The ScoutCast – Episode 166 – Patsy

Agree

Even if you don't play it in a DGW, the longer you are in the season, the higher your TV so you can afford a good bench and utilise the chip more effectively.

wildcard.
plus double week doesnt have to be preceeded by a blank

There might be occasions in a DGW when you would've benched a heavy hitter to fit in another DGW option - Bench Boost would allow you to still play those heavy hitters who have a single GW.

None. But maybe used when there is more money in the bank.

I agree.

The wildcard would (probably) be used to sort out the mess of a team the week after and you'd presumably have taken points hits the week before getting all the DGW in which would negate any real benefit.

I say play when you look at your team and have a real headache over who you would start.

Wouldn't use Gw38 as its a minefield for predicting line ups

Your second point:

'SO, if we will all PLAY our Best Players and DGW players in our starting squad, then we are left with Single GW players on our bench. Therefore no benefit to Bench Boost during DGW.'

This is exactly the benefit to using Bench Boost during DGW!

The appeal is that you can load up on DGW bench fodder, and play them, as well as playing and keeping all of your SGW big hitters.

And really, it doesn't matter who's on the bench and who's in the starting line up when you play your Bench Boost - apart from your captain, they all count the same.

Agree. I said this yesterday to someone or other, albeit more briefly 🙂

There is one marginal benefit. You can have your normal 3-7 DGWers, and another, benched, DGW keeper. apart from that your right, your bench is going to be SGW players anyway so play it when fixtures are favourable.

If there's a bumper DGW37 then a WC GW36 followed by DGW37 bench boost could be huge. Then you'd also have 2FTs for GW38 and butchering your team will matter little as there's only 1 week left in the season. And with only 2 DGW possibilities this season (I believe) and up to 12 matches postponed it's certainly a possibility.

there's such a high ceiling on the bench boost compered to the AOA chip that using it 4 GWs into a 38GW season feels imprudent and wasteful.

I think you should be able to use the chips during a gameweek. How many times have we wished to be able to retrospectively change a captain or regret benching certain players? There would still be the uncertainty over whether it's the right time to use it, but it's less of a punishment than now if it goes wrong.

Very simple, what if your sgw player is aguero?

I've had a horror of a start but have all three of my bench riders starting with good fixtures this week. Very tempted to play it this weekend! Even worst case scenario I would appreciate the additional 10 points or so!

Last year during the DGW we had to bench Hazard and Silva or even transfer them out for a double Henderson.

This year we don't.

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/08/25/how-the-fa-cup-will-define-the-fantasy-premier-league-201516/
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/08/20/advance-double-gameweek-planning/

People are ranked 2.5m after GW2 = panic WC
People are ranked 2m after GW3 = panic bench boost

Theme = panic, needed = patience

You are not far wrong probably.

Having 15 DGW players will be difficult (almost impossible) to achieve without a wildcard. If you want to use BB as well you have to wildcard a week early. Then you have the complication of a squad composed of 5 or 6 teams' players probably and for 3 weeks - the week before, the DGW itself and (with one change) for the GW after. Otherwise you are taking hits and diluting the advantage of the BB.

As Jarvish has pointed out, if the very best teams all reach the FA Cup semis (Chelsea, City, United, Arsenal for example) the above plan might be workable. But how likely is that? And even if it happened, those teams have very expensive players and how are you going to fit them all in to a budget of (maybe) 106.00?

We won't know for sure till we get past the FA Cup QFs but I am of the opinion that the DGW BB for GW 37 is likely to be a mirage. It may work out; more likely it won't.

So the case for holding to GW30 onwards is not all that strong. There should be 2 big DGWs (34 and 37). One of them at least will need approaching through FTs rather than a wildcard so that's the one where you might use triple captain. The other will probably utilise a wildcard and unless Jarvish's dream scenario materialises it will probably be best to use the wildcard in the DGW itself. So no BB possible in that case unless you use triple captain earlier (there might be a 3rd DGW caused by the LC final as well).

The obvious advantage of BB in a DGW if you can do it is not 15 DGW players. It's the ability to keep important SGW players and still count them.

It is all quite uncertain and I will probably keep my options open and wait. But if I had a really good bench in a SGW and thought I could get good value from it I wouldn't mind going earlier. I rate the value of BB as 15-18 points. Any time you think you have a good chance to make or exceed that I reckon.

You're implying we currently have amazing players that we bench each week... we don't. A 4.5/5.0m bench defender/midfileder with a single gameweek now is worth much fewer points than one with a double gameweek later. Imagine those defenders with two games such as Sunderland last year or Matty Phillips as a midfielder who racked up the points! We wouldn't play them in a single gameweek over a 6.0-7.0m player who has more pedigree. All out attack is a confusing chip, don't try and over-complicate this one. More games = more points with the bench boost.