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Aric Almirola - Another week, another Aric Almirola's appearance on my fantasy sleeper's list. Through 5 races this season, Aric has posted 4 Top 19 finishes. Including 17th place finish a few weeks ago at Phoenix. In his past three races, he has finishes of 14th, 17th and 19th. Those are very quality finishes as you can see. You can overlook that fact, if you really want. But I cannot overlook quality finishes in terms of seasonal momentum + a solid track record. At Martinsville, he has 4 top 16 finishes in his past 6 races. With finishing 21st or better in 9 of his past 10 races. His lone bad finish? 40th in last spring's race, he had an engine issue in that event. He's finished 15th in last fall's race, if you were wondering.
AJ Dinger - The Dinger would be a great value play this week, if he weren't mired back in 30th in owners points. Why are owners' points so important? Because, owners points will set the field for Sunday's race, if qualifying is cancelled. Here in the midwest in rained non-stop all day Thursday, so as you can imagine it is going east. Right into the path of the east coast. The odds are that we don't see any qualifying on Friday, which means he will start 30th. That's deep in the field, even for a successful driver here. I do like him plenty though. Certain drivers seem to perform very well here time and time again. Dinger is one of those drivers. Even with starting 30th, we cannot rule out a top 15 finish from Dinger. But it does damage his fantasy value though. I think Dinger in that 13th-18th place range as pure potential finish.
Ryan Blaney - You know, last week, I judged Blaney harshly and really thought he wouldn't perform well. Not sure why, but that what my gut told me. Yeah, my gut was wrong as he's finished inside the top 10. This week, however, I am higher on Blaney. I think a lot of people are overlooking him and I think it is a good idea to jump on the bandwagon. Hell, it may not work out, but I think it is worth at least a shot. Blaney said a few interesting things in an article via Motorsport.com. He said, Martinsville was historically one of his best track and he said that this was his crew chief's favorite tracks. I like both of those things that he said. Blaney does not have much success here at the Cup level, with only two 19th place finishes in 2016 in two starts. But I think he does much better than that in 2017 though.
Have a question or would like to chat?
Email - briggs_garry48@yahoo.com
Twitter - @Garryy12
Sleepers -
Aric Almirola - Another week, another Aric Almirola's appearance on my fantasy sleeper's list. Through 5 races this season, Aric has posted 4 Top 19 finishes. Including 17th place finish a few weeks ago at Phoenix. In his past three races, he has finishes of 14th, 17th and 19th. Those are very quality finishes as you can see. You can overlook that fact, if you really want. But I cannot overlook quality finishes in terms of seasonal momentum + a solid track record. At Martinsville, he has 4 top 16 finishes in his past 6 races. With finishing 21st or better in 9 of his past 10 races. His lone bad finish? 40th in last spring's race, he had an engine issue in that event. He's finished 15th in last fall's race, if you were wondering.
AJ Dinger - The Dinger would be a great value play this week, if he weren't mired back in 30th in owners points. Why are owners' points so important? Because, owners points will set the field for Sunday's race, if qualifying is cancelled. Here in the midwest in rained non-stop all day Thursday, so as you can imagine it is going east. Right into the path of the east coast. The odds are that we don't see any qualifying on Friday, which means he will start 30th. That's deep in the field, even for a successful driver here. I do like him plenty though. Certain drivers seem to perform very well here time and time again. Dinger is one of those drivers. Even with starting 30th, we cannot rule out a top 15 finish from Dinger. But it does damage his fantasy value though. I think Dinger in that 13th-18th place range as pure potential finish.
Ryan Blaney - You know, last week, I judged Blaney harshly and really thought he wouldn't perform well. Not sure why, but that what my gut told me. Yeah, my gut was wrong as he's finished inside the top 10. This week, however, I am higher on Blaney. I think a lot of people are overlooking him and I think it is a good idea to jump on the bandwagon. Hell, it may not work out, but I think it is worth at least a shot. Blaney said a few interesting things in an article via Motorsport.com. He said, Martinsville was historically one of his best track and he said that this was his crew chief's favorite tracks. I like both of those things that he said. Blaney does not have much success here at the Cup level, with only two 19th place finishes in 2016 in two starts. But I think he does much better than that in 2017 though.
Have a question or would like to chat?
Email - briggs_garry48@yahoo.com
Twitter - @Garryy12
