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DraftKings Driver Values: Darlington, 2017

Kasey Kahne photo

Kasey Kahne offers good DraftKings value at Darlington tonight in the $7K tier . (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my DraftKings driver points and price/point predictions for tonight’s Darlington race. To predict how many DraftKings points each driver will score tonight, I plugged my final driver rankings for tonight’s race into my projection model, and the starting lineup. Then, to calculate each driver’s price/point, I simply divided each driver’s price by their predicted points.

The below table lists all drivers available on DraftKings tonight, and it’s sorted from lowest price/point to highest. If you’re on a small-screen device, scroll the table horizontally with a finger drag to see all the columns.

The table: Continue reading →

Final Rankings: Darlington, 2017

Kevin Harvick photo

Kevin Harvick took over the top spot in my final Darlington driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my final driver rankings for tonight’s race at Darlington. I compiled them by crunching the practice data from Darlington on Saturday, and then melding it with the historical data:

  1. Kevin Harvick
  2. Martin Truex Jr.
  3. Kyle Busch
  4. Denny Hamlin
  5. Kyle Larson
  6. Matt Kenseth
  7. Brad Keselowski
  8. Erik Jones
  9. Kurt Busch
  10. Jamie McMurray Continue reading →

Early Rankings: Darlington, 2017

Martin Truex Jr photo

Martin Truex Jr. tops my early Darlington driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Update: I’ve posted my final Darlington driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Darlington. I compiled them by crunching:

  • The loop data for the past 15 Cup races (excluding Daytona Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen;
  • the loop data for the past four races (excluding Daytona);
  • the loop data for the past four races at Darlington;
  • the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Dover, Homestead and Las Vegas);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Darlington; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

  1. Martin Truex Jr.
  2. Kyle Busch
  3. Kevin Harvick
  4. Erik Jones
  5. Denny Hamlin
  6. Matt Kenseth
  7. Kyle Larson
  8. Brad Keselowski
  9. Jimmie Johnson
  10. Joey Logano Continue reading →