Chip usage comparison

For what it's worth Busts, I have FH and BB left, FH35 and BB37.

Team ID: 392
Points: 1,793
Rank: 129,461

Perhaps not the most interesting of strategies for your study, but it's another route nonetheless.

Overall Points:
1,825
Overall Rank:
59,904

All chips available, just discovered the FH chip - didnt have a clue.

No clue on when to play, will copy a strategy from boards

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

OK ill run with the following
Busts- No WC, BB33, FH 34, TC 37
Futureguy- WC 32, BB 34, FH 35, TC 37
Fingers - No WC, TC 34, FH 35, BB 37
Scummyman- No WC or TC, FH 35, BB 37
Jimmi- WC 33, BB 34, FH 35, TC 37
KM 79 - No WC or FH , BB and TC left
Islander- No FH, WC 32, TC 34, BB 37
Skyster-No WC, BB 34, FH 35, TC 37
normanoffside- No FH, Wc 32, BB 34, TC 37
Trimmtrabb- Just BB left
Benimar- No FH, WC 36 , BB and TC left

If i didnt use your info its because somebody else with the same strategy signed up before you. If they change strategy I will end up using yours. I need a team ID for islander and skyster. Im still looking for a late wildcarder with a different strategy to benimar or somebody that is using FH in 37.
Ill update this weeks scores tomorrow. You would imagine the people that wildcarded this week should get an initial boost.

I WC in 32 and will be FH in 35 and BB in 37. Have used my TC. Can send you my ID if you need it

Sticking in my details as per busts kind request

Team ID: 168728

Rank: 548, 272 (Ahem )

Points: 1796

Strategy

GW34: Free-Hit
GW35: No chip
GW36: Wildcard
GW37: Bench Boost

TC went bust on Kane in the bleak midwinter!

It's an interesting start Busts but I think you'd need a lot more numbers for better comparison. I'm late to the party but maybe in the future what we could do is set a table with the different plans for the chips and every FSAers who'd will to participate would add his score in the appropriate column.

Personally, so far, the chips have been working good for me but I'm still with the most important of them all (TC) to play. 114 pts for my FH & 116 this GW for my BB.
If I can assume my BB was worth 24 pts (Pope, Mili, Tomkins, Mustafi) I haven't made the exact maths for my GW31 FH... Let's have a look at it.
I had 7 available players. As a matter of comparison i currently have 7 players for GW35 so the situation is similar. I'm planning to make 2 transfers (maybe 3 max). I think I'd have done the same in GW31. Had i done nothing I'd have scored 89 pts. My 2 trasnfers then would certainly have been Shaqiri & Tosun for an extra 15 pts (-4). That is 104 (-4). So I "only" gained 14 pts from my FH (Mili 10 pointer & particularly Choupo 6 pointers despite being rubbish for centuries before that decreased my expected gains).

That is a very simplified view anyway. I'm always looking at this game in the whole picture and were I determined not to use my FH in GW31 (expecting a bigger blank later) I'd have not made the same transfers before GW31. Also if I had my FH available when I WCed in GW32, my WC team would only have been focused on the DGWs. For example, my BB this GW was mainly successful thanks to my planned GW35 players (Mili & Tomkins combined 17 pts).

From your analysis and my own take on how to best play the chips this season I'd say that:
- we'll know after GW35 when was the best GW for the FH (it'll be 31 or 35 and I suspect the latter one will be best considering the potential big hitters) ;
- GW34 seemed to have been best for BB considering there was no huge captain haul and some planned GW34 bench players for BB who have a game in 35 got good scores (e.g. Pope, King, Tomkins, Mili, Gudmundsson, Barnes...) ;
- TC was for GW31 but that is pure hindsight (:p), GW37 will tell.