FPL Gamemonth October: Free Hit

As you can see from the title I'm going with the free hit for Gamemonth October. However, before that we'll look at the late summer fruits of Gamemonth September.

Since I hit the wildcard in GW7 it's been nonstop green arrows. I'm now up to 3.5m from around 6.5m. So it's been pretty good.

(GW7 was postponed of course)

(Gamemonth September team points

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Almiron in particular has worked wonders coming off the bench. Making my bench picks a lot more worthwhile than they were with my Gamemonth August side.

GW12: The Free Hit

The free hit has chosen itself really. The few injuries aside my team has been ticking along pretty nicely, and I'm fairly hopeful that it'll cope well enough for the rest of October. With Manchester City and Arsenal blanking in GW12 though I would've been struggling to get a team out this particular week. So it makes good sense for me to free hit now to navigate it.

The free hit was always going to be a tricky chip to use with me playing monthly. Only being allowed to make changes once a month means you want to make long term changes when you do get the opportunity. So a one-week tinker around isn't ideal when you have systemic issues with your team.

With my team looking fairly solid though this feels like the perfect opportunity to maximise the chip. It allows me to keep my City and Arsenal players long term, whilst also allowing me to get an optimal side out for the one week I would've had problems.

Hopefully it works out well and I get a little rank boost from it.

(Gamemonth October Wildcard)

As I sit typing we're just waiting for the Tuesday night fixtures to start [the above image shows points as I had to wait for the game to update to grab a screenshot 😠]. They're not glamourous ties - Brighton vs Nottingham Forest and Palace vs Wolves. I've bet big on Wolves and Forest not scoring though, so the success of my free hit will in large part be decided tonight. So we have some minor excitement.

I then need my big hitters to come in tomorrow to finish the job.

November should be a fairly comfortable month to deal with, as there are only two gameweeks. So I just need my guys to get me through the rest of October once this week is done.

Overall Points: 568

Overall Rank: 3,451,708