talladega xfinity

I'll be using the typical cash game strategy of rostering guys starting in the back hoping to avoid any crushing negative scores when the wrecks take place. With how the field lines up, I see no reason to use anyone starting above 30th position in cash games. So I'll give you a few thoughts about each of the drivers from 30th on back to help you decide which of them to use--

• 30th Alex Labbe - Good driver and solid, reliable equipment. He's finished in the Top 10 the last two Talladega races. My only issue with Labbe is that he tends to try to race with the lead pack and is often in the mid-pack "danger zone" for the wrecks. If he stays clean, another Top 10 is very possible.
  
• 31st Mason Massey - Massey will be in the #99 car for BJ McLeod's team. For all the Team McLeod cars, I really like that they drop back out of the lead pack and ride around together in the back to avoid the wrecks. The problem is that they're not the most reliable cars and have some mechanical breakdowns. If the car doesn't fail, these guys tend to get Top 20 runs at the superspeedways as other cars wreck out and they are left standing at the end.
  
• 32nd Landon Cassill - Similar profile to Alex Labbe. I'd probably give a slight edge to Cassill as the better driver and a slight edge to Labbe as being the more reliable car. Cassill will probably try to stick with the lead pack and might find himself in the danger zone for a chunk of the race.
  
• 33rd Jeffrey Earnhardt - Same team and profile as Landon Cassill.
  
• 34th Jess Little - Jess is a solid driver in a BJ McLeod car. Very close to an ideal cash game play at a superspeedway. Ran in the back and finished 17th at Daytona this Spring after everyone wrecked out.
  
• 35th Joe Graf Jr - He's a bit of a wild card because he's gone back and forth between trying to run with the lead pack and laying back. There's Top 15 upside here for sure as shown by his 11th place finish at Daytona earlier this year. Should be really popular.
  
• 36th Matt Mills - Pretty much the same profile as Jess Little. Mills has a very solid track record at the superspeedways -- 16th, 16th and 21st in the last three.
• 37th Colby Howard - It made no sense, but he was up in the lead pack racing aggressively at Daytona earlier this year. A lot of upside, but he worries me as being a bit more risky.
• 38th Natalie Decker - She's actually had some decent runs on superspeedways in the Trucks Series -- including a 5th place finish at Daytona last year. This should be a reliable car and she's got an experienced spotter (and former driver). She's in play for sure.
• 39th Ryan Vargas - Same as Colby Howard although Vargas did hang back a bit more at Daytona. This guy just needs to finish a race so it makes all the sense in the world for him to ride in the back in this race.
• 40th Jason White - Ran well with a different team at Daytona finishing 10th. He did run a good chunk of that race in the mid-pack danger zone though. Hard to pass up starting 40th.