DraftKings Lineups: Fontana, 2016

Brian Vickers photo

Brian Vickers is a must-have if you’re playing DraftKings’ Fontana race tomorrow. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my Top 15 DraftKings NASCAR driver lineups for tomorrow’s race at Fontana. To compile them, first I plugged my driver rankings for tomorrow’s race and Friday’s qualifying results into my driver points projection model to project how many DraftKings points each driver will score tomorrow. Then I ran those points projections through an algorithm I created in Google Sheets with the OpenSolver add-on, which chewed through all possible driver combinations to spit out the 15 best lineups for tomorrow’s race.

The results are in descending order, and the total predicted points have been rounded to the nearest whole number. If you’re on a small-screen device, scroll the table horizontally with a finger-drag to see all the columns.

Note: If you want to see my points projections for each driver and their price/point value, I’ve posted my Fontana driver points and values projection table, too.

The lineups:

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Driver 1,Driver 2,Driver 3,Driver 4,Driver 5,Driver 6,Total Predicted Pts
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Jimmie Johnson,Carl Edwards,Brian Vickers,David Ragan,295
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Kurt Busch,Ryan Blaney,Brian Vickers,293
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Kurt Busch,Austin Dillon,Brian Vickers,293
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Matt Kenseth,Ricky Stenhouse Jr,Brian Vickers,291
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Blaney,Brian Vickers,289
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Dale Earnhardt Jr,Ryan Blaney,Brian Vickers,289
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Brad Keselowski,Austin Dillon,Brian Vickers,288
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Matt Kenseth,Brian Vickers,Paul Menard,288
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Blaney,David Ragan,288
Martin Truex Jr,Jimmie Johnson,Carl Edwards,Kurt Busch,Ryan Blaney,Brian Vickers,288
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Jimmie Johnson,Brad Keselowski,Brian Vickers,David Ragan,288
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Jimmie Johnson,Carl Edwards,Brian Vickers,Cole Whitt,287
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Ryan Blaney,Austin Dillon,Kyle Larson,287
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Carl Edwards,Kurt Busch,Ricky Stenhouse Jr,Brian Vickers,287
Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr,Jimmie Johnson,Austin Dillon,Kyle Larson,Brian Vickers,287
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