Dummies' Guide To Early Season Team-picking

So looking through the changes in Yahoo, i figured i'd better come up with a decent strategy to keep up with the big boys at the start of the season. Playing catch-up too much throughout last season. So here's my take on team picking strategy.

Two simple rules.
Rule 1: Pick up points
Rule 2: Make money

This probably entails plenty of transfers in and out of your team. Elaborating, pick a few proven point scorers for your team, no matter how expensive they are. These are your bread and butter, to get you a decent haul of points every week. Hence, they should be playing full matches week in, week out, scoring goals (forwards & midfielders) and crossing (defenders). There are plenty of these players before Week 1 (bW1) . Your bW1 players should therefore be very carefully picked since you probably only have this chance to get them; their values are sure to skyrocket, or not go down, if they were high to begin with. Examples of such players would be Henry, Pires, Le Saux.

Which if you do you maths, unfortunately do not leave you much for the rest of those empty slots. These remaining slots should be filled with 'journeymen' players, who will be transferred in and out of the team depending on their price, and who they play that week. They are pretty much gambles, but since they do not cost much to begin with, you won't lose out on rule 2. Rule 1 though is a problem, especially if the 'journeyman' gets the red. Thus the need to offset them with those abovementioned permanent fixtures in your line-up. Plenty of cheap good players who fit in this category available bW1 too. Examples bW1 are Cygan, Biscan and Kanu.

This strategy could of course backfire bigtime, but what the heck, that's the fun in playing YFF. Comments welcome.