Daytona baby!
The kickoff race for the Cup season is upon us for 500 miles of crazy action and pack racing. As we saw in the Duels on Thursday night, tight, fast racing will be a theme of the race and that means so will crashes. In fact, over the last several races here, more than 40-percent of the cars that have entered the races have been involved in a wreck of some sort whether or not it ended their day. So the strategy for this race is to play a lot of drivers from the rear and hope that they avoid the crashes.
In the last five runnings of the Daytona 500 between 2-3 drivers that started in the top-10 finished there while most of the top-10 finishing spots are filled with drivers who started in the rear of the field. It’s so effective that we will see drivers who start in the front to drop to the back of the pack after the race starts to simply try and avoid the big one and give them a better chance of finishing well. With that in mind, Position Differential will be the key stat this week for boosting scores as the laps led and fastest laps tend to be split pretty widely in this race without much of a dominator or two showing up.
This week more than any, every driver is in play and I am not a fan of going overweight on any driver as Dan and I stated in the podcast. The drivers in the playbook are the best options based on history, what they’ve shown this week, salary, and starting spots.
If you want more data on the drivers in the field, you can check out the Track Breakdown Coach’s Dashboard, DFS Rankings, and Projections.
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