Today we’re taking a stroll down the supercharged, supercool lane of Superflex drafting. 

Using the Fantasy Life Draft Champion, which has revolutionized how mock drafts will take place moving forward, we’re going to put together a 12-team, Superflex Mock draft and create a blueprint for how to approach these sorts of leagues for 2024.

SETTING UP THE DRAFT VIA FANTASY LIFE DRAFT CHAMPION

The Fantasy Life Draft Champion is a tool you will use once and then wonder how you ever got along in life without it. Seriously, it's that good. 

The custom settings allow you to make your mock draft experience as unique as possible, and before we get started and go through the draft process, I’ll take you through the settings I used for this draft.

Since we’re doing a 12-team Superflex redraft, I selected PPR scoring and built rosters to include a Superflex position, three WR, an extra flex spot, and a seven-man bench. Most Superflex leagues have deep rosters and benches, and the ones I’ve been a part of rarely have kickers. 

If you like leagues with kickers, be sure to hit up Ian Hartitz on X.com, as he is always down to answer kicker questions. 

Since we’re in a Superflex League, I also went with an aggressive, Zero RB approach for draft strategy. Using a specific strategy doesn’t mean you have to draft a certain way, it just means that the Draft Champion Assistant—yes, your mock draft comes with a virtual butler—will make suggestions for you based on that strategy. 

I also chose Zero RB because I think it’s a good way to approach Superflex Leagues. Getting a top-tier RB in a Superflex league is fine, but spending early capital on an RB can cause you to have to settle for late-round QBs as starters. Ideally, I want to build around multiple top-tier QBs in a league where starting more than one QB is a must. 

Subscribers to FantasyLife+ can use the draft strategies option in Draft Champion and quite frankly this option will honestly pay for the subscription itself. It allows you to see how the different approaches will play out along all different kinds of draft scenarios making you prepared for whatever kind of drafter you are up against once it comes time for the real thing. 

For this draft, I also set my opponent's strategies at various levels (Heavy RB, Balanced, etc.) to try and simulate what a real draft with different personalities and skillsets involved might feel like. 

I let the Draft Champion randomize the draft order for this one and got the 1.12 spot—I’ll be filing a complaint with Human Resources after the draft. 

Let’s see how it played out!

THE EARLY ROUNDS

Six QBs were taken in the first 11 picks, including Anthony Richardson who the Draft Champion selected 11th. I haven’t even picked yet and Skynet—I mean Draft Champion—is already sending messages.

The good news is that the big run on QBs had left two legit stud WRs on the board, Ja’Marr Chase and Amon-Ra St. Brown. 

 

The Draft Assistant had St. Brown ranked higher–and he was the Bossman’s ride-or-die last season. However, with only a 4-point difference in projection between him and Chase I called an audible and decided to grab Chase, along with his QB Joe Burrow, with my first and second picks. 

I’ll be honest, if Chase weren’t on the board I likely would have gone with Jordan Love over Burrow, but the ability to pair a top-tier QB with his stud WR was way too tempting. Stacking increases my team's weekly ceiling and gives me big exposure to an offense that was top 10 in points scored in 2021 and 2022. 

My next two picks weren’t as straightforward. There were still a lot of decent QBs left when it came around to me for picks 3 and 4, and I had my choice between Kirk Cousins, Jared Goff, Tua Tagovailoa, Trevor Lawrence, and Justin Herbert. All of them were very close in our Fantasy Life projections so there wasn’t a clear-cut favorite from the group.

Additionally, players like Sam LaPorta, De’Von Achane, and Drake London all stood out as good values in the cheat sheet. 

I considered punting on QB and going with two skill players but relented and took my favorite QB of the group in Justin Herbert, and then paired him with my favorite upside player at RB this year in Achane. 

Just given how many RBs came off the board directly after this, I was pretty happy to have grabbed Achane. I’m personally trying to build a lot of my teams (best ball or redraft) around him this season, as I think he’s one of the few RBs who could legitimately challenge Christian McCaffrey for the top spot. 

If you’re looking for a little more color on why I'm high on Achane, I also logged an OPOY (+6000) bet on him in our NFL bet tracker in late July. 

As for Herbert, I still think he’s easily the most talented name of the group of QBs that was available. Yes, he’ll be attached to a run-heavy offense and have a pleated-pants aficionado as head coach but I also think his efficiency stats are bound to skyrocket this season under Harbaugh. 

He’s also a name I can potentially stack with one of his top two WRs, who have low ADPs and could fall to me at some point in the late-to-middle rounds. 

THE MIDDLE ROUNDS

My next two picks saw me load up at WR. I was shocked/happy to have Malik Nabers fall to me. He was, no surprise, the top recommended pick by the Draft Champion Assistant. I’ll be honest, it was a little painful still seeing Trevor Lawrence on the board, and I considered grabbing him as my third QB—but it’s ultimately just too big a waste of draft capital to grab a third QB this early, even in a Superflex. 

Tank Dell being on the board made the decision to bypass Lawrence easier. I think there is still a lot of fear around Dell due to injury concerns and how he’ll fit in with Stefon Diggs now also a Texan. There is some risk, but Dell is still the Texans WR to own in my opinion, and ostensibly one of the best values at WR in the earlier rounds. 

After loading up at WR, I decided to fill out RB and TE with Zamir White and Dalton Kincaid. White is playing on a terrible team but has one of the cleanest paths to a big workload this season. If he has even a small role as a pass catcher, his PPR points alone will likely allow him to return value at this level. 

I considered taking my QB3 here, as I like Will Levis’ upside in the revamped Titans offense, but the opportunity to grab an elite TE in Dalton Kincaid was too good to pass up. Stefon Diggs being out of Buffalo opens up so many targets for Kincaid and he’s arguably the best route runner at his position already–behind the ageless Travis Kelce, of course. 

Ultimately, Levis didn’t make it back to me at 9.12, but considering I nabbed two QBs with my top four picks I think skipping on a QB3 at 8.01 was the correct call. If I had a weaker QB2, I would have grabbed Levis over White or Kincaid and looked to fill out RB or TE in a different way. 

 

THE LATER ROUNDS

I filled out my next four picks by taking a third QB and then looking to some good young talent set to have impactful roles. 

I get the Daniel Jones hate, but only to an extent. The Giants were a disaster last year and Jones has plenty of rushing upside and a potential stud WR1 to work with for the first time in his career. If I couldn’t get Levis, Jones was a good consolation prize as I can pair him and Nabers as starters, when needed. 

Ladd McConkey and Chase Brown just so happen to fall to me and give me even more stacking upside with my top two QBs. I think both players will play major roles for their teams and I've already bet the over on McConkey’s season-long yardage total in the Fantasy Life Bet Tracker. 

After these four, I grabbed Josh Downs, whom I think has a shot at posting a big year and has had a great start to camp. I also took fliers on RB Ty Chandler and Luke Musgrave as my backup TE, which gives me a little exposure to the Packers, who project to be a top-10 offense again this season. 

Here’s the squad I’m rolling into Valhalla with after 16 rounds.

 

Draft Champion gave me an “A; exceptional but not perfect.” As a straight C+ student in school, I will take it. 

 

 

Seriously, though, I’m relatively happy with how this played out. I may not have been as lucky to grab studs like Nabers or Kincaid, as late as I did if I were drafting against top-tier fantasy players, but I had backup options in mind for each of those picks, so the mock was still very worthwhile. 

The Draft Champion Tool also gives you a nice summary of how you expended your draft capital and which players stood as the best values (according to our experts and projections). 

 

Even if the computer didn’t like my White pick as much as I did, this is still a great feature and can show you where you picked in line with FantasyLife+ projections and where you veered off the beaten path, so to speak. 

If you haven’t done so already, I recommend giving the Draft Champion a try before your fantasy draft season gets started. Like I said at the start, once you use it, you’ll have a hard time remembering what your “Fantasy Life 😉” was like without it. 

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