DraftKings NASCAR DFS Picks for Charlotte: Fantasy NASCAR Strategy and Picks for the Bank of America Roval 400

NASCAR is at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval for the final race in the Round of 12.

This is going to be a shorter DFS piece from me because I’ve had a busy weekend, but your best bets are, as always, to look at track-type history (in this case, road courses) and practice FLAGS along with where the drivers start and apply some strategy for the playoff scenarios.

Chase Briscoe, Joey Logano, and Ross Chastain may be looking for points, while Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick, and Austin Cindric are most likely in win-or-go-home mode. Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney have the luxury of being locked in and could choose stage points or optimal strategy, while the other playoff drivers ahead of Briscoe in the standings not named Elliott or Blaney are also likely able to split their strategy, seeing as they have solid points cushions but aren’t locked in completely.

As always, you can 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 new 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 10,000 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 Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Bank of America Roval 400 DraftKings DFS Core Picks

Instead of calling them cash-game picks, I’ll call them core picks, as these are picks I like in all formats. However, it’s important to note that very often core picks tend to go over-rostered in tournaments, so while they should still be used plenty, it may be prudent to sometimes go underweight on these drivers if you think they’ll be significantly over-rostered.

Shane van Gisbergen ($12,500): SVG starts second but was top dog in FLAGS and has led a dominating 51.9% of all road course laps this year. Starting first is Reddick, who was only ninth in FLAGS in his own practice group, let alone adding in fast cars from the other group like AJ Allmendinger and Ty Gibbs.

SVG should dominate.

Alex Bowman and Carson Hocevar ($7800 and $7000): These two drivers, after SVG, have the highest Perfect% in my model, with both qualifying far worse (25th and 27th, respectively) than they practiced in FLAGS (12th and 11th).

Bank of America Roval 400 DraftKings DFS Tournament Picks

William Byron ($9700): Byron starts 13th but had one of the best cars in the second practice group, ranking fourth in that group in FLAGS.

Byron has a really nice Roval history too, with finishes of second and third the last two years, in addition to two other Roval races where he led the most laps.

AJ Allmendinger ($9000): Another driver with an amazing track history is the Dinger, who at one point won four straight Xfinity Series Roval races and also has a Cup win here.

Allmendinger was third best in overall practice FLAGS and starts ninth, meaning he should move forward on speed.

He’s only here to win, so we know he’ll be on the race-winning strategy too.

Ross Chastain ($8500): Chastain may find he likely won’t be able to point his way in after Stage 1, and could flip to a race-win strategy or do like Christopher Bell did in 2022 and make a tire play late to steal an undeserving win on speed.

Any of these playoff drivers in desperation mode are viable, but I think too many people will assume Chastain is only points racing and won’t consider desperation mode for him. Plus, he was better than Cindric, Wallace, and Reddick in FLAGS in the same practice group.

Cole Custer ($5600): Custer starts midpack in 18th and practiced 17th in FLAGS.

As long as he maintains that speed and picks up positions through optimal strategy, he could be in line for another top-10 finish at a road course, which he did earlier this year at Mexico City for one of his two top-10 finishes on the year.

Pictured: Shane van Gisbergen
Photo Credit: Imagn