FPL talking point: How to navigate a double gameweek

FPL Gianni: This is the only big double gameweek of the season so using a chip feels absolutely necessary to maximise on the six teams doubling. About 500,000 Wildcards were activated in gameweek 32 so managers could set up for a Bench Boost this week with up to 15 players playing twice.

The Wildcard and the Free Hit are also attractive options and in an ideal world one of these chips (the only two that reset your team completely) need to be used in gameweek 33 or 34 because you cannot have a good team in both without one.

A reminder too that the teams which double in gameweek 33, blank in gameweek 34, so a reset is needed.

Those with the Triple Captain chip available will get another opportunity to use it in a double gameweek with Erling Haaland likely to double again in gameweek 36.

Statman Dave: Last week I said my advice would be, if you have your Wildcard, Wildcard in gameweek 32, to pick 15 players that double in 33 and Bench Boost in 33 if you have that chip.

Alistair Bruce-Ball: I can’t really Bench Boost, I didn’t use my Wildcard last week, so I think I’m going to free hit. But I take Dave’s point is with the free hit, you’ve got 11 players starting. With the bench boost, you’ve got 15 players starting.

I’ll have my Bench Boost later in the season, possibly in that double gameweek 36 with Man City and Palace doubling.