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Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How much do price changes effect your transfer moves. With Coutinho rising and non players like Yaya Toure falling already we are seeing the value of jump…

Aguero vs Ibrahimovic captaincy musings I had planned on roatating Ibrahimovic and Aguero home and away for captaincy this season but this week I think im going to go for Aguero. - Southampton a…

What is your worst memory from playing Fantasy Football? I remember getting Walters off the bench in the two-own-goals-and-a-missed-penalty performance for Stoke against Chelsea.

Scoutcast tonight! Feel free to leave your questions for the team here ahead of tonight's 10pm Scoutcast via our Youtube channel.

Gameweek 1 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to leave your tales of woe and joy here. If you can put your Gameweek score and one particular player that either let you down or saved your gameweek tha…

ICT - Over 50 ICT Threat Rondon - 89 Aguero - 81 Rooney - 79 Llorente - 78 Mane - 65 Redmond - 58 Lallana 57 Tadic 54 E Valencia - 53 Mata - 50 ICT Creativity Tadic - 94.5 Gardner - 74.8 Routl…

Just airing my thoughts. After yesterday, the urge to kneejerk a few players in is unbearable, I know the feeling. I went with Firmino, and everyone but him did something. Likewise those with Alex…

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Keep or ditch? Of those being transferred out this week, who do you think should be ditched and who should be given more time? Vardy – 23,000 FPL manager…

Is Lamela the real deal for Spurs? Or a flash like his rabona last year.

CITY UPDATE Now this update is gonna be a biggy coz I'm gonna include everything I know about the Joe Hart situation, from the moment I was originally told up to now! But first I'll get the other …

First goals imminent table of the season. http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/6070/ I own three of the early season almost scored crew. How many do you own?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Gameweek 1 Day 1 Pluses and Minuses After spending weeks putting your Gameweek 1 squad together yesterday you found out whether your players were starters o…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in gwk 1 and why?

FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition - new and improved for the 2016/17 season! I will be releasing a spreadsheet to keep up with everyone's results that will …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who is 'your player'? This is the player that for a few seasons now you keep turning to, whose game playe, personality and FPL performance best suit yours? …

Forget about Brexit, forget about England Euro 2016 exit, let's talk about: DEXIT - Daniel FPL and FFS exit. I mean it has been almost a decade together, but when your last touch of the game and…

Tracking The Fantasy Football Veterans Final Reminder: There are already more than 90 applications for 15 veteran spots. If you have at least two top 10k finishes, and at least five season experie…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Scoutcast is back! Tune in tonight at 10pm via our Youtube channel to hear the team mull over the Gameweek 1 options and find out how their squads are …

With Spurs having a decent run of fixtures to start the season, their midfield attacking three of Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli and Erik Lamela are all popular picks. But which is the best option? H…

Here's a look at FPL ownership as things stand - it's easy to be swept up by the 'FFS Template', losing sight of how typical your picks really are. Rather than focusing on ownership of individual…

Shameless repost from a few thousand comments ago but hopefully it helps people who are unsure of their picks... Probable Starters 2016/17 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B03D_KnVF1fRTHpmcEpuV2…

Are some options not being overlooked? - If people fancy Hazard to do well, then surely Costa will also do well? His goalscoring record is exceptional for Chelsea, he's the target man, will undou…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With the departures of Andre Ayew, who has already left for West Ham, and Ashley Williams, who is on his way to Everton, are Swansea as good as relegated? …

Seen a lottttttttt of people ask if Stones will play GW1. He will. 🙂 Here's why: HE'S FIT: City have played just three pre-season games, keeping no clean sheets and playing players out of positio…

Liverpool – the forehead perspective. Goalkeepers: New boy Loris Karius (£5m) has a broken hand and will miss 6-10 weeks, paving way for Simon Mignolet (£5m) to start the season. Nice and e…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Will you be considering Pogba? What price would you like him to be? Could he be another Yaya Toure and get amongst the goals and assists? Or will he be the…

As the new season is almost upon us I introduce the all new “FFS Premier League” The league is made up of 20 teams from the FFS community, 10 managers with a previous top 500 ranking and 10 m…

I think if Redmond is nailed for the first few games. a lot of people are missing out on a huge opportunity that we don't see quite often. Like with Michu (from the 2012/13 season) and Ayew from l…

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…