The midweek matches proved frustrating viewing for many in the Fantasy Football Scout community, with some notable, well-owned players failing to deliver. We look back at the ensuing hand-wringing and also discover how Fantasy managers’ loved ones suffer when a Gameweek fails to go to plan. As usual, we take a peek at the latest ups and downs in the community leagues, whilst there’s also a range of Members tables to delve into and hot topics assessing how to get the best out of the remaining 13 round of fixtures.
The Community Articles
The Puntmaster was among those who endured a torrid Gameweek 25 with all three of his differentials failing to garner anything beyond appearance points. Triggerlips didn’t have the best of weeks in defence, but as his analysis of ‘hindsight bias’ shows, it is all too easy to declare that a decision is a mistake after the event.
In contrast, Gameweek 25’s Scout Pick Champion Reedy had much better fortune, with his XI that included Laurent Koscielny and Mesut Ozil leaving two out of three of our Scouts in the shade.
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The Hottest Topics
Gameweek 25 was an unpleasant set of fixtures for many of the community, particularly those captaining Alexis Sanchez, who failed to bring in the points at home to Leicester. Already, though some in the community are dusting themselves off and moving on to look ahead to the upcoming fixtures and a chance to claw back some respectability. Cabaye4 was on hand to look over the confirmed and potential double Gameweeks left this season, as was Perchinho in his hot topic on forthcoming fixtures. To help plan ahead, Siva Mohan provided this round up of the key fixtures coming up, including FA Cup and European ties.
A look at the upcoming fixtures could prove vital to correcting any mistakes made in the January winter wildcards. As JK’s discussion showed, there were plenty feeling glum about their wildcard choices, though some have good reason to gloat.
Those that opted for a Liverpool player have certainly been rewarded so far, with Brendan Rodgers’ unit scoring ten times and keeping four clean sheets over the last six Gameweeks. Zasa says their focus on a crowded midfield has been key to this, but he wonders whether cracks in the so far successful 3-4-2-1 formation are starting to show?
Harry Kane has been another roaring success for Wildcarders. The Tottenham striker has three double digit Fantasy Premier League hauls in the last four Gameweeks but despite his recent superb form, Berbinho’s Forehead still wonders whether the Spurs man is the real deal.
Barry Yuen also has reservations, this time about Alexis Sanchez’ ability to remain a key asset after he let down Fantasy managers this week. Black Knights was another to question the Chilean’s ability after revealing that his disappointing transfer and captaincy of the Arsenal man ruined a romantic meal with his girlfriend. The ensuring conversation revealed that he is not the only one to have their love life curtailed by Fantasy Football.
There were plenty more forlorn figures this week in Jafooli’s strugglers’ surgery, as the community joined him to look back on their toils this season. For HVT, such Gameweeks are making him question his commitment to Fantasy Football, which is a theme RoysCallerAnne revisited later in the week. For all of our downtrodden community, members Rhinos posted this welcome pick-me-up with five golden rules to keeping the faith in Fantasy Football, even when it can seem the cruelest of games.
Finally, Sinik came up with a drastic solution to beating the failed captaincy blues, simply do away with captains in Fantasy Football altogether. After this week there will be plenty of attentive ears to this suggestion.
The Members Tables
Fortunesalwayshiding has been taking a look at Stoke’s attacking threat. With the Potters’ fixtures still strong this will prove crucial reading for those looking for a differential in the coming weeks.
Goalkeeping attributes were the focus of Jonah11’s table. This has a universal search filter to give the most up to date analysis as well as long term figures. Chuiku2 has also been looking at defensive statistics to discover more about the teams with the best backlines in recent weeks.
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
The “Long and Winding Road FA Cup of Tea” launched in Gameweek 25. Check out those who made it through to Gameweek 26’s round of matches here.
In TorresMagic‘s Last Man Standing competition, Walsh and Albertini hit the top score in Gameweek 25 with 76. There are now 367 teams left after 46 were eliminated
Aaron Thorburn has regained the lead in Red Lightning’s Top 10k Any Season and is now up to 18th in the overall FPL rankings. Following Gameweek 25’s games Red Lightning’s FFS January Wildcard League (352700-723212) is led by The Suspended One, who has risen from 623,000 to 144,000 in the FPL overall rankings since Gameweek 20.
