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 J0E | When The Chips Are Down Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Chips - The Haves and the Have-Nots On last night’s Scoutcast it was lamented that the chips could give too much of an advantage to those who plan ahead a… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 67 |
 gaurava1216 | GWK 33 Wildcard Strategy My Comments on DGW 34 for those using WC in 33....BB in 34 and TC in 37..... A) Pick 3 Liverpool players -------DGW 34, Play 35, play 36, DGW 37. Players in contention IMO: Either Moreno/Clyne DF … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
 Mr Pink | The Case for a GW36 WC Currently leaning towards WC36 for the following reasons: 1) I can get 9 DGW players in GW34 without a hit. If anything, experience has taught us that a SGW player with a good fixture might very w… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
 McNulty | Dare You Go Aguero-less for the DGWKs? Just continuing on from Grimandi's post in the other article (link at the bottom)... Has anyone considered an Aguero-less wildcard team to bench boost in GW34? Might seem like madness but there… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast (Tonight 9:45pm)- Leave Your Questions Here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:45pm DGWKs will surely be on the agenda - feel free to leave your questions for the team below on the doubles and any other Fant… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 61 |
 Ryan | All Quiet on the GWK 36 Wildcard Front Its all gone very quiet on the alternative option 'WC GW36 BB GW37' Why is this? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 78 |
 | DGWK Players Longlist Before we get knuckled down in a gameweek 34 "template", let's cast our net wide. Liverpool: Mignolet, Moreno, Sakho, Milner, Lallana, Hendo, Firmino, Coutinho, Studger Everton: Robles, Coleman, … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
 BuK II | Gwk 33-37 Transfer Plan Thinking about GW33 wildcard out loud and how to get 15DGWers for GW34, 11 out in GW35 and 11 DGWers for GW37... Everton, Liverpool and Crystal Palace have 7 matches in the 5GWs so loading up on t… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 53 |
 Bøss ⭐ | Punt or Plan - Gameweek 31 Transfers anyone else planning to prioritize transfers for DGW players that will be potentially rising in value (so that they can afford them come GW34) or are you planning to punt between now and the GW33 W… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 15 |
 Bubz | At the Double! Time to Triple Up on Liverpool So triple Liverpool is basically essential if they have 2 DGW's and a fixture GW35 right? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 17 |
J0E | DGWK 34 and 37 strategy Hot Topic – Double Gameweek Strategy and Discussion So we now know when the double gameweeks will be with GWK 34 and 37 looking like busy times for being a Fantasy manager. Here’s what we kn… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 70 |
J0E | Rough with the Smooth - Gwk 30 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 30 How was the gameweek for you. Kane captainers make yourself known. But any Gradel captainers in the house? Anyone find the… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 95 |
J0E | GWK 34's Singleton Punishers The Single Gameweek 34 punishers. We know there will be plenty of double fixture action in GWK 34, we don't know which teams will be involved yet. But one other thing we do know is that there w… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 101 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31 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… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 6 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | Alternative FFS glossary As smugness / sneeriness levels are unbearably high on FFS this evening, time to update the alternative glossary of terms for the FAQ section: "Is X points good?" = "I have a very good score this … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 55 |
J0E | In GWK Changes- Sky and UFPL Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In Gameweek Changes - Sky - UFPL How's the gameweek going so far? What are your key changes and captaincy moves to come? In UFPL who had a captain fail yes… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 18 |
 bitm2007 | DGWK and Blanks - The Situation So far... Teams with DGW's 3 x Everton form GW27 (Liv), GW30 (sun) and GW35 (Pal) 2 x Liverpool form GW27 (Eve) and GW30 (CHE) 2 x Manchester United form GW30 (PAL) and GW35 (WHU) 2 x West Ham form GW30 (W… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Gameweek 30 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 30 and why? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Aguero Without Toure How does Aguero perform without Yaya? Pretty well. Here's a look at the matches Yaya was either absent for or played very few minutes GWK 8 - Yaya absent- Aguero gets 25 pts ( MCI 6 - 1 New) G… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
 Return Of Chamakh | What's Your FPL Motivation? A couple of comments from Scratch's hot topic about Mini-League blocking (loading up on similar players from teams below you to stop them being able to overtake you) started up a bit of a conversat… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 56 |
 FFFrog | FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! INSTRUCTIONS In this competition you enter 5 predictions for ANY 5 fixtures in the upcoming gameweek. For Example for G… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 60 |
 Hooky | Friday's Press Conferences No - pressers left today are 12:45 - Manchester City 13:00 - Norwich 13:30 - Chelsea 14:00 - Watford 14:30 - Arsenal 15:00 - Stoke | 10 years, 3 months ago | 0 |
J0E | GWK 30's Best Differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be GWK 30's best differential and why? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 51 |
 Scratch | Mini-League Blocking Tactics Damn I usually like jonyy he's a decent skin but having just watched the scoutcast, I absolutely hate his view on mimicking a rivals team just to win. Most of the fun of FPL is watching a match wi… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 32 |
J0E | GWK 35 Planning (Or Why We Should All Support Reading and Watford) Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Why Fantasy managers should become Watford and Reading Fans One of the questions on last night’s Scoutcast was whether those wildcarding for the double ga… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 59 |
 Twisted Saltergater | DGW (c) Options DGW34 - Who are you going to captain / triple captain? ARS :: CPL, WBA sensible: Ozil - dynamite: Sanchez - maverick: Koscielny CHE :: MCI, liv sensible: Costa - dynamite: Willian - maverick: Iva… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 52 |
 andy85wsm | What is 'template' ? At what % does a player have to be owned for you to consider it template? A) Top 10k B) Overall | 10 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
 GreenWindmill | DGW 34 v 37 - the starts conundrum Just been researching the suggestion that rotation will be more of a factor in DGW37 than in DGW34 with a view to considering the best time to WC. It seems to be a logical premise and the stats ba… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 75 |
J0E | Double Gameweek Planning - Key Players Double Gameweeks - Key Players, Ones to Consider and Differentials The double Gameweeks, or at least some of them are set to be revealed later this week. On top of that those involved in the FA Cu… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 60 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast (Tonight 9:30pm)- Leave Your Questions Here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scoutcast Community Questions The live scoutcast will take place tonight at 9:30pm UK time. Feel free to leave your questions here. Tonight will be somet… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 58 |
| Why Arsenal FA Cup Progress is so important From SmartyPants' website, 40% of the top 10k will have 8 or less players for GW30 if Arsenal win tonight. If Arsenal lose that ratio drops to 8%. Check out the scenarios tap for more info. http… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
J0E | Ad redirect issues Ad redirect issues If anyone is having any issues with ads on the site can you let us know what browser you are using, the device as well as the particular ad. It'll help our ad people to sort any… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 9 |
J0E | Triple captain candidates- the consecutive kings Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Triple captain candidates- the consecutive kings One of the best indicators of whether a double Gameweek captain will be a success is how often they have … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 59 |
 Demí | Team Value Check Quick team value check? TV: 109.7 SV: 105.1 Hopefully i'm in a position where i can splash out on attacking defenders like Ivanovic and Dann for their DGW's when i WC | 10 years, 3 months ago | 66 |
 Judas | GWK 30 Captaincy - Kane v Aguero I've just done a big stat analysis on Kane vs Aguero for (C) this week and thought I would share the key points with you. I looked into the individual players form recently and a comparison of goal… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
| Wimbledon Doubles - Last 16 Draw Hi everyone, I'm just posting this again for the daytime crowd. These are the Wimbledon Doubles Last 16 Results Northfield's Netters & DPR Trøndelag 68 96 157 84 73 166 Blue Lion & Gloria Kanc… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
J0E | GWK 29 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 29 rough with the smooth We are looking for your tales of success and failure in Gameweek 29. Best ones will be read out on this week's Scoutcast. Remember its what you did (eg - transfe… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 117 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30 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… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 2 |
 Prøphet | Congratulations Prophet 🙂 Good morning FFS. Yesterday at around 20h i have become a father to a healthy boy. The feeling is incredible, everything people have said and way more. New chapter and everything. Just wanted to … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 82 |
 | Your Player of the Season Who is the player of YOUR FPL season? 🙂 i.e. the one who you'd say has made the biggest difference to your rank / mini-league. | 10 years, 3 months ago | 57 |
 Nomar | GW30 Captain Options Captain options next GW: Kane: Villa's gameplan for the rest of the season appears to be stick 10 men behind the ball, hope to get to 75 mins at 0-0 then put Gestede on and hope to sneak a 1-0. … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
 Will - Fantasy Football Hub | Having a Poor Rank Has Never Been So Much Fun This may sound strange but is anyone enjoying fpl MORE because they are doing badly? I had a great season last year (top 100) but didn't massively enjoy it because I felt the pressure on every dec… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 30 |
 Eden Hazardous | T20 WC Discussion @Jonty , Will you have an article/hot topic for the T20 WC too? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 47 |
J0E | MLS Fantasy Discussion MLS Fantasy Deadline Discussion Had a request from some of our MLS Fantasy managers to start up a hot topic as there is a deadline in the game today. Here it is. Good luck with your Fantasy Socc… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 46 |
J0E | Sky and UFPL in gameweek changes Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In Gameweek games - Sky and UFPL How did Super Saturday go for you yesterday? Anyone in UFPL not needing to make any changes? How is the hunt for the monthl… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 30 |
| Mahrez joins the 200 club So Mahrez has joined the 200 club with 9 games left, how high can he go? 295 Suarez '14 284 Lampard '10 283 Ronaldo '08 271 Henry '03 269 Lampard '05, RVP '12 262 RVP '13 249 Bale '13 244 Ronal… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
J0E | GWK 29 Captaincy and Bench Decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining? Anyone dare not to go for Aguero? Which mid/fwd are you benching and why? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 29 GW28 results due tomorrow - I've been drinking. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 53 |
FFFrog | Froggy Five Prediction Competition FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! INSTRUCTIONS In this competition you enter 5 predictions for ANY 5 fixtures in the upcoming gameweek. For Example for G… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 80 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | ManU's Run In Manchester United - The run in - can they finish in the top 4? After a 1-0 win against Watford on Wednesday, United now sit in joint fourth place alongside Man City, with the latter having a game … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 16 |