Dixie Vodka 400 NASCAR DFS Picks for SuperDraft

In case you’ve missed it, with the return of sports and DFS came SuperDraft and the launch of their NASCAR DFS product. Those who have or are playing NASCAR DFS at SuperDraft are still fine-tuning their game as scoring is different from either DraftKings or FanDuel. So let’s take a quick walk down the intricacies of NASCAR DFS on SuperDraft and some of my favorite plays based on those rules.

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SuperDraft NASCAR DFS 101

First, let’s look at rosters. Fantasy lineups consist of one “champion” who receives 50% more points (based off a multiplier) much like the captain slot works on DraftKings. After your champion selection, you have four other slots for drivers who receive points based on the SuperDraft multiplier system.

Second, let’s consider scoring. Fantasy points are accrued via four different ways; place differential, laps led, laps completed and finishing position. Each position gained or lost relative to their official starting position is worth 0.75 points. Every lap led by a driver is worth 0.2 points. Every lap completed is worth 0.1 points. Finally, drivers earn points via where they finish.

SuperDraft Lineup Construction

In the end, the scoring is eerily similar to FanDuel, save for place differential getting a slight bump. As with all things SuperDraft, the thing that sets this site apart from DraftKings and FanDuel is the multiplier system. Realize you could literally just jam in 5 potential dominators. SuperDraft has nothing to stop you from doing so, however, that won’t be optimal.

You may just assume you want to jam your top potential lap leader in the champion spot. For example, if I think Kevin Harvick will lead 100 laps that alone is worth 20 points on SuperDraft. However, the champion slot makes those points worth 30 now. Furthermore, he gets a 50% bonus for his place differential as well as finishing position points. Therefore, Harvick starting seventh and ending his day in fourth with 100 laps led would be worth 87.95 SuperDraft points. On the other hand, in the champion spot (1.5X), Harvick’s day resulted in 131.92 fantasy points.

With dominator points getting de-emphasized (no fastest laps points), you reach a point where drivers in the back accruing place differential are outscoring lap leaders. For example, Ryan Preece has a 1.8 multiplier this weekend. If Preece picks up 10 place differential spots, finishes 23rd with no laps led his day was worth 54.2 fantasy points. Yet, when you throw in Preece’s multiplier, his day is now worth 92.14 fantasy points as a SuperFlex pick and 146.34 as a champion.

In what NASCAR DFS world is Ryan Preece a better play than Kevin Harvick? This one. More often than not, chasing place differential and finishing position will be worth more than a lap leader because these drivers accruing place differential have such high multipliers.

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SuperDraft Champion Picks

As far as the champion selection is concerned, the best combination of place differential upside, finishing position, and multiplier value is the Cole Custer. Starting 35th, Custer has 20-place differential potential at a track where he had positive results during his Xfinity campaign. Alex “Awesemo” Baker is projecting Christopher Bell with the same champion multiplier to outscore Custer by more than 10 points (no multiplier considered). I, on the other hand, will side with Custer over Bell for champion considerations.

Your tournament pivot is the aforementioned Ryan Preece. Starting 33rd, Preece has very few spots to lose but a legitimate 10-15 to gain. With his 2.7X multiplier, he’s an amazing value and a great pivot off the chalkier selections of Custer and Bell. While his 2.35X multiplier isn’t nearly as good as Custer, Bell or Preece, major considerations have to be made with Tyler Reddick as a possible champion too. Out of everyone mentioned, Reddick has the best potential to finish in the top 10 if not the top five. Reddick drove circles around this track in the Xfinity series, winning back-to-back races. If all Reddick does is finish 10th, his day will be worth 164.97 points in the champion slot.

SuperDraft SuperFlex Picks

As you would expect, everyone mentioned above makes great SuperFlex picks if you don’t utilize them as champion picks. Each of them has a SuperFlex multiplier value of 1.55X or greater.

Perhaps mispriced on SuperDraft is veteran Matt Kenseth, who comes into Miami with a 1.75X multiplier. I’m not enamored with Kenseth; his return to racing in the No. 42 has been milquetoast at best. However, that multiplier is catching my eye. With the multiplier considered, Awesemo is projecting Kenseth as the third-highest-scoring driver. Furthermore, it was just two seasons ago that Kenseth finished sixth here in worse equipment.

If you were wanting to take a stab at a driver with a slightly less valuable multiplier, you have to consider Aric Almirola. Starting 21st, Almirola offers you place differential, a real shot at a top-10 finish, and after his finishes the past few weeks, he might be off people’s radars. His 1.45X multiplier isn’t fantastic but with his starting spot, he could bring good returns based off that number.