The Monster Mile beckons this week...or at least the virtual rendering of it. A 150-mile, 150-lap race is on tap on Sunday at 1 pm ET at the concrete, 1-mile oval that makes up Dover International Speedway. This track can be a tough task under normal circumstances but in the virtual world, it could be even tougher. Like last week’s race, the top-three finishers from Talladega will start at the rear of the field on Sunday at Dover and the top-10 qualifiers will be inverted (or at least that’s the plan) so the one that actually qualifies P10 based on lap time, will start on the pole assuming they got the technical glitch that prevented it last week.

With it being 150 laps, there’s a decent upside for laps led here especially given that drivers can hold the lead at Dover reasonably easily, at least in a Cup car they can. The wrinkles in the qualifying do make things a bit tricky to try and lock down a guaranteed dominator for the race.

There is a change on FanDuel in the scoring this week as they are including incidents in the scoring and they count as a negative 0.1 points per incident and they range from bumping another car, bumping the wall, going off the track, and starting an accident. So far in the last few races, the incidents have ranged for between four to 20 depending on the severity of the incident.

Here is the Track Breakdown for the Finish Line 150

The * in the Dover Cup section denote Xfinity Series results at the track.

Playbook

William Byron (DraftKings: $13,000 FanDuel: $16,000)

What is there left to say about Byron this week? He’s been dominant in laps led with 327 or more than the whole rest of the field this week combined. The youngster also has two wins and four top-10s to this point and climbed from starting 32nd to finish P6 last week. He won’t have to start in the rear this week because he finished sixth which gives him the shot to lead a ton of laps on Sunday depending on how close to the front he’ll qualify. The DraftKings price is fine as he’s been the most dominant driver but the FanDuel price will be tough to build around so be careful when using him in the lineup, and stacking him with Hill on FD is nearly impossible.

Timmy Hill (DraftKings: $12,000 FanDuel: $12,000)

Hill had his first missed top-10 last week at Talladega when he finished...11th instead. He’s now got a win, four top-fives, and four top-10s in the five races and the best position differential in the field at a positive 9.0. At Dover, he’s run four Cup races and shown a bit of an ability to move up through the field, but if he starts in the top-10 (which we all expect) he has the laps led upside we need at this price point plus a remarkable track record of finishing in the top-five.

Garrett Smithley (DraftKings: $11,300 FanDuel: $10,000)

Smithley has been a model of consistency the last five weeks with three top-fives and four top-10s and the second-best average finish in the field at 7.6. There isn’t anything monumentally sexy about Smithley, but he just keeps turning in solid performance after solid performance. At this price point, it’d be nice to have a tad more upside than Smithley typically brings but there is something to be said about him having a good floor.

Ryan Preece (DraftKings: $10,800 FanDuel: $10,500)

Preece will be starting in the back this week after a third-place finish at Talladega. Preece has four top-10s in the five iRaces so far and his 68 laps led is second-most in the field behind William Byron’s total. In his two cup races at Dover, he’s started an average of 30.5 and finished on average at 23.5 meaning he knows how to move through the field at Dover from the back. As a number two driver on your roster, it’s hard to beat Preece’s upside on Sunday.

Denny Hamlin (DraftKings $10,400 FanDuel: $11,000)

The trick for Hamlin this week to have a good day is to hide his TV remotes from his children. That was the culprit in him having a very bad day at Talladega from a results standpoint as his daughter ran in the room and turned the main monitor off. Aside from that Hamlin has been a good bet for a good day most of the time so far with three top-10s and a win in the five races. At Dover, Hamlin has two top-fives and six top-10s in the last eight Cup races there. Assuming there are no technical glitches, Hamlin should be in the mix come late-race Sunday.

Alex Bowman (DraftKings: $10,000 FanDuel: $8,800)

Bowman won last week’s GEICO 70 and because of that, gets the pleasure of starting in the rear just like his teammate did at Talladega. At Dover, it’s possible to move up through the field as we’ve seen the last few times with Martin Truex Jr. pulled off the feat a couple of times. The position differential upside is quite nice on DK but that also comes with a higher price, though not outrageous. The price is more attractive on FD but the lack of PD might lower the upside just a touch on that site since we’re relying on a large number of finish points to boost the scoring. He does have the ability to move up though with an average of 7.0 position differential in the five races so far and three top-10s.

Parker Kligerman (DraftKings: $9,700 FanDuel: $9,500)

Kligerman has two top-10s at the shorter tracks, Bristol and Richmond, and moved up very well at Talladega last week from P35 to P16 in a relatively short race. In his three most recent Xfinity series runs at Dover, Kligerman has a top-10 and an average finish of P10. He should be another threat for a top-10 finish on Sunday and at less than $10K on both sites that’s a really nice value from the top guys on the salary lists.

Kyle Busch (DraftKings: $9,100 FanDuel: $9,000)

Busch has turned in two straight top-10 finishes at Richmond at Talladega and moved up 33 spots combined in those two events. He will win a race in this series very soon, as other drivers and commentators have stated, and at Dover, he has found success quite frequently in a Cup car with a few wins in the last four years and four top-10s in the last eight trips. Busch’s price has steadily climbed the last few weeks, and for good reason, but he’s still quite affordable on both sites for a second or third driver in your build.

Landon Cassill (DraftKings: $8,200 FanDuel: $10,500)

Cassill just keeps plugging away and nailing down top-five and top-10 finishes with three each in the five iRaces so far. There are some risks here with Cassill though as he’s managed to go backward a few spots a race on average despite the three top-fives and in the Xfinity series, in two races, at Dover, he’s gone backward 10 spots a race as well. The price on DK is solid but the Fanduel price is tough to justify with the options available around that price point. He could very well turn in another top-five as he seems to be in the running for that each week, but the value for that is only there on DK.

Matt DiBenedetto (DraftKings: $8,000 FanDuel: $6,200)

DiBenedetto hasn’t had the best of luck the last few weeks as he’s finally started qualifying highly (inside the top-10) and then gets caught up in incidents that drop his finish position to the mid-20s. At Bristol however, he started P21 and got his lone top-five finish. DiBenedetto is capable of getting hot from week to week as we’ve seen recently in the Cup series and with him having some decent success of late at Dover in the Cup series, he’s worth a shot, especially at his FanDuel price, this week in GPPs.

Tyler Reddick (DraftKings: $7,600 FanDuel: $7,200)

Reddick has had three straight races of moving up through the field. Just how much has he moved up? 29 spots in three races for nearly 10 spots a race. Anyone know that? Not really since he keeps sliding under the radar. Reddick has one top-10 in the five iRaces so far and that came at Bristol, a similar track in terms of banking and track surface, and in the Xfinity series, he has four races with two top-fives and two top-10s while picking up about 5.5 spots a race. A lower-priced mid-tier guy who offers a solid floor is where Reddick slots in the scheme of things.

Bobby Labonte (DraftKings: $7,500 FanDuel: $6,300)

The gray beard, well clean-shaven face but gray hair, continues to perform well week after week and has posted a positive position differential in three of the five and not by a small margin, by 10-plus spots in those three. While there are no notable finishes (top-10 or better) to his credit in iRacing, the position differential is well worth the price especially with him posting 49.5 DK points at Bristol, a similar track.

Erik Jones (DraftKings: $6,800 FanDuel: $6,000)

Jones has been up and down this series for sure, I’ll be the first one to admit it. Whether it be crashing out or not having a computer that was working all the way up to having two top-10 finishes in the five races he’s participated in (four actually run). Even with the range of finishes, Jones still has a positive 4.4 PD mark and in an actual Cup car, he has two top-10s and a top-five in six Cup races here. Jones continues to be a lower-owned option who has already shown he can move up well through the field in iRacing as the two top-10s started at P25 and P24 respectively.

Kurt Busch (DraftKings: $6,600 FanDuel: $5,500)

Busch continues to be under-the-radar in this series despite having two top-10s including last week at Talladega. He has four top-10s in his last eight Cup races at Dover and he’s been putting in the work at Dover this week based on how many hours he’s logged just the last few days on the system. Why he’s still this cheap is surprising since he’s got the most top-10s of any driver less than Cassill on DK and Nemechek on FD. Consistency, work ethic, and a cheap price are hard to turn down.

Ty Dillon (DraftKings: $6,200 FanDuel: $6,600)

Dillon continues to get more out of his setup than most figured he would and was in line to win last week at Talladega before being spun from the front of the pack and bringing home a much worse finish than he deserved. He’s been good at racing through the pack in each race despite averaging finishing about where he starts each contest. At Dover, he’s moved up a few spots per race in the Cup series and that could help him again this week with the price being right on both sites for a lower-tier salary saver type play.

Daniel Suarez (DraftKings: $5,700 FanDuel: $5,000)

Suarez has been qualifying well and racing decently well when he’s not being parked in the races. Last week he got his first top-10 in the iRacing series and was in contention for most of the race at Talladega. He’s been solid at Dover in his Cup career with three top-10s in his six races at the Monster Mile and averages an 8.7 average finish meaning that if he can keep his temper in check, he could have a second top-10 finish and a solid points day.

JJ Yeley (DraftKings: $5,000 FanDuel: $3,000)

Yeley just started racing last week in the Pro Invitational series but had a good showing at Talladega where he started P20 and finished P15. Yeley has been decent at Dover in the Cup cars in his two races there with a positive three position-differential. He’s about as cheap as you can get on both sites being the second cheapest on DK and tied for the cheapest on FD but we’ll need that roster-filler if you want to stack Byron and Hill.