I think you'll find it depends on all the other fixtures in 3/4 other cup competitions including European weeks and international break time frames...

It's actually team dependent!

Just not your fantasy team but the actual team 😉

Red cards have it different

I play Fan Team so get an extra -2 for conceding a pen. Was essentially a -5 point tackle.

It was changed to this a few years ago.

Before then you could, say, give away a penalty and get sent off in the 65th minute but still get a clean sheet and maybe bonus even though you were basically culpable.

Very nice but Saka on bench is too much

Gtg. Similar team and also benching Saka & Gabriel

Slim chance some hitters you're planning on buying on WC could miss out GW30 for injuries, late return etc and your WC team not as good as you'd like that GW. But 31 very soon after, rotation possible. Apologies that's not really answering the question but GW32 might see more settled lineups. My OR is awful anyway so prob being too pessimistic.

I guess people trying to avoid the city/arsenal game as potentially difficult one to call, it people expecting a tight game

C somehow

I mean it was hard to forsee that level of carnage. Posted a tongue in cheek comment last week about ideal FH being triple Fulham, triple Burnley and triple Forest - if you'd gone with the likely lot from those you'd be on 50+ points. Of course noone had the bottle to do it, though.

Cheers Captain Hindsight. Whos to say 34 wont be a mess as well?

Id rather not have a FH so that the temptation isn't there to swap my SGW stars with doublers from those dross teams

I had 3 starting players, it was the right call for me.

The schadenfreude this week from non free hitters is on another level.

The goal was to avoid loads of hits going into GW29. I saved heaps of points by avoiding these hits. I can also plan a WC nearer to a BB which could be considered more optimal if your team is solid now.

Wildcard.

FH isn,'t just about the GW itself though. It allows you to plan differently for the GWs around it as well. Those of us how have planned properly do not have to WC GW30 or 31 to Get rid of players bought in for the blank GW so will have a WC in hand to over most non FHers tp target the expected DGW in GW35 or GW36, and DGW37 rather than just a FH to target one of DGWs 34 or 37. My FH was taken with that in mind with additional points treated as a bonus. I was only expecting 10 to 20 which l may still get, plus gains which I wouldn''t have made over the last 5 GWs if wasn't using FH in GW28.

By playing strong squads and seeing if Man Utd v Sheffield United is a dgw trap?

Or perhaps by buying a Man United player to complement Arsenal etc.

It's not too difficult.

I enjoyed playing my FH in GW18.

Hindsight a wonderful thing. I still have mine, but have been stung by both doubles already and might just be ok this week. Chances are I'd pick all the wrong players for 34

Strange to see so many lazy, insecure, needy comments on here this GW.

It was never about 29 in isolation. It was never going to be high scoring. But to decide to FH early and eliminate those players from thought has enabled those to make good gains leading up to it and no doubt next week too. There will be a further boost as lots of WC being played in 30/31 to get rid of Villa/WH/Luton etc and we get to play our WC a bit later

I suspect those chest beating have an OR > 100k and yesterday represented the only day this season they felt like they won

Already having 2 manu, 2 new and 2 bou, plus Saka and Haaland. Getting Salah for kdb this week. So no need to WC before after gw 34 feels great

I tried to get my head around this question but ended up with a headache.

https://x.com/BenCrellin/status/1769006318348624148?s=20

Bowen to Salah?

B.

B

You are far too good at this game to need advice and also far too modest

Not sure. That teams a bit of a mess. You got WC to sort it out?

Could be worse, I benched Leno for flekken Robinson for reg and muniz for Tony, Watkins and 5 midfielders. 31 points sat on my bench n scored14 from 8 starters so far with 3 to play today. Gotta love this game!

Yeh same, I’ll use my wc now just because team lions poor for next gw, so interested to try and work this out too

The ones that have played fewest games, by and large and those still in cup competitions.

Chelsea and those who have played under 29 games by today.

Some will be free to play most weeks tho

https://footystats.org/england/premier-league

Check out the league table

Which players you bought in for -8?

Robinson sitting 3rd on the bench with 11 points vs my 8 players including Toney(c) 😀

I think the wildcard to restructure into a Salah team for the last 9/10 games makes a lot of sense.

The way I see it the doubles are much easier to play into, especially big dgw37 for a final BB chip.

It will be pretty wide open for most.

For a minus 8, pre international break?

Go for it if you're set on those players and know they'll come through.

A or C
Would hold onto Maddy

Definitely A

A

Son home to luton

It means Wolves play Arsenal in gw34 which is pretty significant for everyone tbf.

I imagine most non FH teams will have Bowen too

Anyone planning to not free hit likely has Bowen.

It’s someone like Kudus or Paqueta who’d potentially hurt non FHers.

Bowen is >86% owned at my rank

Kudus is just under 25%

You just need to hope that all 3 don't play, then you'll almost double your score!

Shona duit!

You needed to be on Casimero by the looks of it!

They will have travelled yesterday so unlikely.