Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - FireKeepers Casino 400 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and pre-qualifying targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. You can also grab a copy of his free DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet that includes a ton of stats and a customizable model. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. FireKeepers Casino 400 Michigan International Speedway - Brooklyn, MI Track - 2 Mile D-Shaped Oval 18° of Banking This week the Monster Energy Cup Series heads to Michigan International Speedway for the FireKeepers Casino 400 on Sunday afternoon. While last week was a tough race for passing with the new package, that is not expected to be the case at Michigan which has more banking and should lead to more drafting, big runs, passing, and lead changes. That is great news for Michigan fans as this track has provided one of the highest correlations between starting and finishing position in the sport. For fantasy, we have seen a driver lead 100 or more laps just twice in the last five races and expect that trend to continue with the new rules package that should lead to a lot of lead changes. We will have to confirm in the two Friday practices but I also think stacking teammates is fully in play here again this week with the drafting I think we see. Last Six Winners at Michigan Kevin Harvick(started 3rd, led 108 laps) Clint Bowyer(started 12th, led 8 laps) Kyle Larson(started 9th, led 2 laps) Kyle Larson(started 1st, led 96 laps) Kyle Larson(started 12th, led 41 laps) Joey Logano(started 1st, led 138 laps) Weekend Schedule Practice #1 - Friday @ 2:05 pm ET Practice #2 - Friday @ 4:05 pm ET Inspection - Saturday Pre-Qualifying Qualifying - Saturday @ 12:05 pm ET Race - Sunday @ 2:00 pm ET Track History at Michigan  If it's consistency you are after, look no further than Chase Elliott who returns to Michigan with a Top 10 finish in all six career races which includes three runner-up finishes. The only knock here is that he has not led a lap over the last four races here and is averaging just 43.4 DraftKings points per race(7th best) but on FanDuel he is averaging 55.3 points per race, second to only Kevin Harvick. Kyle Busch returns to Michigan with...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Pocono 400 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and pre-qualifying targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. You can also grab a copy of his free DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet that includes a ton of stats and a customizable model. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Pocono 400 Pocono Raceway - Long Pond, PA Track - 2.5 Mile Tri-Oval 14° of Banking in Turns 1 8° of Banking in Turn 2 6° of Banking in Turn 3 This week the Monster Energy Cup Series heads to one of the most unique tracks in NASCAR, Pocono Raceway. It is called the "Tricky Triangle" for a reason as it has just three corners and all three are different and present different challenges for crew and car chiefs to get the car setup. You either have to sacrifice handling in once corner to be good in the other two or go balanced between them. Rarely you will see a car set up perfectly for all three corners. For fantasy, these challenges combined with only 160 laps in the race really limits the dominator upside. Only twice has a driver led 100 or more laps in a Pocono race going all the way back to 2010(18 races). When it comes to track position and correlation from start to finish, last year was a bit of an anomaly(.227 correlation) as the average correlation has been .570 in the previous five race before that. The difference last year was that a lot of fast cars qualified outside the Top 20 and Top 30 starting positions. With the new single-car qualifying, I don't expect that to happen this time around. A reminder that both practice sessions are on Friday with Qualifying now on Saturday before the Xfinity race. It is an impound weekend but inspection is being done Saturday before qualifying so we don't have to wait until pre-race Sunday for the official starting lineup. Last Six Winners at Pocono Kyle Busch(started 28th, led 52 laps) Martin Truex Jr.(started 4th, led 31 laps) Kyle Busch(started 1st, led 74 laps) Ryan Blaney(started 4th, led 10 laps) Chris Buescher(started 22nd, led 12 laps) Kurt Busch(started 9th, led 32 laps) Weekend Schedule Practice #1 - Friday @ 2:05 pm ET Practice #2 - Friday @ 4:05 pm ET Qualifying -...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Coca-Cola 600 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and pre-qualifying targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. You can also grab a copy of his free DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet that includes a ton of stats and a customizable model. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Coca-Cola 600 Charlotte Motor Speedway - Concord, NC Track - 1.5 Mile Quad-Oval Intermediate 24° of Banking It was another exciting All-Star race last week that will probably be remembered more for the feud between Bowyer and Newman(mostly Bowyer punching Newman in the face while in his car) than the Kyle Larson win. The good news is that they made up and in classic Clint Bowyer fashion. This week the teams get back to the business at hand with one of the biggest and definitely the longest race of the year, the Coca-Cola 600. The track is a mile and a half intermediate and up until last year hosted two races per season(playoff race uses the new road course). Teams will also be using the same 2019 rules package that was used at Kansas, Texas, and Las Vegas so I added that data(avg fin/avg DK/avg FD) to my sheet and will weigh it in my model this week. From a fantasy perspective, it has been mostly a one dominator race with just one driver leading 100+ laps in five of the last six races here. Adding to that, there has only been one race in the last six where more than two drivers led 50+ laps. We could see more of the same this week as, despite the new rules package, we have only seen only two drivers in each of the three races mentioned above(Kan, Tex, Veg) lead 50+ laps. With that said, there have also been at least seven drivers to lead 10+ in each of those races. Place differential has been all over the place with as low as one driver and as high as 16 drivers picking up double-digit PD points in those six races. Let's jump in and take a look at some track history, form, and get into the picks. Last Six Winners at Charlotte '18 Coca Cola 600 - Kyle Busch(started 1st, led 377 laps) '17 Playoffs - Martin Truex Jr.(started 17th, led 91 laps) '17 Coca Cola...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Digital Ally 400 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and pre-qualifying targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. You can also grab a copy of his free DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet that includes a ton of stats and a customizable model. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Digital Ally 400 Kansas Speedway - Kansas City, KS Track - 1.5 Mile D-Shaped Oval Intermediate 15° of Banking This week the Monster Energy Cup Series heads to Kansas Speedway for the Digital Ally 400 this Saturday night. After racing on four different track types(Dover, Talladega, Richmond, Bristol) the Cup series goes back to another Mile and Half track and one which has hosted two races per season since 2011. Not only will I be looking at track history and track type history this week, but I will also be looking back at the other races this season using the new 2019 rules package. For the most part, each week and track have been different setups but this will be the third race of the season with the full package(550 hp tapered spacer, rear spoiler, air ducts) so looking back at the Las Vegas and Texas races can definitely give us some info going into this weekends race. Looking at the past six races here(from my sheet), there has been just one driver in each race to lead 100 or more laps and no more than four to lead 20 or more laps. I believe this will change this time around as we two drivers lead 86 and 88 laps in Vegas with five drivers leading 15 or more laps. In Texas, we saw two seven drivers lead 15+, six drivers lead 20+, and two drivers lead 50+ with no driver once again leading 100 laps. With all that said, let's take a look at some track history, track type history, current form and then dig into the picks. Last Six Winners at Kansas Chase Elliott(started 13th, led 44 laps) Kevin Harvick(started 1st, led 79 laps) Martin Truex Jr.(started 1st, led 91 laps) Martin Truex Jr.(started 3rd, led 104 laps) Kevin Harvick(started 11th, led 74 laps) Kyle Busch(started 6th, led 69 laps) Track History at Kansas No driver has been better at Kansas over the last two years than Martin Truex Jr. who...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Gander RV 400 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and pre-qualifying targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. You can also grab a copy of his free DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet that includes a ton of stats and a customizable model. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Gander RV 400 Dover International Speedway - Dover, DE Track - One Mile Oval 24° of Banking After Chase Elliott picked up his, Hendrick Motorsports, and Chevrolet's first win of the season, the Monster Energy Cup Series heads to the Monster Mile for the Gander RV 400 on Sunday afternoon. Dover is a one-mile track but length is where the comparisons end in terms of other one-mile tracks in New Hampshire and Phoenix which are both flat tracks. With it being such a unique track, I will not be looking at track type this week but rather putting more weight on current track history, form, and a mix of practice/qualifying data. Speaking of qualifying, there will be no more chaos on pit road or drafting as NASCAR this week that is will be going back to single-car qualifying at all tracks except the road courses. That is big for the fantasy game as the fastest cars will more consistently be starting near the front with less place differential values on a weekly basis. This week more than any other should show us that as Dover has one of the highest correlations between starting and finishing position. From a strategy standpoint, dominator points are at the top of my list on DraftKings as we have seen at least one driver lead 100 or more laps in each of the last six races, four times with two drivers leading 100+ laps. On FanDuel, I will be focusing more on finishing position. Last Six Winners at Dover Chase Elliott(started 9th, led 11 laps) Kevin Harvick(started 2nd, led 201 laps) Kyle Busch(started 2nd, led 30 laps) Jimmie Johnson(started 14th, led 7 laps) Martin Truex Jr.(started 2nd, led 187 laps) Matt Kenseth(started 10th, led 48 laps) Track History at Dover Chase Elliott, coming off a win last week at Talladega, now returns to Dover where he has an elite 4.3 career average finish, his best at any track. He won the playoff race here last October and has...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Geico 500 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and pre-qualifying targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. You can also grab a copy of his free DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet that includes a ton of stats and a customizable model. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Geico 500 Talladega Superspeedway - Talladega, AL Track - 2.66 Mile Tri-Oval Superspeedway 33° of Banking After a week off for the Easter holiday, the Monster Energy Cup Series returns to the track this weekend for the Geico 500 from Talladega Superspeedway. We usually discuss plate racing when coming to Talladega but this race will be a little different with the new rules package. NASCAR no longer uses restrictor plates and instead will be moving forward with the new tapered spacer like we have seen at all other tracks since the Daytona 500. This will make the cars 550 HP across the board and the cars will also include the air ducts at the front. What kind of racing will this produce? No one really knows at this point and teams only have two Friday practices(60 and 50 min) to figure it all out. Qualifying will be Saturday afternoon and this race is another impound race. It is different than Richmond, however, as the qualifying tech will take place before qualifying starts. This makes things so much easier from a lineup construction standpoint as we won't have to wait until hours before the race for a confirmed starting lineup. Generally, at Daytona and Talladega we are looking to build around place differential. It makes sense as 12 or more drivers have picked up double-digit place differential in four of the last six races here. Last year was also a unique year as we normally don't see dominator points playing a part but Kurt Busch led 100 laps in the fall race and Joey Logano led 70 in Spring race here. Another trend to look at is the dominance of Ford here at Talladega lately. Each of the last seven and 10 of the last 13 winners were driving a Ford. Let's now take a look at some track history, current form, and then jump into the picks. Last Six Winners at Talladega Aric Almirola(started 4th) Joey Logano(started 9th) Brad Keselowski(started 6th) Ricky Stenhouse Jr.(started...