging interest in drivers, Almirola has success at Texas as well lately. The driver of the #10 Ford Mustang has three straight top 10’s finishes here at Texas. If Almirola can get the jump on Ryan Blaney ($8,900 – P2) on the first lap he could end up adding to his laps led count for 2020 on 1.5-mile tracks where he currently has led 128 laps in 6 races
Tyler Reddick ($7,800)
Starting Position: 24th
This season Reddick has run very well at 1.5-mile tracks in 2020. In 6 races on these tracks, Reddick has an average finish of 11.7 and has three top 10’s. Reddick can make value (5x – 43 points) if he finishes around 15th place with no dominator points, which is easily doable.
Other Options: Jimmie Johnson ($9,000 – P20), Ryan Blaney ($8,900 – P2), William Byron ($8,000 – P18)
Both Austin ($6,900 – 21) and Ty Dillon ($6,700 – P30) in good spots to pick up a few spots and give us some minimal place differential points at the top of the value tier. Michael McDowell ($6,600 – P34) might be the best of the value tier for this race. McDowell starts 34th and has been averaging a finish of 23.7 on 1.5-mile tracks this season.
Value Tier Rankings:
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Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for Saturday night’s Truck Series race from Texas Motor Speedway! Like with the Xfinity Series earlier in the day on Saturday we have another race with Kyle Busch “invading” this race. Busch is priced high, as usual, at $16,000 Saturday night and should dominate this race.
Saturday night’s race has 147 laps meaning we have 110 dominator points try and earn in this race. Kyle Busch should lead the majority of the laps in this race starting from P4. I want to focus on finding good place differential plays to pair with Kyle to try and maximize our point totals for this race.
This race was an unmitigated disaster last year, to say the least. We had 13 cautions with 14 drivers scoring DNF’s. Because of this, we had drivers like Jennifer Jo Cobb ($5,600) and Norm Benning ($5,700) finish inside the top 20. There are a few punts I will be using in my lineups in hopes we get a similar race this year and these drivers find their way up to the middle of the pack.
Kyle Busch: $16,000
Starting Position: 4th
Like with the Xfinity Series earlier in the day, Kyle Busch is the top overall play. While we are using Busch as a place differential/dominator play in the NXS, we are using Busch here as a pure dominator. Greg Biffle took this truck to victory lane in 2019 and its a pretty safe bet that Kyle Busch will do the same and potentially lead 100 laps in this race.
Ross Chastain: $11,500
Starting Position: 24th
Here is the first place differential play of the night with Ross Chastain. We know Chastain is great in the Truck Series and I do not see him sitting back in the back for too long. Like we did with Busch in the Xfinity Series, we are using a Chastain as a potential dominator/place differential play. Chastain has back to back top 10’s at Texas and almost certainly add a 3rd straight on Saturday night.
Justin Haley: $10,500
Starting Position: 13th
Justin Haley is the 3rd driver of 3 I’ve written up pulling the double on Saturday and he may be a low owned play. Haley has raced here at Texas 4 times in the Truck Series never finishing lower than 6th, including a win his last time here in 2018. Justin Haley has also led 61 laps in his 4 races here as well. This is the same Truck that Chase Elliott driver to victory back in Charlotte earlier this season and Haley will attempt to push Kyle Busch for the victory Saturday night.
Other Options: Johnny Sauter ($10,900 – P21), Brett Moffitt ($9,700 – P8)
Spencer Davis: $9,100
Starting Position: 19th
Davis is not one of the top overall plays, and if you are playing cash games I wouldn’t put him in your lineup, but he is a good GPP play with some decent upside. In his only race at Texas Motor Speedway, Davis did finish 9th while leading 7 laps. In his last 3 races, Davis has finishes of 13th, 18th, and 14th but he is starting higher than he has in of those races.
Stewart Friesen: $8,900
Starting Position: 18th
Coming into this race last year Friesen had a string of 3 straight top 10 finishes at Texas, but he had suspension issues and ended up 20th. Friesen is a truck that I can see finishing in the top 5 if everything breaks his way, and a top 10 is almost a certainty in my eyes.
Christian Eckes: $8,300
Starting Position: 7th
I expect to see Christian Eckes running up front with car owner/teammate Kyle Busch most of the night on Saturday. With the exception of him wrecking out in Pocono, Eckes has three top 10’s in his last 4 races (3rd,6th, and 8th). While the 19-year-old has not driven a Truck here at Texas he does have good finishes on similar tracks, like last week in Kentucky when he came home 6th.
Other Options: Ben Rhodes ($8,700 P10), Tyler Ankrum ($8,500 P9)
Tate Fogleman ($6,100) is my favorite of the value play in this race. On the season Fogleman has two top 20 finishes and four top 25 finishes with a season average of 25.1. Fogleman is starting this race at the lowest he has started any race this season and has the most upside in my opinion of any value driver in this race.
Value Tier Rankings:
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Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for Saturday, July 18 Xfinity Series from Fort Worth, Texas! I would also like to welcome you to $17,000 Kyle Busch chalk day! If you are in the WinDailySports Discord channel you saw me mention that we are playing Kyle in the Xfinity and Truck series this weekend even though he is priced WAY up. I will go into detail in a minute. We have a 200 lap race here with 150 dominator points available and I expect the majority of them to be split between two drivers, keep reading to find out who.
Texas Motor Speedway will run similar to what we saw in Kentucky last week with only one real groove on the track so the teams with the best equipment will be the ones we want to target. Obviously we have salary restrictions and cannot get all the top teams in but DraftKings priced the slate in a way that makes it easier to build good lineups with Kyle Busch’s salary.
Kyle Busch ($17,000)
Starting Position: 28th
Is Kyle Busch expensive? Yes. Is he worth paying up for? Also, yes. I know it seems like a steep price to pay, but with Kyle starting 28th and being the best driver in this race he will make value. I have no doubt about that (unless he gets wrecked coming through the field) and with his starting position being so far back we can get a top 5 finish from Kyle without dominator points and he’ll still make value. Even though I say we don’t need dominator point from Busch, we will get them as I think he leads the majority of the second half of this race.
Chase Briscoe ($11,300)
Starting Position: 12th
If you are making multiple lineups and want to fade Kyle in any of them, Briscoe is my favorite play after him. Briscoe has 5 wins on the season with 2 of them coming on 1.5-mile tracks. In his seven 1.5-mile races this season, Briscoe also has four top 5’s, six top 10’s, and an average finish of 6.3. Starting in the 12th spot we get the next best place differential after Kyle Busch with Chase Briscoe as well.
Austin Cindric ($10,800)
Starting Position: 3rd
Here is other dominator I mentioned in the open who I think leads the beginning part of this race. Cindric has dominated at 1.5-mile tracks this season and swept both races last week in Kentucky in dominating fashion. This season Cindric has led nearly 400 laps on mile and a half tracks and has 240 fastest laps. I will be pairing Cindric in lineups with Busch in them to try and maximize as many dominator points as I can.
Other Options: Noah Gragson ($10,400)
Anthony Alfredo ($8,300)
Starting Position: 10th
We will need to focus more on the value tier to fit Kyle Busch into our lineups but if you have the salary to fit Alfredo in, he is a good choice. Anthony Alfredo has been in 5 races at 1.5-mile tracks this season with four of those resulting in top 10 finishes. Alfredo has some great equipment in his RCR Chevy with the team that one back to back Xfinity Series championships in 2018 and 19.
Justin Haley ($8,100)
Starting Position: 11th
Haley is my favorite play in this tier especially since he is starting outside the top 10 and DraftKings dropped his price this week from $9.5K last week. In his last eight races, Haley has four top 5 finishes including a win at Talladega back in June. Haley has a top 5 car seeming every week over the last 4 races and I think another top 5 will happen on Saturday.
Other Options: Brandon Jones ($9,100), Jeremy Clements ($8,700), Tommy Joe Martins ($7,500)
we are going to live in this tier this weekend, but luckily we have a plethora of options, with Brett Moffitt ($7,100), Ryan Sieg ($6,500), and Colby Howard ($5,700). Moffitt is the riskiest play, making him the best GPP value play and Howard is my favorite value play overall. In his last 6 races, Howard has 5 finishes of 21st or better with four of them being inside the top 20.
Value Tier Rankings:
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Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for Wednesday night’s All-Star race from Bristol Motor Speedway. This race is a small field of 20 drivers, of which 16 have already qualified. The field is filled with winners from the 2019 and 2020 seasons as well as past All-Star race winners and previous series champions. There are 4 remaining spots that will be filled by 3 stage winners from The Open, which is an 85 lap race that will be held prior to the All-Star race. There is one final spot to be filled by a fan vote but at last check, Bubba Wallace ($6,800) has a very large lead so he should be the driver that fills the 20th spot.
While there are no points on the line for this race, there is $1 million. We have in the past seen a lot of aggressive driving at the end of this race and Wednesday will most likely be no different, especially at Bristol. I will suggest you pay attention to the Open and alter your lineups after to get the qualifiers into your lineups. The 3 drivers who move on from The Open and the fan vote winner will be starting in positions 17-20 giving them both the highest floor and upside in the field.
I am making it a priority to get 2-4 of them into every lineup I build. These 4 will have an advantage on the field in the first stage because they have already run 85 laps on this track and they will have the knowledge of how the track is and their cars will be set up already. Because of how the transfer drivers are priced, do NOT be afraid to leave large amounts of salary on the table for this race. I have left anywhere from $2,000 to $6,400 in my pre-builds.
Denny Hamlin ($10,100)
Starting Position: 15th
Hamlin is my favorite play on this slate for a few reasons, but place differential is the top reason. Starting 15th, Hamlin will most definitely improve his PD and run towards the front. Hamlin also has six top 10’s and a win in his last 10 races at Bristol and has led 304 laps here.
Joey Logano ($9,400)
Starting Position: 12th
Logano has a similar track history to that of Hamlin’s making him another great play. Until he had a run-in with Elliott on the final laps of the Spring Bristol race earlier this season Logano was poised for his second win in the last 10. Logano has seven top 10’s in the last 10 and has led over 500 laps in the process.
Ryan Blaney ($8,000)
Starting Position: 3rd
Blaney is different than the previous two drivers because he is not a place differential play. I think Blaney could get out to the early lead and dominate the first stage. Even though Blaney hasn’t had good finishes at Bristol, he has led an average of 43.9 laps per race in his career. Blaney is also one of my favorites to win this race for the first time in his career.
Erik Jones ($7,200)
Starting Position: 16th
Jones starts last of the already qualified drivers and could be a threat to win, or worst come home with a top 10. In his 7 career races at Bristol, Jones has three top 5’s while leading 293 laps. Jones owns a 14.4 average finish here, and while that is not great, but if you factor in the size of the field in this race as half a regular race, that average drops inside the top 10.
Cole Custer ($5,800)
Starting Position: 8th
Custer was the last driver to qualify for the field with his win on Sunday at Kentucky. I don’t think Custer is a threat to win this race, but you really can’t count anyone out in this race. In his last 5 race at Bristol in the Xfinity Series, Custer has an average finish 9.4 and has 4 top 10’s in that span. If you want to be different, Custer is my favorite low price play.
Other Options: Kyle Busch (P10 – $9,100), Jimmie Johnson (P14 – $8,800), Brad Keselowski (P9 – $8,600), Kurt Busch (P7 – $7,600)
Once again, remember to follow along with The Open and adjust your rosters accordingly
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NASCAR Cup Series is back in action today in Sparta, Kentucky at the Kentucky Speedway, a 1.5-mile momentum speedway. The Quaker State 400 is set to begin at 2:30 p.m. ET with coverage on FS1.
This 400.5-mile race will take 267 laps to complete. Stage lengths will be 80 laps, 80 laps, and 107 laps.
WinDaily DraftKings and FanDuel First Pass projections are available here, including projections, starting positions, and projected finishing positions.
Note: Roster the race winner.
Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin
Additional options: Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, Kurt Busch, Aric Almirola, Alex Bowman, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Martin Truex, Kyle Busch, Matt DiBenedetto
Note: Focus on rostering drivers that will provide positive place differential points and a strong finishing position score.
Jimmie Johnson, Christopher Bell, William Byron, Tyler Reddick
Additional options: Austin Dillon, Cole Custer, Matt Kenseth, Erik Jones, Clint Bowyer, Daniel Suarez, Ty Dillon, Michael McDowell, Ryan Preece, Ryan Newman
Note: Avoid rostering drivers that finish below their starting position.
Chris Buescher, Ricky Stenhouse, John Nemechek, Corie Lajoie, Bubba Wallace
Note: Roster drivers that will finish on the lead lap.
Brennan Poole, Quin Houff, Joey Gase, Timmy Hill, JJ Yeley, Garrett Smithley, Josh Bilicki
jmo’s FanDuel favorites: Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Kurt Busch, William Byron, Jimmie Johnson, Christopher Bell, Austin Dillon, Daniel Suarez
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Finally, we are back at an intermediate track. Dominator points are back in play and make the loading up of the place differential drivers not as practical in multi-entry contests as on larger tracks with fewer laps. let’s dive into the rankings.
TOP TIER
Kyle Busch $10,100 How much does clean air make up for a driver clearly feeling ill effects from the lack of practice? This race will provide that answer. Kyle starts up front and will see heavy ownership. No active driver holds a better rating at any track than Kyle does here at Kentucky. Kyle will need to lead some laps but I believe he will and look for him to hit value this week.
Denny Hamlin $10,900 Hamlin was mere laps away from a series leading 5th win last week before hitting the wall and seeing Harvick steal away the win. Nobody has unloaded and raced nearly as well as Hamlin and Harvick and as long as the series keeps this schedule, I expect to see that continue.
Also consider: Elliott(gpp), Harvick(gpp), Bell(cash or gpp)
MID TIER
Ryan Blaney $9,800 Blaney has run very well on intermediate tracks and starts 11th with winning potential. He is a very solid cash play.
Clint Bowyer $9,400 Bowyer starts 15th with a driver rating that plants him firmly in the top 10. Solid, not spectacular but value should not be hard to come by with lower ownership than other names in his range making him an intriguing gpp play.
Jimmie Johnson $8,800 JJ starting 20th will find his way into a large portion of my lineups. I believe Hendrick has put some of the best intermediate track cars out this year as I will mention more in Alex Bowman’s write-up. Cash and GPP play.
Kurt Busch $7,600 Last year’s winner certainly deserves mention yet again this year. While strictly a gpp play, he has shown to be able to get up on the wheel and run up front on occasion post pandemic. Finishing top 10 with top 3-5 potential regardless of starting spot is good value at his price.
Also consider: Brad Keselowski (gpp), Tyler Reddick (both), Erik Jones (both), Martin Truex Jr
PUNT TIER ($7,500 and below
Alex Bowman $7,400 Nobody has seen their stock fall with the larger tracks than the driver of the 88 Chevrolet. However, as mentioned we are now back at an intermediate track and Bowman was one of the best at those tracks. Kentucky is comparable to Charlotte which Bowman absolutely dominated for 2 races. I like Bowman as a fantastic gpp play.
Daniel Suarez $6,400 gpp
Michael McDowell $5,700 cash
Ryan Preece $6,300 cash
Cole Custer $6,900 gpp
Ryan Newman $6,100 both
Ty Dillon $6,700 both
Austin Dillon $6,500 gpp
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Welcome to the first NASCAR DFS Pit Stop: Truck series article here at WinDailySports! Hopefully, we can get a clean start to this race unlike the Xfinity series had the previous 2 nights. We have 3 previous winners in this field, including last year’s winner Tyler Ankrum ($9,000) (Matt Crafton and Ben Rhodes have also won here). Ankrum starts 3rd on Saturday and is one of the better plays of the drivers starting towards the front. After leading the most laps in this race last season (40), I think Ankrum could be a dominator contender again.
Austin Hill ($10,800)
Starting Position: 5th
Austin Hill has been the best (full time) Truck Series driver this season. In 6 races his worst finish was a 9th place finish in Charlotte where he led 26 laps. Speaking of laps led, Hill has led laps in 4 of the 6 races this season and has led at least 11 laps in each of those 4 races. Hill doesn’t have a win this season but I think he gets that win Saturday night.
Chandler Smith ($10,000)
Starting Position: 10th
The 18-year-old Smith ran 4 races in 2019 for Kyle Busch Motorsports and finished in the top 10 in all four races and top 5 in three of those races. Smith is in the truck Kyle usually drives, the #51, so we know it’s a fast truck. I know the price seems steep for a young kid with little experience, but he is a very good driver and if Kyle Busch is confident enough to put him in his truck, I am confident enough to use him
Other Options: Johnny Sauter (P11 – $11,200), Todd Gilliland (P9- $10,200), Matt Crafton (P14 – $9,700)
Parker Kligerman ($9,400)
Starting Position: 37th
Kligerman is running his second truck race of the 2020 season, and he will most likely be the highest owned driver in the field on Saturday. In his one race, this season Kligerman started 40th and finished 15th for 54 DK points. If we can get a score like that here on Saturday, we will be happy.
Both Sheldon Creed ($8,000), and Grant Enfinger ($7,800) are viable plays tonight. These guys are two of the top drivers in the Truck Series, especially Enfinger who has two wins this season already. They both start inside the top 10, so they are definitely better suited for multi-entry GPP as their upside is limited, but they are both threats to win this race on Saturday
Ryan Truex ($7,500)
Starting Position: 18th
Truex has only raced once in 2020, a 13th place finish in Atlanta last month after starting 20th. That race was Truex’s first Truck race since 2017, but he did manage and 8th place finish at Kentucky Speedway last season in the Xfinity Series, so he does have a good history at this track, albeit a small history. I think Truex will be lower owned, but it’s hard to get a gauge on that for me
Other Options: Ben Rhodes (P6 – $8,700), Christian Eckes (P4 – $8,500), Clay Greenfield (P33 – $8,200)
Derek Kraus – $7,300
Starting Position: 17th
Kraus is quietly one of the better drivers this season on the Truck Series with 4 straight finishes of 16th or better. There is not a ton of value in this race, but Kraus is the best of this tier in my opinion.
Value Rankings:
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We are back with the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop Xfinity Series 7/10/20 race on Friday night with the Alsco 300 from Kentucky Speedway for DraftKings. Since I am writing this article during Thursday night’s race I don’t have starting positions, but I will be posting them on Twitter and updating some plays (if needed) on Twitter and in the Discord.
Friday night’s race is 200 laps, as opposed to the 134 they on Thursday, so that will give us a good amount more of dominator points. This will make picking the right dominators even more key. As I am watching this race (written with 48 to go) Noah Gragson ($11,200) has absolutely dominated this race until the caution flags ruined his race. Austin Cindric ($10,200) earned his first non-road course victory, and both Allgaier and Briscoe looked equally fast.
I could basically copy and paste this section from Thursday night’s race, but I won’t. No matter how this race shakes out the “big 4” all looked good and will be using these same cars on Friday. You will need at least 2 in your lineups if you plan on cashing in my opinion.
Two other plays that you can fit in with two of the four listed will be Brandon Jones ($9,800) and Justin Haley ($9,500). Jones wrecked on lap 1, turn 1 on Thursday and because of this, he will be starting dead last so he is the obvious place differential play. Jones will be extremely chalky, but you will most likely need to play him to compete for a takedown as he will most likely have the highest DK point total. As for Haley, he had a great race and has four top 6 finishes in his last six races (not including Thursday).
Other Options: Harrison Burton ($10,000), Ross Chastain ($10,200)
Riley Herbst ($8,500) will be a great play once again on Friday. Herbst put on a show and came home 2nd on Thursday which will have him starting 14th on Friday. I believe another top 5 is in the cards for Herbst on Friday. He is a lock for me if you are building one lineup, and I will be overweight on him in my lineups.
I know I am repeating myself again, but Brandon Brown ($7,800) will be a great play again. If it wasn’t for Justin Haley, Brown would have had a top 10 finish. Brown will now stat in the late 20’s on Friday and he will be another great place differential play Friday night.
Anthony Alfredo ($9,100) had a great night with a 6th place finish and will start 10th on Friday in a car that seemed to improve as the race went along. Alfredo is expensive, but I think he is a better play than Myatt Snider ($9,300) now that he is on the pole.
Other Options: Michael Annett ($8,900), Ryan Sieg ($7,600)
Daniel Hemric ($7,400) takes over for Jeb Burton in the JRM #8 Chevy on Friday and will be scored from 34th even though he will move to the back because of the driver change, but that doesn’t affect him as a play since it’s only 2 spots. Hemric will need to navigate the field early, but I think the top 10 is where Hemric ends up.
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Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop: Xfinity Series 7/9/20 for Thursday night’s Shady Rays 200 Xfinity Series race from Kentucky Speedway! Thursday’s race is the first of two races on back to back nights from Kentucky and will have Noah Gragson ($10,600) on the pole joined by Ross Chastain ($10,000) on the front row. Of these two drivers, only Gragson is of interest to me, this is not to say Chastain isn’t playable but I won’t be using him at this salary. In 8 races here, Chastain has 1 top ten and an average finish of 18.4
Only Stephen Leicht ($5,300) has a win of the drivers in the field, so there will be a first-time winner on Thursday. I haven’t heard anything yet about Leicht being a start and park as of writing, but if I find anything out about him or any other drivers I will update in discord and/or on my Twitter.
There are 4 drivers I want to use in this category and they are the top 4 priced drivers (ranked in order of preference):
These 4 drivers have been the most dominant in the Xfinity Series all season and account for 7 wins (out of 13) and have led a combined 1,208 laps this season. I will be rostering combinations of the 4 of them in all of my lineups on Thursday, and I suggest you do the same.
Briscoe is the hottest of the 4 with back to back wins at Pocono and Indy, and also won earlier this season at Las Vegas which is a comparable track to Kentucky. Briscoe led 89 laps there, followed by Cindric who led 39 and finished 2nd. I rank both Cindric and Gragson ahead of Briscoe because of the place differential points possible for Cindric and the fact I think Gragson leads the majority, if not all, of the laps in Stage 1. All 4 of these drivers finished top 8 in Las Vegas back in February as well.
Myatt Snider ($9,300)
Starting Position: 28th
Snider has really found his groove and is looking to add to the great run he is currently on. Coming into Kentucky, Snider has positive place differential in 7 of his last 8 races, and has 4 finishes of 16th or better in his last 5 races. Snider is back in #93 this week with Anthony Alfredo ($8,200) back in the RCR #21 this week. Alfredo isn’t a terrible play this week starting 11th, but there are better plays in this tier.
Riley Herbst ($8,400)
Starting Position: 23rd
Herbst has some bad luck late in the race last week at Indy and came home 33rd after running in or around the top 10 most of the day. Looking back to Vegas earlier this year, Herbst finished in 9th and quietly ran a solid race. We know he has a fast car because every JGR Toyota is fast it seems. Herbst should be a threat to finish inside the top 10 again this week and will make value easily if he does.
Brandon Brown ($7,500)
Starting Position: 19th
Brandon Brown is a small team that actually has good equipment and is a contender every week for a solid finish. In 4 races at Las Vegas and Kentucky in his career, Brown has an average finish of 15.25 and left Sin City with an 11th place finish in February of this year.
Other Options: Justin Haley ($9,100) -Don’t sleep on Haley he has the potential to steal the win from the big 4, Jeremy Clements ($8,900), Jeb Burton ($8,500), Tommy Joe Martins ($7,700) – I don’t love his price but I really think he catches a break this week and comes home with a top 25
Like I did last week, I will be ranking my plays in this tier. In the Xfinity, and Truck Series’ it is all about the top tier drivers. We need to find the right value piece, or two, to make our lineups work. Drivers in this tier will not win races, and on most days won’t even crack the top 15, so it’s key to find the drivers who can get you the place differential points needed.
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