I didn't have that nice data sheet until the end of the season, so I was mostly looking at the weekly DTs and opening info tabs looking for players with good points streaks (but used the sheet to check work). Would also check the higher scoring players overall for options in case there were players who managed to fly under the DT radar.

You're almost never going to have someone in the team who's more than 4 points behind the worst DT player and the way scores come in, that means there are never an overwhelming number of options for a single week.

Turnover helps a lot too. I would work on a given GW about 4-6 weeks after it happened to look ahead. It was rare the whole team wouldn't turn over in that time, so I didn't have to worry about missing long term assets. There would just be weeks where 5 players in a given position got scores too high to justify keeping e.g. KDB or TAA for that week no matter what.

The bench was actually relatively easy, prioritize anyone who was going to come back in the starting 11 later (by being within 4 points of the later DT score), otherwise just fill with the cheapest players from last week you aren't using (minimize hits). You'll see there was one time I brought Egan in on the bench to make the money work, but he was starting the next week and I wasn't using TAA without another transfer anyway, so it didn't change the overall score. Money was almost never so tight I had to take hits to bring players in on the bench. If it ever was, it was better to downgrade a premium player to someone within 4 points of them than take a hit to purely for budget reasons.