KB - A little Redneck Help

[BillMill71]

Recap

With the help of my redneck friends here the team I took was:

J Gordon
T Stewart
Ku Busch
R Gordon
R Rudd

The team got me 653 points. The weekly winner got 830 points.

I came in 4,615th Place

[kbsooner21]

We shouldn't have left out John Paul

[BillMill71]

We shouldn't have left out John Paul

Well at least we jumped 4,000 places. So my initial thoughts on this weeks NH race is the following drivers, feedback?

Harvick
Ky Busch
Ku Busch
Newman
R Gordon (I know, but he seems to do well here at has a low salary)

[kbsooner21]

Well at least we jumped 4,000 places. So my initial thoughts on this weeks NH race is the following drivers, feedback?

Harvick
Ky Busch
Ku Busch
Newman
R Gordon (I know, but he seems to do well here at has a low salary)

I like all those. I really like Truex a lot this weekend as well. Another low salary driver that posted I believe an 11th and a 9th in the two races here last year was J.J. Yeley. Might be something to look at. Also think Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin will be tough this weekend as well.

[BillMill71]

I like all those. I really like Truex a lot this weekend as well. Another low salary driver that posted I believe an 11th and a 9th in the two races here last year was J.J. Yeley. Might be something to look at. Also think Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin will be tough this weekend as well.

Yeah Yeley and Stremme ran decent here last year. Biffle seems to run well here, but he has struggled this year, any value in him? Also J Burton does very well here, but his salary would hurt my picks.

I am pretty sure the core I want to use based on past performance and how they are running this year are Ku Busch, Ky Busch and Newman. Then it is do I put a high salary racer such as a Burton or Johnson who run well here with a lesser guy or do I try and do two mid level guys.

[kbsooner21]

If you used those 3 core guys and added Truex, what's the most expensive driver you could afford after that?

[BillMill71]

If you used those 3 core guys and added Truex, what's the most expensive driver you could afford after that?

If I go with these 4 (R Gordon is cheap at $146k)

Ky Busch
Ku Busch
Newman

R Gordon


Leaves me with $234k (which is a lot)

I can take Harvick, Bowyer, Truex, McMurray, Biffle, Yeley

[kbsooner21]

If you insist on taking R Gord, you can't leave Harvick out of the mix. After that I would take Truex, Biffle, Bowyer, McMurray, and then Yeley.

[BillMill71]

If you insist on taking R Gord, you can't leave Harvick out of the mix. After that I would take Truex, Biffle, Bowyer, McMurray, and then Yeley.

I can fit into the salaries

Ky Busch
Truex
Ku Busch
Biffle
Yeley

[kbsooner21]

I think you have to try and fit Harvick in there somewhere.

[BillMill71]

Man, this salary stuff is tough.

Well to get Harvick in it hurts overall, and makes me have to remove my two Busch guys unless I put a poor driver in the 5th slot.

Option 1

Harvick
Truex
Newman
Biffle
Yeley

Option 2

Burton
Harvick
McMurray
Yeley
R Gordon

Option 3

Ky Busch
Truex
Newman
Biffle
Yeley

Option 4

Harvick
Ky Busch
Ku Busch
Yeley

And the last driver can be any of these (are any of these worth using any way????):

Mears, Casey 168,125
Montoya, Juan Pablo 168,125
Waltrip, Michael 167,500
Vickers, Brian 153,611
Kahne, Kasey 150,156
Stremme, David 150,156
Nemechek, Joe 147,666
Gordon, Robby 146,093
Ragan, David 145,468
Raines, Tony 144,833
Menard, Paul 144,000
Sorenson, Reed 140,781
Marlin, Sterling 139,375
Smith, Regan 138,750
Rudd, Ricky 136,562
Petty, Kyle 134,285
Gilliland, David 131,718
Green, Jeff 128,125
Bliss, Mike 128,125
Sauter, Johnny 126,166
Riggs, Scott 125,714
Elliott, Bill 125,000
Blaney, Dave 107,500
Andretti, John 103,750
Wallace, Mike 100,000
Benson, Johnny 100,000

[kbsooner21]

Reed Sorenson almost won here last year, but ran out of fuel. Casey Mears could be worth a shot also.

[kbsooner21]

Option 1 looks pretty good to me also, but I know you want a little Busch in there

[BillMill71]

Option 1 looks pretty good to me also, but I know you want a little Busch in there

Well I look at it this way, you need to really pick the winner and 2nd pace driver, then your next 3 have to finish between 3rd and 8th to win this thing. So think of it that way, very tough. So picking from those low salary drivers is tough. So your fourth and fifth driver on your team must be able to finish in the top 8.

Winner last week had:

Montoya
Harvick
Stewart
Boyer
Biffle


All that being said what will the top 8 for this race look like, then try and fit the salaries????

[kbsooner21]

Damn, top 8 huh?

Harvick
Truex
Newman
Kyle Busch
Burton
Stewart
Johnson
Hamlin

Definitely way too high of salaries to fit 5 in there together I would think.