Pocono: No Surprise Who Might Deliver For Your Fantasy Team

This week, the driver rating formula seems to match up with average finish quite well, which means that the guys who stick in our minds as being strong at Pocono – Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards – can be validated as good picks.

In fact, those five might make up a pretty powerful fantasy team at the "Tricky Triangle."

Of course, Pocono is capable of a fuel-mileage race that could mess everything up. But since that can't be predicted, here's NASCAR's pre-race driver rating stat to help you out:

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Pocono Raceway
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Driver Rating
Formula combining the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish. Maximum: 150 points per race.
Number of Races: 10

Rank	Car	Driver	    Avg Finish	High	AVG DRIVER RATING
1	11	Denny Hamlin	9.5	149.0	115.9
2	2	Kurt Busch	13.6	150.0	105.9
3	48	Jimmie Johnson	11.0	125.3	103.1
4	14	Tony Stewart	10.5	123.8	101.7
5	99	Carl Edwards	13.4	138.5	100.3
6	5	Mark Martin	10.6	123.7	98.8
7	24	Jeff Gordon	10.0	117.7	97.3
8	39	Ryan Newman	12.8	124.9	96.3
9	83	Brian Vickers	14.5	142.1	93.9
10	9	Kasey Kahne	16.9	145.2	92.0
11	17	Matt Kenseth	15.5	106.1	91.0
12	29	Kevin Harvick	11.3	113.2	87.8
13	31	Jeff Burton	15.4	113.4	87.2
14	16	Greg Biffle	18.4	117.3	86.1
15	1	M Truex Jr.	16.0	121.0	83.5
16	88	D Earnhardt Jr.	20.7	112.9	80.0
17	18	Kyle Busch	21.4	106.8	78.9
18	47	Marcos Ambrose	20.0	85.4	73.9
19	33	Clint Bowyer	17.5	94.1	73.0
20	42	Juan Montoya	20.7	104.3	71.4
21	26	Jamie McMurray	19.0	97.5	70.8
22	96	Bobby Labonte	21.1	92.5	67.0
23	44	AJ Allmendinger	23.4	95.2	65.7
24	20	Joey Logano	25.0	69.1	64.5
25	07	Casey Mears	20.6	105.4	64.2
26	00	David Reutimann	26.7	99.6	64.1
27	66	Scott Riggs	24.0	79.2	63.9
28	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	20.5	79.6	63.5
29	96	J.J. Yeley	23.4	83.5	62.5
30	19	Elliott Sadler	25.2	78.7	60.6
31	6	David Ragan	22.7	92.5	58.8
32	87	Joe Nemechek	26.2	96.1	58.7
33	0	Mike Bliss	22.0	61.7	55.5
34	37	Tony Raines	24.7	80.1	54.3
35	12	David Stremme	28.2	63.1	53.0
36	45	Chad McCumbee	21.0	54.3	52.9
37	66	Dave Blaney	28.3	73.1	52.1
38	43	Reed Sorenson	29.6	66.4	51.3
39	28	Travis Kvapil	23.3	65.1	51.0
40	55	Michael Waltrip	29.4	114.6	50.7
41	78	Regan Smith	28.7	67.6	50.3
42	71	David Gilliland	34.3	81.6	50.2
43	7	Robby Gordon	33.9	74.2	49.2
44	82	Scott Speed	27.5	53.1	48.5
45	98	Paul Menard	29.3	60.7	47.8
46	21	Bill Elliott	26.5	66.6	45.8
47	00	M McDowell	25.5	42.2	40.2
48	34	John Andretti	32.5	38.3	36.5
49	64	Mike Wallace	34.3	40.4	34.3
50	70	Johnny Sauter	38.0	32.9	28.9
51	27	K Shelmerdine	42.0	25.9	25.9