Strategy 2025 Flex Spot Discussion & Strategy

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Unless I'm reading this wrong, and that's a distinct possibility, if a Premo Ruck is your Flex, wouldn't you need a playing Ruck or R/F at R3.
If your Flex ruck cops a 2week injury and you don't want to use a trade, then only R3 can be used as your Flex or a Fwd if you play a R/F at R3.
However if you put a Premo D/M or M/F as your Flex, you have all the Premos from those lines to choose from in the same scenario. I would have thought Premo Def and Mids would score higher than R3 Rucks or Fwds on average.

Or does this whole Flex thing just come down to team structure and/or personal choice.
 

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Unless I'm reading this wrong, and that's a distinct possibility, if a Premo Ruck is your Flex, wouldn't you need a playing Ruck or R/F at R3.
If your Flex ruck cops a 2week injury and you don't want to use a trade, then only R3 can be used as your Flex or a Fwd if you play a R/F at R3.
However if you put a Premo D/M or M/F as your Flex, you have all the Premos from those lines to choose from in the same scenario. I would have thought Premo Def and Mids would score higher than R3 Rucks or Fwds on average.

Or does this whole Flex thing just come down to team structure and/or personal choice.

If you have a R/F at R3 you can easily pull the injured ruck out of flex and drop in a premo forward, or mid or def if you have DDP linkage. No need for it to be a DPP. The R3 still sits on the forward bench not scoring it's not a comparison between them and a premo mid/def.

The reason I will go ruck at flex is cover, no need for a trade if a short term ruck injury occurs whereas every other line i'll have cover. Of course you could go playing R3 instead but then you can't loop them - just makes it easier for me to use a consistent C/VC loophole.
 
One thing is for certain, this flex position is going to increase posts online on SC forums/discords/twitter/etc. The amount of "I told you guys to pick a ruck premo as your flex" or "glad I was right in taking a rookie as my flex for extra cash gen" posts in the early rounds is going to be comical. Predicting there'll be a few arguments too. Get the popcorn gifs ready. Realistically we won't know the best flex approach until mid-season or later. There's also going to be lots of evidence of it "working" for multiple strategies.
 
Flex = the highest scoring guy with the lowest SD in your squad. Simples
I'm leaning towards zerret or bont to begin with so in can fit I another good mid rookie. As my team gets closer to complete switch to a third ruck. That way I get a good look at who is likely to be top 3 rucks.
 
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I'm leaning towards zerret or bont to begin with so in can fit I another good mid rookie. As my team gets closer to complete switch to a third ruck. That way I get a good look at who is likely to be top 3 rucks.
If you aren't putting an extra ruck there, surely a player with DPP like BSmith or Daniel seems like the best option to me, allows extra flexibility and they should outscore all your bench rookies.
 
If you aren't putting an extra ruck there, surely a player with DPP like BSmith or Daniel seems like the best option to me, allows extra flexibility and they should outscore all your bench rookies.
Daniel good for consistency if he picks up a seagull role. Sniff, too many 50s and 60s. He's likely to be the score that's dropped.
 
Unless it's a ruck it makes no difference you'll have the same amount of rookies/premos scoring each week
Agreed, it just needs to be a player that beats your bench rookies.

Daniel good for consistency if he picks up a seagull role. Sniff, too many 50s and 60s. He's likely to be the score that's dropped.
Smith will be playing on ball this year, reckon he'll go well.
 
If you aren't putting an extra ruck there, surely a player with DPP like BSmith or Daniel seems like the best option to me, allows extra flexibility and they should outscore all your bench rookies.
I don't think dpp there is super valuable. My team ussually ends up with heaps of dpp. Consistency is everything dpp to help with trades has a minimal effect.
I guess it is like everything in sc it will be dictated by what line the good rookies are on.
 
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Agreed, it just needs to be a player that beats your bench rookies.


Smith will be playing on ball this year, reckon he'll go well.
If you in my case have Bont M1 and Smilie Flex or change it to Bont Flex and Smilie M8 you still get the exact same score,

As long as you have a dpp player in the midfield line you'll be able to use the flex for more cover early if needed but at the end of the day it's just an extra high priced rookie on field unless you go a 4th ruck
 
If you in my case have Bont M1 and Smilie Flex or change it to Bont Flex and Smilie M8 you still get the exact same score,

As long as you have a dpp player in the midfield line you'll be able to use the flex for more cover early if needed but at the end of the day it's just an extra high priced rookie on field unless you go a 4th ruck
Agreed, I think we might be over-thinking the Flex position.

In the end you want a gun mid or ruck there imo. But it's just to protect us from an injury/sub score. As you say it makes no difference how you arrange your players.
 
Agreed, I think we might be over-thinking the Flex position.

In the end you want a gun mid or ruck there imo. But it's just to protect us from an injury/sub score. As you say it makes no difference how you arrange your players.
Pending injuries will only become more of a tactic post main byes for extra premo/loop option
 
There's two aspects to flex; the structure when selecting and trading, and the player you field in your flex when your 31 is settled (or thereabouts).

We mainly focus on the first part of the process, but when the season starts, there will be an element of decision-making to be had vis a vis locking in the flex early to avoid late outs without cover versus putting someone playing late for better flexibility with cover and trades.
 

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