DraftKings NASCAR DFS Picks for Richmond: Fantasy NASCAR Strategy and Picks for the Dollar Tree 301

New Hampshire Motor Speedway hosts the second-to-last race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series regular season.

New Hampshire is a one-mile flat track, and with recent short-flat races at North Wilkesboro, Iowa, and Richmond, plus two others earlier this year at Phoenix and Martinsville, we have a solid sample size to gauge performance in this package.

Additionally, a 50-minute practice where each team got two sets of tires means practice FLAGS is going to be big as usual, especially with the adjustments for when each driver changed tires.

Also, with 301 laps on the slate, there should be 1-3 dominators in your lineups, so as always we’ll review those.

Be sure to check out my NASCAR projections in the NASCAR Models on FantasyLabs, complete with floor, ceiling, median, and ownership projections.

My projections, along with Stephen Young’s from RotoGrinders, are available in our NASCAR DFS package. You can read more about what the package entails here.

Let’s not skip the best part, my Perfect% metric, a metric that tells you how often certain racers appear in the optimal lineup when running 250,000 race simulations.

And don’t forget about the tools that FantasyLabs has to offer, like our Lineup Optimizer to effortlessly create up to 300 lineups or our Lineup Builder if you like to hand-build your lineups.

So, without further ado, here’s my strategy guide and NASCAR DFS picks for the Dollar Tree 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Dollar Tree 301 Cash Game Picks

Ty Gibbs ($9200): Gibbs was the clear leader in practice FLAGS, and by starting just seventh, there is some place-differential potential in addition to dominator potential. He also isn’t at a top-dollar price tag like Ryan Blaney or Christopher Bell would be, so you get some affordability there too.

John Hunter Nemechek ($5700): JHN isn’t in here because I think he’ll be amazing, but he did run midpack in practice FLAGS and starts 31st, which means he should have 10-plus places of place-differential potential if we only based this off practice speed.

Nemechek also finished eighth here in 2024, which had a wet track in the late going. There is possible rain in the forecast, which is why the start time has been moved up an hour, so if that does come into play, there could be some hidden benefits there.

Mostly though, he just has the best points-per-dollar projection among the sub-$6k range, which allows us to squeeze in some of the top-dollar drivers into our lineups.

Dollar Tree 301 Tournament Picks

Dominators: Here are my top dominators by likelihood of dominating:

1. Ryan Blaney
2. William Byron
3. Christopher Bell
4. Josh Berry
5. Ty Gibbs
6. Denny Hamlin
7. Tyler Reddick

Dominators are pretty compressed this week since Blaney and Bell start a bit farther back as top dogs, while Byron starts third but is in a struggling HMS car at this track type. Josh Berry starts second and could be the big winner, as polesitter Tyler Reddick was very unhappy with his car in practice.

Josh Berry ($8200): Berry is the most bang for your buck among the dominator list, and he should definitely be in a handful of lineups.

Berry has a 2.5 average finish over the last two races here, and he was inside the top-five in race FLAGS in both.

He looked like one of the best cars in practice, ranking sixth in FLAGS, and if he can get the jump on a struggling Reddick, he could dominate the early laps.

Chris Buescher ($7600): Buescher had a fantastic car in practice, ranking fourth in FLAGS and above the 75th percentile in LONG, DEG, and CON, showing he has a very consistently fast car over the long run with low tire degradation.

I love him in tournaments, while people are a bit down on RFK’s form lately at short-flat tracks.

Pictured: Ty Gibbs (front), Chase Elliott (back)
Photo credit: Reese Strickland, Imagn