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Here's some news from TheShoeMaker about some research he is carrying out into FPL strategy that he hopes you will be able to help with. He says: " Over the last couple of weeks I have been spend…

Q&A with the Professor The Professor – Chris Atkinson, who has developed our Hall of Fame and Rate My Team, will be popping by at 1:30pm to answer any questions you have on these tools. Feel f…

I'm seeing lots of new posters around here recently. So here's some basics the site has learned over the years that most of us agree on: 1. Cheap keepers are usually the best choice. They represen…

So not to put anyone off Aguero because lets face it we are all going to have him but something to consider i feel is rotation that Pep has a habit of and has been talking up again. We were lucky …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily hot topic Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 1 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Community Shield - what will it tell us? What do you hope to learn from today's Community Shield. For Leicester do you want to fine out if Musa is the rea…

How many goals are scored through set pieces as a ratio to the entire team's goals? Last season , Total Goals Scored by all teams = 1026 Goals scored through indirect FKs = 68 Percentage = 6.63%…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Morning After The Draft Night Before For those playing in our draft leagues in DugoutFC how did it go? Any notable successes? Any unwanted failures? H…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it worth playing with just 14 players? This is an idea that I know Triggerlips has been looking at recently that is ideal for those who plan/reluctantly…

Hello everyone, hope you are all well! Here's the latest update to the New Transfers Spreadsheet. I've added the new arrivals since the last update as well as updating prices to players who have b…

I wanted to add on to my post about the 4-2-4 system I wrote a few days back - (http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2016/07/24/the-numbers-game-201516-review-tottenham/?hc_page=12#hc_comment_1360…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Has Hazard done enough with two goals and an assist in Pre-season to work his way into our teams? Or is his price tag still too high for a player that only m…

Fantasy Football Scout Manchester United Revival - Key Questions That Need Answers As a fantasy football manager I'm very excited about the prospect of Manchester United once again offering us s…

Battle of 6.5s - been analysing data over battle for 6.5s striker options. Whilst Andre Gray clearly leads the race for final product last season - notching 23 goals and 8 assists in 3410 minute…

Andre Gray scoring 8 goals in 5 friendlies is impressive stuff, but what should also be attracting fantasy managers is that he's been involved in 8 of Burnley's 11 goals whilst he's been on the pit…

Hi All, Opened up some more spots in my £5 and £20 entry cash leagues for the coming season! Please email me at fantasyfootballaz7@gmail.com with which league you'd like to enter (it can only b…

Williams at Everton raises a couple of interesting FPL questions. Firstly, will he be as much of a BAPs monster at Everton as he was at Swansea Secondly, where does it leave Swansea. £10m for…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Pre Season Stars – Who Is the Real Deal? So far there have been some prolific scorers in the pre season friendlies. But which will be a Michu, and which …

Community Writer of the Month – July We are once again looking to give away an £20 Amazon voucher* to your favourite community writer of the month. To vote for your favourite please mention th…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Do any of FPL's budget (6m or below) forwards appeal - or are you looking to spend more? The obvious upside in selecting a budget friendly forward is that i…

Big thanks to Tony Hibbert, Malcolm Tucker and Reedy for the help (would have been lost without that info) So I've got a spreadsheet with all of the preseason data so far; player, price, team, pos…

I'm always wary of paying top dollar for a player who was considered underpriced the previous year. Half the trick is knowing which player and his supporting cast are the real deal, and which may …

Tracking the Veterans request Kavali has asked if any of the top 20 in the FFS Hall of Fame could email him their new FPL ID for inclusion in next season's Tracking the Veterans season. This is …

So which player do you rate enough to actually put in your team (that's the key part) that you think the masses on here have overlooked? Ill throw Cedric's name out there (again) at 5m. Season o…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic: New Kids on the Block Morning all, I'm stepping into the breach today for the Daily Hot Topic 🙂 Every season a new player arrives in the Premier League …

Hey guys, sorry to bother you. I was going to do a nice article on £6.5m forwards with a swanky introduction but after writing 650 works on Andre Gray I'm not sure i'll be able to squeeze in all…

Fullbacks: Luke Shaw has played 4992 minutes of PL football. Or 56 games, if you like. - 0 goals - 2 assists - 61 chances created Hector Bellerin has played 4807 minutes of PL football. Or 54…

Andre Gray - Goals for Burnley 15/16: Gray scored 23 whilst at Burnley, but against 12 of the 23 other teams. League position - Team - Gray goals: 24th - Bolton - 4 20th - Fulham - 3 18th - Brist…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - The Strong Front 8 A traditional GW1 team usually consists of a cheap 4.5m attacker who you will bench every week. Rarely does this player offer any consis…

There has been plenty said about the respective merits of Spurs players in the first 4 games of the season with Dembele missing, but just how important was he last year? With Dembele in the side S…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - Transfer wish list We've not even hit August yet and Premier League clubs have already signed 71 players since the end of last season. With 16 days left u…

Good evening everyone, hope you are all well! Here is the updated version of my New Players Analysis Spreadsheet. http://bit.ly/2auNGHa The main new feature is the "value" column being filled i…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - Rotation, Rotation, Rotation Every season when FPL launches one of the first things people do is look for the best rotations, usually for goalkeepers and d…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - Early Wildcard Planning With the changes last year to how wildcards work there has been more of a move to using the first wildcard early. As someone who ha…

For the kind folks that asked The teams I've chosen for this rotation are Watford, Stoke, Sunderland, Leicester and Middlesbrough. Clean sheets are becoming increasingly scarce as the quality in m…

Time for some bold statements for the season ahead - - Vardy wont score more than 10 goals this season - Janssen will score more goals than Kane - Hull, Burnley and Watford will be relegated - …

Fantasy Football Daily Hot Topic - Form or fixtures? Form or fixtures is a big topic of conversation between Fantasy Managers throughout the season and one that never goes away. At the beginning…

Fantasy Football Scout - Daily Hot Topic - Are there too many Liverpool midfielders to choose from? With Wijnaldum having now signed for Liverpool they have a plethora of options in midfield - Wij…

Is 424 some mythical formation? Did peeps make it up by playing FIFA? Can you really have a formation that's 'that' attacking? History seems to answer this with a resoundingly 'yes' vote. Well, a …

Here's mine FWIW... 1. Spend as little as possible on keepers - 8.5 - even if they don't get a CS they can get saves 2. Early on, also, don't spend too much on defenders - CSs are difficult to pre…

In my Veteran's sample for upcoming season there will be a room for Top 20 Hall of Famers. So please, if you are in top 20 spots, send me an email with your new season ID on kavali985@gmail.com Che…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - New Managers For Fantasy players, new managers to the league are often something to be wary of as we just don't know how they're going to perform, who they…

Anyone else targeting players who've had the summer off? Without the Euros or Copa America, they should be fresh for the start of the season. Currently, Aguero is my only player that went to an int…

Apologies for the delay on this but I finally have some time to write up the midfielder and forward price challenge results. Big thanks to Greenwindmill for making all the effort to collect the ent…

Mahrez - 36 starts First 18 games: 13 goals, 7 assists Last 18 games: 4, goals, 4 assists Vardy - 36 starts First 18 games: 15 goals, 3 assists Last 18 games: 9 goals. 3 assists . Both dipped in …

Fantasy Football Daily Hot Topic - Sunderland assets With David Moyes being announced as the new Sunderland manager this morning does that make you more or less likely to pick up one of their play…

Fantasy Football Daily Hot Topic - That third striker... A lot of Fantasy Managers will likely be looking towards a more affordable player for the third striker slot. There's a good few players to…

Those of you who have been regulars on here for a while will remember my “Consensus RMT” posts. The idea is simple – I collate RMTs for a given period, then report the frequency with which th…

Any valid arguments left why Zlatan should / shouldn't be in our gw1 squads?

Do you have Hazard in your team? Why or why not?