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does this mean using a certain team-altering chip to farm value in gw2 22-23 was the right strat?

I think it means any advantages were completely illusory and melted away almost instantly, but I suppose it's open to interpretation 🙂

Do the dips line up with blank game weeks? Fewer games, fewer opportunities to spend your larger budget?

Having £1.0+ on the bench is a bad move from this data.

Some observations: - Price constraints ease for most of the season as prices adjust down towards outcomes - 2021-22 bucked this trend early, likely due to the high number of mid-season COVID postponements - Inflation dips (value for money increases) before chip season, when more points are on offer

- Purchase power hit its highest before GW2 of 22-23, when both Haaland and Salah were essential, and the game lacked budget enablers - This fell to an all-time low in the final GW of 22-23, when managers could afford near-optimal teams with normal budgets (@anthony.football's teams for reference)

That start of the season team with the 4 starting defenders and James also on the bench. Back in the days of the 5 back meta.

Those bad teams got me to 616th

In general, across recent seasons, you can buy just over 0.3 points per GW for £1m, on average. Therefore, +0.1 budget in GW1 tends to be worth around 1.2 points over the whole season. Currently (before GW12), the value of £1m is relatively high, at about 0.35 points (have a zoomed-out picture too)