Hot Topics

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	A
Up	Donnarumma	MCI	B
No Change	Pickford	EVE	B
No Change	Kinsky	TOT	B
No Change	Hornícek	NEW	C, Vs
Down	Martinez	CHE	C
Down	Verbruggen	BHA	B, VsX

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Konsa Ngoyo	ARS	B
No Change	Calafiori	ARS	A
No Change	Gvardiol	MCI	A
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C, Vs
No Change	Tarkowski	EVE	A
Down	De Cuyper	BHA	A, VsX, OoP
No Change	Muharemovic	LEE	B
No Change	Williams	NFO	B
Down	Lacroix	CHE	C
Up	Khalaili	CRY	C
No Change	Ajer	BRE	C

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Palmer	CHE	A
No Change	Rogers	CHE	A
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
Up	Gibbs-White	NFO	A
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	B
No Change	Mbeumo	MUN	A
Up	Odegaard	ARS	A
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	B
No Change	Groß	BHA	A, VsX
No Change	Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	B
No Change	Barnes	NEW	B, Vs
Up	King	FUL	B, Vs
No Change	Sangaré	BRE	B
No Change	Le Fée	SUN	C

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	A, Inj
No Change	Wissa	NEW	B, Vs
No Change	Isak	LIV	A
No Change	Thiago	BRE	C
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	B
No Change	McBurnie	HUL	C
No Change	Barry	EVE	C
No Change	Gonzalo García	FUL	C, Vs

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Author	Hot Topic	Date	Replies
OPTA FPL	Aguero loves playing Spurs 🙂 .... or does he? 😯 I see lots of people keep saying Kun loves playing Spurs or Kun is a auto (C) everytime he faces Spurs? Because he scored 8 goals in 6 games vs Spurs? You dont remember that's 'old' Spurs, a dodgy…	9 years, 11 months ago	23
J0E	Can you pass the Walcott bias test? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Theo Walcott a perfect example of how bias can influence our decisions. To some he will always be the injury prone rotation risk. While to others he is…	9 years, 11 months ago	31
Give us a smile	Dynamic player statistic graphs Evening gents, I recently spent a bit of time scraping data from the FPL website and building a dashboard using that data in Tableau (data visualisation software). There's various stats you can c…	9 years, 11 months ago	13
PvA	GWK 7 Captaincy Candidates - Pros and Cons CAPTAIN PICKS Ibra pros: On pens On free kicks Great fixture at Old Trafford Underlying stats speak volumes. "Due" if I've ever seen it Most likely the highest captained player overall this week …	9 years, 11 months ago	47
J0E	Best third strikers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Third strikers gathered lots of interest on last night's Scoutcast. Defoe, Deeney and Benteke were among those in the frame. Who is your preferred third st…	9 years, 11 months ago	42
Kings of Lyon ★	There's still hope! Back in GW8 of the 2013/14 season many of us were tempted to throw in the towel after such an awful start. For morale purposes I set up a FFS league for all of those managers outside the top 1,000,…	9 years, 11 months ago	43
Your Mum's Athletic	The Case for Holebas...if fit. Why you should get Holebas if you don't already have him: 41% of WAT's attacks go down the left. 23% of their shots come from L (v 6% R). 1.6 shots + 0.6 key passes per game. £4.5 0.7% owners…	9 years, 11 months ago	29
J0E	Is GWK 7 the week not to capt. Aguero? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is GWK 7 the week not to captain Aguero? With Ibrahimovic topping the goal attempt table and facing Stoke, with Sanchez looking to add to his impressive awa…	9 years, 11 months ago	33
Jafalad	End the Rashford nonsense, trust in Ibra It's good to see that the DZ are not engaging in all this Rashford nonsense. Trust in Ibra we do.	9 years, 11 months ago	21
J0E	Has Ibra Got One More Game To Save His Reputation? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Zlatan overdue being ditched, or does he have one more game to save his reputation in Fantasy terms. Up against one of the Premier League's worst defenc…	9 years, 12 months ago	49
Mark	The Liverpool Midfield - Round Six Right then, thrash out this Liverpool midfield issue. I sense we're wrong to stick with Firmino but experience already this season tells us it pays to show some faith.	9 years, 12 months ago	67
JAC THE CAT	This king doesn't eat Swans! Wait...Aguero has not scored in 4 visits to the Liberty stadium!? Captain doubts	9 years, 12 months ago	34
Numb	Rashford v Deeney! Pile onnnnnnn! Deeney is nailed on no matter what Rashford is nailed on this weekend, after that his involvement depends on his performances as United have many more options than Watford do Who is more likely t…	9 years, 12 months ago	0
@ocprodigy	SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 GW5 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/14150750 **** WHAT IS IT? **** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every e…	9 years, 12 months ago	50
J0E	GWK 6 - Mark v Jonty - who will win? Mark and I are once again going head to head in FanDuel this weekend. Currently I’m winning 2-0. Will Mark prevail this week? Remember with no clean sheets for defenders and lots of points for C…	9 years, 12 months ago	14
J0E	GWK 6's Best Differential Will Be.... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 6's best differential and winner of the Nacer Chadli award for most unexpected points haul?	9 years, 12 months ago	77
The Fantastic Mr Fox	Who's the bar steward in the black? Pens given by refs so far: Dean - 4 Madley - 3 Oliver - 3 East - 3 Taylor - 2 Clattenberg - 2 Mason - 1 Marriner - 1 Ref appointment gw6: MUN v Lei - Dean BOU v Eve - Madley LIV v Hul - Marri…	9 years, 12 months ago	14
J0E	Attacking Defender Options Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scott Dann’s injury robs us of the game’s most attacking defender. For those on the search for an attacking defender who are you looking at? Are you op…	9 years, 12 months ago	19
J0E	3-5-2 or third striker fun? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic 3-5-2 or third striker fun? Among the issues discussed on last night's scoutcast was whether, given the wealth of options in midfield, a 3-5-2 line up was h…	9 years, 12 months ago	30
	Will Capoue Continue To Collect The Points? Many people here in the Capoue + De Roon camp or Capoue + Diomande camp seem to be selectively remembering Ramsey and Yaya’s hot seasons when thinking about Capoue's hot start. Why not look to Z…	9 years, 12 months ago	92
Smurf	Capoue - ignore the price, look at the points If Capoue was priced at 6.5m he would be a template 4th midfield pick by now, without a doubt. Regardless of his "poor stats".	10 years, 8 hours ago	67
Judas	Clean Sheets In Short Supply As clean sheets this season seem to be in short supply, I did some digging to see if this is just an illusion or if BPL defences this season really are struggling more than usual. I had a look ba…	10 years, 1 day ago	11
Give The Todd Some Love	Watford player guide Following the excellent Boro post a few pages back, just thought I'd post some thoughts about Watford as people are actually interested in more than just our strikers for once. *Longer than I thoug…	10 years, 1 day ago	24
J0E	Ibra v Sanchez Ibra v Sanchez From most of the wildcard teams and RMTs I've seen they either have Sanchez or Ibra. That seems to be the key decision many are making as having Ibra makes having Lukaku and Aguero …	10 years, 1 day ago	64
Lyonnais	GW6 Wildcard - key questions Wildcard questions! 1. Your prefered goalkeeper pairing? 2. Who is your Everton defender of choice? 3. Capoue - 4th mid or 5th mid? 4. Keep Hazard or ditch Hazard? 5. Which Liverpool midfielde…	10 years, 2 days ago	41
J0E	Man City At The Double Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Man City at the double With an average of three goals a game and 88 goal attempts is it time to focus all our efforts on Manchester City attackers. Aguero…	10 years, 2 days ago	24
J0E	Time to ditch Hazard? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Time to ditch Hazard? With two poor performances and some tricky games on the horizon is Hazard now ditchable. With many wanting Aguero back his hefty pric…	10 years, 3 days ago	38
zizoo10	Early kick off blunder of the week could fpl admins activate my wc for me by any chance? sitting on a 24 pt hit because i forgot to activate, had no idea there was an early fixture. finished top 1k last 2 seasons, so i'm holding hop…	10 years, 3 days ago	28
J0E	GWK 5 - Mark v Jonty - who will win? Mark v Jonty Mark and I are once again going head to head in FanDuel. So far its 1-0 to me and I’m £10 up as well after getting into the money slots thanks to a certain Belgian Everton strik…	10 years, 4 days ago	14
@ocprodigy	SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 We are back on track with results, and ready to get kick started with gameweek 5 featuring Friday Night Football! GW3 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.c…	10 years, 4 days ago	53
andy85wsm	Right to ignore defence? Are we ignoring defence too much or are there simply not enough clean sheets to go around? Most of the Ibra talk seems to be around downgrading to spend more money in midfield but should we be loo…	10 years, 5 days ago	47
J0E	Will The Foxes Out Fox Us? Fantasy Football Scout With all the huge hauls from the likes of Lukaku and Aguero last night proving he is essential are we in danger of forgetting all about last year's Champions - Leicester. A…	10 years, 5 days ago	15
A.T	The curious case of Marcus Rashford Marcus Rashford looks likely to get his chance in the United starting lineup this week after Mou's comments following the Manchester derby. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/10575094/m…	10 years, 6 days ago	15
ktk_interista	Daring to Go Aguero-less Late to the Jonty hot topic for Aguero plans so I thought I'd post my opinion as a new post. I think Mark is just haunted by his Aguero-less experiment last year that ended after just 1 GW but I se…	10 years, 6 days ago	55
J0E	Aguero Plans - Going Ibra-less or cheap in midfield? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero re hiring plans On last night's Scoutcast Mark and I put forward contrasting solutions to drafting Aguero back in and still being able to have a cred…	10 years, 6 days ago	72
Rupert The Horse	Going Wild On Honeymoon A Honeymoon Wild Card: The squits, no hits and seeing who fits. Now for the average man or woman, if it so shall be; a marriage should be a time of wonder, joy and relaxation. A moment to savour,…	10 years, 6 days ago	40
andy85wsm	Value outside the big two? With so much current and potential value around is it time to start looking at a team without both Ibra, or Aguero or perhaps neither? Maybe it's knee jerk but there's some excellent buys out ther…	10 years, 7 days ago	36
J0E	GW 5 Captaincy - Early Thoughts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 5 captaincy choices - the most diverse yet? Who will you be captaining and is Kane actually the best bet? Home to Sunderland and Dembele back.	10 years, 8 days ago	44
Mark	Watchlist Thoughts... Morning all. Thoughts on the above. The Cazorla decision is against my better judgement as Sanchez clearly can and likely will outscore him, but the price difference, and Santi's form thus far is a…	10 years, 9 days ago	58
The Fantastic Mr Fox	Hold, don't twist The Theory of Hold. Now i know this is something which any serious FPL-er would practice, but in the early weeks when many other choices are scoring and players with seemingly less skill/effort th…	10 years, 9 days ago	31
J0E	Too much choice, too little money. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Last year was arguably defined by consistent returns from cheap players such as Mahrez and Alli. Coupled with a lack of credible players from Chelsea and Ma…	10 years, 9 days ago	40
Hyperion	Ozil vs Cazorla Had a quick look at Ozil and Cazorla's chalkboards from yesterday's game: Based on their passes received, Ozil receives the ball in more advanced positions than Cazorla, but Cazorla is more involv…	10 years, 9 days ago	10
ktk_interista	Does Santi bring Claus for concern over Ozil? After watching the Arsenal game today, I am worried as an Ozil owner. He is less involved than Cazorla who is supposedly playing the double pivot. We thought Cazorla and Ozil are sharing set-pieces…	10 years, 9 days ago	11
andy85wsm	Capoue - 4th mid? With Capoue having now scored 3 goals and gotten an assist in the opening 4 games is he worthy of the 4th mid slot, or is that too much of a risk considering it could be a major reshuffle if he get…	10 years, 9 days ago	34
samaael	Back to School With Fantasy Football Asked my grade 6 class :''which striker under 8m should Mr Sutton get in his fantasy team?'' Decided we needed to look at data. Made some graphs on which stat best predicts goals. We made graphs on…	10 years, 10 days ago	4
J0E	GWK 4 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in gwk 4 and why?	10 years, 10 days ago	23
@ocprodigy	SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Gameweek 3 results will be here tomorrow, apologies for the delays (out of my hands really - manual updates are time consuming and life got in the way!) GW2 res…	10 years, 10 days ago	52
J0E	Sanchez or Ozil revisited. Hmmm. How are Sanchez owners feeling? Think he'll be rested for PSG? Or does he not do rest? Is Ozil a better option now?	10 years, 11 days ago	39
J0E	Mark v Jonty - who will win? Mark and I are going head to head in FanDuel this week. Quick reminder of the scoring - only goalkeepers get clean sheets. CBI rules among defenders Chances created rule among midfielders a…	10 years, 11 days ago	10
pundit of punts	Lukaku Can Deliver People saying that Lukaku is a terrible pick are just in denial. He scored in 7 consecutive games last season when he had good fixtures. That can't be luck. Similar situation now. I think he will…	10 years, 11 days ago	40

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