Here’s our FPL Chip Strategy Ultimate guide to maximum points article. This season perhaps more than ever your chip strategy or avoidance of 1 could dictate your GW1 team significantly. Here we look at 4 strategies being put forward and give a view on the pro’s and cons
FPL Chip Strategy Ultimate Guide To Maximum Points
Other articles
The FPL Experts Template Team, The best cheap enablers,
4 FFGeek Contributors Teams, Joe’s Transfer Planner
Introduction
This season perhaps more than ever your chip strategy or avoidance of 1 could dictate your GW1 team significantly. Here we look at 4 strategies being put forward and give a view on the pro’s and cons
Remember here we are talking about the first half of the season Chips. Unless something drastic happens there will be no double or blank gameweeks and this article is built on that assumption. The 2nd half set of season chips will see different strategies than the first half because of these doubles and blanks
How your playing style and set up could dictate your chips strategy
Without making FPL manager strategy too simple I think there are broadly 2 schools of though on GW1 set up and both are centred around the bench.
- The minimum cost bench
a £4.0m GK, £4.5m Mid and 2 £4.0m Defs
This is designed to minimise the cost of your bench to maximise the strength of your starting 11 with hopefully players less fixture sensitive and with secure 90 minute starting spots. That means transfers are often just used for injuries or major fixture swings.
- The well rounded squadAll players are expected to produce returns every time they start. Here the players around the premium players can be rotated to maximise easy fixtures each gameweek. Less need for transfers to cover short term injuries
Strategy 1 – BB2. WC 4 or 6 TC 3, 7 or 16
If you are wedded to the minimum bench cost team then Coventry at home to Hull is the perfect way to set a base so ultimately you can get 2 £4.0m Defs a £4.5m and a £4.0m GK on your bench
Bench Boost GW2
At the moment we have 2 £4.0m Coventry defenders in Thomas and Van Ewijk who could fit that slot. There is no £4.0m GK at the moment so that would have to be upgraded to say £4.5m Petrovic who plays at home to Everton in GW2. There’s also no ideal £4.5m Mid which means you may have to go to the £5.0m Mid market where you go for someone like Yarmoliuk of Brentford who’s playing v Leeds
So you pay £1m over the minimum cost for the Bench Boost but it’s still the cheapest way for what’s probably going to be the best fixture for that cost
Wildcard GW4 or 6
Wildcard 4 has the fixture swing from Man Utd to Chelsea with Palmer plus others at home to Hull being a big draw. 6 is after the long 3 week International break but to me seems a less obvious fixture swing. Also managers who don’t want 3 Coventry on their bench can then reset the team
Triple Captain GW3, 7 or 16
This is where Haaland is home to the 3 promoted sides. Getting it used early in GW3 v Coventry lessens the chance of rotation for Haaland when the fixtures become more congested in the various competitions
You can see the rest of this article and loads of other content mentioned below It’s only £2.00 per calendar month with no commitment beyond 1 calendar month plus all the features above. There’s also a 25% discounted annual subscription. Unfortunately advertising alone cannot make the site viable and subscriptions are vital to the site continuing.
Additional content on the FFGeek Patreon site ( 1,600 + PAYING SUBSCRIBERS!) (No adverts!)
£4.00 plus Vat per month (plus tier below articles)
*team reveals from 7 FFGeek Contributors Rob, Rick, Pete, Andrew, Javier, Andy and Joe. Live Transfer alerts and final team lineups. 24 top 30k Overall Ranks
£3.00 plus Vat per month
3 other teams with weekly live notified transfers and final lineup
The Contributor Vote team – Last 3 ORs 10k, 151k, 91k
*The FFGeek team including live transfers will this season be on the Patreon site. 6 of last 10 seasons top 66k. Also 3 top 10ks
The Transfer Planner Team – 3 top 55k ORs last 5 seasons
*9 other expert FFGeek Contributors teams to follow.
*access to Joseph Crilleys Transfer Planner and points projection tool
* In depth Gameweek analysis articles
* Player ranking articles to help you choose the best transfer for your team
*Captain Poll
*Following 20 top managers – last 3 seasons top 10k OR
*Fixture ticker
Slack Channel access for FPL Chat with all subscribers
Fantasy Sports
All Tiers – No Commitment beyond 1 month although 25% discounted annual membership available
International Sports Competitions
https://www.patreon.com/fantasyfootballgeek
Auto join the FFGeek League:
https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/4dk5x3
If you haven’t joined the FFGeek Slack Channel here’s the link
https://join.slack.com/t/fantasyfootballgeek/shared_invite/zt-329fhcq42-GhD324yFCZfNVG_xnRSzoQ
Follow us on Social Media and join the FFGeek League
Follow FFGeek on twitter and Blue Sky for article updates and new
