Ross Durham goes deep into the FFPC Roster Construction Explorer to find a build that returns huge win rates in FFPC Superflex Slim drafts, even though almost nobody is using it.
Structural drafting is one of the most fundamental tools in fantasy football. It provides a blueprint for each particular draft, emphasizes humility-based player takes, and has dominant historical results. Combining multiple historically-winning structures can supercharge our win rates, and generate unique teams even in increasingly gigantic best ball contests, but may come at the expense of in-draft flexibility. RotoViz writers have demonstrated the extreme upside of several rarely-used structures. My quest to combine some of my favorite best ball constructions has led me to a unique structure may just be the best of all worlds in the FFPC Superflex Tournament. Let’s take a look at how I got there.
4 QUARTERBACKS
As Shawn Siegele and Blair Andrews have recently demonstrated, four-and-five-quarterback builds have been among the best structural hacks in superflex best ball. And in some cases the longer you wait on your second quarterback, the better. Here’s how four- and five-quarterback builds have affected Win Rate and high end scoring when you wait until after round five to draft your QB2:
QB1 IN 1, QB2 AFTER 5 SF SLIM (2020-2023)
Compared to how they look when you take your QB2 after round eight:
QB1 IN 1, QB2 AFTER 8 SF SLIM (2020-2023)
Serious results. The RV Positional Heat Map makes it even more clear that we don’t want to draft our QB2 too early:
