Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
- the loop data for the past four races (excluding Watkins Glen);
- the loop data for the past four races at Michigan;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Charlotte and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Michigan; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Matt Kenseth
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Kasey Kahne
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Clint Bowyer
- Greg Biffle
- Carl Edwards
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Kurt Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Jeff Gordon
- Mark Martin
- Joey Logano
- Ryan Newman
- Paul Menard
- Jamie McMurray
- Aric Almirola
- Marcos Ambrose
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Jeff Burton
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- Danica Patrick
- Bobby Labonte
- David Ragan
- David Gilliland
- Travis Kvapil
- Dave Blaney
- David Reutimann
- Landon Cassill
- David Stremme
- J.J. Yeley
- Josh Wise
- Timmy Hill
- Joe Nemechek
- Scott Speed
- Brendan Gaughan
- Johnny Sauter (i)
- Mike Bliss
Appreciate your efforts and your labor of love. Am avid fantasy Nascar player. Have cut back drastically to about 21 active lineups each race. That does not count the many others where no trades allowed.
So many good games, so little time. lol
Curious as to the games your in and why,in general.
Missing in our little world is an in depth article/list of the many available games out there.
I Have tinkered in that area, and that alone is another story.
Any way,enjoy your stuff. Picking writers to follow is tuff as picking drivers.
Reckon practices,qualifying,driver comments,Garrow and who is fast dots the I . Keep up the good work. Thanks Ray Miller Lenexa KS
Hi Ray! Sorry for the delayed response.
Yes, I too would like to see an article/list of all the available fantasy NASCAR games. An up-to-date list of U.S.-available sportsbooks that offer NASCAR lines would be good, too. I was keeping up with them at the beginning of the season but haven’t in several months.
I play the Yahoo and PaytheFan games. Yahoo because that’s where I originally got into fantasy NASCAR, with a group of friends. That league has since gone under, but I still play Yahoo. So many people play it that it seems to be a decent measuring stick. Although maybe I shouldn’t say that because I’ve been getting killed in it so far this year, ha! I pretty sure I’m averaging at least one catastrophe/race (crash, penalty, part failure, etc.). Ah well…
I signed up for PaytheFan this year for the first time in an attempt to actually make some $ out of all this number crunching I do. Heh, hasn’t worked out too well so far.
Yep, I too think the prelims data (i.e., practice and quals) has predictive value. And the loop data from races on the relevant tracks. I also like Garrow’s crew chief report, though I don’t always have time to get to it and use it to tweak my rankings.
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