What Should Fantasy Managers Do With Ricky Stenhouse Jr. At The Charlotte Roval?
6 months agoRicky Stenhouse Jr. is positioned once again as a decent and usable DFS value option for this week's Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway's Roval course. After qualifying for this week's race, Stenhouse will start 24th, which will be his best starting position at the Roval since the introduction of the Next-Gen car in 2022. In six previous starts at the Roval, Stenhouse has three top-20 finishes and a best finish of 17th. He also nabbed three finishes with positive Place Differential and scored two DNFs, including last year's race, due to electrical issues. In 31 races completed this season, Stenhouse has one win from last week's race at Talladega and 12 top-20 finishes, including the Chicago Street Course, where he placed sixth. In the first practice, Stenhouse ranked 20th in overall lap averages but was a nonfactor in final practice, ranking 37th in overall lap averages and having the slowest five consecutive lap averages. Although he does have decent upside with equipment capable of placing in the Top 20 and is usable in any format, Stenhouse is not one of the top value options since there are other drivers priced similarly or lower with better upside than the driver of the No. 47 Chevrolet.
Source: DriverAverages.com
Source: DriverAverages.com
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Unlikely To Gain Enough Positions For DFS Value
2 weeks agoDespite Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s reputation as a superspeedway driver, Homestead has arguably been his worst superspeedway. At all tracks where Stenhouse has failed to ever earn a top-10 finish in the NASCAR Cup Series, he has made more starts at Homestead than any other despite some solid qualifying runs. He might have some DFS value, as his average finish of 21.6 is better than his 27th-place starting position, suggesting he may gain a few positions on place differential. He's also rather cheap at $6,700, but even though he's still technically in the playoffs right now, he's also declined from his peak and it seems like right now the best he can do on a track like this is barely finishing in the top 20 and not leading at all, which won't give him enough points to be a leading DFS option.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Is One Of The Top Values For Las Vegas Lineups
3 weeks agoRicky Stenhouse Jr. earned a starting position of 31st for this week's Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This will mark the third time this season that Stenhouse will start lower than 30th in the Cup Series. In 19 starts at Las Vegas in his Cup career, Stenhouse has eight top-20 finishes, including last year's March race at the site. After four races so far this season, Stenhouse has four finishes of 21st or better and gained positive Place Differential every time. In practice, Stenhouse ranked 22nd in overall lap averages and displayed top-20 speeds in comparison to the field in the 15 and 20-consecutive-lap average categories. Considering his extremely high upside and practice speeds, Stenhouse is one of the top value options of the week and will compete for a top-20 finish.
Source: DriverAverages.com
Source: DriverAverages.com
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. One Of The Weakest DFS Options
4 weeks agoPhoenix has been a pretty terrible track for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. He has only ever placed in the top 10 twice in 24 starts, with both coming in his relative glory days at Roush Fenway Racing in 2017. Since the move to the Next Gen chassis, he has never finished better than 19th and he tends to always finish right around where he starts. Since he is starting 22nd on Sunday, he will likely finish approximately there as well, as he did in both 2023 races and the 2024 winter race. Since he is neither likely to score many place-differential points or score any lap-leader points -- having only led two laps at the track in his career in addition to remaining very crash-prone -- he's pretty much worthless for DFS lineups on Sunday.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
Road Courses Are Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s Worst Track Type
1 month agoAlthough Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is a genuinely good driver on drafting tracks and he's had moments on all other track types, road courses are clearly Stenhouse's Achilles heel as he has only a single top-10 finish in 40 road-course starts. It did come here at Austin in 2023 when he finished seventh, but that was mostly because he drove through an endless series of wrecks and not because he actually had speed, as his average running position was only 19th. Stenhouse has proven repeatedly that this track type is not his métier, and since he is starting 22nd, he also outqualified several drivers who you would expect to run better (especially Chris Buescher). Stenhouse should not be considered for any race bets, even in DFS.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference
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