Superflex Draft Strategy (1 Viewer)

[Goooals]

Over the last couple of years, I have been joining more and more Superflex leagues and I love the new challenge that it brings. In addition to all my other leagues and formats, I have two standard scoring Superflex leagues that I have not played before. For this thread, I am focusing on an 8-team (home league) strategy. I haven't played in this league before and I spent time looking at previous draft results. With the standard scoring, RB's were mostly picked in the first round in previous years with only 2 or 3 QB's. From what I was told, I will have the 4th or 5th pick (as I'm taking the place of a previous owner).

With an 8-team league, all teams have been pretty stacked and balanced. For this year, with 4 top tier QB's and 3 RB's, I will be able to land one of them in the first round. It's hard to find any reliable mocks for standard scoring superflex as well. In my other Superflex leagues, QB's fly off the board. I also looked at total points and 16 out of the top 20 last year were QB's, but there was at least a 150 point differential from #1 to #20.

So, anyone have thoughts on a strategy? I can see two scenarios:

Mahomes/Hurts/Jackson in the first with Taylor/Barkley/Henry/Etienne in the second. Or....

Robinson/Hall in the first with Richardson/Murray/Prescott/Burrow/Stroud in the second.

It is also almost a given that a top 6 WR is there in the second and I take best player available in the 3rd which could be a RB or QB depending on what I do in the first.

There are a ton of scenarios here but I will leave it as those since I'm leaning that way.

Thanks Sharks!!

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

There's a lot of QB value this year imo and with only 8 teams I think you can wait on QB and stack your roster with studs at the other skill positions.

 

[Goooals]

There's a lot of QB value this year imo and with only 8 teams I think you can wait on QB and stack your roster with studs at the other skill positions.

With this approach, I can take an RB in round one and see if I need to take a QB in round 2 or not depending on how the draft falls to me. I personally have 9-10 QB's where I definitely would want one of those.

Getting a top 4 QB is also appealing and not taking another one until round 5 or later. Again, seeing where the cutoff is to the next tier.

 

[Goooals]

I did some mocks today and am leaning RB in round 1, then letting the draft come to me. Mocks usually don't play out the same, but I can still get at least 1top QB while stacking both rb/wr.

Now looking to the Friday night crew for opinions.

 

[Goooals]

Bump to the Saturday crew. Draft is tonight.

 

[GPS]

I drafted 8th in a 10 team SF home league. I usually am able to/prefer to wait on QBs . So this year everyone before me did too. It was all RBs and WRs to begin round 1, so at 8 I picked Mahomes and after the turn got Garrett Wilson. The 9th pick was Josh Allen. The guy picking @10 picked off Jalen Hurts and Lamar. It was quite surprising. I guess just be ready for whatever direction the trend goes. It's one of the things that makes SF/2QB drafts so interesting.

 

[Goooals]

I drafted 8th in a 10 team SF home league. I usually am able to/prefer to wait on QBs . So this year everyone before me did too. It was all RBs and WRs to begin round 1, so at 8 I picked Mahomes and after the turn got Garrett Wilson. The 9th pick was Josh Allen. The guy picking @10 picked off Jalen Hurts and Lamar. It was quite surprising. I guess just be ready for whatever direction the trend goes. It's one of the things that makes SF/2QB drafts so interesting.

I don't think I've seen a QB not going until the 8th pick in SF. Curious, who was your RB1 and QB2?

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

I drafted 8th in a 10 team SF home league. I usually am able to/prefer to wait on QBs . So this year everyone before me did too. It was all RBs and WRs to begin round 1, so at 8 I picked Mahomes and after the turn got Garrett Wilson. The 9th pick was Josh Allen. The guy picking @10 picked off Jalen Hurts and Lamar. It was quite surprising. I guess just be ready for whatever direction the trend goes. It's one of the things that makes SF/2QB drafts so interesting.

I don't think I've seen a QB not going until the 8th pick in SF. Curious, who was your RB1 and QB2?

Beat me to that question...

 

[GPS]

I drafted 8th in a 10 team SF home league. I usually am able to/prefer to wait on QBs . So this year everyone before me did too. It was all RBs and WRs to begin round 1, so at 8 I picked Mahomes and after the turn got Garrett Wilson. The 9th pick was Josh Allen. The guy picking @10 picked off Jalen Hurts and Lamar. It was quite surprising. I guess just be ready for whatever direction the trend goes. It's one of the things that makes SF/2QB drafts so interesting.

I don't think I've seen a QB not going until the 8th pick in SF. Curious, who was your RB1 and QB2?

Beat me to that question...

It was an anomaly, even for that league. Many of the owners are close friends and the commish sent out a post-season review stating that "teams that waited on QB finished higher". Prior to this year QBs typically went earlier.

I was able to draft Derrick Henry in the 3rd and Joe Burrow in the 4th, fyi.

 

[Goooals]

I drafted 8th in a 10 team SF home league. I usually am able to/prefer to wait on QBs . So this year everyone before me did too. It was all RBs and WRs to begin round 1, so at 8 I picked Mahomes and after the turn got Garrett Wilson. The 9th pick was Josh Allen. The guy picking @10 picked off Jalen Hurts and Lamar. It was quite surprising. I guess just be ready for whatever direction the trend goes. It's one of the things that makes SF/2QB drafts so interesting.

I don't think I've seen a QB not going until the 8th pick in SF. Curious, who was your RB1 and QB2?

Beat me to that question...

It was an anomaly, even for that league. Many of the owners are close friends and the commish sent out a post-season review stating that "teams that waited on QB finished higher". Prior to this year QBs typically went earlier.

I was able to draft Derrick Henry in the 3rd and Joe Burrow in the 4th, fyi.

That's a great 1st 4 rounds to start the draft.

 

[GPS]

I drafted 8th in a 10 team SF home league. I usually am able to/prefer to wait on QBs . So this year everyone before me did too. It was all RBs and WRs to begin round 1, so at 8 I picked Mahomes and after the turn got Garrett Wilson. The 9th pick was Josh Allen. The guy picking @10 picked off Jalen Hurts and Lamar. It was quite surprising. I guess just be ready for whatever direction the trend goes. It's one of the things that makes SF/2QB drafts so interesting.

I don't think I've seen a QB not going until the 8th pick in SF. Curious, who was your RB1 and QB2?

Beat me to that question...

It was an anomaly, even for that league. Many of the owners are close friends and the commish sent out a post-season review stating that "teams that waited on QB finished higher". Prior to this year QBs typically went earlier.

I was able to draft Derrick Henry in the 3rd and Joe Burrow in the 4th, fyi.

That's a great 1st 4 rounds to start the draft.

Hopefully. I was pretty surprised Burrow was still there, but like I said, when the majority are dead-set on waiting on QBs as long as possible...

My real point was I went in planning to wait (at least some) on QBs, but because of the trend I opted to go QB early.