We have a quick turnaround this week after Monday’s race at Dover, as the Digital Ally 400 at Kansas is tonight (Saturday). To add on to that, NASCAR went with the impound schedule as well, which means the starting lineup wasn’t officially set until a couple of hours before lock. Anybody who regularly plays DraftKings NASCAR knows how much of a pain in the ass this is, as well as a major time crunch, so let’s get to the article. Things are going to be a little different this week for the sake of time.
Here are some helpful links to the qualifying results and practice speeds from this weekend:
1.5-Mile Track Performance in 2019
Kansas Speedway is a typical 1.5-mile “cookie cutter” race track, and it was repaved in 2012 so there’s not much tire fall off at all. This season we’ve raced at three other tracks (so far) of the same length, with those being Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Texas.
Below you will find quite a few statistics for each driver when it comes to the 1.5-mile tracks, including DraftKings points scored per race, dominator points per race, average finish, average start, number of fastest laps per race, laps led per race, and average running position. This is a wide table, so feel free to scroll. Also, you can click the column headers to sort by that column as well.
Atlanta is often thought of as the outlier 1.5-mile track because of how rough the surface is, so I’m including two charts here: one excluding the Atlanta race, and one including. Both are initially sorted by DraftKings points per race.
Statistics Excluding Atlanta
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[table “1403” not found /]Kansas Digital Ally 400 DraftKings Projections
You can click the headers below to sort the chart by that attribute. By default it is sorted by average projected FPTS.
| Driver | Starting Position | DraftKings Salary | Avg Proj FPTS | Avg. Projected Finish | Proj Laps Led | Dollar Per FPT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Harvick | 1 | $10,600 | 68.5 | 01.8 | 101 | $155 |
| Martin Truex Jr | 31 | $11,400 | 64.2 | 06.8 | 11 | $178 |
| Chase Elliott | 32 | $11,000 | 60.5 | 10.4 | 21 | $182 |
| Aric Almirola | 33 | $8,100 | 59.8 | 08.6 | 0 | $135 |
| Joey Logano | 30 | $10,200 | 59.6 | 08.6 | 11 | $171 |
| Kyle Larson | 35 | $8,700 | 57.6 | 11.2 | 4 | $151 |
| Kyle Busch | 8 | $11,900 | 56.0 | 03.8 | 44 | $213 |
| Daniel Suarez | 34 | $8,000 | 44.0 | 17.0 | 0 | $182 |
| Kurt Busch | 9 | $9,600 | 41.3 | 06.6 | 6 | $232 |
| Ryan Blaney | 13 | $9,300 | 38.7 | 10.2 | 6 | $240 |
| Clint Bowyer | 2 | $8,500 | 36.5 | 07.4 | 21 | $233 |
| Brad Keselowski | 4 | $9,900 | 35.6 | 08.2 | 16 | $278 |
| Erik Jones | 6 | $8,900 | 34.4 | 09.8 | 16 | $259 |
| Denny Hamlin | 11 | $9,100 | 34.2 | 10.4 | 0 | $266 |
| Austin Dillon | 15 | $7,500 | 29.8 | 14.6 | 0 | $252 |
| Michael McDowell | 37 | $5,600 | 28.6 | 26.2 | 0 | $196 |
| Ty Dillon | 36 | $6,600 | 27.2 | 26.4 | 0 | $243 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 14 | $7,300 | 26.8 | 15.6 | 0 | $272 |
| Alex Bowman | 5 | $7,000 | 24.6 | 13.2 | 8 | $285 |
| Ryan Newman | 19 | $7,800 | 24.6 | 19.2 | 0 | $317 |
| Paul Menard | 10 | $7,100 | 22.0 | 16.0 | 0 | $323 |
| Jimmie Johnson | 12 | $8,300 | 20.8 | 17.6 | 0 | $399 |
| Chris Buescher | 18 | $7,600 | 19.6 | 21.2 | 0 | $388 |
| Landon Cassill | 38 | $5,000 | 19.6 | 31.2 | 0 | $255 |
| Tyler Reddick | 21 | $6,300 | 17.4 | 23.8 | 0 | $362 |
| David Ragan | 24 | $5,500 | 17.2 | 25.4 | 0 | $320 |
| Ryan Preece | 22 | $6,100 | 16.0 | 25.0 | 0 | $381 |
| Joey Gase | 40 | $4,900 | 13.6 | 35.2 | 0 | $360 |
| Daniel Hemric | 17 | $6,000 | 12.6 | 24.2 | 0 | $476 |
| Matt DiBenedetto | 20 | $6,800 | 09.6 | 27.2 | 0 | $708 |
| Timmy Hill | 39 | $4,600 | 09.0 | 37.0 | 0 | $511 |
| William Byron | 3 | $6,500 | 07.9 | 19.8 | 2 | $823 |
| Matt Tifft | 26 | $5,300 | 07.6 | 31.2 | 0 | $697 |
| Ross Chastain | 27 | $5,800 | 07.4 | 31.8 | 0 | $784 |
| Corey Lajoie | 16 | $5,200 | 01.6 | 29.2 | 0 | $3,250 |
| Bubba Wallace | 7 | $5,900 | 00.6 | 25.2 | 0 | $9,833 |
| Bayley Currey | 23 | $4,700 | 00.6 | 33.2 | 0 | $7,833 |
| Quin Houff | 25 | $4,500 | 00.2 | 34.4 | 0 | $22,500 |
| Reed Sorenson | 29 | $5,100 | 00.2 | 36.4 | 0 | $25,500 |
