The Community Round Up

With the launch of the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game now imminent, the community has been busy predicting prices and guessing which players will propel them to mini-league glory next season. Our hot topic posters also talk tactics, real life football skills and team names, while our Members have been busy delving into the underlying statistics of last year’s best midfielders and forwards. Finally, we issue a call for those organising mini-leagues next season to contact us and find out who finished Euro 2016 on top.

The Hottest Topics

On Thursday Hazardous Conte broke the news that the Fantasy Premier League game launch is just days away and is set to launch on the week beginning Monday July 18.

Predicting who will be 2016/17’s top performers has been a popular pastime while the community awaits. Spineless Weasel got the crystal ball gazing started with a look at the players who should excel, while we also listed at those we have high hopes for and those moving Premier League teams who could be set for an upturn in fortunes.

United fan wondered just how successfully this year’s batch of newcomers, such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, will settle. Pompeyfan has high hopes for Spurs new recruit Vincent Janssen, while Trigg urges investment in newly promoted Middlesbrough’s defensive assets.

Finding next season’s successful premium defenders, who offer points returns at both ends of the pitch, emerged as a key task for Niel and Lateriser12 looked at which of Manchester’s two new managers, Jose Mourinho or Pep Guidiola are set for bragging rights at the end of next season.

The search for next season’s best goalkeepers was a top issue for Tadic is the new Eriksen to consider, while we also took a look at West Ham and Crystal Palace’s chances of success, after their markedly different 2015/16 campaign.

Meanwhile, FPL Price prediction also dominated discussion as Andy85wsm canvassed your views on the cost of midfielders and forwards.

Pre-season form can be a good indicator of potential success, but as Disable’s hot topic points out caution is needed in placing too much emphasis on these friendlies.

FPL  strategies also came under the microscope, with Jim Jam assessing the merits of opting for a triple defensive rotation policy that makes best use of budget friendly players. Meanwhile, weaknesses in Fantasy management and how to correct them were AK’s key consideration as he prepares for the new campaign.

Getting the right strategy in place for double Gameweeks is also crucial to FPL success. Jarvish has already started looking ahead to next season’s potential blanks and doubles.

Elsewhere, Sutt456 ran the rule over the player list for the Daily Telegraph Fantasy game, which launched this week, while Lateriser12 asked where our community’s real life football talents lie.

Finally, no Fantasy Football preparation is complete without a good team name. Dr Kenneth Noisewater took time to find out what some of the community’s best and most well crafted team names will be next season.

The Members Tables

Winwoodfc has been looking at the per minute statistics of midfielders last season, meanwhile Bowstring92, has contructed a pair of tables looking at 2015/16’s best midfielders and forwards.

If you’re a member and are yet to get to grips with the custom statistics tables, you can view this movie for an explanation of how they work. Also, remember to tag them so that people can find the tables with ease.

The Community Tournaments

We were delighted to find out that one of our community, DucksFly2gether, won the official Uefa game for Euro 2016. We also caught up with the others who did well in this competition, including Milanista, who claimed top spot in our league, while Andy85wsm emerged as champion of the FFScout moderators and contributors league.

Looking ahead to the FPL launch Az has already started looking for recruits to join his cash leagues.

If you are running a community tournament and would like the latest scores included in future Community Round Ups please email me a brief summary of the current leaders and a link to your league, spread sheet or head to head competition, at jonty@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk.