I’d like to welcome you to the NASCAR Core Plays article that’s brand new for the 2021 season. Previously we’d been providing example lineups that were geared toward showing you sample builds for the different contest types and sites for that weekend’s races in an effort to show you what builds could look like. However, we’ve decided that a better way to teach the member of the #FAmily to be great DFS players is to debut our Core Plays for each week.

For each race, by now you’ve seen the ones for Truck and Xfinity, we will provide several drivers across three salary tiers for each site that are in the core of our lineup builds for that race. Along with that, at least for the Cup races, there will be strategy tidbits about how to build your lineups for this particular race and why these drivers are in our core for that weekend.

For the Daytona 500, the name of the game is avoiding the wrecks and having the most amount of drivers still on track at the checkered flag as possible. It’s not as simple as it sounds as in the last several Daytona races about 40-percent of all cars in the races have been involved in a wreck of some sort which is by far the highest rate of any track on the schedule. So the best stats to target are drivers high in laps completed per race and the most consistent scores in DFS over the last five races as well as best average finish. Sticking to drivers that fill out at least two of those will give you a great shot of finishing the race with a competitive lineup still intact. If you take a look at the playbook, you’ll see the reasoning behind these core plays and you’ll also see data as to which starting spots on average score the best over the last five races.

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