{"id":538384,"date":"2026-04-18T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538384\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:02:08","slug":"whats-the-most-popular-fpl-chip-used-in-double-gameweek-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538384\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the most-popular FPL chip used in Double Gameweek 33?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2.3million chips have been played in Double Gameweek 33 of <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.premierleague.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy Premier League<\/a> &#8211; the most this season and the second-highest total ever.<\/p>\n<p>Bench Boost is the most popular chip as over 823,000 managers look to take advantage of the biggest Double Gameweek of the season, with six teams playing twice.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the FA Cup semi-finals taking place next weekend, three Premier League fixtures have been moved forward into midweek, creating a bumper round of matches for Fantasy managers.<\/p>\n<p>The Triple Captain and Free Hit chips have also been played in large numbers, with managers taking different approaches for their teams.<\/p>\n<p>Chips played in Double Gameweek 33<\/p>\n<p>Chip<br \/>\nPercentage<br \/>\nPlayed by<\/p>\n<p>Bench Boost<br \/>\n35%<br \/>\n823,047<\/p>\n<p>Triple Captain<br \/>\n29%<br \/>\n693,021<\/p>\n<p>Free Hit<br \/>\n27%<br \/>\n644,259<\/p>\n<p>Wildcard<br \/>\n9%<br \/>\n219,253<\/p>\n<p>Added together, it&#8217;s the second-most chips used EVER in a Gameweek.<\/p>\n<p>Only in Double Gameweek 24 of last season &#8211; the round when the Assistant Manager chip became available &#8211; have more chips been played.<\/p>\n<p>Most chips used in a Gameweek<\/p>\n<p>Gameweek<br \/>\nChips played<br \/>\nMost-popular chip<\/p>\n<p>DGW24 2024\/25<br \/>\n2,681,859<br \/>\nAssistant Manager<\/p>\n<p>DGW33 2025\/26<br \/>\n2,379,580<br \/>\nBench Boost<\/p>\n<p>DGW37 2023\/24<br \/>\n2,378,983<br \/>\nBench Boost<\/p>\n<p>DGW25 2023\/24<br \/>\n2,346,468<br \/>\nTriple Captain<\/p>\n<p>DGW26 2021\/22<br \/>\n1,987,667<br \/>\nTriple Captain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 2.3million chips have been played in Double Gameweek 33 of Fantasy Premier League &#8211; the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-538384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}