Don't necessarily have to wait until December.

GW11/12/13 provide fixture swings for Everton, United and Chelsea.

Planned for GW 8 (international break) to take me through to Christmas and plan for Christmas fixtures

If you wait until December you could set your team up to handle possible rotation. I seem to recall that shortly after the first half ends there are a couple of gameweeks that are only two days apart.

It all depends on your initial starting team. I never WC unless I am going to make at least 5-6 changes. In my case, I have had a poor start but really only want to make 4 changes (Rooney, Walcott + 2 others) so not worth it for me since I have 2 FTs.

Don't forget the real life transfer window is still open, there will be big injuries, European competitions, and some starting XIs are still in flux with players just returning - you could certainly play it now if you have 6+ players to swap out, but for 3, 4 or 5 I think it's better to take a -4 or two and be patient.

That said, in my 11 years have realized that this game is a lot about "confidence" and if you WC early and have confidence from that - that could lead to a good season, so really just depends.

Surely there is more market activity at this time of the year due to a higher number of active players who have yet to lose interest.

Add this to the number of players who have performed brilliantly in two games with the fixtures to continue to do so.

They will rise this week and should they continue to perform they will continue to rise as the games top scorers.

Switching out negative nti players and replacing them with risers, losing your depreciating assets for ones of the rise could see those who wildcard now having a significant value advantage in the next 4 weeks time.

Buying form players for no hit could also give a significant point advantage too.

Good topic.

The WC rule change has lead to me activating the wildcard tonight.

In previous seasons I'd always want to hold out until the second part of the season. The way this season has gone there are too many rises and falls, and I think there is little harm in Wildcarding now. Cutting losses etc.

Well, this is good reasons to WC

- Your team is sh#t, needs big rebuild (can happen anytime)
- You are to far off the template (template not set until at EARLIEST GW4-5)
- During an international break, to ride the price changes during two weeks (one soon and one after GW8)
- To rebuild your team when the fixtures changes big time.
- Big changes on demand. Injuries or after 1 sept when window closes.

If you are not in the "your team is sh#t"-section, wait until it seems to get sh#t or the last one happens. Other wise chose the middle ones that seems to suit you best.

IMO, it's worth a hit or two now early to get on som bandwagons or the avoid a nasty price drop

Follow the money, it actually a good wagon this time.

i've just bought aguero for free, whom i think is the principal WC-worthy player. so i'm holding for now, despite being someone who normally plays the WC early. my team has started badly enough but happy with the players and team doesn't need major surgery just now. that said, there's the niggling doubt that there's players who are going to become out of reach.

Also, make sure you hit that wildcard button, otherwise all that hard fought cleansheet points by your midfielder will be wasted.

The question for me is how long is too long to wait
The one rule that always seems to work on here is form over fixtures
For all of us who have had a poor start we obviously have a load of big money players not producing, some of us also have low money players failing, it's more than likely that some of them will start returning points at some stage, but which ones and when?
I have (had) Rooney, Walcott, hazard, kos, mane, sakho, lens all failing and some of those in teams that are not returning either. Therefore how long is too long to hold all them and watch the toure, silva and gomis teams fade into the distance?

Hey guys, I'm wildcarding now and, currently, this is the team to catch the maximum price rises :

McCarthy**, Myhill
Kompany*, Richards*, Shaw**, Darmian**, Gomez**
Payet*, Yaya Touré*, Mahrez*, Barkley**, Ayew
Aguero*, Lukaku**, Gomis**

*Rising tonight (FantasyFootballFix)
**Rising tomorrow (FFF)

Does Hazard get the chop? Seems harsh given his quality but more important to free up cash for Kun?

Considering a WC

Ruddy - Butland (unchanged)

Azp* - Kos* - Ced - Coa* - Hut ( * out for Dar - Kom - Mer)

Wal* - Man - Pay - Rit* - Mah ( * out for Sanc - Tou)

Roo* - Ben* - Dee ( * out for Agu - Kon)

Seven changes in total, whats bothering me the most is the absence of a Swans player in my new team.

What are your thoughts on this? Is the WC worth it considering price changes?

How has this not been upvoted yet? Great timing with the hot topic and some really good discussion generated

for me there are only two reasons to wild card, to prepare for a double game week (second wc only this season), or because you have a complete injury/form crisis.

nobody has the latter after two games and so whilst I can believe people wcarding now (or indeed already) will catch the early bird, they in turn have no way of making wholesale changes further down the line if disaster strikes

I have not had a good start by any stretch of the imagination and somebody in my mini league just WCarded to bring in kun, sanchez, mayrez and ayew this week. But he's still only 25 points ahead of me overall and now has no chelsea, pool or united cover.

Pool haven't even played a home game yet. Is Hazard really not going to still be one of the top 5 players in the game? Yes a few transfers can sort out situations, but a wild card can turn an ailing side into a world beater overnight if used well. I just don't see almost any of the early season big hitters bar City (and it is SO early) carrying on at this pace. Mahrez and Ayew aren't going to score 20 goals. And either of them do, I'll donate another £20 to Demi's charity...

Putting aside the "catching price rises"and "horrible start" arguments for a moment, the other argument for a wc would be to get a do-over for my defense. I put a lot of thought into my defensive rotation, but not much has worked (including putting Gomez on the bench gw1). With the wc, I would be far less likely to get Coates, Huth, Jenkinson or Cedric, and could also reconsider the Ruddy/Butland rotation.
Still on the fence...

I'm not sure I can hold on until the weekend with Ritchie and Silclair sales happening fast.

Should I transfer one or both of them for Mahrez and Montero? Or should I go Rooney + Azpilicueta > Aguero + Ward?