How I see it judged on previous seasons.
There are two ways to go about it.
Method One is playing your best team week in week out like Leeds who could be considered to have the greater team understanding in SL, heightening your chances of winning should that period run in tandem with fortune. 1_3 injuries would endanger the foundations to that team as to erode that team understanding and stability.
Method Two is to play out the season as Wigan do.
Rest stars and play kids with a side that would be considered competitive but with a great degree of risk to the result. Yet strengthening the depth beyond that of greater risk than that of method one should player personnel selection be enforced as opposed to chosen in games of significant importance like sudden death play offs.
personally I would prefer method two. Wigan won a double without particularly being ultra star studded other than Sam T.
Although the notion that I give can still be shot pieces this season, with Wigan getting dumped out of the cup yet Leeds are not and virtually top of the league!!!!