Daily Fantasy NASCAR: Current Form, Track History, and Betting Odds for the Go Bowling at The Glen
For the entirety of this week's track preview, we dwelled on how important it was to identify place-differential options this week in NASCAR DFS at Watkins Glen. It's the optimal strategy for this race.
That's all well and good. But it might be helpful if we, ya know, told you who fit within that creed.
Do not sweat it, comrade. That is our goal here today.
The data sheet below is sorted by the starting order for Sunday's Go Bowling at The Glen. Our mission is to check out drivers who are starting further back and build around them for cash games and in our core for tournaments. We want that upside, and we want it bad.
It helps that we know which drivers are likely to be competitive. This is the fifth road course race of the year, and if we lean on the previous four, we should be well-positioned to choose wisely.
Those four races -- along with the two from last year -- are the first races listed in the sheet. Then the current form section includes relevant races using the 750-horsepower package, omitting Darlington (a super unique track) and Bristol (run on dirt).
As always, the data listed here is each driver's average running position rather than their finish. Finishes can be fluky, as evidenced by Michael McDowell ($7,300 on FanDuel) at Sonoma. McDowell was running in the top 10 late in that race but spun in the closing laps to finish 28th. His finish was underwhelming, even for a non-stud. But his 16th-place average running position shows that he had a competitive car that day.
The other data listed is each driver's starting position, FanDuel salary, and win odds at NASCAR odds. The win odds are in fractional form, so Chase Elliott ($14,500) being listed at 1.8 means he is +180 to win.
| Road Courses | Current Form | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | FD Salary | Win Odds | Starting | Road America | Sonoma | COTA | Daytona | Charlotte 2020 | Daytona 2020 | New Hampshire | Nashville | Dover | Darlington | Richmond | Phoenix |
| Brad Keselowski | $9,500 | 35 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 20 | 10 | 4 |
| Joey Logano | $11,500 | 19 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Ryan Blaney | $10,300 | 32 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 23 | 21 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 37 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 5 |
| Kyle Larson | $13,500 | 4.2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -- | -- | 8 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 11 |
| Kevin Harvick | $9,000 | 32 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 33 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| Denny Hamlin | $12,000 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Christopher Bell | $11,200 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 9 |
| Aric Almirola | $7,000 | 150 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 37 | 12 | 14 |
| Martin Truex Jr. | $13,000 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 25 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Alex Bowman | $10,000 | 31 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 23 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 17 |
| Chase Elliott | $14,500 | 1.8 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| Ross Chastain | $8,500 | 47 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 30 | -- | -- | 9 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 20 |
| Tyler Reddick | $8,800 | 35 | 13 | 8 | 17 | 14 | 25 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 21 |
| Matt DiBenedetto | $8,300 | 75 | 14 | 8 | 19 | 17 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 19 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 14 |
| William Byron | $10,800 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
| Austin Dillon | $6,000 | 170 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 22 | -- | 20 | 18 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 21 |
| Kurt Busch | $10,500 | 24 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 30 | 15 | 14 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | $5,000 | 200 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 18 | 12 |
| Cole Custer | $6,500 | 150 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 30 | 12 | 18 | 22 | 15 | 21 | 18 | 31 | 25 | 19 |
| Kyle Busch | $12,500 | 8 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 11 | 20 | 36 | 9 | 28 | 8 | 9 | 18 |
| Daniel Suarez | $7,500 | 85 | 21 | 37 | 18 | 35 | 19 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 23 | 18 | 24 |
| Erik Jones | $5,500 | 75 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 11 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 17 | 23 | 17 |
| Ryan Preece | $5,000 | 170 | 23 | 39 | 25 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 22 | 24 | 27 | 25 |
| Chris Buescher | $6,800 | 85 | 24 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 24 | 31 | 13 | 12 | 26 | 23 |
| Michael McDowell | $7,300 | 75 | 25 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 24 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 24 |
| Bubba Wallace | $4,000 | 200 | 26 | 22 | 27 | 31 | 25 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 24 | 16 |
| Chase Briscoe | $8,000 | 55 | 27 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 22 | -- | -- | 23 | 18 | 30 | 15 | 23 | 19 |
| Ryan Newman | $4,500 | 200 | 28 | 27 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 14 | 28 | 27 |
| Corey LaJoie | $4,000 | 200 | 29 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 27 | 25 | 26 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 23 | 22 | 24 |
| Justin Haley | $3,000 | 200 | 30 | 26 | -- | 36 | 30 | -- | -- | 26 | 32 | -- | 28 | 38 | 28 |
| Anthony Alfredo | $3,500 | 200 | 31 | 29 | 24 | 22 | 30 | -- | -- | 32 | 22 | 28 | 27 | 32 | 36 |
| Garrett Smithley | $2,000 | 200 | 32 | -- | 34 | 28 | 33 | -- | 33 | 33 | 27 | 34 | -- | 33 | 35 |
| Kyle Tilley | $2,000 | 200 | 33 | 37 | -- | 30 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Josh Bilicki | $2,000 | 200 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 31 | -- | 31 | 31 | 35 | 33 | 37 | 35 |
| Quin Houff | $2,500 | 200 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 40 | 32 | 35 | 33 | 39 | 31 | 31 | 34 | 33 |
| James Davison | $2,500 | 200 | 36 | 31 | 27 | 32 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 36 | -- | 36 | 32 | 35 | 33 |
| RC Enerson | $2,000 | 200 | 37 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Among the studs, both the Busch brothers stand out in terms of their place-differential appeal.
Kyle Busch ($12,500) will start 20th but has shown quality speed on road courses this year. He enters with three straight top-10 finishes, including a pair of top-fives, and he has had a top-eight average running position in all three of those races. Busch's best runs have largely come in the 550-horsepower rules package, but given the strength specifically on road courses, we can build heavily around him on Sunday.
Kurt Busch ($10,500) is just a couple spots higher in 17th and has been similarly strong on these tracks thus far. He was fourth at Road America, his third top-five finish in six road courses since the start of 2020. That's in addition to a sixth-place finish in Sonoma. Given the starting spots and likely speed, the Busch brothers should be building blocks for cash games and in our core for tournaments.
Lower in the salary pool, McDowell and Chase Briscoe ($8,000) are primed to make up ground during the race. Although McDowell couldn't finish the job in Sonoma, he did so this year at the Daytona roval and at COTA with finishes of eighth and seventh, respectively. Coming from the 25th spot, McDowell has upside.
Briscoe will roll off one row behind him in 27th and has shown the ability to claw his way through the pack this year. The past three road course races, Briscoe's average starting spot is 29.0; his average finish is 9.7. Briscoe was a two-time winner on road courses in the Xfinity Series, as well, meaning this small-sample success is likely to stick.
