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After a much needed off-week, we turn our attention back to racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. This is by far one of my favorite tracks on the schedule. I thought it was way better before the repave, but I am also fine with the current state of the track. Honestly, this place is tough to master and we often see crashes take out top contentions. Bristol always will have a great chance to be a crapshoot, but it seems like that happening more in the spring time than summer time. Last few seasons, the summer race been much more predictable. So who knows really what to expect this Saturday night. I personally think the race weekend will be dominated by Joe Gibbs Racing and Penske. With guys such as Kevin Harvick sprinkled in there as well. But this shouldn't surprise anyone as these drivers have dominated much of this season. There will be opportunities to use solid sleepers this weekend, if the window opens for that. I also think practice is overrated here, especially tools like the 5 and 10 lap averages. To really understand who is good and who is not in practice, you need to track 30 or 40 lap runs. A long green flag run here can go anywhere from 70 or 80 laps to about 135. See why 10 lap averages are useless?
Anyways there some information to keep in your mind. Let get started with today's picks!
Yahoo -
A:
Start - Matt Kenseth (7)
Bench - Joey Logano (6)
Reasons -Two great fantasy options this week, so it definitely a difficult decision to make. However, I have decided to go with Matt Kenseth as my A-list option. He starts from 5th and have been one of the best drivers here at Bristol recently. He been boom or bust, but I need some big-time points. Logano would also bring that type of upside, but I feel like a lot of people will be using Logano because of his recent summer's performances.
B:
Start - Kyle Larson (5), Carl Edwards (5)
Bench - Ricky Stenhouse Jr (7), Tony Stewart (6)
Reasons -Track position is very important here, so I pretty much have to go with Carl Edwards. Especially since rest of my choices all start outside of the top 20. So who do we pair him with? Let's look at our options: Tony Stewart, have ran well at Bristol in the past. But he does his best work from starting in the front. He starting 27th and his lap times in practice wasn't exactly good. I will save him for another. Ricky Stenhouse Jr is interesting, but he is risky and I don't really trust him. So that leave us with Kyle Larson. He is also risky, but he have much more upside to him and loves this track a lot. Of the three choices, Larson is the one that makes sense. Will it be worth it? I don't know, I am excited to find out.
C:
Start - Jeff Gordon (6)
Bench - Chase Elliott (4)
Reasons - Elliott has the faster car, but once again it is about what's smarter for the season (long term). And using Gordon is the much wiser choice, even if that's means leaving points on the table. I am okay with that, if it means a extra start down the stench when Gordon isn't available
Fantasy Live - 18,19,11,17 and 23
Sleeper - Ryan Blaney
Winner -Kyle Busch
Twitter - @MattAleza
After a much needed off-week, we turn our attention back to racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. This is by far one of my favorite tracks on the schedule. I thought it was way better before the repave, but I am also fine with the current state of the track. Honestly, this place is tough to master and we often see crashes take out top contentions. Bristol always will have a great chance to be a crapshoot, but it seems like that happening more in the spring time than summer time. Last few seasons, the summer race been much more predictable. So who knows really what to expect this Saturday night. I personally think the race weekend will be dominated by Joe Gibbs Racing and Penske. With guys such as Kevin Harvick sprinkled in there as well. But this shouldn't surprise anyone as these drivers have dominated much of this season. There will be opportunities to use solid sleepers this weekend, if the window opens for that. I also think practice is overrated here, especially tools like the 5 and 10 lap averages. To really understand who is good and who is not in practice, you need to track 30 or 40 lap runs. A long green flag run here can go anywhere from 70 or 80 laps to about 135. See why 10 lap averages are useless?
Anyways there some information to keep in your mind. Let get started with today's picks!
Yahoo -
A:
Start - Matt Kenseth (7)
Bench - Joey Logano (6)
Reasons -Two great fantasy options this week, so it definitely a difficult decision to make. However, I have decided to go with Matt Kenseth as my A-list option. He starts from 5th and have been one of the best drivers here at Bristol recently. He been boom or bust, but I need some big-time points. Logano would also bring that type of upside, but I feel like a lot of people will be using Logano because of his recent summer's performances.
B:
Start - Kyle Larson (5), Carl Edwards (5)
Bench - Ricky Stenhouse Jr (7), Tony Stewart (6)
Reasons -Track position is very important here, so I pretty much have to go with Carl Edwards. Especially since rest of my choices all start outside of the top 20. So who do we pair him with? Let's look at our options: Tony Stewart, have ran well at Bristol in the past. But he does his best work from starting in the front. He starting 27th and his lap times in practice wasn't exactly good. I will save him for another. Ricky Stenhouse Jr is interesting, but he is risky and I don't really trust him. So that leave us with Kyle Larson. He is also risky, but he have much more upside to him and loves this track a lot. Of the three choices, Larson is the one that makes sense. Will it be worth it? I don't know, I am excited to find out.
C:
Start - Jeff Gordon (6)
Bench - Chase Elliott (4)
Reasons - Elliott has the faster car, but once again it is about what's smarter for the season (long term). And using Gordon is the much wiser choice, even if that's means leaving points on the table. I am okay with that, if it means a extra start down the stench when Gordon isn't available
Fantasy Live - 18,19,11,17 and 23
Sleeper - Ryan Blaney
Winner -Kyle Busch
Twitter - @MattAleza
