When to play FPL chips
Play Triple Captain and Bench Boost when minutes are secure, usually in a double. Play Free Hit to cover a blank without wrecking next week. Play Wildcard when the 15 is structurally wrong for a block of fixtures. The 2025/26 reconstructive path played none of them, including in the Gameweek 34 blank.
A complete policy includes chips
Transfer, lineup and captaincy totals without chips are not a full FPL season. The 2025/26 replay is explicit about that gap. Use the chip hubs for the rules of thumb, and Gameweek 34 as the case where hits were taken instead.
Which chip is most often wasted?
Free Hit on a mild upgrade, and Bench Boost on a bench that will not start. The 2025/26 lab path wasted them in a different way: it never fired them at all.