Guide to your superflex fantasy football draft: QB overload

Publish date: 2024-05-05

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If something is “super,” how can it not be great? There’s Superman, coupons trumpeting super savings, and, in some fantasy leagues, a roster spot known as “superflex.”

A superflex roster spot allows you to start any offensive player at that position, including quarterback. Because QBs score more fantasy points than those at any other position, it would stand to reason you want a QB in that superflex opening. If your league has one of these spots, you are in a de facto two-QB league.

This changes everything the Madman has preached about waiting for a QB. Suddenly, in a 12-team league, you are faced with the prospect of not getting a solid fantasy QB in your draft. In standard leagues, when you start just one QB, there are plenty to go around who score enough to keep your team competitive — allowing you to focus on running backs and wide receivers early in your draft. But once you introduce the possibility of a second QB, other owners are going to want to have two solid QB options, and those options will disappear earlier in your draft. The leftovers are much less appealing than in leagues with usual roster requirements.

This means you have to push QBs way up your priority list. And by way up, we mean way, way, way up. Instead of waiting until the middle of the draft, or even the end, you have to start looking for your first QB as early as Round 1 and no later than Round 2.

Obviously, you need to know your scoring system. Chances are, if you’re in a league that allows two QBs, it probably also scores for PPR (points per reception). This means WRs get an artificial bump in value, so you can’t bypass the top options.

Hold on, it gets worse: You need to grab a second QB fairly soon in your draft. It just makes mathematical sense. If you can start two QBs, who score about 30 percent more than the top WRs and RBs, then you have to adjust accordingly.

But remember: You can start a RB or WR at the superflex. It all depends on your league requirements — superflex leagues tend to have at least three WR spots and often two RB spots, but they also often annoyingly often score for PPR. That means it is hard to bypass those positions to take two QBs with your first two picks, though it is quite tempting.

Let’s say your league has two RB spots, three WR spots, one flex spot and one superflex. That means you can start up to five WRs (good value in PPR) or as many as four RBs (bad value in PPR). Or two QBs (best value with or without PPR).

Draft with the intention of starting two QBs — think of that superflex spot as a second QB, not a third RB or fourth WR.

In a two-QB league, we’re going to attack that position as aggressively as we do WR in a traditional PPR format. If your league requires two RBs and just two WRs, we will plan to draft two QBs and one WR with our first three picks. (NOTE: There is no firm plan, ever, just a preferred approach. Don’t bypass David Johnson in the second round to take Sammy Watkins just because you want a WR.)

However, if your leagues requires three starting WRs, and especially if it uses just one starting RB, we might bump our second QB to the fourth round (assuming PPR).

Because it’s impossible to fill all the primary position with top-notch talent, you have to punt somewhere. That place is at the RB spot. Prioritize QBs and WRs.

This type of league will require you to pay more attention to bye weeks. You don’t want your top two QBs to have the same bye, so draft accordingly. And you’re gonna need at least a third QB later in the draft. Draft this spot as you would a fourth RB or fifth WR — a player you are not afraid to start on any given week.

Wait until the later rounds and take a flier on a tight end or two before filling out the rest of your roster and bench.

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