FPL Chips / Wildcard Strategy 2016/17

Diomande at 4.5 for Hull has been playing. 3 in pre-season.

Hull have no players so he should probably play by default.

sheroman01 wrote: »

Talks of playing an early BB is certainly appealing. It didn't work out great last time playing it so late.

Many here do it or looking to do it soon?

Thinking of doing it in GW3, fixtures highlighted in yellow below. Not bad fixtures. Will also have 2 transfers to fit in better players if needed.

Is it too reliant on a 0-0 in the boro game?

dahat wrote: »

Benteke at 7.5 makes these 4.0 essential now.

Love, Wilson, Amat are all going to be in my WC Squad.

Is Love nailed on to start every game do we think?

I'm either using AOA next week to play Capoue or if the Swansea lineup is leaked and Kingsley starts, I may ship Capoue to De Roon :pac:

End of the season probably best time to play it strategically since we have higher TVs and I'm sure many of us will do the DGW BB again

Green&Red wrote: »

Just wondering if may of you have your first wildcard left and what you think the best strategy is.

So I'm happy with my starting 11, my OR is 5k but my bench is Marney (BUR), Love (SUN) and Amat (SWA), basically absolute muck.

I'm toying with the idea of
Aguero -> Kane
Marney -> Walcott/Siggy/Chadli/Ozil/Payet
Love/Amat -> anyone better that plays

See how that goes and if I get the absolute fear of not having Aguero I can play the WC and rectify it

Does anyone have a better plan or thoughts on this plan?

Yeah I've still got my WC. I'm on a -8 this week and still want to keep it until gw14/15. My "move" involved dropping Lukaku early for Costa.

With your rank it is probably not advised to ditch Aguero especially this week imo.
At he same time I was looking at this exact trade next week myself.
I had not considered going to a Fr8 and giving myself a benching decision each week. Of course it guards against rotation and may help you delay the WC but I'd prioritise upgrading a defender.

carnie wrote: »

Out of interest how did the bench boasters get on this week?

Let's use this GW22 Matchday Thread question to develop further my perception of it in here.

For me the BB (and to a lesser extent AOA) is not a 1 GW chip. Since most plan their team ahead for using the chips. So to be perfectly fair, you'd have to take into account the GWs around the use of the chip to assess its efficiency. I mean without the chips, you'd have certainly played very differently.

Personally, I got 11 pts from my bench. Heaton, Defoe, Holebas, Baines. Actually, just starting from here and listing these players makes little sense of a bench since I selected at least 2 of them (Baines & Defoe) for not being bench players for this very GW in particular. The other 2 were more "get someone cheap who will rotate from time to time and has a decent chance of a great return for BB GW".

11 pts look crap when GW1&2 respectively got me 25 & 24 pts on the bench.
But, I WCed last GW and got a massive 101 pts. It's a part of my BB since I selected most of my team accordingly.

Examples of how wrong and deceptive it can be to look at your BB over the sole GW you're playing it.

Holebas 0 pointer. Defoe & Giroud 2 pointers.

During my WC, I debated B'mouth def instead of Holebas. The best one of them is Smith. Got 6 pts at the week-end. But he returned 0 last GW. Holebas did the opposite and I precisely had kept him for his good fixture last GW hoping he'd provide attacking pts this GW. So "deuce" here .

Defoe & Giroud. £15.4m. 6+2 & 5+2. Obviously Kane returned much better. 17+5. But he was worth £11.0m. And there's no option upfront at £4.4m. If I had kept Costa whom I got in very late I'd have only increased this amount to £4.7m IIRC. Don't think there are any options I'd have been happy with for that price. And anyway Costa did not outscore any of these 2 significantly. So, the only alternative was to save money from my midfield (Sanchez, Alli, Phillips, Pedro, Coutinho). I wanted 'Pool attacking cover and did not fancy any of their forwards so got a midfielder instead. Pb is I got Coutinho which makes this attacking 3-way plan fail. Stanislas would have been much better of course over the 2 GWs. He's the only one I debated so no point looking elsewhere.

[*]Now 2 other "opposite" examples...

McAuley & Alli. Kept them both (actually got Alli for Eriksen) with a long-term view in mind. Brunt was doubtful during my WC week so could not make the sideway move. McAuley stayed on my bench last GW and returned above expectations this GW. Alli exactly matched Eriksen over the 2 GWs. And the only player with a favourable BB fixture who outscore him is Firmino whom I did not consider at all for some reason I don't understand myself :pac:.

Pedro & Coutinho whom I precisely got in for BB purpose. Plan was to bench Coutinho last GW and hope for a masterclass this week-end. Pedro was there because of the Costa situation and plan was to reassess now before Chelsea tougher run of 2/3 fixtures. Pedro returned great over the 2 games so despite his 3 pointer yesterday I count him as a great success. Coutinho was the disaster.

[*]I could go on like that. Phillips in the first category. Disappointing. Giroud & Defoe in the second. Decent.


I'm now left with a strong defense, Alonso Baines with McAuley Chambers Holebas to rotate. I could add Phillips to the rotation depending on fixtures.
Pedro, Giroud & Defoe situations to be assessed as planned. Coutinho is the spanner in the works.


So far, my BB is successful but my BB is not my 11 extra points of GW22. It's part of a mid-term plan. It includes my gigantic score last GW and will include my next 2/3 GWs scores. And I believe this applies to everyone. Or, you'd have to play your BB either without any planning or inconsciously on a random GW. If someone had done it for me for either GW1 or 2, I could have said I gained 25/24 pts thanks to BB. For GW 10 & 11 I'd have added the grand total of 0 point to my scores. But the way I played it, summarising it on the 11 pts I added to my GW22 score is only the visible part of the iceberg.

And I'd say this also applies to the AOA that most of us play when we think we have a strong enough front 8. I played mine in a week where I did not want to use a transfer or -4 for a def I wanted to keep long-term but was either suspended or injured for that very GW. I got no benefit from it since one of my doubtful def did eventually play and got the same return than my 5th mid. C'est la vie.

TC is different since it doesn't require any large planning. In general, you go for a premium candidate over a DGW. In general too you do not go for Lukaku :pac:.


Overall though, I don't like what these chips bring to the game. They're just a bunch of distracting gadgets.