An Introduction to Daily Fantasy NASCAR
It’s 4 pm on a Sunday. You’re sitting alone on your couch, clutching the remote in your hand, staring intently at the television.
In front of you lies open the DraftKings app on your tablet. You are afraid to look down, knowing that when you last looked 15 laps ago, you were green and mean, baby. The sweat is real, fam.
The closer you get to the end of the race, the more you tense up. As the race finally concludes, you declench your bowels, and realize you haven’t flexed your knee joints in the past three and a half hours. This is the feeling that daily fantasy NASCAR can bring into your life. Packing all of the fun of any other daily sport into one jam-packed timeframe in which you go from hating life to kissing the feet of the fantasy gods in the matter of a few laps.
The intent of this course is to get you closer to the latter than the former. Whether you’re new to daily fantasy NASCAR or you’ve been playing for a while, it’s always productive to learn a new process for research to round out your skills.
We’ll be covering a wide variety of topics throughout the course, but it’ll start where all of you started when you first began playing DFS with an examination of the rules. After that, we’ll finalize the basics by looking at other logistics such as roster construction and lineup lock. Then we get into the fun stuff.
The next two lessons will focus on NASCAR statistics. Having an intricate knowledge of the numbers that shape NASCAR will give you a definitive edge over the rest of the field. We’ll go through which are the most relevant stats, where you can find them, and how you can best utilize them in your roster decisions.
After that, we’re diving into actually selecting your drivers. This will involve elements of the previous lessons, fleshing them out to generate a strategy for selecting your drivers and what your general roster construction should look like.
Because a large chunk of the scoring comes from place differential, it’s beyond important to know how to use starting position to your advantage. We’ll dedicate an entire lesson to this as a basic overview, and then we’ll expand upon that by showing how this strategy changes from track to track.
Finally, after we’ve covered all of that, we’ll wrap up shop by discussing the differences in cash game and tournament strategy. I, personally, prefer to roll out more tourneys, so most of the strategy discussed in the opening lessons of this course will skew that way. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t differentiate your strategy between the two types of games.
The intent of this lesson is to get you to a place where you are not only comfortable playing daily fantasy NASCAR, but also able to spin a profit. Even if you’ve never watched a single race in your life, I believe we can get you there over the course of just nine lessons. Now, what are we waiting for? Let’s dive in.