NASCAR Fantasy game: Post-Texas, pre-Darlington update

I wasn’t sure many people would have Joey Logano at Texas, but it turns out eight smarty-pants players picked the winner correctly last week. Three of those were first-time winners and are now in the Chase — @goofyfordfan, @nuggie99 and @richman43. But two others — @katiecole125 and @jay_wilkins17 — joined the exclusive three-time winner club (four people are tied for the most wins with three).

For those of us who haven’t won yet, it seems hard to believe that anyone could pick three winners in the first seven races in ANY kind of contest, let alone one where you can only use a driver one time all year. But they did!

katiecole125 ***
cgros127 **
goofyfordfan *
nuggie99 *
richman43 *
AppBuckeye31 **
jay_wilkins17 ***
MNeffShortTrack **

Here’s the entire Chase field as it stands now. There are 140 people in the Chase out of 326 total entries.

Adam_Huth ***
dwilwer ***
jay_wilkins17 ***
katiecole125 ***
_Carlton **
AppBuckeye31 **
arlenekrue **
asskicknchcken **
bradleykarnes **
bshell00 **
cfrosland **
cgros127 **
clebren45 **
ClintLJones **
CopaCavanna **
dallasjunebug **
devyanks90 **
DRLDeBoer **
Huth88 **
Joey_Fonseca **
KeviRHatfield **
MattNicholson51 **
MattWeaverSBN **
MNeffShortTrack **
n08fear **
oldguyjk **
prettymonkey **
Revvin4Seven48 **
stevemichalik **
thasmoke **
_Chouinard *
18frannie *
1OutlawBandit *
A_Bit_Sideways *
Allyrok05 *
alovewithoutend *
AngieF530 *
arails4 *
Bakemoney2000 *
bflo360 *
bobfredchuck *
BPierce158 *
Bradley_016 *
bradsauers *
brendan14394 *
BrentBynum *
bseliga *
bundy315 *
CFDiG *
chrisallen_nc *
cjcub4life *
Coates_Burghfan *
Cody_Masse *
cvelin *
davidlerner75 *
Davidwolf88 *
DeuceStaley_48 *
dfblanchard *
dickiep1018 *
digertwo *
DillonSims *
dlschamp *
DR_FNP *
Echo837 *
fnmetal *
Gael78II *
glenburdett *
goofyfordfan *
grammatea4u *
gregatkins *
GroverSimone *
HitYourMarks *
hokiefitz *
hollywoodtlb *
HotStoverReport *
J_Carleton *
JAGillespie90 *
jayua *
jddorman2 *
jeffamos65 *
jflann2 *
jjwolfeman *
JMorris_NP *
JoeGwilt *
josh_ackels66 *
jsf354 *
jsoupzzz *
jsugi48 *
Justin24Payne *
kennethriggs *
kevinkletti *
Kfisher88 *
lance_sells *
lauren_downey2 *
LoganReardon20 *
M_Huff99 *
mattdobson_7 *
mattlovisa *
mcfdtony *
mikeschlee *
mokanmikey *
motorhead66 *
MrsDMVH *
NASCAR_MT *
Nascar_Nut *
NSCRtruckFAN *
nuggie99 *
P_Prissypants *
pamneilsen *
Pat_DeCola *
PhotoMatt_KCCO *
Race5599 *
raceGrl4Harvick *
realaortiz08 *
RealJDogg_82 *
rebel388 *
Reinhart63 *
richman43 *
RowdyBun *
s_a_markle *
Sam-Beishuizen *
samhissett7 *
ScottWilfong *
soller00 *
Sports2HipHop *
SportsBySteger *
SportsNut1981 *
Springwolf *
stephenflorentz *
stevelo48 *
submarinemike88 *
summerbrooke23 *
thejosh20 *
TheTigerBones *
thndrnghrd24 *
ToeNailUrFace *
trv2405x *
whenske *
zeven13 *
ZTsmiley *

Now let’s move on to your picks for Darlington. The top vote-getters are seven-time Darlington winner Jeff Gordon and zero-time Darlington winner Martin Truex Jr. with 34 picks each.

The Gordon selection is obvious. But why Truex? I’m not totally sure — he only has one top-five there — but my theory is people remember Furniture Row Racing winning there with Regan Smith, so they figure Truex might be able to do the same.

Here are all the Darlington picks:

Kfisher88 * Allmendinger
SportsNut1981 * Allmendinger
MericuhFYeah Allmendinger
bseliga * Almirola
JoeGwilt * Almirola
LoganReardon20 * Almirola
SportsBySteger * Almirola
BenjaminAllaire Almirola
ItsAlexKaplan Almirola
JMNakai Almirola
kingtut2110 Almirola
Zhorrall224 Almirola
Davidwolf88 * Bayne
_Carlton ** Biffle
thasmoke ** Biffle
chrisallen_nc * Biffle
kevinkletti * Biffle
RealJDogg_82 * Biffle
stevelo48 * Biffle
zeven13 * Biffle
ashaver13 Biffle
dgoodin24 Biffle
jeff_gluck Biffle
kjb0585 Biffle
l70uke Biffle
mrdevore Biffle
Shady__Hill Biffle
vandy1 Biffle
vasteve (son) Biffle
vegasdennis66 Biffle
wilwielgosz Biffle
ZackaryDWilson Biffle
cfrosland ** Bowyer
cjcub4life * Bowyer
GroverSimone * Bowyer
Pat_DeCola * Bowyer
rsc654 Bowyer
TalladegaVT Bowyer
terryweems Bowyer
flahavin Burton
SportyGardener Burton
MattWeaverSBN ** Dillon
P_Prissypants * Dillon
Sports2HipHop * Dillon
88bfar Dillon
mauhernz Dillon
tvphotog17 Dillon
J_Carleton * Earnhardt
JAGillespie90 * Earnhardt
Springwolf * Earnhardt
Bedgood15 Earnhardt
chrisonethree Earnhardt
jay_christley Earnhardt
racingwench Earnhardt
Huth88 ** Edwards
dfblanchard * Edwards
kennethriggs * Edwards
07vanquish Edwards
dfairhurst2448 Edwards
LVI56 Edwards
TheManRouse Edwards
tjnaylor09 Edwards
jay_wilkins17 *** Gordon
bradleykarnes ** Gordon
DRLDeBoer ** Gordon
MNeffShortTrack ** Gordon
n08fear ** Gordon
A_Bit_Sideways * Gordon
alovewithoutend * Gordon
Bakemoney2000 * Gordon
BPierce158 * Gordon
digertwo * Gordon
grammatea4u * Gordon
mattdobson_7 * Gordon
NASCAR_MT * Gordon
realaortiz08 * Gordon
Reinhart63 * Gordon
summerbrooke23 * Gordon
whenske * Gordon
AbbeyKahne5 Gordon
brian_wiggins Gordon
cpeuterb Gordon
DRM3CIX Gordon
dtruhl Gordon
dustydisher97 Gordon
Eli928 Gordon
gluckcharm Gordon
jeremybert9 Gordon
KABenn1616 Gordon
kjflye Gordon
kristidbm Gordon
LAW9960 Gordon
ldgringo Gordon
LilDebbie Gordon
racefan_11 Gordon
terrywilfong Gordon
Adam_Huth *** Hamlin
arlenekrue ** Hamlin
cgros127 ** Hamlin
Revvin4Seven48 ** Hamlin
stevemichalik ** Hamlin
cvelin * Hamlin
DillonSims * Hamlin
HitYourMarks * Hamlin
jeffamos65 * Hamlin
jflann2 * Hamlin
rebel388 * Hamlin
samhissett7 * Hamlin
soller00 * Hamlin
submarinemike88 * Hamlin
thejosh20 * Hamlin
thndrnghrd24 * Hamlin
ashleyann12 Hamlin
BigLiciousT Hamlin
ChasDan88 Hamlin
DaarenDurga Hamlin
evan_graf Hamlin
HonestlySherry Hamlin
IRunRountree Hamlin
matttidcombe Hamlin
MaximeB92 Hamlin
StatsDavid Hamlin
TruckerDeen Hamlin
dlschamp * Harvick
1kfox Harvick
3dingo Harvick
folimu Harvick
HD388 Harvick
hzirbel Harvick
jvirgs Harvick
kycasoup Harvick
turbojunker Harvick
1OutlawBandit * Johnson
lauren_downey2 * Johnson
s_a_markle * Johnson
gonzalezterence Johnson
Joshua_Smith08 Johnson
Medic_217 Johnson
MoWhi Johnson
NancyatStudioN Johnson
VinnieV77 Johnson
davidlerner75 * Kahne
Justin24Payne * Kahne
mokanmikey * Kahne
abadacejr182288 Kahne
Bob_14 Kahne
BriannaLeistikow Kahne
chris_siebold22 Kahne
GigCityPlanner Kahne
jenniferayers Kahne
kid67y Kahne
recjus85 Kahne
tcholbrook Kahne
wdoyle66 Kahne
katiecole125 *** Kenseth
bshell00 ** Kenseth
MattNicholson51 ** Kenseth
Bradley_016 * Kenseth
bradsauers * Kenseth
BrentBynum * Kenseth
Echo837 * Kenseth
HotStoverReport * Kenseth
MrsDMVH * Kenseth
Sam-Beishuizen * Kenseth
Chuck_Atl Kenseth
CodfishCodfish Kenseth
Daniels_Caudill Kenseth
dhamlinfan Kenseth
ellemccrone Kenseth
markvphotos Kenseth
Mike_Dobreski Kenseth
ncraiderfan17 Kenseth
poloshot Kenseth
Truex56fan Kenseth
CopaCavanna ** Keselowski
jayua * Keselowski
ScottWilfong * Keselowski
acheckeredflag Keselowski
Boop2366 Keselowski
chubdubblub Keselowski
icemankeller Keselowski
jrkenbok Keselowski
msudawg7880 Keselowski
NickKocuba10 Keselowski
robwright11 Keselowski
tgb_RPh Keselowski
theWillClark Keselowski
wbrice4 Keselowski
wyocat50 Keselowski
asskicknchcken ** KuBusch
_Chouinard * KuBusch
arails4 * KuBusch
brendan14394 * KuBusch
Cody_Masse * KuBusch
dickiep1018 * KuBusch
fnmetal * KuBusch
hollywoodtlb * KuBusch
jsoupzzz * KuBusch
Nascar_Nut * KuBusch
NSCRtruckFAN * KuBusch
PhotoMatt_KCCO * KuBusch
trv2405x * KuBusch
4toddboyer KuBusch
Andrea__Marie KuBusch
caseylandrum15 KuBusch
Clevelandsrocks KuBusch
cswiecki84 KuBusch
ed_326 KuBusch
Freak4Harvick KuBusch
harvicknut_4 KuBusch
JBenik KuBusch
jdubharris KuBusch
jmic1122 KuBusch
JRIG1980 KuBusch
kartracer3886 KuBusch
veston75 KuBusch
Wisco_girl15 KuBusch
bflo360 * KyBusch
CFDiG * KyBusch
Coates_Burghfan * KyBusch
Gael78II * KyBusch
mattlovisa * KyBusch
AndrewWaldrop KyBusch
basspro24chevy KyBusch
heylookaturtle KyBusch
NASCARDirector KyBusch
Nick_Winstead78 KyBusch
shannonjones154 KyBusch
ZachKalb KyBusch
clebren45 ** Larson
motorhead66 * Larson
TheTigerBones * Larson
DJstatman482454 Larson
ilovehamlin11 Larson
KevinMiz Larson
Kharvfanfla15 Larson
lorettamagers Larson
Allyrok05 * Logano
AngieF530 * Logano
JMorris_NP * Logano
RowdyBun * Logano
YenndeeZ Logano
bobfredchuck * Martin
gregatkins * McMurray
raceGrl4Harvick * McMurray
AlphaWolf09 McMurray
J_Fellenbaum McMurray
JoshuaCloninger McMurray
vasteve (father) McMurray
dweezymilan Mears
nuggie99 * Menard
iamjlf Menard
MarkMiller Menard
mikemike82 Menard
xjasonx88 Menard
dallasjunebug ** Newman
18frannie * Newman
DR_FNP * Newman
jjwolfeman * Newman
M_Huff99 * Newman
mcfdtony * Newman
ZTsmiley * Newman
AshBollinger Newman
cessfranklin Newman
dave_phillips1 Newman
Jess43x8 Newman
MrsJPancake Newman
Readymixchick Newman
sheila0866 Newman
crowder_debbie Patrick
maggio15 Patrick
StephenDCrowder Patrick
Race5599 * Ragan
adamniemeyer Ragan
scottaltimaman Ragan
oldguyjk ** Stenhouse
ToeNailUrFace * Stenhouse
howmama99 Stenhouse
quickdraw222 Stenhouse
hokiefitz * Stewart
josh_ackels66 * Stewart
jsf354 * Stewart
jsugi48 * Stewart
DTrainMurphyTX Stewart
mark_ash Stewart
MarkRH Stewart
spitz121 Stewart
terrymadill Stewart
The_real_Tc_ Stewart
dwilwer *** Truex
AppBuckeye31 ** Truex
ClintLJones ** Truex
devyanks90 ** Truex
KeviRHatfield ** Truex
prettymonkey ** Truex
bundy315 * Truex
glenburdett * Truex
goofyfordfan * Truex
jddorman2 * Truex
lance_sells * Truex
mikeschlee * Truex
pamneilsen * Truex
richman43 * Truex
stephenflorentz * Truex
amishkid17 Truex
ashinyobject Truex
bruce_compton15 Truex
Carlajarvi Truex
coreyr12 Truex
d_sheedy Truex
dscanbs Truex
fatbuzz66 Truex
foolrain Truex
jojolv48 Truex
Jrioux_ Truex
kkr491fan Truex
mattgross Truex
monfud20 Truex
mwrjgrfan Truex
scovel0 Truex
shelbyparrack99 Truex
Smokecx3 Truex
TannerFoutz Truex
Joey_Fonseca ** Vickers
DeuceStaley_48 * Vickers
CraigHaasis Vickers