Festive FPL fixture frenzy: Where could rotation strike?

Rough - captained Haaland 2nd week in a row, just the 20pt swing over 2. My other two strikers also blanked despite having amazing chances. Rank nearly doubled.

Smooth - I dunno, it's a marathon not a sprint I guess?

Rough
- Premium defence of Onana, Max, Virgil & Gvardiol fail
- No Man U new manager or dead cat bounce for Max, Onana & Bruno

Smooth
Saka, Cunha & Salah captain

Rough - no cunha
Smooth - salah (c), jackson and saka and rashford
green arrows and 5k OR

Smooth - Wood > J.Pedro + hauls of Salah (c) Saka & Cunha for a GW rank of 46K

Rough - Colwill lost clean sheet in added time + Isak blank

Rough: Triple transfer failed.

Porro, Johnson, Solanke (25 points) -> RAN, Bruno, Isak (6 points)

Rough - Benched JP, Digne cameo blocked VDB cs sub. 90+3 Bou goal wiping BHA clean sheet

Smooth - Salah (c), Cunah, Jackson, Saka

81 points and up to 40k overall so pretty happy

Rough:

I benched Fabianski's clean sheet for Pope's 2-pointer. I have got this rotation wrong in all the 4GWs since Fabianski has been playing, costing me 15 points so far.

With 5FTs available for GW12's fixture swing, I had planned for weeks (or months?) to bring in Saka and Jackson, but decided to delay both transfers due to doubts over Saka's availability and because I ended up buying the unplanned Pedro and Isak already --in part, due to their prices rising. This left Wood as my Jackson makeweight, whom I decided to keep on the bench for Ipswich the following week. I was also swayed by the general consensus that City were going to run rampant against Spurs, so keeping Foden another week could pay dividends.

Unfortunately, Saka and Jackson hauled with 13 and 12 points respectively, while Foden and Rogers --who took Jackson's place with a nice home fixture to Palace-- blanked. Usually, I don't worry about transfers I don't make, but this was such a concrete plan that it feels like a true loss of 21 points. Isak also blanked, so with hindsight, I could have just got Jackson instead of him. Rubbing salt in the wound, Wood didn't start, adding some doubt over his odds for Ipswich.

I also delayed buying an Arsenal defender, despite having 2FTs to spare, because I had 3 defenders with good fixtures (Mazraoui, Robinson, Digne), but they ended up with only 3 points between them, while the Arsenal defenders I was eyeing got their expected 6 points.

I've already brought in Saka and Timber for GW13, so expect them to get injured this evening. And I'll probably plop for Calafiori before the deadline too. Jackson will come in next GW, assuming he's not suspended, so I look forward to bemoaning his GW13 haul, albeit without having planned to bring him in this time.

Finally ditched Haaland and it paid off. A green arrow after a -8 is very welcome. I feel I'm in a pretty good spot now to regain the rank I've lost. Lost about 40 points on the field over the last few weeks so it's a step in the right direction.

The best gw of the season for me, 654k to 296k despite bringing Colwill and Palmer for a hit who both blanked

DCL going to be a great pickup once Dyche gets the attack humming...

Price change sites had 4 risers and a load of fallers … a bit off today

Cheers rainy

Cheers. My Havertz pick to cover Saka seems a bit of a fail atm.