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Can I speak a difficult truth into existence without fantasy football twitter getting mad?
Nobody outside of fantasy football twitter likes superflex, it isn't the next big thing in fantasy football
Nobody outside of fantasy football twitter likes superflex, it isn't the next big thing in fantasy football
I played in a 2QB league with guys from high school and every single year people complained about it until the commish finally changed it. People quit the league because their QB got hurt and his backup was already on a team.
"just roster more quarterbacks then." What are you supposed to do when all the QBs are rostered? Play that week knowing you're at a massive disadvantage? People quit. It's a forced scarcity that, by and large, the people don't want.
FF twitter likes superflex leagues for the same reason they're on FF twitter: they need and want more out of fantasy football. Then, we get a composition fallacy where all the leagues WE want to play in are SF/2QB so everyone else must want them too. I mean, not really.
Same with TE premium or points per first down leagues or tiered PPR. The more rules and nuances you throw at people the more likely they are to want to move off of the league. PPR made sense. Get a catch, get a point. Fractional scoring makes sense. Get a yard, get 0.1 pts.
we don't trust the projected matchup thing but people live and die by it for trash talk during the week. If one guy has just one uninjured QB in his lg, and everyone else has two, he has a disadvantage in that projected matchup thing and it hurts his morale & he doesnt wanna play
But back to the league quirks thing. Fantasy football took off moreso than fantasy baseball not because it was better but because it isn't such a grind, and it's an easy "what I see on the field is what I get in my fantasy points" transition. Tiered PPR is a nightmare for this.
2 QB is a nightmare, superflex is a nightmare. Every wrinkle we add because it helps separate the wheat from the chaff is what the average fantasy football player sees as "too much" and "not fun." But we've walled ourselves off and our family league is like 1of 10+ lgs we are in
So the complaints get diluted and drowned out. If you're in 9 leagues with degenerate FF analysts and one home league, you'll think 90% of leagues want SF or 2 QB.
This isn't to say it won't become *more* popular, but by and large, the people don't want this monstrosity we love.
This isn't to say it won't become *more* popular, but by and large, the people don't want this monstrosity we love.
the more counterintuitive quirks you add to your league and the more things you add to "create scarcity" make the league less fun. I always like to use the "Jenkins in Accounting" Test. JiA checks his team twice a week & 75% of his new comes from ESPN's pregame fantasy show
That isn't to throw shade on ESPN's pregame fantasy show, it's a good product. What I'm saying is he doesn't want all these insane wrinkles. He wants to have a little fun, bet a little money, and beat his friends to talk shit to them. Creating barriers to doing this isn't fun.
In conclusion: don't try to convince your aunt that your league with the aunts/uncles/cousins should be a superflex league. They don't want that. They want the straightforward product they know. That lets them play on weekly hunches, especially on QBs, and gives them agency.
I've said it before but the people don't want 2QB leagues, they want to be able to stream Daniel Jones to talk shit to Bob in the next cubicle over when DJ goes off for 30 fantasy points.
FF Twitter plays to win, fantasy football players writ large play for fun. The more rules you have the more you separate the wheat from the chaff and the less fun it is for the average person.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Tune in next time for my next topic: our definition of sleepers is broken and it leads to mostly unactionable content that is written for and by FF twitter.
If you want to know why the popular guys are popular, this is why BTW. They're the best at what they do because they understand the public doesn't want in-depth discussions about if Darren Fells or Josh Oliver has a better chance of returning streaming appeal in 14 team leagues.
That sort of thing is for FF Twitter. I opined on Josh Oliver yesterday but I doubt I'll say more about him in writing than "deep dart throw appeal"
To everyone who loves Superflex
