"Oh, damn, six of my players were disappointing this week. But, hey, what, there's a way I could replace them ALL??"
That seems to be the attitude of many FPL managers - reeling in pain after a low-scoring opening week, they suddenly 'remember' their Wildcard, as if it were a pleasant surprise, like an unexpectedly generous gift left under their pillow by the Tooth Fairy. And they embrace it as their SALVATION.
It would be less funny and painful if it were only the most naive newbies that fell for this misguided foolishness, but actually an awful lot of long-time players give in to this sort of 'buyers' remorse' at the start of the season and blow a Wildcard after 1 or 2 gameweeks.
The thing is, you don't really know if someone is a 'bad pick' after one game (or even two or three, most of the time), so it's crazy to make judgements that quickly. Almost all of the best and most fancied players had a fairly subdued opening game this year. That often happens. It doesn't mean they won't start getting into their usual groove this week, or next... And last week's top performers - Ekitike, Reijnders, Gibbs-White - aren't yet in 'hot form'; they've had one good game. They could very easily have a stinker this week,... or not start at all.
This game craps on you so often and so hard that even if you do find yourself with a number of absolutely horrible players in your initial squad that you really need to dump as soon as possible, there will almost certainly be a few occasions over the next four months where you have more players than that suddenly dropped/injured/suspended.....
Wildcard is for emergencies; a bad GW1 is NOT an emergency.
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