I say they need to try to cultivate a more balanced perspective.
Gameweek 33 was a bit of a mixed bag: not great, but far from terrible either.
It was in fact much better for FPL managers who'd gone big on the doubling teams than I had anticipated (perhaps straying too far towards the pessimistic pole on this one....). Manchester City and Crystal Palace, somewhat improbably, hung on to clean sheets in their Saturday games; and City managed two wins, in games they might have been expected to struggle in, while Palace picked up two plucky draws in games they were generally expected to lose. And Villa pulled off quite the surprise with their emphatic win over Newcastle. Few of the main doubling players missed out through injury or rotation, so most ended up with decent points. Meanwhile, those FPL managers who'd opted not to pick up too many extra doubling players were hard hit by low or blank returns from the majority of the most fancied Single Gameweek players: Salah and Diaz and Jota, Isak and Murphy and Barnes, Elanga and Gibbs-White, Palmer and Jackson, Doucoure and Beto, Cunha and Strand Larsen. Hence, only 3 single-game players - Sessegnon, Mbeumo, and Wissa - wound up in the 'Team of the Week',.... where I'd expected there might be at least 4 or 5, maybe even 6 or 7 or 8.
However, only Trossard, among the doublers, came in with a really big haul. And many of the best returns of the week came from less expected (lower-owned!) doubling players like Henderson, Zinchenko, Kiwior, and Matheus Nunes.
Single-game Bryan Mbeumo produced the second biggest total of the week. And alhough only a few of them made it into the 'Team of the Week', several of the best single-game players were close to the best performances of the week,.... and somewhat better than the majority of the doublers.
This Double Gameweek 33 didn't look all that promising; and it had the potential to be a bit of a disaster for people who'd bet big on the doubling teams. In fact it worked out pretty well for them - rather better than could have been reasonably expected! - and most of them probably did slightly better for the week than the majority of those who had moderated their selections of doubling players. The advantage was perhaps only very slight; but it could easily have been zero.... or less-than-zero! You folks dodged a bullet; and you should be bloody grateful!
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