Dugout Discussion – Swansea vs Chelsea

I mean, up to a limit, obviously. For example, I'd never pick a Brighton or Huddersfield player in GW37.

Also, double gameweeks won't stop existing even if we can't use chips in them. Chip usage doesn't affect picking players with more fixtures.

Yeah, that's why, if we keep FH, for example, it makes sense to me to limit them to BGWs. That way, 'casuals' aren't annoyed that they only have 4 players suddenly one week, and the playing field is equal, with everyone choosing from the whole player list, the best players they think they can get.

In fact this is even more even, because people won't split strategies leading up to the BGW by either planning or not planning (or something in between). So each GW is a managers best team possible for that GW rather than full of sacrifices on the lead up to and after a BGW.

Would prefer no FH myself. But FH for BGWs seems the best of both worlds to me.

But anyway, without chips the DGWs/BGWs don't disappear, but the 'advantage' is less because the FH chip is 'powerful', whereas no FH chip means you have to sacrifice points to earn them back with interest during blanks and doubles.

But how is it not a level playing field? It's not out fault if people use the FH too casually without notice it's better in a BGW. It's not 'insider info' - I didn't need to come to the FFS site to realise when the FH is more suited to.

As for the other chips, we mostly agree anyway. And in any case, the value of the TC and BB is a bit exaggerated.

*our fault

Because I don't think it's what people sign up for. It's like the goalposts are moved during the game, and some people don't even know the goalposts can move.

Of course, it's their fault for not researching it, but the system is set against them, simply because they don't take the game seriously enough to know about the unspoken rules which *we* all know about because we're sad enough to immerse ourselves inthe FPL underworld (e.g. there will be BGWs and SGWs to save your chips for)

I think people here vastly overestimate how much the casual player knows. I talk to my friends about it, and they've never heard of, or completely forgotten about, DGWs and SGWs, despite playing the game before.

People are busy, they work, they have social lives. FH chip offers them a get-out for BGWs, but not if they don't know about them or don't remember them.

That's why I think the game should be simpler and more accessible.

These are good points, but the casual player is never going to win FPL anyway, so not knowing about the chips doesn't make a difference in the grand scheme of things.

And if I beat someone because they triple captained Rooney in GW1 or bench boosted with a bunch of 3.9ers., then too bad for them 😛

Yeah fair enough. I just don't like an automatic win against my friends because they have jobs, careers and kids, whilst I'm still a student. An FPL win then means that my life is empty of other things rather than that I picked the best players haha!