Today's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma has left the field a bit more jumbled than thought given the practice and qualifying results. That has us very much looking forward to building NASCAR DFS lineups for DraftKings and FanDuel. We've already read through the Toyota/Save Mart 350 top plays in the Playbook, and listened to the race preview in the NASCAR podcast. Now it's time to look at the core of drivers we're building around for the Sunday's race for cash and GPP builds.

When building DFS lineups for NASCAR DFS it’s important to look at a core of drivers, rather than a full lineup at a time. Just like most DFS sports, building around cores of players, or drivers in this case, and then filling in around it is the best way to see success in both cash and GPP contests. Regardless of the style of track, the core build method is the way that Dan Malin and myself approach our builds and then we get exposure to other drivers by sprinkling them into the builds as well. That way when different cores do well, we see more green by the checkered flag.

The Core Plays table below should be read from left to right based on the site and game type you’re building for. They are not designed to add up to the salary cap nor are they designed to be plugged in as full lineups. For certain races there’ll be more for top tier than the value tier and vice versa and the same goes for the mid-tier. It simply depends on the race and the setup of the field.

Good luck in today's Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Sonoma Raceway for DFS!

DRAFTKINGS
Top TierMid-TierValue Tier
Cash Games
Kyle Larson1610600Austin Cindric349100Justin Haley236700
Chase Elliott1010300Martin Truex Jr88800Zane Smith305700
   Kevin Harvick218100Corey Lajoie195300
         
Tournaments
Kyle Larson1610600Daniel Suarez99500Austin Dillon116100
Tyler Reddick210400Denny Hamlin18900Ricky Stenhouse Jr135900
Kyle Busch1210100Ryan Blaney318400Josh Bilicki294900
   Chris Buescher77900   
FANDUEL
Top TierMid-TierValue Tier
Cash Games
Chase Elliott1014000Austin Cindric349500Justin Haley235200
Kyle Larson1613500Martin Truex Jr88200Corey Lajoie194000
Tyler Reddick213000Kevin Harvick218000Zane Smith303500
         
Tournaments
Kyle Larson1613500AJ Allmendinger510500Austin Dillon115800
Kyle Busch1211500Chris Buescher79000Ricky Stenhouse Jr134800
Daniel Suarez911000Ryan Blaney317800Josh Bilicki292000
   Denny Hamlin17200