My lineup optimizer included KyBu in 14 of its 20 top DraftKings lineups for Bristol I today. (photo courtesy nascar)
Here are my top 20 DraftKings NASCAR driver lineups for today’s race at Bristol. To compile them, first I plugged my final driver rankings for today’s race and Friday’s qualifying results into my driver points projection model to project how many DraftKings points each driver will score at Bristol I. 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 20 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
1,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kurt Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Cole Whitt,356.07
2,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kurt Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Michael Annett,355.05
3,Kevin Harvick,Carl Edwards,Kurt Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,David Ragan,352.045
4,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Dale Earnhardt Jr.,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,David Ragan,351.56
5,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Ryan Newman,Jamie McMurray,350.93
6,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Kasey Kahne,Clint Bowyer,350.35
7,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Kasey Kahne,Ryan Blaney,350.23
8,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Chase Elliott,Ty Dillon,349.25
9,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kurt Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Matt DiBenedetto,349.15
10,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kurt Busch,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Kasey Kahne,Cole Whitt,349.01
11,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Denny Hamlin,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Cole Whitt,348.68
12,Kevin Harvick,Carl Edwards,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Kasey Kahne,Ryan Newman,348.48
13,Kevin Harvick,Kurt Busch,Kyle Larson,Joey Logano,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,David Ragan,348.4
14,Kevin Harvick,Carl Edwards,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Kasey Kahne,Jamie McMurray,348.24
15,Kevin Harvick,Carl Edwards,Kyle Larson,Dale Earnhardt Jr.,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Aric Almirola,348.02
16,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kurt Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Jeffrey Earnhardt,347.95
17,Kevin Harvick,Carl Edwards,Kyle Larson,Joey Logano,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Cole Whitt,347.89
18,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Martin Truex Jr.,David Ragan,347.74
19,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kurt Busch,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Ryan Newman,David Ragan,347.67
20,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Kyle Larson,Ricky Stenhouse Jr.,Kasey Kahne,Aric Almirola,347.41
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