Jimmie Johnson, Martin Truex Jr. and Kurt Busch appear in nearly all of my algorithm’s top 25 DraftKings-Texas lineups. (photo courtesy nascar)
Here are my top 25 DraftKings NASCAR driver lineups for tonight’s race at Texas. To compile them, first I plugged my driver rankings for tonight’s race and Friday’s qualifying results into my driver points projection model to project how many DraftKings points each driver will score at Texas I. Then I ran those points projections through an algorithm I created in Google Sheets with the Solver add-on, which chewed through all possible driver combinations to spit out the 25 best lineups for tomorrow’s race.
The results are in descending order, and the total predicted points have been rounded to the nearest hundredth. If you’re on a small-screen device, scroll the table horizontally with a finger-drag to see all the columns.
The lineups:
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Driver 1,Driver 2,Driver 3,Driver 4,Driver 5,Driver 6,Total Predicted Pts
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Paul Menard,AJ Allmendinger,335.11
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Ryan Newman,Austin Dillon,Jamie McMurray,330.53
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kevin Harvick,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,AJ Allmendinger,330.12
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Austin Dillon,AJ Allmendinger,329.96
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Landon Cassill,329.76
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Paul Menard,Ty Dillon,329.14
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Joey Logano,AJ Allmendinger,Ty Dillon,328.38
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Brian Scott,328.28
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,Jamie McMurray,328.17
Jimmie Johnson,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Austin Dillon,Paul Menard,327.51
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Joey Logano,Paul Menard,David Ragan,327.3
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,AJ Allmendinger,Aric Almirola,327.26
Jimmie Johnson,Kevin Harvick,Kurt Busch,Ryan Newman,Jamie McMurray,AJ Allmendinger,327.01
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Ryan Newman,Austin Dillon,Paul Menard,326.94
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Paul Menard,Casey Mears,326.85
Jimmie Johnson,Kurt Busch,Joey Logano,Ryan Newman,Austin Dillon,AJ Allmendinger,326.75
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Ryan Newman,Jamie McMurray,Kasey Kahne,326.66
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kevin Harvick,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,Aric Almirola,326.53
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,AJ Allmendinger,Greg Biffle,326.14
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Paul Menard,David Ragan,323.81
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Paul Menard,Ricky Stenhouse Jr,323.69
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kevin Harvick,Ryan Newman,AJ Allmendinger,Clint Bowyer,323.65
Jimmie Johnson,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,Kasey Kahne,323.63
Jimmie Johnson,Kurt Busch,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,AJ Allmendinger,323.42
Jimmie Johnson,Martin Truex Jr,Kevin Harvick,Kurt Busch,AJ Allmendinger,Brian Scott,323.26
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