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S2 Ep23: Off The Bench: Free Hit fails

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 β€’ 749 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A record-breaking Gameweek saw the most Free Hits ever played, but it turned out to be a weekend to forget for managers πŸ˜±πŸ“‰

FPL experts Az Phillips and FPL Focal, aka Oscar, discuss the popular picks blanking, the lowest average points of all-time, and how it impacts decisions moving forward

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* Future Free Hits (04m 55s)
* Toney v Solanke (08m 50s)
* Magical Muniz (13m 09s)
* Watkins dilemma (20m 18s)
* Goodbye West Ham (26m 40s)
* Targetting Luton and Sheff Utd (33m 35s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to this week's off the bench podcast from the Premier League.

0:18.1

I'm As from FField Black Box.

0:19.5

And I'm Oscar, FPL focal.

0:21.1

Oscar Game Week 29 is done.

0:23.4

What a week.

0:24.5

A record number of free hits played with over 1.7 million FPL managers playing the chip.

0:30.1

All of the top 10 most transferred in players blanked.

0:32.9

And it was the lowest scoring game week average of the season, maybe even ever.

0:37.8

How was it for you? How did you get on?

0:39.9

As I don't know where to start.

0:42.4

For me, it's always exciting, you know, when the deadline passes and you've got a chip

0:45.7

active, and then as you say, it was the most free hits ever in a game week.

0:49.6

But yeah, we didn't have much to show for it, did we? I activated mine and I ended up with 19 points,

0:55.2

which I think is the worst score I've ever got, but yet it was a green arrow. And I've

1:00.5

honestly never seen anything like it, you know, blanks from Sun, Madison, Tony, Bowen,

1:05.3

Watkins and so on. How did you get on? 24 points, which feels like massive.

1:12.5

I know, absolutely huge.

1:16.0

Not my lowest score of the season, because obviously I had that 11 point game week back a few months ago.

1:18.3

It was one of those weeks there, wasn't it, where kind of everyone's in the same boat.

1:21.6

I mean, I just said, you know, the top 10 most transferred in players blanked.

1:26.2

There are very, very few good scores. There were some players

1:29.0

that came in. We're going to talk a bit about Wood and Gibbs White and obviously Moon is as well.

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