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Fantasy NASCAR Primer Series – Salary Cap Leagues

by Eric McClung, Special To NASCAR news, NASCAR statistics, NASCAR commentary On Pit Row

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January 20, 2010 3:48 pm CST 1 Comment

Welcome to part three of my weeklong Fantasy NASCAR Primer Series. This five-day series will take you through all of the ins, outs, straightaways, doglegs and tri-ovals of fantasy NASCAR. Here’s a breakdown to what’s in store:

Monday 1/18 - Allocation leagues

Tuesday 1/19 - Draft leagues

Wednesday 1/20 - Salary cap leagues

Thursday 1/21 - Changes to Yahoo! Fantasy Auto Racing driver lists

Friday 1/22 - Inside an expert fantasy draft

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Salary cap styles games are the most common type of fantasy NASCAR game you will come across online. The objective in a salary cap game is to create the best weekly roster of drivers while staying within a set budget. The market value (or price) of the drivers will change based on recent performance. The important thing to remember is that the price of each driver remains locked at the price you purchased them at. By investing in a driver when the price is low (like Juan Pablo Montoya last year) the value of your team may exceed the cap limit, but that’s OK– the locked price is what must remain under the cap. Keep in mind if you take a driver off your team you must pay market value to reacquire him.

This concludes my overview of the types of fantasy NASCAR games. There are some others, mainly picking head-to-head driver match ups, but those games are pretty self explanatory and void of strategy, for the most part.

Tomorrow will cover changes to Yahoo!’s popular Fantasy Auto Racing game, Friday will take you inside a recent expert draft with analysis from all the participants!

Expert advice

• Finding a cheap, serviceable option and building up from there is a good way to go. Last season, Bill Elliott was a salary-cap staple every time he was on the entry list. His basement-level price opened up a ton of roster flexibility. This season, Sam Hornish, Jr. and David Ragan are good potential backend options.

• If you have some cap space left over, don’t worry. Just focus on getting the best roster available for that week.

Examples of salary cap games: Fanball NASCAR Challenge, NASCAR.com Fantasy Cap Challenge, Running3Wide Salary Cap, Sandbox Salary Cap NASCAR

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