“Players” is a pre-#MeToo rom-com sitcom masquerading as a feature length comedy.

It’s a leering, light but never funny and rarely charming throwback about a group of friends who run “plays” to help each other score one-night stands. They get away with it by paying lip-service to a “switch hitter” (bisexual) in the ranks and telling a story about trying to “convert a one night stand into a romance.”

So yes, it covers a lot of sexual bases. And yes, it’s unamusingly dated as the profession of most of this “play” running quartet — a New York newspaper.

Gina Rodriguez is Mackenzie, aka “Mack,” 33 and one of the boys when it comes to hit-it-and-quit-it-and-brag-about-it one night stands.

Mack and Brannagan (Augustus Prew), Brannagan’s brother “Little” (Joel Courtney) and newspaper “visuals” designer Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.) are supposed to be college chums who have been inventing and “running plays” like “Chemical Spill,” “Betsy Ross’s Mother” and “Drip Drop” for twelve years.

First comes the targeting, then comes the analysis (“tourist,” etc.) and then the play-call.

After it’s over, it’s time to break it all down for the others.

“He’s not a groomer, so I got lost a bit in the woods.”

Mack and her team run their best game at the hot freelance Brit journalist Nick (Tom Ellis) is serious and self-serious and “I might ‘like’ him.”

“I’m 33 and I’m exhausted. I want an adult…a grown-ass man.”

Can they come up with the plays that will a playbook Nick into a “boyfriend” “landing.”

“What constitutes ‘landing?'”

“I want a DRAWER.” In his tony apartment, amidst all the trophies, combat zone mementos and such.

That baseline description pretty much gives away this limp “How I Finally made Friends with Your Mother” movie. Rodriguez, director Trish Sie and screenwriter Whit Anderson lack the nerve to make this truly raunchy and carnal. And the film wins few points for creating rituals, inside jokes and cameraderie amongst our quartet but can’t make much of a challenge out of who in the group — joined by office manager Ashley (Liza Koshy), an enthusiastic natural at these play-acting “games” — secretly crushes on Mack the “G.O.A.T.”

“Jane the Virgin” alumna Rodriguez has the timing and bubbly energy to make her character tolerable in a slick movie that’s unoriginal, trite and cliched. She gives it her all, but this was never more than a feeble excuse for a Valentine’s Day romantic comedy.

Rating: TV-MA, sex (not explicit), profanity, alcohol

Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis, Augustus Prew, Joel Courtney, Ego Nwodim and Lia Koshy

Credits: Directed by Trish Sie, scripted by Whit Anderson. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:45