Explainer | Fantasy Premier League chips: when to play wildcard, triple captain, free hit and bench boost
- Fantasy Premier League chips can make or break your season, so knowing the basics will help you to make the most of them
- Bench Boost, Wild Card, Triple Captain and Free Hit give a chance for extra points
One thing that Fantasy Premier League managers have over their real-life equivalents in the English Premier League is the ability to multiply their points.
That is done through the chips that the game offers to its virtual bosses: wild card, triple captain, bench boost and free hit.
So what are they, how do they work and when is the best time to play them to give yourself the maximum chance of a maximum increase on your points?
Read on for our guide on how to play your chips. They could prove the difference between winning your office mini-league or finishing below one of your colleagues, who used auto-pick and never so much as glimpsed at their team again for the rest of the season.
Before we get on to the chips, you need to know about double and blank gameweeks.