Saturday's NASCAR slate on DraftKings is a single-race card, listed as Nasca @ Nasca, with a $50,000 salary cap in classic format. Lock comes at 5:09 p.m. ET (2:09 p.m. PT), so there is a full afternoon to set lineups.
Corey Day sits atop our model's ranking at $10,500, with a ceiling of 83.5, the highest on the board by a wide margin. His DraftKings average is 36.2, which means the model sees far more upside than his recent scoring suggests. Carson Kvapil is the priciest of the top group at $12,000, with a ceiling of 70.9 and a 38.5 average. Jesse Love at $10,000 pairs a 64.1 ceiling with a 39.8 average, while Justin Allgaier, at $12,500, carries the best average on the list at 48.3 but a lower ceiling of 57.2, a mix that makes him a harder sell at that price.
The value plays are where lineups get built. Sammy Smith at $8,000 has a ceiling of 68.1, not far below Kvapil's 70.9 despite a noticeably lower salary. Anthony Alfredo at $7,000 shows a ceiling of 47.8 and a 24.3 average, and William Sawalich at $8,100 comes in at 46.3 with a 24.8 average. Sam Mayer at $9,300 sits in the middle, with a 64.2 ceiling against a 26.5 average. One note on availability: Patrick Emerling carries a DraftKings OUT tag.
The sheet gives no ownership figures for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup spends the full $50,000. It starts with Day at $10,500 and Love at $10,000, adds Mayer at $9,300 and Smith at $8,000, then rounds out with Alfredo at $7,000 and Lavar Scott at $5,200.
Lineups lock at 5:09 p.m. ET.
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