Scout Notes – Gameweek 38 – Tuesday

Smooth: Smalling own goal lifted me from 4th to 3rd OR. 🙂

Smooth : second best finish of my FPL career with 11,184, after a disastrous start of the season, to say the least (2,651,277 after GW3)

Rough : my poor, poor captain choices all season long

Rough: Last gameweek, one of my worst all told. Antonio out for Tadic and that goddamn Smalling OG.

Smooth: Destroying my ML and gaining bragging rights for a year (This is why we play the game after all)

Smooth

Finished in the top 10K for the sixth season in a row after being at the 400K mark around Christmas. My final rank of 5162 was my highest of the season. Timing!

Won my two cash mini leagues, including one where I was 150 pts behind the leader at Christmas.

Finished just outside the top 500 in Sky and top of the Sky FFSCOUT Mods and contribs league

Finished just outside the top 1000 in my first ESPN season. This is a game I particularly liked and will go back to again.

Rough

I failed to gain my fifth top 5K finish in a row by one point. Chris Smalling is to blame naturally.

UFPL - failed to win any cash prizes after switching to the monthly focus. Next year one of those £1,000 prizes will be mine.

Rough. Then more rough ... 😆

The most I can claim is ten green arrows, all in a row, at the end. 🙂

Rough: worst finish in 4 years at 75k.

Brought in Smalling and Tadic as part of a -8 in GW38 🙂
BB got me 11 points (most were Darlow)
TC got me 3 points (Carroll DGW)
AoA lost me a point.

I need a sweep-under-the-rug chip.

I was aiming for top 50k as my previous best finish was just just over 90k... ended up at 8,492 so really happy with that! Owe a lot of it to the FFS community and Member's Area - this was my first season here.

BUT I could have easily finished below 5,000 if I'd played the final two GWs a bit differently.

Snuck my cash mini league title by 4 points thanks to de geas 2 points and martial only getting 5. Clawed back a 60 point deficit going into gwk 37 (despite taking a 12 point hit) thanks to Kone pva hazard Defoe Antonio and deeney.

I think it shows big hits can be fruitful in double game weeks as the leader only had 4 double players opposed to my 10.

Thanks again to everyone on this site!

Smooth. Winning the ffs doubles tournament

Rough. Losing out in the semi of the frequent posters cup and a last day defeat in LAWR meaning I finished 5th level on points with 4th but missing out on promotion due to overall points scored.

Rough: dropped out of the top 10k because of Smalling's OG, missing out by 230 places
Smooth: transferred in Giroud + Mane for free

Smooth: did Sturridge and Coutinho to Giroud(c) and Jeremain Lens for a gain of 47(-4).

Helped me to 72(-4) for the week and halved ranked from 16k to 8k, an unexpected comeback after being at 555k following GW25.

First full season finishing around 12K.

Learnt a lot and hoping for top 10k next season!

Smooth: got 8 places better OR than last year. 😀

Rough: lost one of my leagues by 6 points --> I was second. But on the other hand, won 3rd by 7 points. Small margins.

TC'ing Sanchez GW34 won the mini league for me

Rough: My chances of making the top 1k were derailed by a poor GW33 Wildcard which included Lukaku, Lennon, Coutinho, Gabriel and Mitrovic. I was one point off the top 1k after the DGW but started slipping away slowly but surely and it was too much to recover. I was on the verge of beating my previous best OR rank of 1549th (2012/13) but Mike Smalling came along and ruined that. He very nearly cost me €130 in a cash ML too.

Smooth: I finished 1613th which was great considering I was 1,982,663rd after GW4. I won four cash mini-leagues which came up to about €330. My opponent drew his final game in my H2H ML and I won the league by two points as a result.

Overall I can't complain, though I really badly want to finish into top 1k after coming so close in the past.

Very Rough. Finished 39k OR after getting #38 last year, and finally lost both of my main MLs that I won for 4 straight years before this one.

Have only myself to blame, Lukaku (c), Carroll (c), no Toby, Mahrez bench and many more bad calls. Hope I get back to where I belong next year.

Rough- Carroll TC, 2x 16 point hits & 2x 12 point hits.

Removing Kane, alli and Toby on wildcard for that infamous Stoke away game in gwk 34.

Smooth- winning my cash ML.
Rising from rank 2.5 mil in gwk 3 to finish at 11,321.
That Kone and pva points haul last week!

Smooth - Winning the FIFFSA World Cup with Zambia & the Golden Boot! And finishing with 3rd consecutive top 5K OR.

Rough - Losing my main ML H2H in the final game, Dropped from 297OR last year to 3.9kOR, and never owning Alli this season.

Highest ever OR of 949 - guaranteed by Smalling depriving those holding Man Utd defensive assets of a clean sheet, and bringing in Mane instead of Tadic.

Won my main ML for 5 yr or 6th yr in a row. Country winner for Zambia, and captain of the victorious Team Zambia in the FIFFSA competition organised by the excellent Balders et al. All this despite my VCs outscoring my Cs during the season! Relied on plenty of luck and insight from the FFS community - not necessarily in that order.... thanks to all.

Also final season as I now hang up my boots - full (ie. long and dull) explanation of my retirement at:
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2016/05/14/spot-the-differential-gameweek-38-4/?hc_page=4#hc_comment_13355428

Farewell. And I may log on in a year's time to report back on retirement...

Average season all in all.

Smooth - Ended with 69k OR having been around 700k OR only 10 weeks ago. Was 110 points behind ML rival before GW29 and ended up winning by around 60 points to claim a cash prize of £200, TC Sanchez in GW34 was a big success. 13/15 Green arrows in the final 15 weeks was rather pleasant.

Rough - Poor decisions between GW9-GW15 saw my rank drop from 80k OR to 1.3M OR, took too many risks and never owned Ighalo, often made the wrong captain choice when there wasnt an obvious choice but learn my lessons for next year.

Just rough and rougher.

My two highest FPL overall scores have also provided me with my two lowest ranks.

Go figure. 😡

That Smalling goal cost me the title in our H2H minileague. I needed 7 pts from Smalling + DDG.

And by cost I mean losing out on the price of £200 as winner takes it all.

Pretty damn insane that the last touch of PL 2016 decided it all.

Rough:
Played Bench Booster: Defoe, PvA, Rose didn't start.
Took -8 to do Sturridge + Payet + Carroll --> Aguero + KDB + Long
Smalling scored an Own Goal.

4 red arrows on the bounce to finish, but my yuuuuge green in gw34 placates my disappointing end.

Smoothest moment was still gw8 with Sanchez, KdB, Pelle and Aguero (c) putting up nearly 100 points between them, roughs include Lukaku TC, buying Sturridge in November only for him to get injured again within half an hour and definitely that Smalling OG!

Thanks a lot for the mention Jonty!

Rough- FPLwise a poor end to a good season, started at 13k, ended at 15; thanks to Sanchez(C) fail & Smalling CS fail, so, missed out on 10k

Smooth- Starting with FPL- won my MLs, finished at 15k, one H2H win too, & oddly smalling being a rough FPLwise became a smooth in the scouts pick community champions, as GW 38 champion had double united in defence, & would've ran me close in the overalls
a nice cash prize in my first proper season at FFScout, really Pleased with the season, specially with my birthday couple of days away!

Jonty- How does it work with the voucher thing? looking forward to getting some formals through the voucher for a function in a couple of weeks.
Thanks a lot!
Cheers

Smooth. Got Payet and Sturridge out for hits on Saturday. Got in Mane and Giroud and slapped the armband on the latter to really milk his hat trick. These 2 moves got me 47 points to set me up nicely.
Rough. Smalling cost me 10 points and a top 5k finish, which was this seasons aim.

Won my mini-league by a clear 15 points, which is the silver lining in an otherwise poor season, finished with an OR around 490,000, my worst finish yet. Learnt a lot, be back for more punishment next season.

Figured out with anewpla that if I didn't take hits, I'd be in the top 10K. Gonna have a think on that over the summer.

Just missed a charge for a top 4 - Champions League - spot in the draft league I run because Big Sam benched PVA and Defoe in the last match of the season.

Ah yeah... and I"m stuck with this grav for a bit over the summer over a wager with Lateriser12 that I'd wear my Giroud grav if he scored in 38 despite my thought that he wasn't worth getting...

S'alright though, Giroud captaincy helped Lateriser12 finished 77th in the world and #1 in India (nicked Saniul in the final week)

Ha ha...

Normally,
HeelsOverHead

Rough - 3 big mistakes during the season, all of which were my fault
Meh - 3.6k finish, not a disaster but unsatisfactory
Good - 2nd in my cash ML and made some decent cash

Captain rough:
I might hold inglorious record of capitancy fails, 11 in the row, in GWs 15-25 I've never got more than 6 pts from my captain picks. I gave it to obvious guys, I gave it to punts and all failed. I dropped from 1st in my cash ML to 4th-5th, never really recover from this.

More rough just for GW 38: sold Wijnaldum after holding him since GW28, got one clean sheet and exactly 0 goals and assists for my whole squad 🙁

Finishing 16th OR, 3rd in LMS. Can't complain. 🙂

Was 23 points behind in mini league. Did a last gameweek shoot the moon move - removed Alexis and Defoe for Tadic and Gru (c). Finished 3400ish after finishing 110k in my first season last year.

Smooth - Winning the Community Grand Play-Offs and finishing with my highest ever OR of 412 🙂

Smooth is that I had my highest OR ever of 5,369.

Rough is that I dropped from 2k due to a few non performers in the last couple weeks... A top 5k finish would have been awesome.

Either way, thank you to the whole community for all the support this season! Couldn't have done it / enjoyed it without FFS.

Bring on next year!

14-15 I did pretty well but finished runner up in my cash mini league on the last day (to the Walcott hat-trick grrr) and also lost the cup final in GW38.

15-16 I had the worst season I have had in my long FPL career and yet won the cup. So my cash winnings were higher this season than the previous.

It's a funny old game...

Smooth. (Dugout ffs division 5).
Were 2 points behind nr1 and we met the last day.
With only the Utd-Bou to go I had the lead 59-47.
I had none left, he had Tony V and Mata.
After Smalling demolished the Tony's CS with the last kick of the game I clinched the win 59-57 and thus winning the division with 1 point.

Rough. Most of fpl season.
Were doing terrible so in gw26 (OR 750k), against advice on here I used my WC and thought now I'm just gonna have fun.
Thus having to navigate the dgw's with hits, lots of hits.
Since WC in gw26 64 points paid with hits, of which 56 points came between gw33-37.
Still managed 11 green and just 2 red since WC.
That Smalling goal shot the gw26 dream of at least making it into top 100k.

Proud to have spotted Mahrez though, had him and only him the whole season. Never captained him though but I think I only benched him 4 times, one of which became a double digit haul.
Also had him the whole season in dugout.
I also have a private local game that's been done since the late 80's, in which I also had him all season.

In fpl steady at 40k rough
Smooth-in fantrax knocks and niggles i had disaster of a draft but took a punt on triple leic defence in december which gained me promotion to play against the fantrax might that is milanasta

Big thank you to all the regulars and quality advice on this site this season! OR finished just over 2000. Will keep my promise and buy full FFS membership for 2016-17 season. It's really the best product on the market hands down. Cheers fellas!

Smooth - achieving my highest rank of 2729 and winning my cash league (~£500) and sneaking 3rd in AZs FFS cash league.

Rough - Being ranked 93rd during the season and letting it slip. Especially a poor final few weeks to miss the top 1k.

Also, pretty sure i haven't owned Vardy for a single goal this season...

I am satisfied with my season, it was my best season ever. I finished in the TOP 10K, even after GW2 I was ranked over 2,500,000 😮 My worst moment in the season was GW15, I benched Mahrez and Huth, sold Wijnaldum for a hit and that all cost me 51 points 🙁 It was a very expensive error, but I'm proud I bounced back from that.

Thank you all for your articles and comments, that helps a lot during the season, specially when you are not a member like me 🙂

Rough: Was a mess early season after watching no football and not playing fpl last year. 1.8 million rank in gw 17.

Smooth: Found my mojo and killed it to end season at 77. And top India.

Still got it.

Finished with a rank of 1,424. 🙂

Rough; Smalling OG costing me 6 points...

Smooth; Having done Milner>Tadic, on hearing the Payet news I took an emergency hit to do Payet>Mane. The net 9 points gained here won me my mini-league by 9 points! Would have tied otherwise as we both had Smalling losing his points too... 🙂

Overall rank my worst ever at 280k. Dropped in Sky too from 650th and 352nd in last two seasons down to 4k.

Just glad to finish in the top 10% having been at 1.5m in GW28 and overhauling a 180 point deficit in my league...

Smooth:taking a 8pt hit to bring in Mane and Martial and winning a mini league by 2pts.
Rough:triple captain Carroll wk37 when all around me tripled Payet.
Slightly disappointed with an overall rank of 2653 after being at a rank of 1240 after wk34.

Smooth: took a -4 to bring in Giroud & Mane for Firmino & Kane for GW38, netted me 25 odd points. Smallings OG also vaulted me up one place in my cash mini league, which was sweet. Raked in €1000 odd across my two cash mini leagues for the season. Finished season in top 15k, highest rank of the season.

Rough: Played it safe and gave Sanchez the armband over Giroud for GW38 to protect my lead in one of my cash mini leagues. Won the other league but cost me 2nd in the other one.

Overall, happy as larry

Was similar to most in that I had a bad first half of the season. Had 8 successive green arrows until the GW33 WC where I undid all my good work. Ended up with a worse rank at GW38 then 33 which should not have happened, considering I also had all three chips.

Particularly rough: Was leading my main ML pre-Smalling OG, lost in by 2 points after the goal.

Learn from mistakes and upwards from here

Smooth: Ended the season in style with Giroudc)My highest ever finish in my 8 season FPL career with an OR of 1745 and winning both my major ML's.

Rough: Took a massive 72 points in hits and missed out on top 1k.

Rough: took an 8pt hit to bring in Aguero, KDB and Tadic.

Was leading mini league by 18pts (after hits) going into the GW. Had a 5pt lead going into last night's game. Looked to be winning it by a point heading into injury time. Needless to say I owned Smalling, my rival did not.

Sold Rooney for Rondon (for -4, did Payet to Mane also) and it didn't go well. Also if United kept CS I would be in top 3k but I finished on 3300.

Lost my mini league by 1 point thanks to Smalling's Own goal in the final minute of the season

In good news I got my highest ever rank of 9k which im very proud about!

Definitely a rough season...

- Worst overall rank since started playing the game in 06/07 with place of 132,000
- Missed out on winning 2 mini leagues by 3 points and 11 points

Season high - Triple captaining Sanchez GW34.

Smooth: Played a couple of blinders getting on Alli & Kane before a lot of people

Rough: 114k rank after I'd finished 512OR last season. Finished behind my (very smug) colleague at work......It's going to be a long summer.

Reasons: Benched Mahrez too many times. Didn't own Ozil all season. Stuck with Ramsey too long. Poor use of Wildcards.

Next season will be better! 🙂

Smooth - Brought in Mané (C) and Giroud to overturn a 41 point gap and win my minileague. 😀

Wasn't until my autosubs came in after 380 games that I went into 1st for the first time this season.

Took over 200 hit points and finished in 71,346 - the season was dreadful from the start even though I had Mahrez since GW1. To make things worse I got kicked out of a ML I was in because according to them using this site is unfair and cheating, I was third in that league throughout the whole season and then in the last 3 GW's I managed to get 1st and in the last GW I got kicked. To be honest that Manchester United game was funny even as a De Gea and Smalling owner, the way the goal went in made me chuckle.

Smoothest of them all. 😎

GW Points : 108 (-4)
GW Rank : 44

Jumped from OR of 82,517 to 23,377 in the final day.

This all possible with help of smoothest guy in EPL history - Olivier Giroud. Triple captain him on the last day and it worked out well.

Went for Sadio Mane instead of Dusan Tadic.

Both of them coming for a -4 hit (Dimitri Payet + Jermain Defoe for Sadio Mane + Olivier Giroud). Oh, boy, didn't it paid off brilliantly. Other than that was Cesc Fabregas and Antonio Valencia who helped me boosting my rank.

Overall, successfully completed 2 out of 3 of my season's aim.
Success :
1. Won my ML 3 times in the row (No cash prize just for bragging rights).
2. Beat my personal best OR 42,561 (I know, I know)

Failure :
1. Beat my personal best total points 2,336.

Other game - Fantrax.
One of the best draft league out there, managed to become champions and end the season with respectable points of 1919 with my team contains of De Gea, Forster; Cresswell, Clichy, Sagna, Valencia, Toure; Hazard, Antonio, Ayew, Lennon, Iwobi; Aguero, Rondon, Benteke.

Also, *shameless plug* we are looking for another manager to join us for next season, currently all of the participant are poster from this site - Torres Love (owner), champynwa (last season champion), BillyGilmore, Mr Blonde, 32chickens, Gloria Kanchelskis, PunditofPunts, Fuweidavid, Zasa, Blue Lion and Balders.

Despite getting my second highest overall rank (just inside top 1.5k), the end of the season was definitely rough for me.

My main mini-league is my work one and I went into GW37 1 point behind the top spot. I went risky, took a 12 point hit which involved getting Carroll and Cresswell and benching Sanchez. I slapped the TC on Carroll while my rival went for Payet. By the end of GW37 I was 41 points behind.

With all hope lost I punted on Mane captain in GW38 and brought in Giroud for Sturridge. A 74 point score put me 3 points ahead after autosubs, but my rival still had Martial to play...I spent the next two days absolutely bricking it and thanks to that assist ended up losing by 2 points to the same bloke who beat me by 3 points last year...if only Carroll hadn't got that yellow against Utd :(. But I guess it's very slight progress - give it another 3 seasons and I should win by a point!

Wildcard in GW 33 66 pts GW 34 Bench Boost 156 pts
GW 35 26 pts GW 36 33 pts GW 37 Triple Captain 117 pts
GW 38 34 pts. Poor GW 35,36,38, due to mass rotation along with poor captain choices cost me in the end. Final Rank 22,315
Season before is still my best 15,018.