Strategy Notes

With this being a 1.5-mile track and a 500-mile race, there are 325 laps in the race so laps led and fastest laps will be a key part of the scoring, with laps led factoring on both sites this week. With there being an average of 6.8 cautions per race in the last 10 Atlanta races (five each in the last three) and 37.5 laps run under caution per race (26-27 per in the last three) there’s a shot for some cheap laps led points as well. In the last five races, as the table above shows, there has been one driver to lead at least 100 laps in each of the last five races here and a few of them with multiple 50-plus laps led.

DraftKings pricing will allow us to do a very nice balanced build this week while still getting the dominator points into the lineup that we need. For more conservative builds we’re looking for one of the laps led leaders and then drivers who can either move up six or more spots, of which there’s an average of nine drivers a race to pull that off, or drivers who can finish with a top-10 finishing spot. For more aggressive or tournament builds, we’re focusing more on drivers who can lead laps while going with drivers who are higher risk-reward options to complete the lineups.

FanDuel meanwhile requires a similar type build this week to DraftKings than it normally does. With the laps led dominators being a key way to separate ourselves in our builds, we’ll need to look at them this week to a degree. We don’t have to go that overboard with them but we’ll need one on a roster to really have a shot at a take down. Finish position and position differential will remain the main ways to score on FD and that means looking for guys who fit the narrative of the track much like we did at Phoenix last week or Homestead with tire wear being a factor.

The first row of each site is the Cash game core and the second row is the GPP core.

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