The Fantasy Football Scout Community have been dealing with the fallout from Gameweek 1 this week, with everything covered from early price changes to Kevin De Bruyne’s knee injury.
As well as the usual array of superb discussions in the comments this week, there have been some welcome article and table submissions that can help with our planning for Gameweek 2 and beyond.
Our latest Community Round-up feature has it all covered.
The Hottest Topics
Our community’s dissection of Gameweek 1 began with detailed analyses of three of the weekend’s fixtures, with maltasi, Bruce Lee and Parm offering some real insight into the Watford v Brighton, Bournemouth v Cardiff and Fulham v Crystal Palace fixtures respectively.
Richarlison had his owners worried after limping from the field in Everton’s 2-2 draw with Wolves, but facer reassured us with what turned out be a spot-on appraisal of the Brazilian’s injury.
With the start of a new season came the return of our regular What Have We Learned? and Rough with the Smooth topics, the latter of which featured RedLightning‘s early ascent to the top of the Mods and Cons league.
The Gameweek 1 picks of 15 Hall of Famers were the subject of rent_boy‘s FPL player analysis, meanwhile.
Eden Wizard was the winner of our Scout Pick Community Lottery for Gameweek 2, as attention turned to this forthcoming weekend.
The Community discussed the pros and cons of gambling on an early transfer, while G-Whizz rounded up the “Doosra stats”, fixture odds and clean sheet odds to help with our planning.
The repercussions of Kevin De Bruyne’s knee injury sparked debate, with Parm providing a deeper analysis of Manchester City’s tactical tweaks in the 2-0 win over Arsenal. Becks also gave us his predictions on what City’s line-up may look like this Sunday in De Bruyne’s absence.
ZoumasBloomers asked us for our favourite FPL goal of all time – as well as the goal that has hurt you the most.
DJDave1979 pondered if some premium defenders were season-keepers, while the indefatigable TorresMagic was back to round up the early price rises and drops. Cheers, TM!
COMMUNITY TABLES
There are numerous user-generated tables to pore over this week:
- kingbum charted the key stats for forwards priced at £6.5m or less who have played at least one game.
- the-fpl-physio has been trying to figure out which Burnley defender is the best FPL option.
- sanpellegrini looked at statistics for all midfielders based on creative and goal-scoring potential.
- jimbo_smells examined ultra-budget midfielders.
- mikely23 contributed three tables, one of which was goal threat among midfielders.
- dirty-harry scrutinised expected goals (xG) and expected assists(xA).
- attinho rounded up some attacking defenders…
- …as did linnbee.
COMMUNITY ARTICLES
We have had some brilliant articles submitted this week, which all proved to be an enjoyable read. TopMarx provided some excellent research into what constitutes a successful season in FPL looking at how the increase in managers and quantity of players using different websites for advice have both changed the parameters somewhat.
We continued our series of RMTs by having a look at RedLightning’s team for Gameweek 2 while MathewNixon treated us to part two of Everton’s Silva Lining.
COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS
There was a fast start in FFS Mods and Cons for RedLightning, with TorresMagic and Ragabolly off to flyers too. Deputy editor Skonto Rigga is also currently in the top five after Gameweek 1, narrowly ahead of our very own Joe:
1. RedLightning – 104 points
2. TorresMagic – 98 points
3. Ragabolly – 91 points
4. Skonto Rigga – 90 points
5. Joe – 89 points
Meanwhile, a Bench Boost has fired Vladimir Jelenić to the summit of the public FantasyFootballScout league:
1. Vladimir Jelenić – 133 points
2. Warren Lim – 131 points
3. Ben Wheatcroft – 129 points
4. Andy Davies – 122 points
5. Petri Selkäinaho – 119 points
In our Members’ league, Nick Howard also deployed his Bench Boost chip to great effect:
1. Nick Howard – 129 points
2. Alistair Ross – 118 points
3. Takeshi Igomoto – 117 points
4. Timothy Wright – 112 points
5=. Rickhard Alen/Luke Aiello/Aron Hogni Georgsson – 111 points
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5 years, 10 months agoBoth Salah and Kun are great capt picks, either one could explode, either one could blank. If you got Kun you knew there was a higher risk of reduced minutes but knowing his potential took that risk anyway.
There’s no right or wrong answer until looking back with hindsight, just go with your gut. If you’re gut, if still not sure flip a coin, before looking at the coin if you are hoping one of the other has won, that’s your answer. If you don’t have a “hope” just go with what the coin says.
Chances are you are not going to get a clear answer just from these message boards.