FPL glossary

Free Hit

Free Hit is a Fantasy Premier League chip that gives you unlimited transfers for one gameweek at no points cost, and then returns your squad to exactly what it was before at the next deadline. It buys you a one week team, not a permanent one.

What it is for

The classic use is a blank gameweek, where too few of your players have a fixture to field a legal eleven worth watching. Free Hit lets you build a full team of players who do play, take the points, and hand the borrowed squad back. The second common use is a heavy double gameweek, loading up on clubs that play twice.

Free Hit and Wildcard are the two unlimited transfer chips, but they are opposites: a Wildcard changes your squad permanently, a Free Hit changes it for one gameweek and then undoes itself.

What it leaves behind

Nothing. Price rises and falls during the Free Hit gameweek do not stick to the borrowed players, your team value returns with the squad, and any free transfer you had saved is still there afterwards. That makes it the lowest consequence chip in the game and, for the same reason, the easiest one to waste on an ordinary week.

Example

Six of your players blank in a cup weekend. You play the Free Hit, field eleven players with fixtures, score 58 points instead of an estimated 30, and get your original squad back for the following gameweek.

From the archive

Managers played the Free Hit 2,305,985 times over the 2025/26 season. Figures as of 24 May 2026.

Updated: Season: 2025/26

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Source: the gameweek histories of over 2.2 million managers in FPL Butler's 2025/26 season archive. The sample leans towards active managers, so the rates sit slightly above the global average.

Method

Behaviour is computed from each manager's official FPL gameweek history (transfers, points hits, bench points, chips and team value). Picks data is never used. Figures cover managers whose gameweek history runs from the opening gameweek to the final gameweek of the season, so managers who joined after the season started, and managers who stopped early, are excluded. Transfer counts include moves made on wildcard and free hit gameweeks, which cost no points. A hit means a gameweek with a positive transfer cost. Team value is the squad value including bank at gameweek 38, in millions. Percentiles use the nearest-rank method and medians the classic midpoint method. Managers with missing or corrupt data are excluded. The sample skews toward managers in active mini-leagues.

Managers who played the whole 2025/26 season in FPL Butler's season archive, meaning their gameweek history runs from the opening gameweek to the final one, so managers who joined late or stopped early are excluded. Managers enter the archive because they play in crawled mini-leagues or national country leagues. The crawler prioritises leagues that look active, so this sample is more engaged than the full global player base and behaviour rates should be read with that skew in mind.

Derived from publicly available Fantasy Premier League data. FPL Butler is not affiliated with the Premier League or Fantasy Premier League. The figures may be reused with attribution to FPL Butler.

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