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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

J0E
Live HoF update

Live Hall of Fame update (Members content) See where you are here.... http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/hall-of-fame/live/

10 years, 2 months ago18

andy85wsm
January transfer window

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic - January transfer window With the January transfer window less than a week away from closing who are you hoping to see move during the remaining time and wh…

10 years, 2 months ago34

DGW Hauls - Last 3 Yrs

Just to add to the DGW hype, this is every double digit haul from a DGW player over the last three years 🙂 2012/13 GW1: Chelsea & Reading Ivanovic (24) Hazard (21) Lampard (16) Cahill (10) Cole …

10 years, 2 months ago55

Eden Hazardous
Expected Goals Conceded

I made a xGC (Expected Goals Conceded) form ratings list (last 6 weeks). What is xG? It is a quantitative + qualitative metric used for measuring sum of quality of chances. For further reading - h…

10 years, 2 months ago44

Perchinho
Transfers and DGW's

Most of our transfers for the rest of the season are going be spent on getting rid of players with an upcoming blank or loading up on players with an upcoming DGW, here's the schedule: If there is…

10 years, 2 months ago38

J0E
Butland owners beware

Butland owners urged to start panicking. For those with Butland I’d advise ensuring you have another good playing goalkeeper while Shawcross is out. I’ve just crunched some numbers and Shaw…

10 years, 2 months ago24

Lucy.
Southampton's Emerging Stars

Saints ramblings: Looks increasingly like Graziano will leave either this month or the summer. As much as I see that he's ageing and has been hugely inconsistent, I think we need options. I hope h…

10 years, 2 months ago30

J0E
Gameweek 23 Rough with the Smooth

Gameweek 23 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to share your tales of woe or joy from GWK 23 here. We will select some of the best ones to read out on this week's scoutcast (Wed 9:30pm). Expecting …

10 years, 2 months ago101

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 24

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 24 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, 2 months ago2

Wimbledon Doubles- Last 32 Draw

Wimbledon Doubles Update After the third set of the first round matches we now have the draw for the last 32: Northfield's Netters & DPR Trøndelag v Nico & Junior Kai Tony Hibbert & King Nid…

10 years, 2 months ago14

Grand Play Offs Update

Grand Playoffs Update The last 16 ties concluded this week and these are the Quarter Finals to be played over the next 3 gameweeks Four Four Boyz vs The Buck Stops With Me Jawain vs MrFlibbles Ge…

10 years, 2 months ago15

J0E
UFPL and Sky mid gameweek changes

UFPL and Sky mid gameweek changes Thought I'd open this up to another in gameweek Fantasy game as well as UFPL to include those wondering who to captain in Sky too. In UFPL - Who is sticking wit…

10 years, 2 months ago35

Why don't you own Aguero yet?

So I was producing an Aguero stat attack for Mark, though he's already seen the light here it is anyway as I hope you'll enjoy it regardless. With 90 goals, 35 fpl assists and 106 bonus points, t…

10 years, 2 months ago20

Mark
The End of the Experiment

Okay, it's happening. I've thought long and hard this evening but, while I'd love to stick to my guns, I need to keep some sanity. I can't risk the season capitulating and, without Aguero, that's …

10 years, 2 months ago32

Spencer
Gameweek 23 Captain Choices

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? Is it Lukaku with the hope fixture can trump form? Is it Kane against the poor form of Palace? What about a re…

10 years, 2 months ago34

Lateriser 12
Aguero (c) over Lukaku ?

For all confused between Kun(c) and Lukaku(c) - Kun is the man in form. - Wham conceded 13 shots against NEWC. 10 shots on target against NEWC. - Mirallas could hog Lukaka points. Lukaka loves Del…

10 years, 2 months ago40

Zasa
GW23 Stat Attack

GW23's Stat Attack: "We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyze them." Norwich vs Liverpool: - PL chances created since Klopp was appointed: Liverpool = 181 (1…

10 years, 2 months ago11

@ocprodigy
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 23 GW21 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/12451201 GW22 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/12493817 ****** WHAT IS IT? **…

10 years, 2 months ago58

J0E
Gameweek 23's Best Differential Will Be...

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best GWK 23 differential Looking at fixtures and Rakkhi's excellent community article on predicting points it looks like Sunderland could be a great source …

10 years, 2 months ago47

Your Mum's Athletic
Friday's Press Conferences

Friday pressers: Norwich - now Aston Villa - now Watford - now Liverpool - 11am Man Utd - 12pm Chelsea - 12.30pm Man City - 12:45pm Swansea -2pm Sunderland- 2pm Southampton - 16:00 Arsenal - done …

10 years, 2 months ago8

Jazz!
DGWs simplified

For those who are a bit behind on the possible DGWs. GWs 27, 30 and 35 WILL include blanks. GW27 Blanks for C1C Finalists GW30 Blanks for teams that reach the FA Cup QF GW35 Blanks for teams tha…

10 years, 2 months ago26

J0E
Agueroless or Aguero-ed...who will prevail?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In a lively Scoutcast last night the Agueroless (Mark) took on the Aguero-ed (Myself, Andy and D1sable) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJO1YStvHoo Mark's …

10 years, 2 months ago56

Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
Watford's Slump in Cold, Hard Stats

Heya folks!! Further to AB's Hot Topic regarding Watford slump, I have a few statistics to back this up. Firstly,this table http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/7897/ l…

10 years, 2 months ago18

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tonight (9:30pm) - Leave Your Questions Here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast Tonight (9:30pm UK time). Feel free to leave your questions here? Perhaps Aguero and how the Aguero-less will cope is on your mind? What abou…

10 years, 2 months ago74

pax888
Your Biggest 15/16 Downfall Has Been...

What's been your downfall this season? Mine's been captain choice just worked out my captain has blanked 12 out of 22 gameweeks. Most of that has been captaining Aguero far too much.

10 years, 2 months ago48

Grand Play Offs Update

and the Grand Playoffs now has 3 players into the Quarter Finals as Jawain, MrFlibbles and Hooky have won their last 16 bouts in two weeks. They now face a gameweek off as the other five ties go to…

10 years, 2 months ago6

ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
Patience is a DGWK virtue

Don’t forget that GW30 is FA Cup quarter final week, which is likely to involve many teams with a blank GW, so there are likely to be a few teams who will blank BOTH GW27 (C1C final) and GW30. S…

10 years, 2 months ago18

applebonkers
Watford's Slump - A Fan's Eye View

sadly i don't think watford did much worse yesterday than they have been all season. they regularly verge on the unwatchable, it's like west brom minus the set-piece expertise but plus ighalo. it's…

10 years, 2 months ago14

J0E
GWK 22 Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth GWK 22 Feel free to leave your tales of woe and joy from the week here. Particularly keen to hear from those who drafted in the likes …

10 years, 2 months ago77

East of Eden for Spot Kick Charlie

Roger East has awarded 6 penalties in 13 games (second most trigger happy ref after Madley) http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/12440578 Sunderland have conceded the most penalities this…

10 years, 2 months ago19

Every Dog Has Its Day
Mahrez penalised for missed opportunities

CR: “I talked to him and said 'don’t worry, take a little break and you’ll have a chance to take them again.'” #LeiTot CR: “I will speak with my players [about who takes penalties]. Last…

10 years, 2 months ago14

J0E
Chewing over the Toffees

Chewing over the Toffees With SWA and NEW next up for Everton now looks a profitable time to invest in the Toffees and certainly to hang on to their players. Lukaku looks a key captaincy pick for…

10 years, 2 months ago51

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gwk 23

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 23 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, 2 months ago3

Red Devil Swede
Springtime heroes

Who could be the standout picks this spring? Every season the players who did well during the autumn, fade away a bit during the spring. And the opposite - those who did bad during autumn, come al…

10 years, 2 months ago28

J0E
UFPL Discussion

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL discussion. How did yesterday go? Who is in? Who is out? And how is the quest for the £1,000 monthly prize going?

10 years, 2 months ago8

Bøwstring The Carp
Watching The Men in Black

Repost from earlier in case anyone missed it. Is it time to start looking at referees when considering our team each week? Two in particular are notorious for cards and penalties. Roger East [6 p…

10 years, 2 months ago15

Piggs Boson
Happy Birthday Giggs Boson

C'mon FPL, give me a green for my birthday 🙂

10 years, 2 months ago22

J0E
Gwk 22 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why?

10 years, 2 months ago49

@ocprodigy
Scout picks challenge

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 22 GW20 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/12421438 GW21 results: coming this weekend, apologies! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you …

10 years, 2 months ago46

Is there anyone better than Payet?

Is anybody else looking at their midfield unable to justify getting Payet in for one of them?

10 years, 2 months ago19

andy85wsm
Leicester Rotation is Crystal Clear

As people are now starting to come around to Leicester defence, and I suspect there's a few Hennessey owners out there here's the Schmeichel / Hennesey rotation for coming weeks: Villa (a) - Stoke…

10 years, 2 months ago18

FIFFSA final group game update

Hi guys, this is just a quick rundown of the situation in each group as we go into the final round of qualifiers. For those of you who have already qualified, remember that there will be seeding at…

10 years, 2 months ago21

J0E
Is Aguero a poisoned chalice or holy grail?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Aguero a poisoned chalice? On this week's Scoutcast Mark asserted that owning Aguero could be a problem as his price and pedigree means he will be captain…

10 years, 2 months ago32

Hasselbaink Forever
Friday press conference times

Friday's Press Conference - 08:00 Bournemouth 09:00 Arsenal, West Brom, Norwich 09:15 Aston Villa 10:00 Everton 11:00 Liverpool 12:15 Crystal Palace 12:45 Man City 13:15 Chelsea 14:00 N…

10 years, 2 months ago5

ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
DGW Spanner in the Works

Potential spanner in the works for DGW in GW25. As you probably all know, the midweek for GW25 is also when potential FA Cup 4th round replays are scheduled for. I have looked at the FA Cup rules…

10 years, 2 months ago18

wimbledon first set results

The first set of the Wimbledon Doubles is up and this week both the highest and lowest scores of the week happened in the same matchup as Holmes & Kings of Lyon beat AK & Acquafresca 90 points to …

10 years, 2 months ago20

J0E
GWK 21 Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 21 Rough with the Smooth Let's be seeing your tales of woe and joy from GWK 21. Expecting to see a few of the 30,000 Ramsey ditchers (myself included) a…

10 years, 2 months ago79

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gwk 22

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 22 This season we have revamped how we involve the community in our Scout Picks. Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent th…

10 years, 2 months ago8

J0E
Final Whistle Scoutcast-Tonight Leave Your Questions Here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Join Mark, Jonty and Andy tonight for a live final whistle Scoutcast via our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxYKQ8pgJ7V8wwh4hLsSXQ We aim…

10 years, 2 months ago45

Match day 1 bench boost challenge

3rd times the charm MATCHDAY 1 BENCH BOOST CHALLENGE Right, as we're all agreed tonight's matches are pants fpl-wise post your 15 man Bench Boost attempt at getting the overnight gameweek rank #1…

10 years, 2 months ago100