DFS Xfinity Series Picks for Nashville

The Xfinity Series will join the Cup Series and the Truck Series at Nashville Superspeedway this week. This may go down as the race of the year in the Xfinity Series. The field is absolutely stacked in Music City. TY Gibbs will drive the No. 19 for Joe Gibbs Racing, John H. Nemechek will drive the No. 20 car for Joe Gibbs Racing, Tyler Reddick will drive the No. 26 car for Sam Hunt Racing, Ross Chastain will drive the No. 92 car for DGM Racing, Noah Gragson will drive the No. 30 car for Rette Jones Racing and Carson Kvapil will drive the No. 88 car for Junior Motorsports. There are plenty of good options to be creative with your DraftKings lineups Saturday.

PRACTICE AND QUALIFYING AT NASHVILLE

The Xfinity Series had their normal 15-minute practice session to shake down their cars for the Tennessee Lottery 250. Nashville Superspeedway is a 1.33-mile, high-banked, concrete track. Most of the drivers were able to make a five-lap run in practice. This race averages about nine cautions, so we are going to need the drivers who have good long-run speed and start up front. Track position seems to be important this year and it will be no different at Nashville.

Here are the practice speeds for the Tennessee Lottery 250…

DRAFTKINGS POINTS AT NASHVILLE

Nashville is considered an intermediate track. The most similar track to Nashville is Dover. We need to move the drivers who finished up front at the Monster Mile up our rankings this week. We can also use the data from the races at Darlington and Charlotte, since they are both intermediate tracks. We cannot ignore what happened at Nashville last year. I will add the stats from the recent races this year on the intermediate tracks to the stats from Nashville last year to help handicap this race.

Here are the stats from the races at Dover, Darlington, Charlotte, and the last race at Nashville, sorted by DraftKings Points….

STRATEGY FOR NASHVILLE

The race at Nashville is scheduled for 188 laps. That means there are 47 points available for leading laps and 84.6 points available for fastest laps (131.6 total dominator points). The trend in the Xfinity Series races at Nashville is for one driver to lead 70 laps and score 26 fastest laps (29.2 dominator points). A second driver leads 38 laps and scores 24 fastest laps (20.3 dominator points). A third driver leads 30 laps and scores 18 fastest laps (15.6 dominator points). The final dominator leads 20 laps and scores 16 fastest laps (12.2 dominator points). The laps led and fastest laps will likely get spread out between three to four drivers Saturday, since the field is so stacked. I will play some stars and scrubs lineups to try and get at least three dominators into my lineup at Nashville.

The drivers with the best chance to score dominator points today includes Ty Gibbs, Cole Custer, Tyler Reddick, Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson

The drivers with the best chance to score place differential points include John H. Nemechek, Tyler Reddick, Ross Chastain, Sam Mayer, Jesse Love, Carson Kvapil, Kyle Weatherman and Garrett Smithley

DRIVER RANKINGS FOR NASHVILLE