Learn to 'make do'

I blame The Scout (in particular; there are many other sources of this psychopathy...). FPL's own anonymous 'pundit' regularly puts out a 'team of the week' set of recommendations - which is effectively a 'Wildcard' every time: unlimited transfers, taking no heed of what lineup he'd selected the week before, or of what he might want for the weeks immediately following.

Seeing so many FPL 'content creators' follow this pattern - maybe not producing a completely new team every week, but making multiple player suggestions every week.... as if anyone might be able to bring them all in - encourages many of the more naive and impulsive FPL managers to believe that they could and should do likewise, that multiple changes at any time are always acceptable and even necessary, a correct and proper way to play the game.

Of course, that is not a good way to play the game at all.

Transfers have an absolute points value. (FPL's own game designers, in setting the cost of an additional transfer, have rated it as 4 points. It might in practice be a little more or less, depending on the circumstances; but that's a good guideline figure. And that applies to 'Free Transfers' as well as to 'hits': if you're not making an immediate 4-point profit from a transfer,... you probably shouldn't be making it.)

Transfers can also have a more nebulous 'tactical value', encompassing all the more remote benefits of making one change rather than another, or making a change now rather than later.  (The 'tactical value' of deferred transfers is now hugely enhanced - and complicated - by last year's rule innovation allowing us to 'roll over' Free Transfers until we have a maximum stock of 5 at our disposal, effectively giving us the possibility of a number of additional 'mini-Wildcards' each season.)

Hence, every time we make a transfer, we should not only be considering how much value we may get from it immediately in the current gameweek, but how much more value we might possibly get from it by waiting to use it until a later gameweek.

Unless we have a really pressing reason to make an immediate change to our lineup, it is, these days, usually better to roll a transfer than to use one.

No squad, no starting eleven is ever likely to be completely satisfactory. We'll almost always have some players we're developing doubts about, some we're trying to 'rest' through a short injury or dip in form, or a little run of tough fixtures, some players we don't have yet but are starting to covet...  If we thought like The Scout,... yes, we'd make 4, 5, 6 changes almost every single week. But we CAN'T do that. This is not the game we play. 

FPL gives us only limited transfers, and we must be very careful how we use them. We have to learn to accept our inevitable dissatisfactions with our squad, and - most of the time - make do with what we have. We should strive to make as few transfers as possible; not to make any at all unless we feel we really have to. (Which is not at all to say that we should be afraid of making transfers, or should try to avoid ever taking 'hits' - spending the additional points for extra ones. Sometimes we do have to. Just not nearly as often as most people in this game seem to think!)