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Very mixed bag of opinions/strategy on Flex usage which is awesome.

Some are playing chess, some checkers, others are playing snap.

Looking at bye rounds a thought came to me on extra thoughts into planning how to use Flex.

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If you wanted to start with an onfield Rookie, MP or Premo from any of these teams.

Early season play could be to use another Premo/MP replacement to cover them.

My example is I want to start Naicos and not try to have to chase upgrades to get him in by round 5-7.

I want to upgrade other players who might fall in price due to harder early fixtures.

So I start him and get a good Flex to switch with him in round 3 via a MPP or Top scoring Rookie in the mids. Then after bye I could automatically have another Premo midfielder saving 2-3 trades and a rookie off field.

I am trying to limit my side with many players from rounds 2/3/4 except a few speculative rookies or MPP’s

Then there is the midseason byes

Where the idea of an extra Premo Ruck comes into my strategy.

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Round 12 is a bugger.

Means starting or getting in latter, 2 or 3 of Xerri, TDK and English, with one in Flex is feeling like not a great play. (Unless you could get to full premo by Round 12 for best 18)

Or tanking rucks for one round is something that could be done if you pick 2 Rnd 12 Rucks and have a Ruck Flex with a benched R/F swap.

Perfect world for just these rounds is to have 3 Rucks, One in Flex spot with no double ups in a bye round.

If I don’t start with a Ruck in the Flex this could cost 3-4 Trades to upgrade to a possible 600-700k ruck, this reduces upgrades all over the field,

Thoughts are that starting teams in RMT are having a few extra starting Mid-Pricers as well as more onfield Rookies. Than previous seasons.

Straight up GnR’s seems dead so far this season and moved to a Mid-Pricer hybrid team with the value found there this season, along with the risk/reward.

Another thought!

If I use more of my boost trades to chase low Breakeven players (the weeks where there are 3 rookies

@ (-60) BE) and upgrade with normal 2 trades per round for getting premo’s with one up one down or bank cash and go straight 2 up in the right rounds.

It could be possible to have a fully upgraded side by Round 12/13 using

20-23 trades from Rounds 4-5 to 12.

Though this would need a lot of luck with picking up the right fallen Premo’s, Rookies and Mid-Pricers in starting side. As well as being ruthless on Premo’s who might underperform.

This ramble on other strategies in SuperCoach, underpins ideas on how the Flex spot may be used for more than just one set and forget player for half the season (Ruck example for midseason byes coverage) and could be used as several other options before and after Midseason byes.

I imagine somehow/someway I may end up running 5 or more different players from different lines in the Flex spot during the year, for different purposes or fixtures.

Now I am not sure if I have got this wrong or not on how the Flex works,  but the way I understand it is the Flex is not a position it is a utility.

And it replaces the lowest score onfield from every line, not just the one it’s position is.

I am also guessing this is after emergencies are put onfield.

Another question to the brains trust is does this negate the Captain Loophole.