Saturday, December 27, 2014

2015 Fantasy Nascar Profile: AJ Dinger

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Driver Name: AJ Dinger

Car #: 47

Make: Chevy

Aka: The Dinger

Rookie Season: 2008

Number of Championships: 0

# of Career starts: 227

# of Career Poles: 2

# of Career Wins: 1

# of Career Top 5s: 7

# of Career Top 10s: 35

# of Career DNFs: 21

# of Career laps led: 410

Career Average Finish: 21.2

Career Average Start: 20.1

# of 2014 Wins: 1

# of 2014 starts: 36

# of 2014 Top 5s: 2

# of 2014 Top 10s: 5

# of 2014 Poles: 1

# of 2014 DNFs: 4

# of 2014 Laps led: 69

2014 Average Finish: 20.2

2014 Average Start: 19.7

2014 Reap: Dinger had a pretty averaged season to be honest. While he didn't blow anyone away. He did score 1 win and was pretty competitive on certain tracks. Not too shabby considering Dinger drives for a underfunded raceteam. He scored 5 Top 10 and 2 of them were Top 5s. Will be interesting to see how does doing forward.

Strong tracks: Sonoma and Watkins Glenn

Weak tracks: Pocono and Daytona

Additional info on Dinger: Dinger only true relevancy will likely come on road courses in 2015. He will from time to time have strong runs on short racetracks and Intermediate tracks.

Yahoo Grouping Prediction: B  Grouping Tier

Overall Value Prediction: Limited to mild upside with high potential on road courses

2015 Fantasy Outlook: I am not gonna lie , I personal do not see Dinger be nothing more then a start-save option (in Yahoo Fantasy Racing). His best days will be on road courses and short tracks sometimes. Intermediate tracks is the unknown. He will likely have a mix results of finishes. Which really complicates his value and potential.

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