The community got their stop watches out this week as they discussed the media storm created by the exact timing of Southampton defender Cedric Soares’s substitution last weekend. As well as Cedricgate, we also cast our eye over the key community articles and hot topics looking ahead to Gameweek 10’s matches. In addition, we’ve squeezed in an extra few minutes to focus on some of the most eye catching latest Members tables and events in our community leagues.
The Community Articles
To help get prepared for Gameweek 10, three of our regular community writers were on hand to offer advice on transfers, bench decisions and captaincy issues.
Your Mum’s Athletic’s latest What The Bookies Say looks at captaincy options, clean sheet potential and likely outcomes of the weekend’s matches based on bookmakers odds.
Elsewhere, Rodellegabomb has been casting his eye over the latest bandwagons and The Serjeant has been looking at possible shut outs, a key player to consider and team form going into Gameweek 10.
Don’t forget, if you’ve got some analysis, scout reports or features brewing, be sure to visit our community section to submit your article.
The Hottest Topics
Our Hall of Fame, featuring the best managers over a number of seasons, has been updated to take into account Gameweek 9’s event.
This prompted The Colonel to take an indepth look at the Hall of Fame top 50 and compare this bunch of ‘old pros’ with the lucky ‘casuals’ currently topping the Fantasy Premier League.
Looking ahead to the weekend, Liverpool’s first home clash in the Premier League under Jurgen Klopp is among the key matches the community is keeping an eye on. Klopp’s team ran Spurs ragged last weekend as his ‘Gegenpressing’ strategy of knackering out your own team as well as the opposition took effect. But, pondered Wakey, how can injury prone Daniel Sturridge fit into this system?
Another keenly anticipated match is between free-scoring Leicester and away specialists Crystal Palace. Despite being benched for the last two matches JazzliHD urges caution before transferring out Riyad Mahrez. He believes his display as a substitute in Gameweek 9, where he earned an assist, will be enough to convince Tinkerman Claudio Ranieri to reinstate him into the starting line up.
If Mahrez does start and produces the goods, he adds his name to an already-congested midfielder watchlist. With so many wingers and attacking midfielders vying for our attention, we asked whether it was time to return to a power five formation, with just two strikers. For Valar Mesut Ozil is among those deserving of a place amongst this elite group.
Further advice going into Gameweek 10 was on hand from Zasa, who has been trawling the latest statistics to serve up a wealth of numbers on everything from attacking potential to clean sheets. There were further names to consider for those looking to steal a march on their mini-league rivals in our hot topic on Gameweek 10’s best differentials.
We also looked back what Gameweek 9 has taught us in Rough with the Smooth, with failed early transfers during an international break of players a key lesson learned for a number of our community members.
Another key event from Gameweek 9 under discussion was Cedricgate, which sparked a national press and Twitter debate after community regular Fuzzy Warbles questioned FPL’s decision not to award Southampton defender Cedric Soares clean sheet points when substituted around the 60 minute mark.
After taking a battering from journalists and the Twitterati, as well as praise on our Scoutcast, Fuzzy returned later in the week with his views on the media storm his letter to FPL created.
Looking further ahead Gameweek 11’s shift in the fixtures, where Everton and Manchester United embark on kind runs, is set to dominate discussion next week. We covered the subject in our latest Scoutcast and also asked the community how they planned to address this change in fixtures.
The Members Tables
With Gameweek 11’s fixture shift in mind, tillster2003 has taken a look at the best Everton defenders last year as a reminder of their potential.
Knightrider’s latest table considers the attacking threat of Steve McClaren’s Newcastle – another team with good upcoming fixtures. Meanwhile, Scorcher Prime has been looking at the best and worst defences so far this season.
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
Colin Bothwell had quite a week in Gameweek 9. His score of 67 was enough to propel him to the top of RedLightning’s Top 10K Any Season mini-league. Colin now leads 10 mini-leagues, including AZ’s cash league, thanks to his overall FPL rank of 175.
Balders dropped by with news of a new five-a-side themed tournament set up by recently-formed FFScout community group Fédération Internationale de Fantaisie Football Scout Association( FIFFSA). Meanwhile, the latest standings from Balders’ Grand Play-Off competition can be found here.
Jaffalicious sent this update of the latest standings in his FFS UEFA Champions League competition, while in TorresMagic‘s Last Man Standing competition, Sushant hit the top score in Gameweek 9 with 105. There are now 1873 teams that have qualified for LMS, after 149 were eliminated when the safety score was set at 38.
Finally, it was business as usual in the FFScout Moderators and Contributors league with Andy extending his lead over second-placed Greenwindmill.
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.
