The ScoutCast – Episode 226 – Beached

179 and incredibly now top of my cash mini league with a healthy lead thanks to all rivals messing up. 🙂

No Kane. Rough.

Smooth - 157 points not terrible..

Rough - Gabbi, Costa, Hazard, Holgate, no Kane

Same here. 188. top 5k. 2nd season playing FPL. Winning both cash mini leagues by a nice margin.

185 pts, Still lost my H2H. Now leader has 1 win more. So not entirely happy.

188pts

Sanchez (c), Kane, Jesus exploding

28pts from 4 sgw players

30pt lead in ML on rival going into gw38

No pressing transfers to make

BB got me 25pts

Didn't captain Kane but owned him.
Massive hauls, massive OR rise.

Disappointing from Hazard and Gabbiadini.

smooth: Huth>Davies ft 2 minutes before deadline, 188 points and went from 65k to 24k.
rough: nothing really

Kane(c).
Smooth- 400k places jump, Sane, Yoshi, Nyom points for the first time in a lifetime.
Rough- Claude puel and his tinkering.

194 pts with Jesus (c).

All gone according to plan until bloody Gabbiadini announced himself as a proper flash in the pan.

181 points but so many near misses on points - Holgate, Koscielny, Caba, Vertonghen and Eriksen all could have had more

+ Did Kos, Alli > Yoshida, KDB -4. Solid profit!
+ Alexis (C), Kane, Jesus, KDB, 2xSOT def, King

- Failed BB. 7 points only (Pickford, Anichebe, Maguire, Holding)

Picked the wrong differential captain (KDB) 🙁

29 points behind in ML. Is it impossible...?

Smooth: Valencia (0pts) Robertson (-1) Koscielny (2pts) ➡ Alonso(8pts) Mustafi (7pts) Yoshida (8pts) -8
Bench Boost played, Capt Jesus 176pts -8 13k ➡ 8.6k

Rough: DDG 2pts Anichebe 1pt

Epic DGW

146 points after going Costa over Kane. It hurts.

Rough - Peter Crouch and his Hand of God (against my double Gunners defense)
Smooth - 4K GW rank and top 1500 in my first FPL season from GW1 (not even gonna try to hide that brag)

182 points and 18k GW rank. Moved from 460k to 134k in two game weeks!

Smooth; 24 BB points thanks to double Saints defence, Sanchez(c), Kane, King, Capoue, Jesus, Holding, Toby, Alonso, Willy and Alli all returning 5 minimum. Avoided the Rashford/Gabbi trap too making a late switch to Jesus/Anichebe, benching Victor and starting Capoue in a 3-5-2.

Rough; Anichebe not even giving me 4 BB points! 🙂

Reeled my ML leader in from 150 ahead to 25 now. Let's see what he's made of..!?

Smooth - finished 51 points clear gijg

Smooth....Sanchez (c), Jesus, nice DF etc

Rough...keeping Rashford & DDG...no Kane

154 pts BB all out

Smooth - 192 points
Rough - Captained Sanchez after saying Kane was clearly the best choice 😎

Rough; Holgate, Anichebe getting 1 point & Cedric, Eriksen, Alonso, Pedro getting reduced minutes, Hazard getting 2 blanks. 16 points in hits.

Smooth: San(c)hez, Kane, Jesus. 172 points (-16) and down to 58k OR from 88k.

Smooth,

smooth - 189 points,sanchez (c) ,kane ,jesus,BB brings 23 points
rough - last minute changes gave me extra cash to buy verto over davies

Gabbiadonkey zero points and Holegate 1 point the only damenper on a fantastic week. 174 points and topping all now topping all of my cash MLs. A drunken Chambers to Holding transfer won me my key H2H tie. Fell back in love with FPL this GW.

203 pts, and GW rank 722; my best ever in 8 years of playing this game. Now with an outside chance of getting inside the top 10k, which seemed almost impossible two weeks ago.

Roughs: Selling Coutinho, Gabbi's return of a big fat zero.
Smooth: Everything else I guess but especially Sanchez (c) and going with Azpilicueta over Alonso.

Having played my WC back in GW28, I had to take a few hits from GW35 onwards (28 points-worth in total). But the net return on those hits was 62 points. Ridiculous. Pity I couldn't get anything right the previous 20-odd gameweeks 😀

172... a record for me, but biggest regret is to get Vert+ Holgate instead of Bavis+Jagielka in my wc36. I was sure Rose is gonna play 1 game at least

Rough: I had De Gea & Betrand. Most of my rivals had Stephens. Southampton United ends 0-0. Almost all of my mini leagues were very close. Now it looks like I'm going to lose them all by around 10-12 points. Very bitter pill to swallow after 10 months intensive play

164, off a bench-boosted wildcard last week. Happy with that - but still...

Rough:
- Frickin' Gabbiadini. Taking solace in knowing there was literally nobody else I would have punted on. It could have worked - score the penalty and it would be a 6-9 pointer.
- Bench Boost was 17 points; last week I benched 19. C'est la vie.
- Didn't get the captain right, considering I had Sanchez and Kane

Smooth:
- Had Sanchez, Kane, captained Jesus.
- 41 from my back 7; 123 from my front 8. Lovely.

Smooth: every attacker getting points: Sane, Son, Sanchez, Benteke, Kane, Jesus (c)

Rough: BB gaining me a total of 11 with Fuchs -1 a standout

Up from 900k to 147k since gw 29 to salvage some (almost) respectability

I don't know yet for GW38 : -)
For 37, only rough would be Gabbi... And Coutinho on my bench : -)
Smooth would be : TC Sanchez, Kane, Jesus, double Arsenal def, King, Kompany's CS
Overall happy with the chips strategy with WC35, BB36, TC37.
And inside 4k now overall.

Joyous week with 199 points. Azpi, Captain Sanchez and Kane were the obvious ones. Only disappointment was Victor Anichebe, I was expecting a hatty from the big fella.

Smooth - Sanchez (c), Ozil, Davies, Jesus for 162 (-8)

Rough - my -8 to get KDB meant dropping Kane 🙁
BB only 13 with Gabbi 0 and Anichebe 1
DDG

Bit of a nightmare; weeks and weeks of planning went into this and saved my BB chip... ended up with a red arrow dropping from 57k to 58k. Sold Harry Kane to get Costa in. Before last night's match, I was around 40k. Horrible end to the GW after so much planning. Been overtaken in a couple of cash leagues at the worst time.

Scored 145 (-12) which wasn't that bad but Spurs killed me last night.

Smooth: Sanchez (c), Jesus, KDB, Son, Kane.

Rough: Mawson > Gibbs was for a hit, and I got a grand total of 6 points from bench boost.

Rough: Everything else about my season except this week.

179 Points 10,465 overall.

Regret of GW, was going to transfer out Ward Prowse & Hazard to bring in Fabregas & Sane for -4, but didn't want to take the hit.
Let down by City Arsenal & Spurs clean sheets.
Unlucky award goes to Ward Prowse, deserved something.
Going into GW 38 with 2 free transfers, Triple captain & All out attack chip left.

Smooth - everyone other then chelsea. 188 points

Rough - Chelsea players, Alonso no show hazard and Pedro

Now confused as it doesn't seem right to take out hazard for coutinho when he plays Sunderland...

Smooth - BB paying off with fortunate goals from PVA and Capoue. 184 this week, clawing back a 26 point deficit to head to the top of the main Minileague by 10 points.

Rough - Lukaku, Hazard and lack of Eriksen last night. Could have been well over 200 🙁

Smooth, 49k rank to 12k rank, and also now top of my ML with 185. unfortunate that cahill didnt play both, but otherwise not bad at all

gw37

Smooth: Changing (C) from Jesus to Kane 5 mintues before GW deadline and finishing on 162.

Rough: Did not own Sanchez and only getting one game from DDG, Stephens, Eirksen, Gabbi (still 0), Stones. Also bottled doing Hazard > KDB

Smooth: Kane (C) while ML leader have no Kane
Rough: No Eriksen yesterday and Verthongen over Davies decision

Morning Jonty, fairly happy with my GW!

Took a -8... Koscielny, Holgate & Costa out (5 points) for Holding, Bavies & Kane (49 points). Def best hit I've ever taken 🙂

Finished on 196 points. An Eriksen no show last night prob cost me the big 200 but am not complaining!

Was 194k in GW23, am up to 7,722 now. On course for my 5th top 12.5k in last 7 seasons.

Rough: Last minute captain change from Sanchez to Hazard

Smooth: I can't get over the rough to be honest

Smooth: DGW joy: from 337k to 66k in three GW's after miserable season so far. Closed in ML gap after having given up being > 100 pts behind. Chance of nicking it at the finish line now.
Rough: Hazard disappointment ofc.

I halved my rank from 1,600 to 950 odd, yet still went down the FFS Members league!!

Not sure in the history of FFS has there been such a phenomenal week for the majority of FFSers. Good work everyone.

Smooth 197 -8, and the -8 was about ditching Hazard and earned me points.

Rough - missing out on 200 points with Holgate subbed, Stephens benched, Caballero not getting a clean sheet, Vert not getting a clean sheet ... and oh yeah ... Eriksen

Smooth - 196 points, stretched my lead to 60 points in my cash league and solidified 1st in all my mini leagues. Had Kane, KDB, Sanchez (C) and a solid 23 from the Bench boost.

Rough - Gabbi, but I cant really complain

Smooth— 190 points, just outside top 10,000 after being 400,000 post GW 24.

Rough— Anichebe and Holgate injuries.

Got 33 points from my bench, but everything else pretty much a disaster as I somehow managed a sub 100 score. Dropped to 160k OR.

Having Hazard, (C)osta and Vardy instead of Sanchez, Jesus and Kane didn't work at all!

Punts on Sterling (also had Sane) and Bertrand (also had Stephens and Yoshi) didn't pay off.

Last few months have tried a lot of differentials in terms of players and captain picks as a last throw of the dice in my ML. If they had paid off I'd have been happy, but pretty much all failed!

Always next season!

Smooth: 160 points, San(c)hez, Kane, Coutinho, 50 points clear in cash mini league
Rough: gabbiadonkey, Lukaku, hazard, thoughts of what could have been

smooth 176pts (was in despair when Saints line-up was announced Saturday after average CHelsea returns Friday.

rough: Peter Crouch handball = -8pts
Gabbiadini missed penalty = at least -6pts
Holgate early injury = -5pts
Chelsea & Saints rotation.
Man City giving away yet another useless goal. What is the chances to goals scored % for away teams at the Etihad?
Kane's 4 goals didn't actually do much for my OR

Fine margins kept me away from a 200 score.
Kane's 4 goals didn't actually do much for my OR due to ownership in top100k.

148 - 4 is OK

Smooth:
Jesus (c)
Kane

Rough:
Going with Hazard over Sanchez
Lukaku, Holgate, Tadic
Players I have sold in the last two weeks; Zaha, Davies, Hennesy

Smooth: 177 points with no chip, brought in Azpi for Blind for a hit.
Rough: Na, can't expect much more 🙂

Smooth - 183 points!

Up to 3k in world & top of all my mini leagues.

Aiming for my 4th top 2k finish.

Thought I was heading for a rough one when Anichebe went off and Stephens didn't play the first game, but moving Hazard out for De Bruyne at the last minute proved to be an excellent idea and getting rid of Alonso too early all those weeks ago led to Azpilicueta scoring me 20. Add in the Sanchez, Jesus and Kane points and I ended up with 209 - feeling pretty smooth this morning 🙂

rough: bench boost 9.
smooth: the holy trinity

Rough - Holgate, Cab, JWP&Gabbi. Switching from Bavies to Vert. Hazard...

Smooth - Sanchez, King, Kane, Jesus.

Smooth: 189 points with Sanchez captain and Kane
Rough: lost top spot in mini league to son owner and Kane captained with 208!

Smooth: 187 all out. Over 200 ahead in the main mini-league. Benched Kane....in benchboost mode.
Rough: Flogged Coutinho the week before for Haz. Went Mustafi instead of Bellerin despite hovering on it.

A real tale of two halves this DGW...

First half: Zaha, who I sold, scores against my double Hull defence. Hennessey, who I also sold, keeps a CS and Caballero, my new keeper, concedes. Triple Southampton don't play, Bench boost looks like 0-0-6-2.

Second half: KDB (c) scores and assists Jesus and just about everything else goes right!

152 all out and firmly in the top 100k - chuffed!

Everyone here must have time travelled as GW38 hasn't happened yet 😉

Smooth:

Sanchez C, Kane, Jesus bring up a century alone

Rough:

22.5 out of a possible 29 players

DDG, Alonso, Clichy, Eriksen, JWP, Holgate, Gabbiadini

206 points so smooth as can be.

GW rank of 344.

Kane, Jesus, KDB, Ozil, Sanchez, Sane, Bavies and lots of other chipping in!

Smooth: green arrow

Rough: now 2nd in my ML after leading from the start.... Switching the armband from Kane to Jesus last minute, Gabbiadini, JWP....

So much smooth that I won't even list the rough :
- 190pts, my best ever tally in a single gameweek after all else years playing FPL
- 30pts from my BB, my highest bench tally of the season
- shot to 1st place in both my mini leagues
- five double digits hauls : Sanchez (c), Kane, Jesus, Jagielka, Sané

All in all, I think I'll go as far as saying that after 10 years playing this game, this gameweek is the one that has brought me the most joy

Smooth: 190 points from the usual suspects giving me a 50p lead over my ML rival (also RL brother), also top of the ML for the first time this season.

Rough: Watching Spurs play when he owned Son and somewhat closed the gap.

Vital last GW!

Rough: Getting 157 points and still getting a Red Arrow 🙁

157 all out and rise to just inside 8k

Smooth: Kane, Jesus (C), Ozil, Sane, King, Zaha

Rough: Gabbiadini, Holgate, Clichy, Vertonghen, Hazard

Rough - Went with Hazard over Sanchez and kept Gabbiadini
Smooth - Triple captained Harry Kane!!

Smooth 165 (-4) BB - small greenie to OR1728. Sanchez (C) and virtually else everyone chipped in with 5 or more.

Rough: My no Kane policy held up fairly well till the last 1/4 of his DGW. Tumbled 600 places and made a 3 figure rank a pipe dream. Plus poor shows from Hazard/Costa and the ghost that is Gabby...

Best GW since I joined FPL 2 seasons ago. 201 points. I was 30 points behind the leader in my mini league in GW 36 and now I led with around 100 points. My rival had a disastrous GW with TC on Hazard. While I TC Sanchez (who delivered 81 points) + Kane Haul, Jesus, De Bruyne and he didn’t have any of these players.

Brilliant move on removing Hazard to De Bruyne.

Wildcard in GW 36 really helps to shape the team for the double in GW 37. I have no woe this GW. It’s all joy and it one GW can turn things upside down.

Smooth: 195 pts (-4) with 13 DGWers . Pretty successful BB with Jagielka, King, Cech and Anichebe making my bench. A case where having the right SGWers trumps DGW fillers. Up from 56k to just inside top 20k leading my main ML with 15 pts after being so far behind the leader for most of the season.

Overall smooth, very happy. 179 pts, San(c)hez, Kane, Jesus, Bavies, 2 x Soton defence. Up to highest rank ever, 2,549.

Rough - Pedro > Sterling transfer didn't do anything, should have gone for Hazard > KDB. BB 15 pts just about acceptable, Holgate and Big Victor disappointing.

Rough: My calculated risk to go without Sanchez blew up massively in my face. I've now lost substantial leads in both my MLs and now chasing by 15 points, one of my rivals TC Sanchez and its been a bitter blow. Jesus and Kane were successful but rivals had one or both of them.

Not really a smooth but I now have a chance to make some desperate final day maverick moves, the question is whether to take a -4 really go for it.

smooth; 169 points without BB, and went from 45 k til 24 and i extended my lead in ML to 48p (he does have BB but he must do at least a -8 to get a decent side out). Alexis captain ofc, actually made the switch back to him from Jesus so happy with that-). Picking Monreal over Kos another smoothy,and first three digit GW ever, my second season playing.
rough; alonso benched, and hazard blank(watched both matches and i honestly can´t believe how he managed NOT to get any points, pure unluck i say-), defence was ok ish, but could have been so much better, but everyone above 5 points so cant´t really complain. Alonso over Azpli certainly a bummer.

161-8.

Costa over Kane on WC for DGW36 even though I entered with Kane. End of.

Hits paid off but whatever.

Smooth - 194 points and up to 411th OR 🙂

Went Haz to KDB for my FT - My midfield of Sanchez (c), KDB, Ozil, Erik and King scored 101 points

Only rough part was going Kosc over Monreal for my WC - a decision I made just before the deadline as I had such good Team Value.

Smooth 182 no hits (azpi, Jesus (c) Sanchez Kane etc)

Rough - Holgate, Kos and Eriksen all missing out on possible points . Could have been a lot better

168 points

Jumped 125k

Rough :
1) Sold the likes of Coutinho and Zaha to bring Pedro and Alli in which doesn't look necessary for hits considering I had no WC.
2) Brought Holgate in at the last moment over Holding.

Smooth:
1) Best tally in 7 seasons of 150.
2) Had Sanchez (c) and Kane.

167. Risen nearly 600k in last 2 gameweeks to 288k.

Rough - no Kane. It was the correct call to make given his scoring stats v Man U/in away games. This is where this game hurts you: you make the correct call given the evidence and the player goes and performs beyond previous form.

This game is hugely down to luck.

Smooth: 191 points with Sanchez (c) Kane and Jesus.

Rough: Hazard and Eriksen missing out on Leicester goal fest

Rough: forgetting to play Triple Cap in GW 36
forgetting to make Sanchez (C) in GW 37
Smooth: playing TC in GW 37
"leaving" armband on Kane

203 with the (tc) on Sanchez and moved into 115 overall.
Opened a 28 point lead in the Swansea city fans league and sealed all my other mini leagues including my country one.

Rough dropped coutinho instead of hazard to bring in de bruyne