Welcome to the newest addition of the NASCAR content offering for 2022, PrizePicks plays. We’ll start it with the Daytona 500 and we’ll continue it for every race of the year with a write-up on Sunday mornings.

If you haven’t played on PrizePicks before, let’s go over some basics, and even give a promo code. PrizePicks is a prop site in which you can build your own slate of props, across multiple sports or parts of sports, that involve picking over-unders on a variety of stats and fantasy points offerings. You can select any amount between 2-5 props to make your “board” and the more you pick, the more options you have for a return but the tougher it is to get the higher return since all of your picks have to be correct. If you wind up liking PrizePicks, we offer write-ups for all DFS sports we cover.

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For the NASCAR-specific picks the four categories of props we can chose from are Fantasy Points, Laps Led, Fastest Laps, and Cars Passed (Net). The fantasy points are based on a nearly identical scoring system to DraftKings while the Laps Led and Fastest Laps ones are simply the laps led and fast laps for that driver for that race, no points attached. Cars Passed (Net) is just another name for Position Differential or starting spot minus finishing spot. For more clarity they do have a scoring breakdown on site.

Denny Hamlin OVER 54.5 Fantasy Points

Hamlin is a well-established plate racer so it shouldn’t be a shock to see this high of a score attached to him. The thing though is that I don’t think it’s high enough. If we breakdown how the scoring goes on PP, we’ll see that as long as he finishes better than P10, he hits the over without leading a lap or getting a fastest lap. He’s finished top-five four straight times in the Daytona 500 and seven straight times in the last 10 plate races combined.

Chris Buescher OVER 16.5 Fantasy Points

Buescher might be starting toward the front and typically we’d avoid drivers starting there at Daytona, but Buescher is a different case. He’s used to being near the front with three top-fives in the last five Daytona races and this point total means he could even drop back several spots and still hit the over. The RFK cars have been good all weekend and so he has the speed and know-how to stay toward the front on Sunday.

Austin Cindric OVER 16.5 Fantasy Points

Seems a bit like Deja Vu huh? Cindric is near the front of the pack just like Buescher, in a car that was fast in the Duels just like Buescher, so why not double down. Cindric has just one Cup race at Daytona to this point, but it went well for him and he’s with the perfect team to have success at a track like with in the 2-car for Penske. He’ll be able to hang around the front of the pack much of the day which should keep him in a prime spot to not be involved in a wreck, and boost his shot of hitting the over here.

Ryan Blaney UNDER 6.5 Fastest Laps

Blaney is a favorite of mine to win the race… so how come we’re going under here? I mean there’s 200 laps so why can’t he get seven fast laps? Well there’s some strategy, science, and history here. Blaney is starting P7 and should be up near or at the front a lot on Sunday with a fast car but that’s the problem. Fast laps don’t come at the front of the field at Daytona, they come in the draft since the cars up front have to punch the hole in the air for the ones behind them. He’s also averaged less than one fastest lap a race in the last six Daytona races and less than two a race over the last 10 plate races combined. So because he’ll likely be up front and doesn’t historically get that many, we’ll take the under confidently today.

Joey Logano UNDER 44.5 Fantasy Points

Logano will be scored as starting P20 on Sunday, but will really have to start from the back due to a backup car being used due to the crash in the Duel on Thursday. That means he’ll have to make it through 20 cars before getting positive PD or gaining points. While he’s known as a good plate racer, he’s only posted two top-15 finishes in the last six Daytona races and is always a candidate to be caught in a late wreck due to blocking. For a guy that has to finish P9 or better to hit that fantasy point total, that’s a tough ask today.

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