Sunday, December 06, 2015

2016 Fantasy Nascar Profile: Greg Biffle

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Driver Name: Greg Biffle

Car #: 16

Make: Ford

Debut: 2003 (First-full season)

# of Career Races: 474

# of Career Poles: 12

# of Career Wins: 19

# of Career Top 5s:  91

# of Career Top 10s: 172

# of Career DNFs: 34

# of Career laps led: 5,736

Career Average Finish: 16.7

Career Average Start: 15.7

# of 2015 wins: 0

# of 2015 Top 5s: 3

# of 2015 top 10s: 4

# of 2015 Poles: 0

# of 2015 DNFs: 0

# of 2015 laps led: 40

2015 Average Finish: 20.0

2015 Average Start: 19.9

2015 Fantasy Recap: Biffle didn't really have a good season in 2015 and was really the 2nd best RFR driver to Ricky Stenhouse Jr. With Biffle I think it is a combo of lack of speed and age that is affecting him. He is now 46-years old in middle of the road equipment, that usually leads to top results right? Wrong. On the plus side, he did have some decent results in second half of the season. Still there was a lot missing with him in 2015. People are still wondering what wrong with RFR and I think it goes back to 2012 when Matt Kenseth left the organization. He took something from the organization that they cannot seem to replace and I think they lost even more when Edwards left. That's not important though. The point is RFR is not what it use to be and Biffle have suffer the most of the current drivers.

Strong Tracks: Pocono, Texas and WGI

Weak Tracks: Martinsville and ACS

Yahoo Grouping Prediction: B-list Grouping Tier

Overall Value Prediction: Inconsistency with mix of potential

2016 Fantasy Outlook: Call me crazy but I think RFR takes the step in the right direction in 2016 on the cup side and become more competitive than they were in 2015. But I don't think they become contenders though. I think Biffle will have the potential to finish well at certain track. More specially the tracks that require less horsepower. He isn't going to have his best results on the intermediate tracks like we were once custom to seeing. Instead the road courses and shorter ractracks will be his best days. If you want to pin a race to use on the larger and faster tracks, then I would use him at Pocono. This is his best track over the past 3 seasons. While I think Biff will have his chances to finish well, I also think he will be inconsistent more often than not. In simpler terms, know the risk that  comes with Biff. Because if you use him, he may burn you. Many of you probably learned that last season. For him to be a asset to fantasy teams, I think he will need to prove himself.

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