Fantasy Update: Last-minute Richmond lineup advice

Martin Truex Jr. won the Busch Pole Qualifying Award and will start in the top position in Saturday night's Toyota Owners 400 (6:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Richmond Raceway. After two practice sessions for this race, we’ve dissected the numbers and 10-lap averages to offer a suggested lineup worthy of your Fantasy Live consideration as you go to make roster decisions for the ninth Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race of 2018. PLAY NOW: Set your Fantasy Live lineup | How the new Fantasy Live works MORE: Fantasy analysis for Richmond | Driver stats | Full lineup | 10-lap averages RJ Kraft’s revised Fantasy Live lineup following practices and the lineup being set: 1: Martin Truex Jr. 2: Denny Hamlin 3: Joey Logano 4: Kyle Larson 5: Chase Elliott Garage: Kurt Busch RELATED: Stats to know for Richmond Analysis: My lineup for Richmond happens to include the top six qualifiers for the Toyota Owners 400. Track position is important at a short track and a race that moves pretty quickly. Logano, Larson, Hamlin and Kurt Busch were all part of my original lineup and I'm sticking with them. Larson, in particular, looks to be one of the strongest cars this weekend and I've hardly used him thus far in Fantasy Live. The two big changes for me are adding Martin Truex Jr. and Chase Elliott while taking out Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski. Truex won the pole and posted the third-best 10-lap average in both practices. On top of that, he has run well at Richmond in recent years -- nearly winning the fall race (under the lights) the past two years. With his wreck at Texas, I have an extra usage with MTJ I wasn't initially counting out, so I am going to plug him in here. However, I will be pretty vigilante regarding his running position. Barring an incident from another driver in my lineup, Truex only stays in my lineup if he's in the top five as Stage 2 comes to a close. If he is running outside the top five as we close in on Lap 200, he goes to the garage. Elliott entered the weekend as an avoid play for me as I wrote about earlier in the week. However, he is starting second and had the second-best 10-lap average in opening practice; seventh-best in final practice. The kicker with Elliott is I have hardly used him through nine races -- he's only been in my lineup once. So I like taking him here with the strong starting position and saving Kyle Busch and Keselowski for another day given their starting positions towards the back of the field.