Free Hit FPL: How the Free Hit Chip Works in Fantasy Premier League

Free Hit is one of the most interesting chips in Fantasy Premier League. Each season, Fantasy Premier League adds an extra layer of strategy with its special chips. However, using these chips strategically is key to maximizing their impact. Other available chips include Free Hit, Wildcard, Triple Captain, and a Mystery Chip, which will be revealed later this season.

The Free Hit chip is a powerful tool in Fantasy Premier League that allows you to make unlimited transfers for a single Gameweek. This means managers can temporarily overhaul their entire 15 man squad to capitalize on favorable fixtures or circumvent players facing injuries or suspensions.

By carefully considering when and how to deploy these chips, managers can outmaneuver your opponents and gain a crucial advantage in the long run. It is crucial to remember that Fantasy Premier League is a marathon, not a sprint, and wise chip usage can be the difference between a successful season and a disappointing one.

What is the Free Hit FPL Chip?

By using this particular chip, you can select a team optimized for that specific Gameweek without worrying about deductions for making transfers. However, it’s important to remember that after the Gameweek concludes, your squad reverts back to its original state that it was before the chip was used. This strategic chip can be a game changer, helping in navigating challenging periods and maximizing your points.

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When should managers use the Free Hit?

One of the most strategic uses of the Free Hit chip is to navigate blank gameweeks in Fantasy Premier League. These occur when several teams have no fixtures in a particular gameweek due to cup competitions or other scheduling conflicts.

Traditionally, managers have opted to use the chip during these blank gameweeks to field a full team of players who are actually a part of the action in that given gameweek. By temporarily removing underperforming or non playing players, they can bring in the top performing players from teams with fixtures.
However, a more aggressive strategy involves using it during double gameweeks. This approach can yield significant rewards, especially when many other managers are using the chip for blank gameweeks. By capitalizing on the increased number of fixtures, managers can boost their points tally significantly, although it would hurt them in the blank gameweeks.

The 2023/24 season provided a prime example of this strategy. Double Gameweek 34 saw numerous high scoring teams, while Blank Gameweek 29 was relatively low scoring. It is very important therefore to balance stability and the urge to go for more points at the same time, strategically.

How to activate the Free Hit chip?

To activate the Free Hit chip, users who are on the Fantasy Premier League app,

• Should navigate to the transfers page
• Make their desired changes
• Click “Next,” and then confirm their transfers by clicking “Free Hit Available” in the bottom right corner.

For those managers who are using the Fantasy Premier League website, the process involves,

• Going to the transfers page
• Clicking “Play Free Hit” above the “Confirm Transfers” button
• Confirming the changes

Either way, once the chip has been activated, it cannot be cancelled after that. Therefore it is crucial to ensure carefully that the manager is set to deviate from the team they already have, before playing the it. The Wildcard and the Free Hit are the only two chips that cannot be cancelled once they are activated. You can only play the Free Hit once a season, unlike the Wildcard who can be played twice. In the 2021/22 season, Fantasy Premier League managers were given two Free Hits due to unprecedented fixture disruption but since then, it has reverted back to one.

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What is the difference between Free Hit and Wildcard?

The Free Hit and Wildcard chips are powerful tools in Fantasy Premier League. The former allows unlimited transfers for a single gameweek, offering a temporary solution to injury or fixture crises. The Wildcard, on the other hand, enables unlimited transfers with permanent effects, allowing for a complete squad overhaul. While the Free Hit is a short term fix, the Wildcard is a longer term strategic move. In case of the former chip, the team goes back to what it was the week after.

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