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Superflex fantasy football 20211/9/2024 ![]() Weekly pickups via waivers are far more plentiful and thus require much less acumen and foresight. This is super boring and also makes the league far more random, and the draft is far less meaningful. You should probably take three in the first five picks. So in Flex 9, half-point PPR, forget all my rules about picking WRs over RBs in the second and third round. 2 and flex WR spots because it’s hard to make lineup decisions when your backups are so close in projected points to your starters. All I’ve done is given myself weekly headaches at the No. “But Mike,” you say, “just keep drafting those great WRs.” Sure but my depth is not as valuable as the comparable starters who other managers are getting after they have secured two top RBs (or at least plausible top RBs). It’s almost like making WR quarterback in that it doesn’t pay to draft them early when there are such screaming values in the middle rounds. That means there are just too many receivers to go around. There are going to be maybe a half dozen teams with TWO top 24 receivers and then every other team has their No. Even if everyone is starting a WR in flex, and they won’t, there are just 36 receivers active in a 12-team league. Here’s the key takeaway if you play Flex 9 and especially when it’s half-point PPR: You have to prioritize RBs. It’s also critically important in draft strategy. This is not just important in auction leagues, where if you have limited lineups the only rational strategy is stars and scrubs, given there is no penalty for overpaying given that $1 and free agent pickups have such high value. ![]() My leagues are double flexes and even triple flexes (often with one SuperFlex, meaning a second QB qualifies). The best advice I can give anyone serious about this fake game is to have more starting roster spots and go full-point PPR. (Though of course picking the best players beats structural advantages 100 times out of 100.) In fact, it actually makes it plus-expected value, meaning that doing it will increase your odds of winning. Flex 10 puts “zeroRB,” where you draft at most one RB in the first six rounds (and obviously no QBs), firmly in play. The most common ways to address this are Flex 10, full-PPR leagues. I mean, I hate the out-sized importance of the position in our scoring and in our structural strategies. That's plenty good with four top-20 running backs (all starters in these lineups) on my squad.Now I hate RBs in fantasy football. But they're all also top-36 receivers in most re-draft rankings. Hence, my top four receivers are all 27 or older. This is a win-now squad, I can find young receivers in 20. So I wasn't going to use too many picks on guys I expected to have more future value than 2021 value. With a core of Jackson, McCaffrey, Jones, Dobbins, and Jacobs this team has a three-to-four year window as a contender. And it's a good idea to talk about strategy if you find yourself in a similar situation. After taking Noah Fant in Round 6, I pretty much just drafted receivers the rest of the draft. And there was no receiver available in Round 5 I thought would be as impactful as Lamar Jackson. But I didn't have that hindsight at the time. And it's easy to look back now and say "if I'd known Josh Jacobs would be there at pick 48, I would have passed on J.K. My first two picks, Christian McCaffrey and Aaron Jones were no-brainers. ![]() But I'm an even bigger proponent of not entering a draft with a set strategy, which is how I somehow went six rounds in our first post-draft Dynasty mock without drafting a wide receiver. They have far more longevity than running backs and they aren't as injury prone on a yearly basis. In the past my rankings and mock drafts have always slanted heavily towards wide receivers early in Dynasty. ![]()
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