Clan Imperium
»
Forum
»
Clan-Members
»
courtesy cars to take him to and from his home.Cover your ears: grunting is here to stayThe other day, before making t
Sundays race at New Hampshire was dominated by the high-cost drivers. Four drivers distanced themselves from the pack, each putting up more than 70 DraftKings fantasy points.They were Matt Kenseth (97.75), Martin Truex Jr. (89.25), Kevin Harvick (78) and Kyle Busch (70.25). Each cost over $10,000 and were the four most expensive drivers in the field. Fifth was Carl Edwards at $9,800, but he only put up 51.75 points.In this space last week, I said to start your team with Harvick, but to keep an eye on Truex and Busch as well. In the weekend, post-qualifying preview, I stuck with Truex and Harvick as my top high-cost picks.My mid-value picks were mostly based on start/finish differential. Austin Dillon gave a big boost there, starting 29th and finishing 16th. Greg Biffle couldnt quite move up from his 32nd-place spot. Clint Bowyer, the top low-cost pick, went 37th to 22nd for 37 points.But that was last week, now were off to Dover. Dover is a similar length to New Hampshire, but a totally different track configuration. As a high-banked track, its more similar to Bristol, but nearly twice the size.The story here recently has been the huge day of laps led. Look no further than this race last year and driver who won Sunday, Kevin Harvick. Harvick led 355 laps, had 135 fastest laps, and won from a 15th-place starting spot for 216.25 points. Since all the stats for daily fantasy NASCAR began to be tracked in 2005, thats the most points a driver has been put up in any race.In fact, this shorter, higher banked track type is where the huge points days happen. Going back to 2005, six of the seven highest-scoring days have come at either Dover or Bristol, with three at each track.How do those points come? Usually from the laps led and fastest laps, which earn .75 points a lap if you get them both, which drivers often do. The start/finish differential doesnt quite accumulate those huge points.Of the 40 highest scores at Bristol and Dover since 2005, 38 of them have come from drivers starting better than 20th, with the two exceptions being drivers who won from outside the top 20, although both still led more than 100 laps.So heres what Im thinking early in the week for some Dover picks. Check back again after qualifying for my final picks and fades.Im starting my team with:Its easy to go with the driver who put up 216.25 points here last year, but thats not Kevin Harvicks only solid run at Dover. For four straight Dover races, Harvick has led at least 91 laps, with more than 60 fastest laps each time.Over the last three seasons, since Harvick moved to Stewart-Haas Racing, there are only two drivers who have averaged more than 100 DraftKings points per race at a single track. One is Harvick, who has done it at Dover, Phoenix and Darlington, and the other is Brad Keselowski at Kentucky.Keep an eye on these four:Martin Truex Jr.: Ive been game on Truex everywhere lately, as hes in the midst of the best stretch of his career, including dominating another race last week at New Hampshire, even though he didnt win. Truex has been outperforming has career averages recently, and he was already pretty good at Dover.Truex got his first career win at Dover for DEI in 2007, leading 216 laps after starting 26th. And even when he struggled in 2014, he still finished sixth and seventh in the two Dover races.Kyle Larson: Larson was on the best streak of his career heading into the Chase, with three straight top-three finishes, but started the Chase with an 18th at Chicago and a 10th at New Hampshire. I expect him to turn it back around at Dover, where hes never finished worse than 11th in five starts. In the spring race here, he finished second, and topped 100 points thanks to his 85 laps led and 37 fastest laps.Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: Lets work our way down the salary scale. In the last four races at Dover and Bristol (two at each track), Stenhouse has a 10th-place average finish, and thanks to his 22.3 average starting position in those races, he averages 49.6 fantasy points per race.Ryan Blaney: Blaney will also come cheaply, and in his only Cup race at Dover, started 18th and finished eighth, good for 47 points. With a small sample size, I like to look at what a driver did in the second-tier Xfinity Series at the track. In Blaneys start here last October in that series, he won the pole and finished fourth.Air Jordan 1 Outlet .Y. - Detroit goaltender Jonas Gustavsson has earned NHL first star of the week honours after winning in his first three appearances of the season. Air Jordan 1 From China . Olli Jokinen, Mark Scheifele, and Bryan Little each had a goal and an assist as Winnipeg won 5-2, handing Calgary its record-setting seventh consecutive loss on home ice. https://www.cheapairjordan1outlet.com/ . The Nashville Predators were glad their captain was still on their side. Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night. Wholesale Air Jordan 1 .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Air Jordan 1 Retro . PAUL, Minn.Out on the lawns at SW19, the spirit of John McEnroe is not just alive and well, but spewing obscenities. Modern-day male tennis players are more prone to emotional outbursts -- whether thats raging at umpires, breaking rackets or dropping f-bombs on the grass -- than their female counterparts.Thats not conjecture, but analysis of the data -- the Wimbledon Diary has been crunching numbers (almost with the same enthusiasm as some of the competitors have been crunching rackets).Serena Williams received plenty of attention for bashing her racket on the grass during her second-round match, and then tossing it behind her into a cameramans lap. For that, she was fined $10,000. And the biggest punishment of the tournament so far went to Heather Watson, who was fined $12,000 for whacking her racket on the turf during her opening-round loss.But, according to the latest list that the International Tennis Federation have published, only one other woman has been fined during these Championships, with Spains Sara Sorribes Tormo docked $1,500.That takes the total fines to date for female players to $23,500, which is still considerably less than the men, who have had $39,000 taken from their prize-money. So far, some 13 different men have been fined, with Australias Nick Kyrgios appearing twice on the list, once for unsportsmanlike conduct in the opening round, which cost him $2,500, and then for swearing in his second round, for which he was fined $4,000.The man with the largest fine was Serbias Viktor Troicki, who lost $10,000 for ranting at an official: You are the worst umpire in the world.Remind you of anyone?Macs art attackMilos Raonic and McEnroe, the Canadians grass-court conssultant, have been bonding over a shared love for modern art.dddddddddddd. No doubt McEnroe -- an ESPN analyst -- has been telling Raonic about his encounters with Andy Warhol in New Yorks Studio 54 nightclub. McEnroe first appeared in Warhols diaries in 1979.Not that McEnroe was that impressed with the artist. The tennis player just thought of Warhol as this weird guy who was always at parties taking pictures. He was astonished when Warhol turned out to be one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.Quote of the dayMurrays coach finds extra driveAndy Murrays coach, Jamie Delgado, is a local. He lives in Southfields, which is a 10-minute stroll from the All England Club. But you probably wont see him walking along the pavement. Delgado told the Wimbledon Diary how he often prefers to order one of the tournaments courtesy cars to take him to and from his home.Cover your ears: grunting is here to stayThe other day, before making the trip to London, Pam Shriver went to watch some junior tennis and must have been tempted to stick her fingers in her ears.My boy plays junior tennis and I was at a tournament in California and heard a 12-year-old who, pound for pound, had the loudest grunt Ive ever heard. That gave me pause. I thought to myself, Urrgh, were just letting another generation just grunt away. I dont see anything that the game is doing, such as in the rules, to change this, Shriver, also an ESPN analyst, told the Wimbledon Diary.This echoes what Nick Bollettieri has been saying: grunting isnt about to disappear any time soon. ' ' '