FPL Mystery Chip revealed: All you should know about the Assistant Manager chip

The Fantasy Premier League Mystery Chip that had intrigued one and all has now been revealed. It is an Assistant Manager chip, which means you can now bring in the likes of Pep Guardiola, Ruben Amorim, or Arne Slot into your Fantasy Premier League teams. They will earn points based on wins, draws, goals, and clean sheets, as the players do.

This chip will be available from Gameweek 24 in January till the end of the 2024/25 season. Once this Chip is activated, you shall get points from your Assistant Manager for 3 consecutive gameweeks. It is important to remember however that considering you can only play one chip in a gameweek, you can only use another chip three gameweeks after you have used your Assistant Manager chip.

Once it is activated, choosing your Assistant Manager at the first instance will not cost you a free transfer. But if you were to change your manager within the aforementioned three-week period, then it would come at the cost of a transfer, like is the case with players. If a manager happens to leave their club, Fantasy managers who have acquired that Assistant Manager will continue to earn points based on the original club’s performance.

How to score points?

The scoring for this is unique. The Assistant Manager gets points from the performances of their team. However, it will not be possible to captain them.

The scoring system is as follows:-

• Team win = 6 points
• Team draws = 3 points
• Goal scored by team = 1 point per goal
• Clean sheet from team = 2 points
• Table bonus: If your chosen manager faces a club ranked at least five places higher in the Premier League table at the start of the Gameweek, you get an extra 10 points for a win, so 16 in total, or an additional five points for a draw, so eight in total.

This last rule is interesting in particular as it raises a dilemma for Fantasy Premier League managers. While it is very exciting to go for the manager of a top team, say Pep Guardiola or Arne Slot or Mikel Arteta or Enzo Maresca. But at the same time, due to this rule that has been put into place, it might be more worthwhile to take the risk and go for someone lower down the table, and bet on them to come good during the three-game weeks you have chosen them for. This needs a careful evaluation of the schedules of all the teams, which is what makes it even more exciting. This puts the Fantasy Premier League managers in a conundrum about whether to play it safe or whether to go for a high-risk, high-reward strategy.

This is made even more interesting by the fact that the league table is so close this year. There are barely any points separating teams from each other, especially in the mid-table. This could provide people with a big chance of garnering these bonus points. For example, at the time of writing, before the start of Gameweek 21, there are just 10 points separating Bournemouth in 7th place, and West Ham who are in the 14th position on the table.

What could be the strategy?

This means that managers such as Ruben Amorim of Manchester United or Ange Postecoglou of Tottenham Hotspur could be great value, given the fact that these are big teams who sit lower down the table because of the fact that they have had a poor first half of the season. They are available for cheap too, with Amorim coming in at a paltry £0.8m while Postecoglou is only slightly higher at £1.1m. Also worth considering here are the likes of Graham Potter at West Ham and David Moyes at Everton. Both sides have performed way below the quality of their squads and with these two new managers at the helm, they could be set for an upturn in form.

The Assistant Manager chip might additionally provide a different strategy for Double Gameweeks (DGWs).

During a DGW, Premier League teams compete two times within a single Fantasy Gameweek. Therefore, by utilizing the Assistant Manager chip, you could accumulate points from four matches during a three game week period.

It’s important to remember, however, that the Assistant Manager chip counts towards the three players per club limit.

Also Read: FPL Price Changes – rises, falls and most transfers in/out for GW 21

How much do the managers cost?

Each manager has already been assigned a set price.

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