Martin Truex Jr. appears in all 20 of my optimized Richmond I DraftKings lineups. (photo courtesy nascar)
Here are my top 20 DraftKings NASCAR driver lineups for today’s race at Richmond. 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 Richmond 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 today’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,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,333.22
2,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,David Ragan,329.07
3,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,Matt DiBenedetto,326.29
4,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,Landon Cassill,325.02
5,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Paul Menard,Casey Mears,324.94
6,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,Michael Annett,324.27
7,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,Paul Menard,AJ Allmendinger,324.1
8,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,AJ Allmendinger,Casey Mears,323.45
9,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Kyle Larson,Michael Annett,323.1
10,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Paul Menard,Danica Patrick,323.096
11,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,Paul Menard,321.88
12,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,Paul Menard,Clint Bowyer,321.82
13,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,Greg Biffle,321.61
14,Kevin Harvick,Kyle Busch,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Paul Menard,David Ragan,321.44
15,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,Ryan Newman,Casey Mears,320.91
16,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Brad Keselowski,Kyle Larson,Paul Menard,320.71
17,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,Kyle Larson,Greg Biffle,320.44
18,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Brad Keselowski,Ryan Newman,AJ Allmendinger,320.39
19,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Jimmie Johnson,Ryan Blaney,AJ Allmendinger,Clint Bowyer,320.33
20,Kevin Harvick,Martin Truex Jr.,Ryan Blaney,Carl Edwards,Paul Menard,AJ Allmendinger,320.18
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