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Another busy week for me, so I wasn't able to post anything during the week. Except my Early rankings of course that was released early in the week. Overall, I had a lot of fun writing for this blog this season. After last season, I wasn't planning to come back to this blog. I was set on riding out on the sunset. However, after a month or so into offseason I had a change of heart. I am very glad, I decided to come back and write more articles. I love writing for this site and couldn't thank everyone enough for checking out my picks and rankings every week. I don't have a lot of free time on my hands at this time of the year, but I do my very best to post quality content. Anyways, onto Homestead! I am very excited for this championship race. As for my fantasy teams, I am kind of glad to get this season over with. It has been a struggle to find good production constantly. One week I would have a monster score, the next I have 2 or 3 of my picks wreck out. Not very fun, but that how the game goes sometimes. If you play this game long enough, you are bound to have a down year.
Alright let's get started!
Yahoo -
A:
Start - Joey Logano
Bench - Jimmie Johnson
Reasons - I wish I had Kevin Harvick selected Kevin Harvick instead of one of these guys, but I didn't so that sums up my season in A for the most part. Oh well, I still have two quality options. I feel like most people will go with Johnson. So I am going to try to gain points with doing the opposite. Hopefully Logano has a similar run to his Texas one a couple weeks ago. Also I feel like Johnson is a bit more untrustworthy. Logano has been much more consistent with 4 Top 5 finishes over past 5 races in the chase. I really like that, so I will gamble on him.
B:
Start - Kyle Larson and Carl Edwards
Bench - Martin Truex Jr and Kasey Kahne
Reasons - I made a mistake by not using Larson last week at Phoenix or Truex at Texas. If I used one of them at one of those tracks, then I would be much happier. Instead, I will have to bench a top 5 driver. I am going with Edwards as he looks to be racing for the most and looked to have the best car among the championship contenders. Also has a great record here as well. Truex or Larson is the tough one. Truex has the track position, but Larson was hands down the best driver on Saturday. Looks to have the car to beat on the long run during final practice, I usually don't gamble on my picks. But Larson upside is way too hard to pass up.
C:
Start - Ryan Blaney
Bench - Alex Bowman
Reasons - All week, I had the intention to use Blaney even if he doesn't get me a top 10 finish. Personally, I believe he will finish about 11th or 12th, so not like I am losing much from what I am hoping. Obviously, you want Chase Elliott as he looked by far the best driver in the C-list. Still, I believe Blaney will be very solid for us.
Fantasy Live - 19,4,78,59 and 23
Sleeper - Aric Almirola
Winner - Carl Edwards
Twitter - @MattAleza
Another busy week for me, so I wasn't able to post anything during the week. Except my Early rankings of course that was released early in the week. Overall, I had a lot of fun writing for this blog this season. After last season, I wasn't planning to come back to this blog. I was set on riding out on the sunset. However, after a month or so into offseason I had a change of heart. I am very glad, I decided to come back and write more articles. I love writing for this site and couldn't thank everyone enough for checking out my picks and rankings every week. I don't have a lot of free time on my hands at this time of the year, but I do my very best to post quality content. Anyways, onto Homestead! I am very excited for this championship race. As for my fantasy teams, I am kind of glad to get this season over with. It has been a struggle to find good production constantly. One week I would have a monster score, the next I have 2 or 3 of my picks wreck out. Not very fun, but that how the game goes sometimes. If you play this game long enough, you are bound to have a down year.
Alright let's get started!
Yahoo -
A:
Start - Joey Logano
Bench - Jimmie Johnson
Reasons - I wish I had Kevin Harvick selected Kevin Harvick instead of one of these guys, but I didn't so that sums up my season in A for the most part. Oh well, I still have two quality options. I feel like most people will go with Johnson. So I am going to try to gain points with doing the opposite. Hopefully Logano has a similar run to his Texas one a couple weeks ago. Also I feel like Johnson is a bit more untrustworthy. Logano has been much more consistent with 4 Top 5 finishes over past 5 races in the chase. I really like that, so I will gamble on him.
B:
Start - Kyle Larson and Carl Edwards
Bench - Martin Truex Jr and Kasey Kahne
Reasons - I made a mistake by not using Larson last week at Phoenix or Truex at Texas. If I used one of them at one of those tracks, then I would be much happier. Instead, I will have to bench a top 5 driver. I am going with Edwards as he looks to be racing for the most and looked to have the best car among the championship contenders. Also has a great record here as well. Truex or Larson is the tough one. Truex has the track position, but Larson was hands down the best driver on Saturday. Looks to have the car to beat on the long run during final practice, I usually don't gamble on my picks. But Larson upside is way too hard to pass up.
C:
Start - Ryan Blaney
Bench - Alex Bowman
Reasons - All week, I had the intention to use Blaney even if he doesn't get me a top 10 finish. Personally, I believe he will finish about 11th or 12th, so not like I am losing much from what I am hoping. Obviously, you want Chase Elliott as he looked by far the best driver in the C-list. Still, I believe Blaney will be very solid for us.
Fantasy Live - 19,4,78,59 and 23
Sleeper - Aric Almirola
Winner - Carl Edwards
Twitter - @MattAleza
