About Fantasy NASCAR Racing Cheat Sheet

Hey! I’m Darren Fauth.

You may know me as the guy picked by Yahoo! to write in their NASCAR blog back in the days when it was brand new. It was a short run that I opted out of after a few months to focus on my great passion project OneBadWheel.

OneBadWheel was a NASCAR statistics database website. It had a great run for a few years as THE DESTINATION for thousands of fantasy NASCAR players. I made lots of friends along the way while running that site (you just may be one of them?) but as with all good things it came to an end.

Well, I never stopped watching and staying immersed in NASCAR. Nor, did I stop loving to play a variety of fantasy NASCAR games like Yahoo!’s Fantasy Auto Racing game, ESPN’s Stock Car Challenge and more recently the fantasy NASCAR games at On Pit Row.

This NASCAR Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet is my newest NASCAR project.

James Jones (a good friend and former writer at OneBadWheel) and I kicked around the concept for two seasons. That is, to build an in-depth, pre-season preview of the top drivers and each track on the NASCAR schedule. Give fantasy NASCAR players (new and veteran) a resource at the start of the year to help plan out their fantasy draft.

A fantasy NASCAR Draft Kit.

But, not just a pre-season draft kit only. We also wanted to have other statistics and data to reference each week through the year to help you set your fantasy team line-up.

Well, that is what I’ve done. With one great addition!

I’ve designed this fantasy NASCAR draft kit to use NASCAR Loop Data Driver Ratings.

To me this is hugely significant. The troublesome thing about NASCAR statistics based on a drivers finish position is that it doesn’t tell you how the driver ran throughout the entire race. Only where he finished. And, you know that there are so many things that can happen that are out of the drivers control.

• Wrecks not caused by him.
• Slow pit stops.
• Mechanical problems.
• Yellow flags that put them a lap down.

It’s that ‘bad racing luck’ thing. Well, NASCAR Loop Data rates a driver on many factors throughout the race. In a sense, he gets the credit for his good performance even if his final finish position doesn’t show it.

My NASCAR Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet does still list ‘average finish position’ statistics, but the majority of the charts are ranked, based and driver recommended using the NASCAR Loop Data statistics.

I hope you decide to invest in a years subscription to my Fantasy NASCAR Cheat Sheet. I think you’ll really like it.

If you have any question, feel free to contact me.

Wishing you success and fun in the 2010 fantasy NASCAR season!

Darren Fauth