Fantasy Premier League: When is the best time to use your FPL chips?

The Football Faithful

·31 January 2025

Fantasy Premier League: When is the best time to use your FPL chips?

Fantasy Premier League has announced that GW24 and GW25 will both be double gameweeks, so we run through the best time to use your FPL chips between now and the end of the season.

Although we know that Liverpool and Everton both play twice this week, we have to wait until the League Cup semi-finals wrap up to find out which teams are doubling in mid-February.

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As explained by our friends at AllAboutFPL, Liverpool and Villa or Spurs and Fulham will double depending on who wins between the Reds and Tottenham next week. If Arsenal overturns their two-goal deficit against Newcastle, they and Chelsea will play twice in DGW25.

As the final takes place in GW29, the two finalists will blank in GW29. As the Magpies aren’t in Europe this season, their game against Crystal Palace that week will be moved somewhere else in the calendar.

There will also be potential DGWs in 33 and 36 as well as another blank GW in 34, but which teams are affected depends on results in the FA Cup.

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Fantasy Premier League: The best time to use your FPL chips

Assistant Manager

Before Friday’s news, DGW24 seemed like a decent but not ideal time to activate the Assistant Manager chip. Now that we could get five games from one manager rather than just three, it seems like a no brainer to use it now.

Arne Slot feels like the obvious pick here. While there is no chance of earning a table bonus, Liverpool are the best team in the Premier League and you’d back them to at least avoid defeat over the four fixtures; Bournemouth away, Everton away and, potentially, Wolves home and Villa away. Three of those games being on the road isn’t optimal, but they are yet to lose away from Anfield this season.

If Liverpool don’t reach the final, then using a transfer to switch to Ange Postecoglou or Marco Silva in GW25 is a perfectly cromulent move in this writer’s opinion. Remember, the AM chip locks in for three weeks and you can’t use another chip during that period.

David Moyes is an option that has potential for big upside. DGW24 seems Everton face Leicester and Liverpool at home. You would expect the resurgent Toffees to get a win this weekend and although the Merseyside Derby is a really tough fixture, even a draw would reap big rewards with the table bonus. You could then move to one of the managers who has a double the following gameweek.

The only other times in the calendar I think it’s worth using it are GW31 and GW35, but that depends if the three-week period incorporates a DGW. If you need a refresher on what the AM chip is and how it works, click the link below.

Fantasy Premier League – The new Assistant Manager chip explained

Triple Captain

The best time to activate your Triple Captain is undoubtedly a DGW, although single GWs can be fruitful too. Just ask anyone who stuck it on Erling Haaland in GW2.

Mo Salah in GW24 or GW25 is a great pick for TC, particularly if you have all of your chips left and would rather use them for future DGWs. You might also be in a situation where you have three Liverpool players and can’t activate the AM chip this week, so TC on Salah is a great alternative.

Depending on which teams play twice in GW33 and GW36, those might be a good time to use the chip.

Bench Boost

Unless you have a stupidly strong bench in any given week, it really is illogical to use the Bench Boost in a single gameweek. It needs to be reserved for a DGW, and a big one at that. That’s why GW33 and GW36 are the only options on the table, as far as a I can see.

Free Hit

The Free Hit chip is really useful in blank gameweeks, as FPL managers can avoid using transfers to replace the players that are not playing. Therefore, GW29 and GW34 are the obvious routes here.

Wildcard

There isn’t really a bad time to use your Wildcard, especially if you’re team is destroyed by injuries and suspensions, or it simply sucks. But there are times when you can maximise its effect.

You could use it in GW30 right before activating the AM in GW31 and with an eye on bench boosting in GW36, although it’s risky planning ahead that many weeks in advance.

It might be better to use your second WC in either GW32 or GW35, so you can set your FPL team up for a BB in one of the following DGWs. That way you can potentially have 15 players playing twice in GW33 or GW36.

Remember, the longer you wait to activate the WC, the less time there is for it to have an effect on your rank.

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