No as I had too many non starters, Lukaku, Lennon, Martial, Fosu and whoever else doesn't start in the remaining games

I'm certainly full of hope. I set a bench mark of 20 points as a good use of the boost and anything over 24 (my previous highest bench tally) as a real success story.

I think I could be on for 20.

Darlow (6) Simpson Lanzini and Gabriel.

If I can gt one clean sheet between Simpson and Gabriel (possibly only from one start) and any form of attacking points for Lanzini I think I should be there along with a save point or two from Darlow.

only had darlow so far and i am happy with his 6pts

darlow,lanzini,gabriel and sakho would be my benched players this gw

closest rival wasted his bb chip and got 5pts in total earlier in season and i have 6pts+7players to go

but i hate that chip and can't belive i get rid of such a fpl powerhouses for likes of some random dgw players

very dissipointed in general even if i am likely to have a ,,decent gw''

45 points and a "potential" 23 players to go with the WC 33, BB 34 strategy.
The Jury is out until the end of the GW. Could be very good.

Darlow - win
Lingard - not great but he should start the next one at least

Not much hope for Delaney but Sakho could decide it's success.

Bench of Darlow, Townsend, Gabriel, Simpson - 20 points so far, with hopefully five more games to go. Worked out pretty well so far, although Lukaku and particularly Martial rotation was annoying yesterday.

Ken Barlow's 6 points was welcome and unexpected.

The rest of my bench is Coutinho, Sakho and Simpson. I would have benched the Liverpool boys owing to the likely rotation. We will see how they do, but overall I should get a decent boost.

I think captaining Sanchez over Aguero is likely to be my main regret this gameweek!

I need Mahrez or Kane to do something to consider my BB a success

I benched Aguero, Smalling, Bellerin and Mignolet, so far so good

Hard to say for sure but in all likelihood both Lascelles and Townsend would have been on my bench, with Fosu Mensag and Iwobi starting instead. Or rather, I'd never have even gotten those two Newcastle players in the first place. In other words, I'm loving the bench boost!

i have a bench of Darlow, Milner, Simpson and Cathcart. Cathcart gets injured, hopefully he'll start away to WHM. Also have non starters in the team, Martial and Mitrovic.
I guess TC would be better choice for Aguero. Anyway, tough luck for me this season

Robles Simpson Gabriel Coutinho

I do hope it covers the aguero TC difference. Thats all i hope for

Too early to tell, depends on Simpson, Mahrez and Alli for me. I'm ok with Robles so far.

Most of my ML seem to have gone with TC Sanchez, whereas I went BB without Sanchez and with Aguero as captain. So my view on BB will be influenced by how I come out of the GW compared to rivals.

Well i've got a two additional Aguero's on my bench. I'm pretty happy with that. (TC Kun)

So far 10 pts from Darlow & Mitrovic. Still Delenay, Simpson & the newcastle game to go. Hopefully I get 20+ bench pts.

I don't really know how much my bench is worth, because I couldn't resist the opportunity to use the only formation that plays 2 midfielders. But as long as Sakho, Gabriel and Lukaku pull their weight, the squad is going to get between 8 and 10 points per player which is nice.

My bench of
Darlow smalling sakho lanzini

Of those, 2 got me 13 points, hoping that sakho starts
But seeing the average being 20 & top 10k average 30, really happy with my GW 34 start

I set-up in a 5-2-3 just for a laugh so my bench is slightly weighty due to starting Dann and Simpson..;

Darlow Lingard Coutinho Milner

An unexpected clean sheet off Darlow but no shows from Lingard, and starters Lukaku and Martial not so good! Hopefully more to come later today!

Currently happy with 9 points from PvA and Robles, with Mahrez x2, Sakho x2 (?) and Robles still to go. As long as I get more than 18 points (same benchmark criteria as you Jonty) I'm happy.

Still kind of wish I played tc on Aguero instead...

My main rival used bench boost without wildcarding, only has 6 or 7 dgw players but they've all started so far, and he has Gomes in goal and Aguero (C). My other rival TC'd Aguero, I don't even own Aguero, and i've had 6 players benched. Terrible gwk so far haha, they've both completely closed the 60 points gap on me going into this gwk already.

It's been another disaster for me so far.

Four non-starters (Lukaku, Coutinho, Milner and Clichy), and currently I have only one bench point (from Adrian), and only 9 outfielders. I am also worried about being able to field a full team in GW35 (I had originally planned to use one of my two free transfers in order to field eleven player then).

So my Bench Boost has been wasted, and my wildcard to set it up was also a failure. This whole strategy needs rethinking, after the game-week has been completed.

The winners this week will be those who triple captained Aguero instead (together with any lucky enough to own Gomes).

I've never looked at it as 'bench points'. If you planned your wildcard around using bench boost, as lots of us did, then it's basically just 'squad points' isn't it?

My bench has 11, so far, but I wasn't fussed about who was on it as they all count anyway!

No, the BB was and is overvalued and has led a lot of people down a very flawed strategic road (including me).

It's worth 12-15 points. Sacrificing the wildcard (and taking additional hits in many cases) in order to bump it up by 8 or 12 extra points in a DGW is self-defeating.

I hope there are some good BB scores this week (I had Bolasie on mine) but they are only mitigating a strategic error, they won't replace last week's points or compromises made in future plans.

I have played BB this week after a wildcard last week. If I come out of the week with any kind of green arrow I'll be satisfied.

17 with three to play again. Pretty happy so far

Not really, but the WC really paying off 😉

16 for me so far (Robles, Ward, Bolasie, and Simpson).

Beginning to think that FPL have shot themselves in the foot with these chips - casuals can handle the odd DGW, but chips on top can make a huge difference. I've 88 for the week so far and have catapulted up my (mostly-casual) mini leagues - I can't see the same people being bothered to play next year when stuff like this can happen. It's too much of an advantage for the non-casuals.

My bench would have been... Robles, Lanzini, Simpson, Otamendi

Mignolet and Coutinho didn't play but I expect for Liverpool v Everton they will.

I have 12 pts so far with 3 players due to play another game. I think that's reasonable and I expect over 20 pts by the end.

Jonty,

From all the posts below, I think many are missing the obvious but hidden benefit of the BB. Without the BB, many would have got in DGW players that may only end up playing 1 game. With BB and loading up on 13-15 DGW players, you are more likely to include more players that play twice.

Looking at just bench points (for those that you would have honestly benched) is too simplistic a view of the real value of it.

For me, it's been both good and bad. Overall I'm satisfied with my score of 93 points at the weekend and I did not suffer from rotation as much as my rivals.

Good: Firmino, Alli, Mangala, De Gea, Townsend, Smalling
Bad: Lukaku, Ozil (c), Sakho

Arsenal losing a late goal was a sore one as had Gabriel, Bellerin and Ozil (c) so cost me a further 10 points. Relieved I decided to keep Alli over Mahrez but had I chose a better captain it would have been so much better. With 14 due to play midweek I'm hoping to get to at least 150-160 points this week minimum.