2010 Fantasy NASCAR Draft Kit: Outside Top-35 Driver Rankings

How We Ranked NASCAR Drivers

Just like the NASCAR Top 35 Driver Rankings, I’ve taken the drivers that are outside the top 35 in NASCAR points and ranked them for you according to the same method using NASCAR Loop Data. I’ve scored these critical factors of driver performance:

  1. Drivers average season Driver Rating
  2. Drivers season long Average Finish
  3. Drivers season long average Percentage of Laps Running in the Top 15
  4. Drivers season long average of Total Laps Led

I ranked them according to each factor and combined each ranking to find each drivers overall cumulative ranking to determine what I believe is a very effective ranking system.

Outside Top-35 NASCAR Driver Rankings

The problem with the drivers in this list is that they may run a ‘partial’, ‘only-a-few’ or ‘not-at-all’ race schedule for the 2010 NASCAR season. Ironically (or is it sadistically?) for you, odds are that most of these drivers appear in the lowest-tier driver groups you are faced with when picking your fantasy NASCAR team. I’ve included a column in this ranking that lists how many races and how many DNQ’s (did not qualify) each driver had in 2009.

Rank Driver Races DNQ Season Rating Avg. Finish
36 Brad Keselowski Brad Keselowski 15 2 64.07 21.53
37 Boris Said Boris Said 2 1 83.60 29.00
38 Bill Elliott Bill Elliott 12 0 56.64 23.92
39 Ron Fellows Ron Fellows 2 2 51.20 28.00
40 Andy Lally Andy Lally 1 1 54.00 27.00
41 Regan Smith Regan Smith 18 2 48.54 27.67
42 David Gilliland David Gilliland 31 1 45.01 33.87
43 John Andretti John Andretti 34 0 39.64 29.26
44 Max Papis Max Papis 16 6 39.95 31.13
45 Patrick Carpentier Patrick Carpentier 6 1 41.03 34.83
46 Robert Richardson Jr Robert Richardson, Jr. 1 1 48.70 18.00
47 Travis Kvapil Travis Kvapil 6 2 46.95 33.33
48 Scott Riggs Scott Riggs 8 4 39.65 35.88
49 Aric Almirola Aric Almirola 8 1 43.64 32.38
50 Terry Labonte Terry Labonte 6 0 32.52 35.83
51 Joe Nemechek Joe Nemechek 30 4 32.39 39.53
52 Scott Wimmer Scott Wimmer 1 0 40.60 29.00
53 Erik Darnell Erik Darnell 7 0 40.44 31.86
54 Todd Bodine Todd Bodine 3 6 34.73 40.67
55 Dave Blaney Dave Blaney 30 4 30.79 41.07
56 Mike Bliss Mike Bliss 13 1 33.41 39.54
57 Brandon Ash Brandon Ash 1 2 28.00 41.00
58 Sterling Marlin Sterling Marlin 7 5 30.76 39.29
59 Dexter Bean Dexter Bean 1 5 29.10 36.00
60 Tony Raines Tony Raines 13 11 28.15 39.77
61 Micheal McDowell Michael McDowell 8 3 29.80 40.75
62 Mike Skinner Mike Skinner 5 4 27.50 41.00
63 Mike Wallace Mike Wallace 2 7 29.70 41.00
64 PJ Jones P.J. Jones 2 0 29.85 42.00
65 Derrike Cope Derrike Cope 1 6 26.40 42.00
66 Tony Ave Tony Ave 1 0 27.80 43.00