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The Call 811 Before You Dig 200 presented by Arizona 811 has to be in the pantheon of weird race names, right? It's not quite as weird as the Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 200, but it's up there.
Anyway, it's time for the fifth race of the 2021 Xfinity schedule. We've had four different winners so far, with none of them being Cup regulars. The NASCAR Xfinity Series -- it's exciting and not just dominated by Kyle Busch anymore!
Here at RotoBaller, we want to help you make informed decisions about your DFS lineups, which is why I'll be breaking down the slates for the Xfinity Series. Let's look at some NASCAR Xfinity DFS lineup picks for the Call 811 Before You Dig 200 on DraftKings. Be sure to also check out our NASCAR Premium Tools for Xfinity Series including our DFS Lineup Optimizer and powerful Research Station.
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Austin Cindric #22 ($11,200) - Starting 3rd
Here's my pick to be this week's dominator.
Cindric will need to get past the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Daniel Hemric and Brandon Jones who start on the front row, but once he can do that, the fantasy points for laps led should start to pile up. Cindric led 72 laps on his way to a victory in the season finale here last year, and in five starts in a Penske car here, Cindric has never finished lower than eighth.
Even with no place differential potential, Cindric is my favorite play of the high-priced drivers because he has a nose for the lead here and a lot of really good past results.
Ty Gibbs #54 ($8,900) - Starting 27th
Ty Gibbs won in his first Xfinity Series start, and if you read my DFS picks for that race, you would have noticed I had him as one of my value recommendations.
Well, the value isn't quite here this week, but Gibbs is still a great play because he's a Joe Gibbs car starting 27th who isn't priced insanely high. (Side note: I imagine one of the toughest jobs at DraftKings is figuring out how to price Ty Gibbs right now.)
Anyway, Gibbs is probably not going to start his Xfinity career 2-for-2 in terms of winning, but this is a car with top-five potential. And Gibbs has some results here -- in ARCA last year, he led 122 of 150 laps before fading to a third-place finish. Then later in a Menards West race here, he finished second after leading 77 of 100 laps. The point is, Gibbs knows his way around Phoenix.
Ryan Sieg #39 ($8,600) - Starting 31st
Sieg has an average finish of 26th this season, which would be the lowest average finish of his entire Xfinity career.
The problem is that DNFs at Daytona and Vegas have really killed Sieg's momentum. But he finished eighth at Homestead and last year had top 10s in one-third of his races, with an average finish of 15.5.
Unless something has really changed under the hood, this is a 15th-place car that starts 31st. Before finishing 31st in the season finale here last year, Sieg had finished 10th, 11th, and 13th in the prior three races here. He's not an exciting play, but he'll be a solid source of place differential.
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Myatt Snider #2 ($8,200) - Starting 19th
The pricing for Snider feels a little off, but whatever -- take advantage of the value here, as you get a guy who has won a race this season and has place differential at a really nice price.
I guess the downside is that Snider hasn't been super impressive outside of the Homestead win, but let's not ignore that he won a race! Or that he ran a couple solid races here last year that resulted in top 20s, with an average running position in the top 15 both times. Snider should be in line for a solid showing in this one.
J.J. Yeley #17 ($6,700) - Starting 33rd
When you think about J.J. Yeley, you probably think about him being a Cup Series backmarker. And when you think of Rick Ware Racing, you probably think about them being a Cup Series backmarker.
But the same isn't true in Xfinity. Yeley drove this 17 car to a 12th place finish at Homestead earlier this season, plus was 14th at Martinsville in this car last season.
Yeley's a reliable veteran driver who can get the most out of a car that isn't nearly as bad as you think it is. Clear top 20 upside here at a low cost.
Loris Hezemans #13 ($5,700) - Starting 40th
Alright, time for this week's risky value pick.
2019 Euro Elite 1 champion Loris Hezemans will make his second Xfinity start this week. His first came in 2019, when he finished 22nd in a road course race.
The Euro schedule is mostly road courses, but there have been three short track starts in his career. He has a win and an average finish of 2.7 in those races. That's, uhh, really really good, even if the sample size is tiny.
This 13 car isn't great, but it's also not terrible. After DNFs in the first two races, David Starr had a 21st and 29th in it the past two races, and in the Homestead race was on track for an even better run as he was running 13th late in that one before a blown tire.
Hezemans is a nice value play this week, because this car has top-25 potential, and Phoenix is a track where issues with speed won't be as apparent as they were at Vegas.
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