Friday, December 01, 2017

2018 Fantasy Nascar Profile: Kevin Harvick

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Driver Name: Kevin Harvick

Car #: 4

Make: Ford

Season Debut: 2001 (First-Full Season)

Number of Championships: 1

# of Career Starts: 610

# of Career Poles: 21

# of Career Wins: 37

# of Career Top 5s: 168 

# of Career Top 10s: 307

# of Career DNFs: 31

# of Career laps led: 11,091

Career Average Finish: 13.4  

Career Average Start: 15.9

# of 2017 Wins: 2

# of 2017 Top 5s: 14

# of 2017 Top 10s: 23

# of 2017 Poles:  4

# of 2017 DNFs: 4  

# of 2017 laps led: 850

2017 Average Finish: 11.1

2017 Average Start: 8.8

2017 Fantasy Recap -  During the 2017 season, Harvick was very good overall. He wasn't always a top tier contender for wins, especially early in the season. He had that really strong race at Atlanta, but then he was just top 10 good or so for awhile. I think SHR switching to Ford in 2017, it was a huge transition period for Harvick and everyone else at SHR. So it only made sense that the drivers and teams were a little behind the pitch. But as the season progressed, Harvick started to get on a roll. He ended up winning 2 races and was actually outperforming drivers that were consistently outrunning him early in the year. He punched his ticket to Homestead with a win at Texas and could had a shot at winning, if things played out a little differently. No shame in the season that he had!

Strong Tracks - Homestead, Texas, Phoenix, Michigan and Pocono 

Weak Tracks - Daytona and Martinsville  

Yahoo Grouping Tier: A-list Grouping 

2018 Fantasy Outlook - I have high hopes for Kevin Harvick in 2018! I don't think SHR will start off as slow as they did in 2017. Now that they have a year at Ford, I think they will have a better idea where they need to improve and work on that to have more speed off the truck in 2018. As usaul, you can expect Harvick to be very strong at every type of track. He will be strong on the intermediate tracks and most likely offer possible winning upside most races. He will be really solid on the flats tracks. In my opinion, he is the most underrated driver in the series on them. Phoenix, Richmond, Indy and Pocono. He is pretty phenomenal on all those tracks. As for weak links, I would say that the plate tracks and maybe the road courses. I think this can be said about most drivers out there. It is so unpredictable, anything can go wrong. He's a skilled driver at both kind of tracks, but far from flawless though.

*All stats are from DriverAverages.com

Twitter - @JeffNathans18