Making order of things

1) Making individual plans at the beginning of the season is harder, you may miss the form players to own & teams to watch because your sight it fixed on something pre planned. As the season rolls on the easier it gets to plan ahead.

2) Swings, form and FDR may well be even harder to define and judge accurately until well into this particular season as players learn to adapt to maintain FULL concentration and adrenaline with no crowds present and the lack of full home and away bias

3) So if you are a risk averse manager this will affect you even more and might be best to keep your game very flexible and even use your wildcard a little later than usual once the dust settles and then make wholesale changes when the picture is clearer.

4) For more attacking managers happier to take hits & dynamic plays, they in theory could plan a little further into the season by having the reassurance that they don't mind taking a -8 or cashing in value to follow their plans AND ALSO react to the early season "chaos"

5) A note on clean sheets. As the UCL gets up and running, and teams really begin to hit their strides do not expect 5-5 matches every week. Expect things to become calmer and more predictable
Chelsea asides of course as they don't have a clue how to defend

6) But HAS the season really been THAT unfathomable, and are clean sheets we are seeing actually that much different from normal?
GW1 - GW5

22 CS from 50 games = 100 potential CSs

11/5 = 22% so shorter odds than ⅕ so far which is approximately a PERFECTLY NORMAL amount.

7) Sorry if I have it wrong because I know "experts" may say that "the season is unfathomable defence is irrelevant" - BUT 22% clean sheet chance IS NORMAL! So what is different then & why the odd results that we've been getting. Where some games almost seem they could end 8-8?

8) Having mentioned players having to adapt to maintain FULL concentration & adrenaline with no crowds which can affect results. Also for some teams the crowd is a 12th man, for others their own crowd can be a frustrated wall of hate, booing home players & affecting confidence.

9) Thus when we remove crowds we have respective and associative consequences, such as the comebacks being more plausible, and myriad other changes.

10) Another thing throwing up unusual results is the propensity of counter attacking routs that have been inflicted on the so called superior teams who have been unable or willing to react to a well organised team playing "Testudo ball" managers will adapt & this will revert imo

11) So although the goals have increased a lot they have tended to only have been increased dramatically in certain matches and CSs are indeed still A THING!

12) OR by GW6 is irrelevant. Your GW score through 38GWs is relevant. I like to have 66.7ppw & I'm around 63ppw which is fine. Never panic & do something that is not measured in every way something can be measured. Panic achieves the opposite of that. Logic always & good luck