Bench Boost in Gameweek 1, Hit for Free on Gameweek 2?

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Here, the FPL Sam family floats the idea of using bench boost and free hit in two opening gameweks.

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So, the FPL tower has given us all additional chips. Brilliant.

As soon as I heard that there would be two bench boost chips, I knew I wanted to play the first on Gameweek 1.

But when you build a team that is suitable for the encouragement of Gameweek 1 Bench, it doesn’t look good for Gameweek 2.

However, in Gameweek 3, this looks good again (thank you to PlanfPL for brilliant future planning tools!) So this makes me a dilemma. At first, I saw three options that allowed:

• Use chips and sacrifice Gameweek 2
• Use the chip and take the hit on Gameweek 2
• Don’t use a bench boost at all

But then, the fourth option emerged:

• Play Bench Boost on Gameweek 1 and then Hit Free on Gameweek 2

For me, at this time it seems like a perfect game.

Gameweek 1 Bench Boost: Pro and Cons