DraftKings Daytona 500 Top Ten Scorers By Starting Position Since 2015
Below are the top ten DraftKings scorers in the Daytona 500 accompanied with their starting position going back to 2015. When it comes to superspeedway racing, it’s always important to think “Place Differential” when building lineups.
2022 and 2021 were scored with the current points format. Previous years were scored with their respective format.
Note, there is some point ties in here, but the more relevant driver got the nod to be ranked higher. One notable was in 2020 when Blaney and Ragan scored the same number of points.
| Points Rank | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 (Almirola) | 25 (Hamlin) | 21 (Hamlin) | 31 (KY Busch) | 3 (Blaney) | 36 (Blaney) | 11 (Hamlin) | 42 (Hamlin) |
| 2 | 34 (Ragan) | 34 (Chastain) | 39 (Gaughan) | 28 (Jones) | 14 (A Dillon) | 38 (Allmendinger) | 28 (Truex Jr.) | 41 (Mears) |
| 3 | 16 (Wallace) | 17 (McDowell) | 27 (Blaney) | 34 (McDowell) | 37 (Almirola) | 33 (Menard) | 38 (Newman) | 38 (Hornish) |
| 4 | 33 (Hemric) | 39 (Cindric) | 30 (Ragan) | 10 (Hamlin) | 21 (Buescher) | 30 (Waltrip) | 27 (Smith) | 5 (Logano) |
| 5 | 5 (Cindric) | 12 (Elliott) | 36 (LaJoie) | 36 (Chastain) | 39 (Gilliland) | 39 (Gaughan) | 34 (Almirola) | 11 (Harvick) |
| 6 | 7 (Blaney) | 27 (Custer) | 29 (Bowyer) | 26 (Larson) | 16 (Menard) | 26 (Kahne) | 39 (McDowell) | 3 (Earnhardt Jr.) |
| 7 | 10 (KY Busch) | 19 (McMurray) | 19 (Buescher) | 22 (Ty Dillon) | 22 (McDowell) | 35 (Truex) | 21 (A Dillon) | 27 (Annett) |
| 8 | 9 (Briscoe) | 8 (Harvick) | 33 (Haley) | 35 (Keselowski) | 29 (Marks) | 8 (KT Busch) | 9 (Harvick) | 33 (Almirola) |
| 9 | 26 (T Dillon) | 11 (Preece) | 23 (Nemechek) | 21 (Preece) | 7 (Hamlin) | 15 (Logano) | 4 (KY Busch) | 26 (Gilliland) |
| 10 | 3 (Keselowski) | 16 (LaJoie) | 34 (Poole) | 17 (Johnson) | 2 (Wallace) | 25 (DiBenedetto) | 10 (Edwards) | 30 ( A Dillon) |
