Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona: NASCAR DFS Premium Point Projections For DraftKings
Drew Deen’s NASCAR Cup Series DFS Projections for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona. Subscribe to Garage Guys Fantasy Sports Premium Content today for more NASCAR DFS articles and research to help you stack cash and bag tourneys on DraftKings and FanDuel.
Daytona 2: Driver Projections For DraftKings
Projections are hardly valuable for Superspeedway racing. This week you should be spending all of your time focusing on roster construction and lineup building. The optimal lineup over the past several years has left a ton of salary on the table and featured very few combinations of drivers starting in the front.
Here are the four ways of thinking or strategies:
- Method 1 (my lowest % of builds): Treat it like a normal race and hope the wrecks do not come. Combine a couple of favorites or doms with some PD or finishing position upside.
- Method 2: Limit your drivers starting in the top 10 and top 20 and prioritize the back and leaving salary.
- Method 3: Method 2 but on steroids. Maybe have 0-1 drivers starting in the top 12 and 0-2 drivers starting in the top 20
- Method 4: This is what Chase and I call “Mixure” where you basically intentionally try to find that middle ground between Superspeedway Strategy and normal Strategy.
My ownership will reflect in this order: Method 2, Method 3, Method 4, Method 1.
| Driver | Salary | Starting Position | Name_ID | ID | DK Projection | Value |
| Joey Logano | 10600 | 22 | Joey Logano (18907754) | 18907754 | 49 | 4.62 |
| Austin Dillon | 10300 | 27 | Austin Dillon (18907756) | 18907756 | 44 | 4.27 |
| Brad Keselowski | 10000 | 10 | Brad Keselowski (18907759) | 18907759 | 29 | 2.90 |
| Kevin Harvick | 9800 | 11 | Kevin Harvick (18907762) | 18907762 | 31 | 3.16 |
| Alex Bowman | 9600 | 15 | Alex Bowman (18907764) | 18907764 | 29 | 3.02 |
| Denny Hamlin | 9400 | 3 | Denny Hamlin (18907766) | 18907766 | 35 | 3.72 |
| Aric Almirola | 9300 | 19 | Aric Almirola (18907767) | 18907767 | 33 | 3.55 |
| Kyle Busch | 9200 | 4 | Kyle Busch (18907769) | 18907769 | 29 | 3.15 |
| Kyle Larson | 9000 | 1 | Kyle Larson (18907771) | 18907771 | 28 | 3.11 |
| Kaz Grala | 8900 | 38 | Kaz Grala (18907773) | 18907773 | 37 | 4.16 |
| Ryan Blaney | 8800 | 6 | Ryan Blaney (18907775) | 18907775 | 31 | 3.52 |
| Martin Truex Jr | 8700 | 7 | Martin Truex Jr (18907777) | 18907777 | 22 | 2.53 |
| Chase Elliott | 8500 | 5 | Chase Elliott (18907780) | 18907780 | 31 | 3.65 |
| Christopher Bell | 8300 | 14 | Christopher Bell (18907781) | 18907781 | 30 | 3.61 |
| Ross Chastain | 8200 | 29 | Ross Chastain (18907783) | 18907783 | 35 | 4.27 |
| William Byron | 8000 | 2 | William Byron (18907786) | 18907786 | 26 | 3.25 |
| Daniel Suarez | 7800 | 26 | Daniel Suarez (18907788) | 18907788 | 24 | 3.08 |
| Ryan Preece | 7700 | 24 | Ryan Preece (18907790) | 18907790 | 27 | 3.51 |
| Kurt Busch | 7600 | 8 | Kurt Busch (18907792) | 18907792 | 22 | 2.89 |
| Corey Lajoie | 7400 | 33 | Corey Lajoie (18907794) | 18907794 | 35 | 4.73 |
| Tyler Reddick | 7300 | 17 | Tyler Reddick (18907796) | 18907796 | 26 | 3.56 |
| Landon Cassill | 7100 | 39 | Landon Cassill (18907797) | 18907797 | 34 | 4.79 |
| Ryan Newman | 7000 | 23 | Ryan Newman (18907799) | 18907799 | 33 | 4.71 |
| Cole Custer | 6800 | 25 | Cole Custer (18907801) | 18907801 | 27 | 3.97 |
| Matt DiBenedetto | 6700 | 9 | Matt DiBenedetto (18907803) | 18907803 | 23 | 3.43 |
| Bubba Wallace | 6500 | 20 | Bubba Wallace (18907805) | 18907805 | 32 | 4.92 |
| Erik Jones | 6300 | 21 | Erik Jones (18907807) | 18907807 | 26 | 4.13 |
| David Starr | 6200 | 40 | David Starr (18907809) | 18907809 | 25 | 4.03 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 6000 | 12 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr (18907811) | 18907811 | 28 | 4.67 |
| Anthony Alfredo | 5800 | 32 | Anthony Alfredo (18907813) | 18907813 | 24 | 4.14 |
| Michael McDowell | 5700 | 18 | Michael McDowell (18907815) | 18907815 | 29 | 5.09 |
| Justin Haley | 5500 | 28 | Justin Haley (18907817) | 18907817 | 24 | 4.36 |
| Chase Briscoe | 5300 | 16 | Chase Briscoe (18907819) | 18907819 | 23 | 4.34 |
| Chris Buescher | 5200 | 13 | Chris Buescher (18907820) | 18907820 | 23 | 4.42 |
| Joey Gase | 5000 | 37 | Joey Gase (18907821) | 18907821 | 24 | 4.80 |
| Josh Bilicki | 4900 | 36 | Josh Bilicki (18907822) | 18907822 | 24 | 4.90 |
| Garrett Smithley | 4800 | 34 | Garrett Smithley (18907823) | 18907823 | 23 | 4.79 |
| Cody Ware | 4700 | 31 | Cody Ware (18907824) | 18907824 | 23 | 4.89 |
| Quin Houff | 4600 | 35 | Quin Houff (18907825) | 18907825 | 24 | 5.22 |
| BJ McLeod | 4500 | 30 | BJ McLeod (18907826) | 18907826 | 23 | 5.11 |
