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This Saturday, we've got two -- yes, two! -- NASCAR races. First up is a Truck Series race, followed by an Xfinity race, both at Atlanta Motor Speedway. If you're looking for lineup picks from the Truck race, click here. If you're looking for Xfinity picks, then keep on reading!
Saturday's EchoPark 250 is the first of the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash races. The most important thing for you to know about the Dash 4 Cash: Cup Series drivers can't run these four races, which means there's no Kyle Busch to dominate the field on Saturday (though he does get to do that in the Truck Series on Saturday.)
Here at RotoBaller, we want to help you make informed decisions about your DFS lineups, which is why I'll be breaking down the slates for the Xfinity Series. Let's look at some NASCAR Xfinity DFS lineup picks for the EchoPark 250 on DraftKings. (And if any other DFS providers want to start doing Xfinity, we'll do those too!) Be sure to also check out our NASCAR Premium Tools for Xfinity Series including our DFS Lineup Optimizer and powerful Research Station.
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Chase Briscoe #98 ($11,200) - Starting 9th
Briscoe has been on fire this season, winning races at Vegas and Darlington, plus collecting three more top 10s.
Admittedly, Atlanta's not been a great track for Briscoe in the Xfinity Series. He's run two races here, posting an average finish of 15th. But that's a small sample size, and Briscoe's shown enough speed this year for me to ignore poor results at this particular track.
Briscoe ranks fourth in Xfinity in early run speed and first in late run speed. No driver has run more fastest laps than he has in the 98 car, and only Austin Cindric has a higher average green flag speed rank. Briscoe's fast. He's also got some place differential upside coming from ninth.
Justin Allgaier #7 ($10,700) - Starting 3rd
Allgaier's results this year haven't been as great as we're used to seeing, but crashing out of a pair of races has been a big part of that. Still, he's got three top 10s, including a pair of top fives, and has five top 10s in nine Xfinity races at Atlanta. In four races for JR Motorsports at the track, Allgaier has three top 10s and has led 15 laps, all in the 2016 race here.
Allgaier's been consistent this season, running 93.9 percent of his laps in the top 15, the second-highest percentage of full-time drivers. He's also second in the series in fastest laps run and overall ranks eighth in green flag speed.
We know that both the car and the driver for this team are good, even if things haven't gone quite Allgaier's way this year. He'll be consistently competing for top fives again soon -- he had 16 of them in 33 races last year, good for a 48.5 percent top-five finish rate, while this year he's at just 28.6 percent.
Anthony Alfredo #21 ($7,900) - Starting 24th
Alfredo returns to the 21 car for the third time this season. So far, he's piloted this car to a sixth and a 14th place finish.
This Richard Childress Racing team hasn't exactly been as good as they were when they won the title with Tyler Reddick last year, but Alfredo's still piloting a fast car. Myatt Snider's run this car for the last two races, finishing with a pair of top 10s, including a fifth-place finish at Bristol.
I'm not convinced that Alfredo is as good a driver as Snider, but I am convinced that this car is one of only two cars starting 20th or worse that have a chance of a non-fluke top 10 on Saturday. (The other is A.J. Allmendinger, and I guess Michael Annett can count too.) Allmendinger is the only driver with more place differential upside than Alfredo has, and if I'm building a lineup that has a lot of cars up front in it, I'm grabbing Alfredo to balance things out.
Brandon Brown #68 ($6,800) - Starting 10th
Brown starting all the way up in 10th does worry me, but this 68 team has been putting together some good runs as of late, and I think this race is setting up to be a lot more predictable than others have, with less movement throughout the field as most of the top cars start near the front.
Brown's shown decent speed this season, ranking 13th in green flag speed while consistently running well, ranking 10th among full-time drivers in percent of laps run in the top 15.
Brown is 2020's "wow, he's going to make the playoffs, isn't he?" guy, and I think we have a big enough sample at this point to conclude his early performance isn't a fluke.
Justin Haley #11 ($6,500) - Starting 4th
Another week of Haley starting a little too close to the front for me to be in love with him, but also another week of him being priced so low that it's hard for me to ignore him, as he has the chance to keep the car clean and up front, lowering the place differential downside for him.
Haley is fourth in the series in percent of laps in the top 15, plus ninth in green flag speed. Haley has a pair of top fives this year, but has struggled in the past couple races, crashing out at Charlotte and then having issues at Bristol that led to consecutive finishes outside the top 15.
Still, this car has the speed to maintain a spot close to where Haley's starting on race day.
Joe Graf Jr. #08 ($6,600) - Starting 27th
Graf has three top-20 finishes in a row, including a 13th place finish at Bristol the last time out. Since NASCAR's return, the Bobby Dotter-owned 08 team has run consistently better than they did before the break, and Graf's done a good job capitalizing on what little this team has.
And of the drivers who are priced at Graf's cost or below, no one really has the upside of Graf aside from Timmy Hill, who I almost mentioned here. But I'm buying into this team's recent improvement, even if it's a little scary to do so.
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