SuperFlex fantasy football leagues are the best alternative to “standard” (1-QB) setups. I love this format. There are only 24-32 startable quarterbacks in any given week in fantasy, so SuperFlex leagues solve the lack of scarcity we see in 1-QB leagues. You will never want to routinely start the 25th-best quarterback in fantasy in your 10- or 12-team 1-QB league, but that player is very valuable in 2-QB formats.
The “SuperFlex” component gives you the “flexibility” to start 2 QBs, but only forces you to start one. While that additional optionality to not start a second QB is nice during bye weeks, or if one of your starters misses a game, you will want to start a QB2 every single week it’s even remotely possible in that SuperFlex spot.
Adjusting to the SuperFlex format
There are some key differences in positional scoring based on your league’s settings. Let’s take a look at QB, RB, WR, and TE scoring last season between half-point per reception and full-PPR.
QB, RB, WR, TE – Half-PPR
QB, RB, WR, TE – PPR
Know your league settings!
The first thing that should jump out to you in these two charts is how dominant quarterbacks are in Half-PPR scoring leagues.
In Half-PPR, the difference between the QB13 in Half-PPR FPG and the RB13 was three points per game! Meanwhile, the WR13 and QB13 had a -3.7 FPG scoring difference.
In full-PPR scoring, that same difference – between the QB13, RB13, and WR13 – was just one fantasy point per game.
The second thing you should notice is just how much ground wide receivers make up in full-PPR scoring. Even in a historically bad year for receiver scoring last season, their output tracks pretty closely among the top-20 players at each position until the wideouts take over and decouple from the runners. The WR20-30 and QB20-30 in weekly scoring are very close. There are just way more receivers in play in PPR.
Lean into the SuperFlex format in Half-PPR formats because the passers score way more compared to running backs and wide receivers.
The top-end of quarterback scorers still reign supreme in PPR scoring, but not nearly to the same degree. The 25th-best QB and 25th-best WR on a weekly basis are going to score within a point of each other often. This means that a more balanced approach at quarterback is necessary in PPR formats, where you should be more willing to draft RBs and WRs over the passers from Round 2 onwards.
We’ll walk through the round-by-round strategy in a few sections.
How many QBs should you draft?
Let’s say that you’re in a 12-team SuperFlex league with starters of 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, 1 “normal” FLEX (RB / WR / TE), and 1 SuperFlex (QB / RB / WR / TE). So you’ll have 9 normal starters and, let’s say, 9 bench players to back them up. You have 18 total roster spots.
