NASCAR DFS Verizon 200 Playbook: Chase Elliott Tries To Top Shane Van Gisbergen

We’re drawing down toward the end of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season with just three races left before the NASCAR Playoffs. The Verizon 200 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course is Sunday at what should be a chaotic race. The last two installments of this race have been all sorts of chaotic which can lead to a fun day for DFS. How are we approaching the Verizon 200 for NASCAR DFS? Did practice and qualifying results change how we’re building lineups? What drivers are we playing after practice and qualifying? The DraftKings and FanDuel strategies for this race are a bit varied but we’ll go over all the top NASCAR plays in this week’s Verizon 200 Indy Road playbook. Listen to the podcast below for more discussion of strategy for Sunday’s race as well.

What Are The Similar Tracks For Indianapolis Road Course?

As a general rule of thumb, every road course is different. That’s true for Indy Road for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it’s mostly flat and not terribly technical. Secondly, it’s one of only two Roval-type road courses on the schedule and the other is the Charlotte Roval which is higher banked and has elevation in the infield. Lastly, it’s still pretty new, just like COTA. That makes it tough to compare to others, like most other road courses. So what do we do? This week we’ll be looking at all other combined road course finishes and stats in the Gen 7 car. That is to say the last nine road races run since the start of the 2022 season.

How Are We Approaching The Chalk on DraftKings and FanDuel?

You’ll see in this week’s, loaded, playbook that there are some chalky options listed. Guys like Kevin Harvick and William Byron who are too good to be starting in the back, as they are. As well as road course drivers who had rougher than expected qualifying efforts. So how are we working this for building lineups? For cash games we have to take those guys as a free square on a bingo card. For tournaments though, there are a few options either you can be underweight on them in case they don’t do what we’d expect from them or you can go overweight compared to the field in the hopes that you have more free squares than others. Everyone knows, or expects, this race can be chaotic which means this decisions really come down to your own personal risk mitigation and how you like to spread that throughout your build.

NASCAR DFS Strategy For Verizon 200 At Indy Road

We’ve talked a lot about chaos from this week’s podcast to the first few paragraphs of the playbook. But just how do we build for that in DFS? Let’s start off by saying that even with all of the crashes and curbing issues and track issues in the first few Indy Road races, the two winners have started P8 and P1. Most of the top-10 finishers started inside the top-12 and the mid-pack were the drivers that were most affected by the chaos. Kind of like a Daytona or Talladega build, though not to that extent. So for cash games, we’re chasing PD and strong finishing positions in our builds with some exposure to laps led. In tournaments, it’s more geared toward those starting closer to the front but still need a good showing in the PD department. If you take a listen to the podcast this week, Dan and I break down our approaches to these builds for this starting grid and salaries pretty thoroughly.

I have listed Shane Van Gisbergen here due to a technical issue with him not appearing in the search.

Shane Van Gisbergen

It’s the “Return Of The Mac” nope sorry, that’s SVG. Just the guy that dominated the Chicago race and put his NASCAR career on the fast track. He’s back in the Project 91 entry from Trackhouse Racing this weekend and once again showed good speed at practice before qualifying P8. The one thing to be careful of with SVG this time is that he’s not going to surprise anyone. They know how good he is and the tactics he uses to pass. Not to mention he likely gets bumped a bit more than he did in Chicago. SVG will still be popular to play for a shot at winning and PD and he’s still an elite play once again.

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