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31 August 2018 3098 comments
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The Fantasy Football Scout Community have been busy at work again this week, producing the usual excellent array of articles and tables to help with our planning for Gameweek 4.

The hot topics, meanwhile, have ranged from short-term absentees to Liverpool assets and everything in between.

Our latest Community Round-up feature has it all covered.

The Hottest Topics

Celt Abroad kicked off the Gameweek 3 reaction with a look at the possible replacements for Richarlison, who was sent off in Everton’s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth.

With Richarlison in mind, Gregor asked if we should sell or keep our short-term absentees and looked at the new suspension rules.

Our regular “Rough with the Smooth” thread turned up the usual success stories and horror tales, while flaming_iles discussed his own excellent start using the RMT tool.

DortmundisLove revealed the past statistics that don’t bode well for defence-heavy teams, meanwhile.

The discussion about Liverpool assets continued, with Rainer looking at the Reds’ fixtures in between the two international breaks.

Legomane floated his method of combating the impact of price falls, while RedLightning examined the overall FPL leader’s early chip usage.

The Gameweek 4 planning started with tambourineman‘s round-up of the weekend’s referees, before G-Whizz gave his weekly clean sheet probabilities, match odds and “Doosra stats”.  We also speculated on the breakout players of this coming Saturday/Sunday.

Jekori highlighted the excellent Fulham/West Ham rotation, while Reckoner looked at the best £4.5m midfielders. On the subject of budget assets: what do we do with blister victim Danny Ings?

Concerning the site itself, Benster gave some frank comments on the Scoutcast while we had a live Hall of Fame update for the first time this season.

Finally, there was a fond farewell to Niemi as a mod – but a warm welcome to Rotation’s Alter Ego.

Community Tables

Among the many, many fine tables created this week were the following efforts:

beans_on_toast

sun_jihai 

drewshape

Keep your tables coming in for inclusion in our weekly round-up, with a title and description always appreciated to explain the purpose of the statistical analysis.

Community Articles

There were more super scribblings from the Community this week.

Hutch_James provided another excellent Wisdom of the Crowd, FPL Paulius looked at Gameweek 4 captains and Greyhead examined the fortunes of some elite FPL managers.

Community Tournaments

RedLightning continued his impressive start to the season to consolidate his lead at the top of the FFS Mods and Cons league. Chris James crept above TorresMagic into second, meanwhile.

1. RedLightning – 270 points
2. Chris James – 252 points
3. TorresMagic – 238 points
4. Ragabolly – 232 points
5. Geoff – 229 points

Scott Macalister is the new leader of our public FantasyFootballScout league – and has done it all without using a chip. Scott is actually tied with Cosmin Rotaru and Warren Lim (who are joint-second) but has made fewer transfers.

1. Scott Macalister – 277 points
2=. Warren Lim – 277 points
2=. Cosmin Rotaru – 277 points
4. Jasem Alturki – 276 points
5. Andy Parsons – 274 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 28th in the world. Our very own moderator RedLightning is also up to third.

1. Nick Howard – 281 points
2. Ryan Brazell – 271 points
3. RedLightning – 270 points
4. Graeme Bye – 269 points
5. Luke Pickering – 268 points

Meanwhile, Andrew Garland is the new leader of RedLightning‘s Top 10k Any Season mini-league, three points ahead of the league’s creator. Pete Bullingham and Francisco Lamarque are actually tied in third.

1. Andrew Garland – 273 points
2. RedLightning – 270 points
3=. Pete Bullingham – 266 points
3=. Francisco Lamarque – 266 points
5. Luke Aiello – 259 points

 

 

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  1. SpaceCadet
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Play King or Boly?

    1. MarkoSD
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      King

    2. SpaceCadet
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Dam another useless top post by the king

    3. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      King

  2. MarkoSD
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    A. Shaw richa to alonso 5.2m for -4
    B. Or hold because Alonso price not rising, richa not falling and IB injurys will happen?

    1. SalahFingers
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      B

      There's nobody at 5.2m in mid that I think will make that transfer worth it.

    2. gergin
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      B

  3. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Uhh Bennet to go up and Peltier to go down tonight?

    1. Ghost Gooner
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Price changes have happened already

      1. Legomané
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        This

    2. Live Lad
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      You mean tomorrow night?

    3. ☈☾
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Yeah east cost so tonight for me

  4. My name is an echo
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Already playing PVA and need to play one of AWB, King or Jota (who yes, I've stuck with)

    1. Mauricios Cappuccino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Lice dangerously and go for awb.. I have done that, risky

    2. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Think I'd play Jota or King. You must have a fantastic squad 😯

      1. My name is an echo
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Only Patricio in goals and Mitro up front left me extra cash

  5. MikeLowrey
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    G2G?

    Fab
    VVD Alonso Mendy AWB
    Salah Wally Bilva
    Aguero Firmino Mitrovic
    (Ryan Kante Peltier Cairney)

    1. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      I'd play Ryan ahead of Fab.

      Perhaps Kante ahead of Walcott 😉

    2. Botman and Robben
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      If capping Kun, yes.

  6. I AM GROOT!!!
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Has anyone considered Pereyra as a replacement for Richarlison?
    Despite two tough home fixtures, he seems a good pick purely because of his attacking stats especially at home.

    1. Kane Toads
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      yep . did Richo > Pereyra. gave me cash for Alonso.

    2. Ghost Gooner
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Not a good idea when there are other options. He is injury prone as well so getting him in ahead of his fixtures getting easier is risky

    3. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Spurs, Man U & Arsenal in the next 4 games though ...

    4. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Yep, but fixtures have put me off. I'm not replacing Richarlison either, looking at an Eriksen or Mané downgrade to fund Alonso, so doesn't feel a great move with both E+M having decent away fixtures this wk

    5. SalahFingers
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      I was gonna get him until I saw his fixtures. They are honestly very bad for quite a long time.

      No thanks.

  7. Heavy Data
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    With Lloris out of the picture, am i now better off playing Pereyra over Wan-Bissaka?

    Thanks all

    Ederson
    PVA-Alonso-Mendy
    Mane-Walcott(vc)-Pedro-Pereyra-Salah
    Aguero(c)-Zaha

    Hamer-AWB-Kamara-Peltier

    1. Angin out the Begović
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Id play WB

    2. Mauricios Cappuccino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Still think awb, Vorm is a very capable replacement

    3. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Given you have PVA, I'd punt of Pereya

  8. Angin out the Begović
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Bench Wilson or W-Bissaka ?

    1. Over Midwicket
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Wazza

    2. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Wilson returned well in the corresponding fixture last season, tough call. Generally favour the attacker

      1. Angin out the Begović
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        agreed, just i played him by accident in the first GW and got rewarded! Im worried he will punish me haha

    3. Cok3y5murf
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      AWB

  9. Over Midwicket
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Morning all. Who do I play this GW?

    A) King (che)
    B) AWB (SOU)

    Thanks.

    1. Karan_G14
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      AWB

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

    G2G?

    Patricio
    Mendy, Robbo, Alonso, AWB
    Mane, Lucas, Hazard, Dilva
    Zaha, Kane
    -
    Hamer, Bennett, Stephens, Kamara

    Thoughts on David Silva to Pogba?

    1. Over Midwicket
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Save.

      1. TimboSlice
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Save?

    2. Heavy Data
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      united playing gash, dont bother

    3. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Considered bringing in Dilva this week, why are you keen to sell?

      1. TimboSlice
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        City Midfield rotation risk and expecting Utd to bounce back as I can't imagine they will remain this battered. He's on pens as well

  11. Farke in hell
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Cairney + Firmino to Gross + Zaha (-4) or hold the FT?

    1. Pep's Money Laundry
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Save

    2. Srv210
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Hold

  12. Srv210
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Which 2 to bench

    A) Maddison
    B) Ings
    C) wan bissaka
    D) masuaku

    1. Heavy Data
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      b and d

      1. Srv210
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Maddison against pool defence can be dud

    2. Heavy Data
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Maddison vs pool, not great.
      Ings injured, might not play
      Wan Bissaka vs Soton, could get some good points
      Masuaka, a midfielder playing in a defensive position. Dud.

      Up to you, but personally i would play A and C. You could always play Ings and put D or A first on your bench.

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Fully expect Ings to start

        1. Heavy Data
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 7 months ago

          Im sure i read something online yesterday that he was going to be rested for this week given his foot injury. I cant find where i read that though so........

    3. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      AD

  13. Patch
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Only reason Warren Lim is doing so well is due to the BB in GW1

    Otherwise he is 100% Template with the most radical player being Ings

    I will be stalking him from now on every week.

  14. Canary_Kid
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Best 4.5 mid?

    1. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      They're all kinda yucky

    2. Pep's Money Laundry
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Stephens might fall in price so avoid him or get him later after price drop otherwise get Romeu or Billings. Nothing decent at this price range

    3. FPL_adict
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Schneiderlin

  15. Positive vibes
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    GTG?

    DDG
    Alonso, Robbo, Mendy, WB
    Salah (v), Mane, Pedro, Walcott
    Kun (c), Arnie
    (Hamer, Ings, Stephens, Peltier)

    Good luck all 🙂

    1. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      That defence 😯

  16. Essem
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Is Button second choice aften Ryan? Saw he played the cup game.

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

      Has also been on the bench for Brightons league games. Seems as if he is.

      1. Essem
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Very good. Thank you.

  17. fenixri
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 months ago

    Any news on Ings and Tomkins?

  18. Lionel Ronaldo
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Team locked. I feel I'm going to struggle this week with 4-5-1 🙁
      --------------------------------------------------------
      Fab
      TAA Alonso Mendy AWB
      Salah [VC] Walcott B.Silva Eriksen Mkhi
      Aguero [C]
      --------------------------------------------------------
      Hamer Ings Kamara Simpson
      --------------------------------------------------------

    • FPL_adict
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Best 4.5 rotation goal keepers if wildcarding now?

      1. Canary_Kid
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        I've gone for Hennessey and fab

      2. Francescoli
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        I’d get Hennessey and Hamer. Save the 0.5.

    • Patch
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Can't bring myself to ditching my Liverpool trio before the IB!

      Just gotta follow my own gut instinct for now but after IB I will prob trade Mane to Hazard if he proves not a troll today

      Leicester are pretty incredible playing Liverpool away but typically ship 2 goals to Liverpool when playing at home

      Pity it is a first gamer today tho...

    • CunkOnFPL
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      what to do with this mess:

      Foster (Button
      Mendy, Schlupp, Smalling, TAA (Peltier
      Bilva, Fraser, Mkhi, Salah (Gunnarson
      Firmino, Kun, King?

      2 FT, 1, ITB

      Replace King, Smalling, bluebirds?

      1. Patch
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Tough gig...particularly on the bench

        Would have tried to upgrade Smalling to Alonso by switching Schlupp to AWB

        King doesn't look a priority to rid, it's a lottery which cherry pops

      2. Hotdogs for Tea
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Use your Wild Card

      3. Hotdogs for Tea
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        This week sort out the Bluebirds though

    • @Team Shark FC
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Currently on WC:

      Team A:
      Henn
      Robbo/Alonso/Mendy
      Salah/Mane/Mkhi/Pedro/Walcott
      Wilson/Aguero

      Hamer/AWB/Bennett/Kamara

      Team B:
      Fabianski
      Robbo/Alonso/Mendy/AWB
      Salah/Hazard/Mkhi/Walcott
      WIlson/Aguero

      Foster/Masuaku/Bennett/Kamara

      1. FPL_adict
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        B

    • HNI
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Cairney back in gw8. Will be 4.5-4.6 by then. Will be best possible 5th midfielder

      1. Pep's Money Laundry
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        He would a a bargain at that sort of price

    • Lecky Legs FC
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Play King or bring in Murray for free using my WC after the international break you see?

      1. Holmes
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Murray

    • The Greenback Boogie
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      If you had to take a punt on one for the short term?

      A. Max Meyer
      B. Felipe Anderson
      C. Gross

      Or go for Pedro?

      1. Chandler Bing
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Pedro out of those

      2. Don Rogers FC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        C

      3. Lecky Legs FC
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        B

      4. FPL_adict
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        C

    • Hazardous1983
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      How is tuis wildcadd team

      Fab (rui patricio)
      Wan mendy alonso (tomkins holebas)
      Salah miki walcott hazard (stephens)
      Aguero jiminez zaha

    • MAVER!CK
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Play Ings or AWB?

      1. Murder On Zidanesfloor
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Is Ings fit?

    • Canary_Kid
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      A) Maddison + 4.5 forward
      B) Wilson + 4.5 mid

      Cheers

      1. Angin out the Begović
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        B

    • SHOOTER MCGINN
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Alonso 2 pointer coming up

      1. Murder On Zidanesfloor
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        In your dreams mate

      2. Holmes
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Arigatou

    • Delhidynamo
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 months ago

      Should this be the last week I give to Auba?

      He has to start firing at some moment but Haz/Kane is a tempting and easy switch

      1. Angin out the Begović
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Yes its coming!

      2. Gandalf
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 7 months ago

        Yup would agree with that