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 NOMONEY | The Case for the Penalty Taker? Just why are we so concerned about penalties? Often see posts asking about Player A vs Player B, and one chooses Player A over Player B because he is the penalty taker etc. Here are the penalty sta… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 28 |
 J0E | Your Dream Chip Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic As has been well documented already FPL has brought in three chips, giving Fantasy managers the chance to triple their captain score, add their bench points … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 66 |
 Couti & the Below5th | Probable starters update Probable Starters 15/16 Update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03D_KnVF1fRbmxPTnhEOXJNaE0/view?usp=sharing I've now included little markers to indicate who started the match so we can see if th… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 5 |
 Big4FPL | Man United Match Report Long Post Alert Man Utd 3-1 Barca I will only focus on the first 60 mins (1-0 Rooney) as after it was our youngsters. Line up: De Gea Darmian Jones Blind Shaw Carrick Schneiderlin Mata Depay Yo… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
 skooldaze | Are You An FPL Veteran? Take the Quiz Do you consider yourself a FPL veteran. How many of these do you remember when playing the game? Let's see what you get and what more can be added 1) When the FPL players team pitch was just a g… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 20 |
 andy85wsm | Aguero in GW1? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With yesterday’s comments from Pellegrini implying that there’s a chance Aguero will miss GW1 due to the Copa America does Aguero still warrant a place i… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 56 |
 Geoff | ScoutCast Community Team? @Mark and Granville. What if this years scoutcast team is a community team? You're always looking for ways to help integrate the community, and getting them to choose your joint team's transfer wou… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 8 |
 Magic Hamster | The RMT template team I posted about 10 days ago a study I did based on 166 RMT posts and continued this and thought I’d update it. The sample has now been expanded to 306 RMT posts. The previous “most popular RMT… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
andy85wsm | Curious case of Christian Benteke Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic - The curious case of Christian Benteke With Benteke’s move to Liverpool now sealed are you more or less likely to want him in your team? How will he fit … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 67 |
 Wolverine | Start as you mean to go on I know it's a case of many factors over the season but usually the people who finish say in the top ten get very high up quite early on. I'd be interested to hear if any of these people have approa… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 54 |
andy85wsm | How important is team balance? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How much does your teams balance affect your player choices? Last season’s winner Dufflinks made several mentions about keeping a balanced team so that … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 46 |
 Aston Villa-Boas | What about Kane? Seems like everyone is avoiding Kane, but why? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 41 |
 Ryan | Is there a new baseline for defenders? Just going to pitch this as an idea. With no 4.0 options. Is the old 4.0 the new 4.5? and is the old 4.5 the new 5.0? With so much value in the mid priced range can we have a defence of 4.5-5m de… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 45 |
 Ludo | Post Europa League Games Bearing in mind that teams perform worse after Europa League games than they do otherwise, I think its helpful to look at the fixture lists of the teams involved with this in mind. Asterisks signif… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 12 |
andy85wsm | New FPL additions New additions to the game - anyone take your fancy? Amavi (AVL) DEF £5.0 Gomez (LIV) DEF £4.5 Roberts (MCI) MID £4.5 Bamford (CRY) FWD £6.0 Mitrovic (NEW) FWD £6.5 | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
andy85wsm | Show us your leagues Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Today we’re looking for shout outs and details of the leagues you’re running in FPL and other Fantasy Football games. Let us know what clever and intere… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 58 |
 TorresMagic™ | Last Man standing is back! Last Man Standing is back! With the help of Andy85wsm, Last Man Standing will be up and running for another season. The code to enter is 13343-18364 with an article up sometime this weekend or Mon… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 54 |
 Lucy. | Lucy answers meaning of life with updates Before I'm driven insane by all of the questions like 'Lucy, is x nailed on?', 'Lucy, will x start the season?', 'Lucy, which Saints players are you going for?', 'Lucy, is Yoshida a good pick' (for… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 52 |
 President John F. Keninnsie | Ivan vs Azpilicueta The Ivanovic vs Azpilicueta decision is an interesting one. Something that always seems to come up in this discussion is 'Ivan will score 40+ points more than Azpi over the season, therefore he's … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 60 |
Ryan | How important is player ownership for GW1? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How Important is player ownership for our GW1 teams? I see a lot of people are concerned about Hazards high ownership (54%). Personally this doesn't worry … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 59 |
 Jairzinho | Double Game Weeks Double gameweeks are always important, and this season they could be even more so, with the triple captain and full squad chips coming into play. The best time to use the triple captain chip must … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 19 |
 WHY ALWAYS MESUT? | 5-4-1 Wrote a massive essay... only for a new article to be posted 2 minutes later. Reposting here, hope it's okay. So this is a follow-up from what I posted yesterday: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.c… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 30 |
 Mark | Rooney & Depay Dream Ticket? Today's Hot Topic... Lots of talk of Rooney and Depay as a combination in the press this morning. Early fixtures are certainly in their favour if they're able to rotate a little in their CL qual… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
 The Sarjeant | Mids more explosive than forwards? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 19 |
 Dr Dream | Base Line Team @Sanchez...just for you and squad balance. Rate my BLT...some food for thought. So many RMT's..and quite rightly because there are so many picks...and good picks at that... I quite often reply t… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 30 |
 FPL Daniel | Could Falcao start with Costa? Jose's words on Falcao. “If we want, we can play with Costa and him together – it is something they did before when they were in Atletico. Can he be the Falcao of Atletico? We believe so. I t… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 36 |
WHY ALWAYS MESUT? | Strong defence So, I'm looking at a slightly different strategy. I have no idea whether I'll go through with it, but it might be worth a thought. Till now, I have always used a 3-4-3 (or very rarely a 3-5-2) for… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 98 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Watford - Pre Season Report Paderborn 0 v 2 Watford Watford team 1st half: http://i.imgur.com/HXZL8Ez.png - Deeney and Vydra link up with the striker feeding a low through ball between the defence. Vydra slots home very cal… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 9 |
andy85wsm | Which Arsenal midfielder? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which (if any) Arsenal midfielder are you looking to have in your team? Following a convincing win against Everton yesterday which included a goal from each… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 33 |
 Spectrum-FFS Doubles Champ | Help save last man standing Right I know this somewhat goes against the rules here but I'm going to ask you guys to upvote this comment and flag it to bring it to the mods attention in the hope it gets a hot topic. On the pre… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 16 |
President John F. Keninnsie | Captain strange What has been your weirdest FPL captaincy? Last season alone I captained the likes of Balotelli and Jovetic, and I also captained Fonte in the week armband favourite Harry Kane scored a hat trick a… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 41 |
Couti & the Below5th | Probable starters Probable Starters 15/16 Update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03D_KnVF1fRbmxPTnhEOXJNaE0/view?usp=sharing | 10 years, 8 months ago | 14 |
 Dušan Citizen | Man City match report This is how I saw Manchester City - Melbourn City 1:0 game. Scorer: Nasri Assist: Zuculini City played with a lot of youngsters. Hart, Zabaleta, Sagna, Denayer, Mangala, Kolarov, Fernandinho, S… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 4 |
andy85wsm | Are you scouting pre-season? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How much will pre-season affect your decisions? We have all been burnt before by pre-season bandwagons (Boselli anyone?) but is there something to be said f… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
 Acquafresca | Man Utd Match Report Man. Utd. 1-0 Club America FIRST HALF RECAP - - - - - - - Johnstone - - - - - - - Darmian - Jones - Blind - Shaw - - - - - Morgan - Carrick - - - - - Depay - - - - Mata - - - - Young - - - - - -… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 20 |
 Epic Fail | Is this an essential hot topic? Obviously nobody is actually essential, but what does 'essential' mean to you in FPL terms? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 30 |
 Davido989 | Liverpool Game Report Liverpool vs Brisbane: 2-1 Goals: Lallana, Milner Assists: Milner, Henderson Starting XI: ------------------Mignolet------------- ---Clyne---Skrtel---Sakho---Gomez ----Henderson---Lucas---Milner--… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Is Henderson really the best mid price midfield option? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Henderson really the best mid price midfield option? As with Ivanovic's performance in our recent premium defender poll, our poll on the best mid price m… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 33 |
 thepuntmaster | New Player Analysis Update *UPDATE* Here is the link to the update of my "New Players Analysis" Spreadsheet http://bit.ly/1I6RiZx It also features an additional "VS" section to help you decide between those players of a s… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 6 |
Lucy. | Happy Birthday Lucy...oh, and Gareth Bale too. Happy Birthday to me, Moussa Dembele, Sergio Busquets and Gareth Bale. 😀 | 10 years, 8 months ago | 44 |
 Ibralicious | Nailed on Sunderland defenders? So after the arrival of Kaboul, who's more nailed on for Sunderland: O'Shea, Coates or Mathews? :/ | 10 years, 8 months ago | 42 |
 FISSH | Are we wrong about Benteke? Clearing up some misconceptions about Benteke, this is a post from a Villa fan. Makes you want Benteke so much haha https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/3bjl5z/clearing_up_some_misconcept… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 14 |
 Parm | Fancy something new? NEW #FPL ADDITIONS: Schwarzer [LEI] GK 4.0 Lindegaard [MUN] GK 4.5 Darlow [NEW] GK 4.0 Lascelles [NEW] DEF 4.5 Nyom [WAT] DEF 4.5 Andreu [NOR] MID 4.5 Clasie [SOU] MID 5.5 Moha [STK] MID 4.5 Le… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Ivanovic and the Premier Defence Options Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Ivanovic and the premium defence options Voting is now closed in our poll on who you think will be the best premium priced defender in Fantasy Football next… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 44 |
 Concrete | Balanced Team or Top Heavy? Is a good balance to your team necessary and do you feel that you can place less emphasis on a certain area of your team to improve another? E.g. More punts on Gks so you can better the rest of yo… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 8 |
 Birdman77 | How do you increase team value? Last year was my first FPL year, did ok, top 1000. However, lack of team value hurt towards the back end of the year. Do you guys focus on making coin early in the season or just get guns in and ot… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 39 |
NOMONEY | Promoted attackers For those interested as to how key attacking players performed in promoted teams before and after getting promotion, here are some stats: -------------------------------------------------- Leiceste… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 15 |
andy85wsm | Flags Are Also For The Good Things In Life Just a quick heads up in case y'all didn't know - please feel free to use the flag button under posts to highlight both good and bad posts - it's not just there to report things that shouldn't be p… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 24 |
Dr Dream | A Silva lining Disagree with all those saying Silva won't keep it up this season. He was one of only four mids who managed over 200 touches in the box last season and that always means pts...and lots of them. One… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 24 |
J0E | RMT Etiquette Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic RMT Etiquette RMTs are coming in thick and fast and the community is here to help. Most of us first starting using the site by posting a RMT and asking for … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 32 |