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Final Rankings: Watkins Glen, 2017

Kyle Busch photo

Kyle Busch remains on top in my final Watkins Glen driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

  1. Kyle Busch
  2. Martin Truex Jr.
  3. Kyle Larson
  4. Brad Keselowski
  5. AJ Allmendinger
  6. Kurt Busch
  7. Kevin Harvick
  8. Jamie McMurray
  9. Joey Logano
  10. Denny Hamlin Continue reading →

Early Rankings: Watkins Glen, 2017

Kyle Busch photo

Kyle Busch tops my early Watkins Glen driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

  • The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega);
  • the loop data for the past four races at Watkins Glen;
  • the loop data for the past four races at Sonoma;
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Watkins Glen; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past four races at Sonoma.

The results:

  1. Kyle Busch
  2. Martin Truex Jr.
  3. AJ Allmendinger
  4. Kevin Harvick
  5. Kurt Busch
  6. Kyle Larson
  7. Brad Keselowski
  8. Joey Logano
  9. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  10. Jimmie Johnson Continue reading →

DraftKings Lineups: Watkins Glen, 2016

Clint Bowyer photo

Clint Bowyer appears in 19 of my DraftKings lineup optimizer’s top 30 lineups. (photo courtesy nascar)

I’ve used my lineup optimizer to compile my top 30 DraftKings NASCAR driver lineups for today’s race at Watkins Glen. To compile them, first I plugged my final driver rankings for today’s race and Saturday’s qualifying results into my driver points projection model to project how many DraftKings points each driver will score at Watkins Glen today. 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 30 best lineups for today’s race.

The lineups are sorted in descending order of total predicted points scored, and the total predicted points have been rounded to the nearest hundredth. I posted them in a PDF file you can download and view for $1. Here’s the link: Watkins Glen 2016 DraftKings Lineups

Note: No guarantee comes with my lineups, rankings, predictions, etc. Use them at your own risk. To get a feel for how the lineups look, check out my Kansas I 2016 DraftKings lineups.

Good luck today!