The Fantasy Football Scout Community have been dealing with the fallout from Gameweek 2 this week, with everything covered from high-performing full-backs to the early emergence of template teams.
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 3 and beyond.
Our latest Community Round-up feature has it all covered.
The Hottest Topics
The early-season exploits of Marcos Alonso, Andrew Robertson and Benjamin Mendy prompted Ginkapo and then Goldman to ponder why left-backs are doing so well, while the Community were also discussing just how many heavy hitters we should be lumping on in defence.
With some tricky-looking fixtures for Liverpool on the horizon, Lukakwho did some digging in order to ask whether Mohamed Salah is likely to struggle against other “big six” clubs. Rupert The Horse went on to assess Liverpool’s form against their five rivals on the whole.
A wretched run of matches for the likes of Cardiff City and Newcastle United also motivated ZoumasBloomers to ask our thoughts on the “unpickables”.
The price change trends were a source of discussion in midweek, as was the debate over managing our heavy hitters.
Thoughts turned to this weekend’s matches with a speculative discussion on who the break-out star of Gameweek 3 could be, while G-Whizz was on hand to offer us his weekly fixture odds, clean sheet probabilities and “Doosra stats”.
Debate over the template team reared its head, with both vartshk and Crossfire Harry Kane offering their thoughts on this Fantasy hot potato. Goldman, indeed, encouraged us to listen to our own gut instinct.
Away from Gameweek 3, Scratch floated the excellent suggestion of having private FPL cups.
COMMUNITY TABLES
Once again, there were some fantastic tables to help our transfer plans created by FFS users.
FPL Virgin:
- Best Arsenal Player
- Best Bournemouth Player
- Budget Strikers
- Best Chelsea Player
- Best midfielder under 6m
Jonty:
Giggs-Tosun-Particle:
Dirty-Harry:
Original Pirate Material
The-FPL-Physio:
Robdag:
COMMUNITY ARTICLES
We have had another week where some brilliant articles were submitted to us. Rossi3245 introduced us to Bundesliga Fantasy Football, Hutch_James returned with another Wisdom of the Crowd piece and Greyhead continued his look at well-known figures within the FFS Community.
COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS
RedLightning continued his impressive start to the season gaining entry to the 100-club for a second week in a row to keep his lead at the summit of FFS Mods and Cons. The top three was unchanged while Andy Goddard and Chris James knocked Skonto Rigga and Joe out of the top five.
- 1. RedLightning – 214 points
- 2. TorresMagic – 188 points
- 3. Chris James – 188 points
- 4. Andy Goddard – 180 points
- 5. Ragabolly – 177 points
Abdelrahman Saleh is the new leader of our public FantasyFootballScout league. He played his Bench Boost in Gameweek 1 and Triple Captained Aguero in Gameweek 2. The Egyptian now sits 12th in the world.
- 1. Abdelrahman Saleh – 228 points
- 2. Warren Lim – 224 points
- 3= Jon Greenwood – 220 points
- 3= Cosmin Rotaru – 220 points
- 5. Lazaros Kalaitzidis – 219 points
Nick Howard still leads the FFS Members League. Having played his Bench Boost chip in Gameweek 1, he followed that up with a Wildcard in Gameweek 2 and is now ranked eighth in the world too. Our very own moderator RedLightning is also up to fourth.
- 1. Nick Howard – 229 points
- 2. Graeme Bye – 218 points
- 3. Luke Aiello – 215 points
- 4= RedLightning – 214 points
- 4= Andrew McKinnon – 214 points
Meanwhile, Luke Aiello is the new leader of RedLightning‘s Top 10k Any Season mini-league, one point ahead of the league’s creator. Luke has had two previous top 10k finishes, the best being 2759th in 2016-17. It currently contains 1157 teams, and every single one of them has had at least one top 10,000 season finish, that’s how managers can qualify for it.
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