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Double Gameweek fever is back again as the community considers the best options for the bumper set of matches ahead, starting with tonight’s clash between Manchester United and Brighton on the south coast..

Manchester City stars, the fear factor around Harry Kane and unlikely predictions are discussed by our Hot Topic posters.

Pep Guardiolaโ€™s troops also feature in our Members table round-up, ย as well as among our community articles, which as usual focus on Fantasy games both home and abroad.

We wrap things up with a look at the standings in our community leagues, where Cityโ€™s heroics last time out had a dramatic effect on the race for the top placings.

The Community Articles.

After a Gameweek with few goals, Niemiโ€™s latest Fantasy Eliteserien preview is full of hope for attacking returns in the next instalment of this Norwegian top-flight game.

Meanwhile, The Indian Premier Leagueโ€™s current key players are assessed by Speedyboyz in his look at the mid-season standings in the high-profile cricket tournament.

Back to domestic matters, Hutch_James dropped by to let us know the crowdโ€™s take on the Double Gameweek fixtures and Top Marx was on hand with the latest on theย top five in the Career Hall of Fame.

Finally, congratulations to Ludo, who has been named writer of the month for April following a community vote. A ยฃ20 Amazon voucher is on his way to him.

Donโ€™t forget, if youโ€™ve got some analysis, scout reports or features brewing, be sure to visit our community section to submit your article.

The Hottest Topics

The community is keen to tap into the form and fixture collision awaiting Manchester City in Gameweek 37.

Mei You Shagua puts forward the case for captaining one of Pep Guardiolaโ€™s troops for their enticing pair of home encounters with Huddersfield and Brighton.

Doosraโ€™s latest fixture calculations, as delivered by G-Whizz, also put forward a compelling argument to trust the likes of Gabriel Jesus with the armband.

Many of those responding to our rough with the smooth round -up of your Gameweek 36 scores also advocate backing City stars, who routed West Ham 4-1 at the London Stadium on Sunday to take their goal tally over the last two matches to nine.

Harry Kane is another popular choice. The Spurs striker is currently leading our captain poll and is mentioned by many when we canvassed views this morning on the best armband option.

But Red Arrowsโ€™ discussion earlier this week considers whether fear rather than form may be leading some Fantasy managers to back the Spurs talisman.

With just one fixture, away to Chelsea, Liverpool star Mohamed Salah is low down on our captain poll and is the most sold player so far this week. According to our discussion on โ€˜Salexitโ€™,ย opinion is divided as to whether handing the Egyptian his P45 will bring rewards or misery.

The current Golden Boot race leader also came under discussion in our lessons learned from Gameweek 36 Hot Topic, in particular how well Stoke City managed to keep him to zero shots on target in their goalless draw with the Reds on Saturday.

Among Kane and Salahโ€™s biggest supporters is Bharat Dhody, who has captained one of this high-scoring pair 22 times this season, which has helped him take top spot in FPLโ€™s overall rankings for 18 of the last 19 Gameweeks.

Bharat joined the Scoutcast team this week to discuss his incredible season, and his appearance prompted us to ask the community how they would react if they were top of the world.

With just a five point-gap at the summit over second-placed Rizwan Chaudhry, Bharat will be relying heavily on his Bench Boost chip to stay top this week.

However, the community has mixed feelings about the value of FPLโ€™s chips, with Diva believing that saving them for the final few Gameweeks brings little advantage over those who deployed them earlier. Meanwhile, Phaze 1 posted this Hot Topic on how chips are just one aspect of FPL, a game where strong research and planning is often well rewarded.

Finally, Jarvish asked the community to consult their crystal balls for Double Gameweek 37, with the most unlikely prediction winning โ€œnothing, but satisfaction and looks of awe โ€“the greatest prize of allโ€.

To view all our discussions please visit our Hot Topics page.

The Members Tables

The Etihad performances of Manchester City players come under the gaze of FPL Virgin in his latest table. Thereโ€™s a further mention for one of Pep Guardiolaโ€™s troops in my latest goals imminent table.

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

The Community Tournaments

World number one Bharat has joined the FFScout main league, which means it now mirrors the overall rankings, with Rizwan in second and FFScout Members league leader Paul Gee in third.

Anders Lium has regained the lead from Richard Clarke at the top of Red Lightningโ€™s Top 10K Any Season league, while Ben Watson has taken over from Christopher Lay at the summit of his Doubles, Blanks and Chips league. But itโ€™s business as usual in Red Lightningโ€™s January to May league, which Shirin Nizar continues to dominate.

Matzi11a now leads the charge to overtake long-term FFScout moderators and contributors league leader Jack Wain, while QPR Utd remains top of his own Frequent Summer Posters league, with Zoumas Bloomers in hot pursuit.

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

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  1. FPL Maldini
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    So he did Mark , Jonty and Andy captain?

  2. Gazzpfc
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Whose made the better move me of ml rival.

    Jesus Fernandino -8

    Me

    Vardy Ayew no hit

    1. JONALDINHO
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      The first guy must have made another transfer. It’s not possible to only make two transfers in a week and have a -8...

      1. Gazzpfc
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        Yeah he put sterling in but i already had him

  3. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Mark has benched willian wow

    1. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Wowzers trousers!

    2. Ask Yourself
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Same

    3. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      I sold him for a hit for Tadic ๐Ÿ˜†

    4. Kuqi Monster
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Coz he's predicted to be benched

  4. CarsonYeung
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    When you lose track of time, forget to make your transfer and find Wes Morgan smiling back at you in your DGW lineup...

  5. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    FPL being very slow for anyone?

    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Id imagine about 3 million other managers experiencing the same ๐Ÿ˜‰

    2. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      You're not refreshing the update page are you. ๐Ÿ˜‰

  6. Only a Hazard of time
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Main ML has Free Hitted 3 Man U players in: Lindelof, Lingard and Sanchez. On the other hand he's captained Kane so I'm not out of the woods yet.

    1. sbengi18
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      How is he your main ML rival with such levels of incompetence

  7. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Main ml rival has tced Jesus and I have tced Kane. Gonna be very interesting

    1. Ask Yourself
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Good luck!! Same situation

      1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        Luckily I Atleast own Jesus he doesn't own Kane. Hopefully Kane hits his peak form

  8. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Villa Ronka 3rd sub please? Not seen it posted yet.....

    1. A.T
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      ๐Ÿ˜€

  9. MagicMessi
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Heard a rumor that FPL will charge you to participate...... Please tell me its not true !

  10. CloudSky
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Here's to hoping I beat last years GW37 score of 185. Starting with a -12 I reckon this is going to be a tough one to do.

    1. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Some crazy scores last year. Can't see any Kane and Sanchez-esque hauls this year though.

      1. CloudSky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        Yeah, no chance I reckon. Over 100 would be swell.

  11. Toothless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Looks like my season is probably going to come down to:

    A) Kane (TC)
    v
    B) Jesus (TC)

    Who is going to win?

  12. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Top 10k EO:

    Kane 171%
    Jesus 116%
    Sterling 103%

    Salah 50%

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      So I was right.... as a Kane TC’er, I now don’t want him to score.

      This game sucks sometimes.....

      1. FFHype
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        Huh? I don't follow. Why wouldn't you want him to score if you've TC'ed him?

    2. Bubz
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Bloody hell. Thats depressing tbh. Dont want two of my players to score ๐Ÿ˜†

    3. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      The best thing about FPL is when you have to your own players dont perform.

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        have to hope*

    4. Optimus.
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Phew..

      Thankfully I'm not in the top 10k

    5. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Son at 38% was way more than i imagined.
      Mustafi at 14% also.

    6. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Just sold Kane

  13. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    My 12 point hit to get a defence takes me from 8k to 12k - hopefully it pays off

  14. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hands up non Kane Triple Cappers....

    Pogba ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Sterling ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    2. Richd
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Sterling.

      Nobody in my league had Salah last week. Nobody has kane this week.

      1. Chucky
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        great pick... only cowards and casuals captained kane...

        1. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 10 months ago

          ๐Ÿ˜†

          1. Chucky
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 10 months ago

            ๐Ÿ˜‰

      2. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        ๐Ÿ˜ฎ None of them? Inc you?

    3. Podge
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Jesus

    4. Nanoelektronicar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Sterling

      1. Nanoelektronicar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        So nervous about it though.

    5. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Nmecha ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    6. skriniar
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      BB

    7. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      KDB ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    8. MagicMessi
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      DeBruyne

  15. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Salahs going to punish me so fooking hard

  16. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Who gambled on Danilo?

    1. Richd
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      I would have genuine TC if Walker didn’t train. So no. GL

    2. FFHype
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Me... perhaps my riskiest transfer of the season.

  17. Ghost Gooner
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    My ml rival took a -8 hit to get Kane and tc to block me ๐Ÿ˜ก

    I think my season is done ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Rip. Always next season

  18. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Top 10k captains:

    1 Kane TOT 56.1%
    2 Jesus MCI 23.8%
    3 Sterling MCI 14.5%
    4 Salah LIV 2.0%
    5 Eriksen TOT 1.0%

    https://fpldiscovery.wordpress.com/2018/05/04/17-18-gw37-team-selection-and-stats/

    1. FFHype
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Kane that popular after 2 limp DGW's already this season. Unbelievable.

  19. MikeyMitz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Where is Sanchez? My luck has been so bad this year dear lord

  20. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Man Utd defence EO at 119%

    Who wants Utd to concede?

    o/

    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      De Gea penalty save however

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Before Valencia, Bailly & Jones are taken out ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        61% DDG
        51% Smalling

        Gives 112% already.

    3. Podge
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      O/

    4. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      o/

      Concede two or more o/

    5. Ask Yourself
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      As a double united defence owner even I don’t want them to keep a CS

    6. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      o/

  21. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Top 10k stats
    Avg transfers made 2.2
    % taking a point hit 64.8%
    Average point hit 4.22

    Triple Captain 53.7%
    Bench Boost 23.8%

    Captaincy:
    1 Kane 56.1%
    2 Jesus 23.8%
    3 Sterling 14.5%
    4 Salah 2.0%
    5 Eriksen 1.0%

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Already +4pts this GW ๐Ÿ˜Ž

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      4.22pts in hits! Wow.

      1. Pierce34
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        Thank god, that means I'm only on -11.78 then ๐Ÿ˜Ž

  22. Pierce34
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Salah on -426 on fpl stats ๐Ÿ˜€

    1. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Back to normal now. -170

  23. emyoueffsee
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    I'm on Bench boost. Was it a mistake to take a -4 to get Morgan in for the injured Chilwell? I think it's close but would be interested in some feedback.

    1. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      I think you may have been better off with Chilwell and no hit to be honest.

    2. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Both might play 1 or 0 guess

      1. emyoueffsee
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        Chilwell has an ankle injury, hardly be back for next game.

    3. Root
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      +/- 0

  24. Alea iacta est. ๐Ÿ˜€

    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      ๐Ÿ˜€

      1. ๐Ÿ˜‰

  25. seewhyaxe
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Wow as a Kane owner , I never wanted him to blank more than ever.

    Sterling tc ftw

    1. Chucky
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      this... can't see him scoring against Kaku's team tomorrow or against FSW....

  26. Jairzinho
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    How come the rankings have changed on the overall leaderboard? Red and green arrows galore and a ball hasn’t been kicked.

    Did they finally give Kane his goal from weeks ago?

  27. Dhody
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Current #1 here. Just thought I'd nip by and detail how I went about bottling it:

    12h to deadline: Got into office, did some work then casually started browsing the web for some info from the press conferences.

    5h to deadline: Somewhere along the way I found out that transfer deadline isn't on Saturday as is typical, but rather its TODAY!! Panic. Panic. Panic.

    4h to deadline: Busted out of office and did some concerted research --> making the optimal number of transfers was costing me a staggering -16 (Bailly Christensen Willian Mahrez Barnes TO Stones Chambers Ramsey Sterling Ayew).

    2h to deadline: Tried working up the courage to do it and then found out Chilwell was out too... -20!!

    10m to deadline: Lost the nerve to pull off -20 and opted for a more conservative, relatively speaking, -12 (Bailly Christensen Willian Chilwell TO Chambers Bedanek VDH Sterling).

    5m to deadline: decided to go check out how many hits #2 had taken and saw that he'd made no transfers -- had he not realised today was the deadline?! Could the Gods really be so kind?! Cue day dreaming. (Update: he did not forget)

    30s after deadline: OH F**K!! Realised that I'd forgotten to pick my captain (damn you day dreams). Wanted to pick Jesus but I've ended up with last week's captain --> Kane. Cue meltdown.

    What next? Well there'll be non-stop praying, especially for Kane to outscore Jesus, and if by some miracle I do end up 1st, it'll probably be thanks to this rather sizeable cock-up.

    God I love FPL

    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      ๐Ÿ™ Good luck dude. Just one of those days

    2. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Typical casual

    3. Pierce34
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Good luck! Personally, I think the -12 looks way better than the -16 that involved Stones and Ramsey.

    4. emyoueffsee
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Wow, what a story. Best of luck.

    5. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Current #2 here: good luck

      1. lilmessipran
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        humble brag ๐Ÿ˜‰

      2. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        That's the funniest thing you've written all of 2018

      3. Chucky
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        ๐Ÿ˜†

    6. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Haha good luck man

    7. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      everything happens for a reason..you won't be disappointed with your captain choice ๐Ÿ˜‰ ..gl and win it

    8. Chenkuโ•ฐโ˜†โ•ฎ
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Wow.. you noob!

    9. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Good luck! We both did -12 and both punted on Chambers!

    10. Shultan
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Good luck!

    11. Podge
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Casual

    12. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Hope it works out for you dude! If I was 1 OR going into this week I would have just spent the day vomiting. ๐Ÿ™‚

    13. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Good luck dude. You seemed like a decent guy on the podcast and I’m rooting for you.

    14. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Jeez lots of vitriol in the comments. Bet they wished they were in your position ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. badgerboy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 10 months ago

        All tongue in cheek i'm sure.

        1. Dhody
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 10 months ago

          I imagine so too! Thanks for the well wishes everybody ๐Ÿ™‚

    15. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Yeah especially a DGW

      It really does melt your head

    16. Jive Turkey
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      RIP bro

      1. arndff_
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 9 months ago

        What did you say? ๐Ÿ˜‰

  28. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Come on Pogba! Only 15% ownership. Time to shine.

  29. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Man... TC stayed on Sterling. Let’s see how this goes...

    1. @FPL_liverbird (liverpoolfa…
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 10 months ago

      Jesus for me! and took a -8 for ramsey sterling smalling. Good luck!!

  30. Feloh
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 10 months ago

    Kane TC differential in my ml, rest of the guys went jesus