Ultimate Race Day

It’s that time of week again, time to select my Yahoo Sports Fantasy Lineup for the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but before I do that it’s important to review what’s going on in the Ultimate Race Day Fantasy League.

We’re three weeks in now, just coming off a fantastic finish in the Shelby American at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and a few things are becoming certain, and that’s who’s got staying power in the front of the pack.

DropTheJack inked 302 points for the week and has done nothing short of drop the hammer to begin this long fantasy season.

With back to back to back 300+ point weeks he is commanding the lead in 1^st place. My bet is that if this fantasy driver can keep running 300 pointers there is no way any of us are going to catch him, but the season is long and sooner or later everyone takes a dive.

Of course a string of Herculean performances like that of RainbowWarrior WNY24 (+7@353) who took the checkered flag for the week could easily put you in first.  However experience dictates that the entire season will pass and there will be few 350+ point performances are seen.  It was an outstanding performance this week for the RainbowWarriorWNY24 whose checkered flag lineup consisted of Jeff Gorden, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer and Scott Speed.

Other big movers from last weekend are Red Head Racing (+9@348) and JackCracker!!! (+8@331) who showed up @RowdyBurns (-4@264) on the leader board’s. It seems Rowdy’s got nothing to say this week because his cars been going backwards since Daytona, its funny how a tough week in Fantasy Nascar shuts up the best of us.

Our dog for the week was AutoSport (-12 @202) who actually picked drivers that could have seen him to a top 10 finish but left them in the provisional lineup. There is nothing that bothers me more at the end of the week then seeing my provisional drivers perform better than my starters, but it happens nonetheless, and it just goes to show how difficult it is to pick a Nascar Sprint Cup Race.

Coming up this weekend is a real slippery track at the Atlanta Motor Speedway and its quite likely someone’s A and B picks will be finishing at the back of the pack. Our standing will see another shake-up this week and I don’t know who it will be but its definitely going to happen. Someone’s falling out of the top 5, someone’s falling out of the top 10, and we’re going to see some new fantasy owners heading up the pack.

Stay Tuned,

CJFinch

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