I’m in a similar position to you Skip as have used my FH and have a similar number of players for gmwk 31 currently. I’m going to wait on the FA cup as if Saints win they would really open me up to having 9/10 playing in gmwk 31 with all my transfers from here on included. I haven’t felt as if my team has suffered currently nor will it in the mean time as a result of focusing on gamewk 31skip wrote: GW27 review:
Lots of things went well: Aguero (c), KdB, Salah, Firmino, VVD and the cherry on top was Lascelles coming off the bench for Alonso's no show. 109 points in a single game week is a nice jump. My rank has bounced between 15k and 50k for the last few weeks, it's either boom or bust every week without Kane it seems. Right now I'm at a season-high which sets things up well for the fixture shift and likely switching up the heavy hitters in my team.
Long term planning:
Unless something very unexpected happens in the FA Cup 5th round I plan to have 7-8 players in GW31 through transfers, then wildcard shortly afterwards. I do not have the FH chip available, so need to be smart about handling the other blank in GW35. I noticed that both Liverpool and Arsenal could help with this. Liverpool won't have a double in GW34 but their fixture is BOU home, then they will play WBA away in GW35. Arsenal's fixtures from GW32-35 are STO,SOT,new,WHU. Again no blank or double for them. I can imagine basing my team around 3 players from each of these teams to navigate the doubles and blanks.
GW28 planning:
Even with Aguero's hauls I am likely to transfer him out for Kane now. An Otamendi downgrade should fund this, but waiting on FA Cup games as I'd like to bring in someone with a GW31 fixture. Alonso likely stays and so does KdB. At some point soon I want to get rid of Elliot for Pickford and Lingard for Walcott but will need to work out how to fund that too.
Anyone else without a FH available like me and is working out how to manage things after GW31?
The real test will be gmwk 35 but that may not be too bad like you say if you plan and we may not have as many blanks in any event. Let’s keep in contact as we are navigating similar paths.