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//THREAD\\\\ Thursday night players shouldn’t be in the Flex spot.
This is some #fantasyfootball lineup strategy that I didn’t know when I first started playing, but it could save games in 2020.
This is some #fantasyfootball lineup strategy that I didn’t know when I first started playing, but it could save games in 2020.
The flex spot is traditionally a spot that can hold a WR, RB, or TE. A super flex can also play a QB.
Typically, a standard flex is going to start either a WR or a RB and a super flex will almost always start a QB.
It should never start someone playing on a Thursday.
Why?
Typically, a standard flex is going to start either a WR or a RB and a super flex will almost always start a QB.
It should never start someone playing on a Thursday.
Why?
Let’s look at a hypothetical situation for this upcoming week, Week 1 of 2020.
Your roster looks like this:
RBs: Nick Chubb, Zeke, Le’Veon Bell
WRs: Brandin Cooks, Tyreek Hill, Jarvis Landry, Tyler Lockett, Chris Conley
(We’re only gonna use WRs and RBs for this example)
Your roster looks like this:
RBs: Nick Chubb, Zeke, Le’Veon Bell
WRs: Brandin Cooks, Tyreek Hill, Jarvis Landry, Tyler Lockett, Chris Conley
(We’re only gonna use WRs and RBs for this example)
You start 2 RBs: Zeke and Chubb.
At WR, you start Tyreek, Landry, and Lockett.
Flex is a tougher one to decide, but you like Cooks’ matchup against KC and expect a shootout, so you flex Cooks over Bell.
Thursday happens, Cooks and Hill both play great and you’re set up well.
At WR, you start Tyreek, Landry, and Lockett.
Flex is a tougher one to decide, but you like Cooks’ matchup against KC and expect a shootout, so you flex Cooks over Bell.
Thursday happens, Cooks and Hill both play great and you’re set up well.
Friday morning, Jarvis Landry sprains his ankle in practice and is ruled out for Sunday.
This is an easy decision to play Bell over Conley. But, Cooks was in the flex spot, so Landry can’t be replaced by a RB, only a WR, forcing you to start Conley over Bell.
This is an easy decision to play Bell over Conley. But, Cooks was in the flex spot, so Landry can’t be replaced by a RB, only a WR, forcing you to start Conley over Bell.
Even if you had put Cooks in the WR spot and flexed Tyler Lockett over Landry, before Sunday, you could move Lockett to the WR spot and put Bell in the flex still, over Conley.
But you forced your hand by playing a Thursday night player in the flex spot.
But you forced your hand by playing a Thursday night player in the flex spot.
Most weeks, this won’t impact anything and you won’t have a Friday/Saturday injury, but things happen, someone on the injury report as probable is downgraded to questionable or out at the last minute, and you’re left scrambling.
Especially with the uncertainty regarding COVID in 2020 and the possibility that we have more late scratches this year, it’s even more important to stay flexible, and if you have Thursday night players, they shouldn’t be in the flex.
