Hello everyone and welcome back to this episode of Off the Bench. I'm Lee Bonfield from FPL family.

Hey and this is Pras and I do a burning question series on

FF Scout. So pleasure to be here. Hey Pras, how are you? How was your game week first and foremost? Was it

good, bad or indifferent? It was, I would say indifferent because I was sort of on damage limitation

mode because I'm wildcading this week so I was sort of almost shielding against everybody like yourselves who were wildcard in Game Week 8.

Damage limitation, I love that.

I feel like I'm in damage limitation mode for the wild carders that are coming up next week.

Because as you rightly say, I just come off of my wild card.

And it feels like we're a bit of a crossroads in FPL right now.

I hear a lot of FPL managers either having just played the wild card in Game Week 8, like me, or about to

play the wild card like you in Game Week 9, do you feel like, how do you feel about that right

now? Are you looking forward to a couple of weeks of tinkering and you know what your team is

kind of going to look like? Or are we still kind of gathering data? We still kind of looking

for those differentials coming into Game Week 9? I think, firstly, game state, I love where we are because, you know, we had a first

few game weeks where it felt like everybody was making similar moves. There were similar

options that were emerging. I think now it's really diverging, right? I mean, as you said,

people are playing chips at different times. Different players are standing up.

So it's really fun times.

And I think in terms of drafting, look, International Break was a natural fit,

not just because of the two weeks, but also the fact that it was a nice fixture swing.

So we'll come into why I think nine was a good window.

But I equally get that some people basically had to play it in eight because of the postponements.

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