Kansas Fantasy NASCAR Top Tier Elite Picks

Joey Logano – Joey Logano will be a good fantasy NASCAR pick at Kansas. He’s the most recent winner and his five straight top 5’s certainly can’t be overlooked. Over this five race stretch he has the best driver rating, best average finish (3.0), best average running position (4.8) and has led the second most laps (289). Last fall he had a great car and raced his way to victory lane. Off course he did need to spin Kenseth to get around him, but at that point the #22 car was clearly faster. Last spring he had a great car and rallied to a 5th place finish. It wasn’t an easy 5th though because he made two mistakes on pit road. The first was when his crew went over the wall too soon and the second is when he had a mental error and pitted when pit road wasn’t open following a caution. He had a very strong car though so he was able to slice and dice his way up through traffic. In the race he started on the pole and led 29 laps. In fall 2014  he had a very impressive performance and led 45.6% percent of laps. Outside of a segment of the race where he took four tires and nearly everyone else took two he essentially ran in the top four for the entirety of the event. When the checkered flag waved he earned the best driver rating and had a 3rd place average running position. In spring 2014 he was very strong. He started 2nd, earned the 2nd best driver rating, had a 3rd place average running position, finished 4th and led 63 laps. Outside of Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon he probably had the next best car. In fall 2013 Logano finished 4th and led 33 laps. This year at 1.5 mile tracks Logano has scored the 4th most points and has a 5.7 average finish. Las Vegas is the most similar track and he finished 2nd there and led 72 laps. (Yahoo A Driver)

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Jimmie Johnson – Jimmie Johnson will be one of the drivers to beat at Kansas. Since the track was reconfigured he’s only finished outside the top ten once. When you overlook the race he finished outside the top ten (wrecked) he has a 5.2 average finish. Last year he had a great season at Kansas and nobody accumulated more points than him. In fall 2015 he had a great car. He was fast over long runs and raced his way up from his 21st place starting position to a 3rd place finish. Also in the race he earned the 3rd best driver rating, had a 5th place average running position and led 5 laps. Last spring he had a great car and raced his way to victory lane. It should be noted his win can largely be attributed to pit strategy. During the final caution he elected not to pit and that’s how he got the lead. If the final caution didn’t come out he probably would’ve finished 4th. In fall 2014 the weekend was a disaster. He qualified poorly, struggled in practice and then to top it off he wrecked on lap 82 while running in 21st. In spring 2014 he had a solid evening. He started in 14th, finished 9th and led 24 laps. In the first three races on the current Kansas configuration he finished 3rd, 6th and 9th. This year at 1.5 mile tracks Johnson has a 2.7 average finish and is tied with Kyle Busch for scoring the most points. (Yahoo A Driver)

Kevin Harvick – Kevin Harvick will be a good fantasy NASCAR pick at Kansas. Since the track was reconfigured in fall 2012 he’s arguably been the best performer. In the 7 races on the current configuration he has the best driver rating, best average starting position (5.7), best average running position (7.4), is tied for the best average finish (8.0) and has led the second most laps (392). Last fall he was top five good but walked away with an asterisk mark 16th place finish. The reason for his lack luster result can be traced to him receiving a stop and go pit penalty when equipment left his pit box on lap 214. That dropped him a lap down back to 24th. Also it should be noted late in the race he had shifter problems. Prior to him getting penalized he was running in the top five. In addition to finishing 16th he earned the 5th best driver rating, had a 7th place average running position and led 21st laps. Last spring he had a great car and finished second. In that race if a late caution didn’t come out he likely would’ve won. In that race he earned the 2nd best driver rating, had a 4th place average running position and led 53 laps. In fall 2014 he had a great car but finished a misleading 12th. Performance wise he looked like a lock to finish in the top three but with 53 laps to go while he was running in 3rd he slowed on the track and pitted under green because he thought he had a tire going down. That dropped him back to 23rd with not many laps remaining. Even with his problem he led 61 laps, had a 5th place average running position and earned the 3rd best driver rating. In spring 2014 he had the best car but failed to reach victory lane because his final pit stop was a little longer than eventual race winner Jeff Gordon’s. In that event he started on the pole, earned the best driver rating, finished 2nd and led 119 laps. When his car was in clean air it was untouchable. In fall 2013 in the #29 RCR Chevy he led 138 laps and raced his way to victory lane from the pole. This year at 1.5 mile tracks Harvick has scored the 5th most points and has a 7.7 average finish. In all three races he’s finished between 6th and 10th. (Yahoo A Driver)

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