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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

Defcons are for Kinnear
Bargain Basement Cult Hero XI of 2014/15

One for the mods. Along with voting for the FFS FPL team of the season could we also vote for a FFS Cult Team of the season. The likes of Demel, Ward, PVA, Boyd etc. deserve to have their names in …

10 years, 10 months ago21

J0E
Sunderland Options

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Sunderland options. After yesterday we have a bit more information about Sunderland's potential DGWK punts. Which are you going for and which do you already …

10 years, 10 months ago33

J0E
Gwk 36 captaincy decision

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

10 years, 10 months ago25

@ocprodigy
Scout picks challenge gw36

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 36 That time of the week ladies and gentlemen - the latest Scouts Pick Challenge! I owe you GW34 & 35 due tomorrow & Sunday! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those…

10 years, 10 months ago30

J0E
Gameweek 36's best differential will be...

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 36's best differential? Will it be Jack Wilshire if Ramsey is out, or can RVP salvage some pride at Palace? What about Chelsea's fringe…

10 years, 10 months ago46

Bun Rab
Mourinho Hints At Rotation Amnesty for Terry & Ivanovic

Posted this earlier but seems it would be helpful on here too. Mourinho: "In this moment we breathe, I know that the players now deserve a couple of days without football, but we have to be back w…

10 years, 10 months ago5

Gooner97
Arsenal Team news

Team news: Ramsey, Welbeck and Debuchy Arsène Wenger has revealed the following team news ahead of the Swansea City game: on Ramsey… From the Hull match we had Ramsey who took a big kick, he i…

10 years, 10 months ago42

J0E
Beating the Gwk 38 Lottery

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 38 is always a lottery. Fringe players come in and score. Clean sheets are few and far between and teams are fighting for their lives or a place in …

10 years, 10 months ago44

Ruth_NZ
Benteke Buyers Beware

"Listen carefully, I shall say this only once..." This obsession with Benteke is a hysterical bandwagon that will end in tears. Taking hits to get him in with 3 games to play and often at the ex…

10 years, 10 months ago80

Ruth_NZ
Reacting to changed circumstances in FPL

Changed Circumstances One of the things that can really help FPL managers is the ability to recognise changed circumstances and react to them early. For example, when Ozil and Giroud returned to …

10 years, 10 months ago69

J0E
Best Arsenal Trio For The DGWK

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are you going for three Arsenal players for the double gameweek? If so which three? Who like me is going for three attacking players across midfield and for…

10 years, 10 months ago41

sinik
Error Message On Comment Posting?

@Mods getting this a lot today: "We experienced problems saving your comment. The CSRF token check failed."

10 years, 10 months ago11

New FPL Rule

If you could create a new FPL rule, what would you do? (doesn't have to be realistic!) Mine, with Arsenal in mind: You can nominate a team at the start of the season, and you are then given an ex…

10 years, 10 months ago122

d1sable
Charlie Adam anyone?

I know who im shipping Henderson too now Guess which (starting) mid has the highest rate of chances in the last 6 A chance every 21.3 minutes! No cheating!

10 years, 10 months ago37

J0E
The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 35 tales of joy and woe

The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 35 tales of joy and woe. We are looking for your input for our new regular community article. Called The Rough with the Smooth we want to he…

10 years, 10 months ago33

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tonight - Leave Your Questions for the team here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Questions for the Scoutcast Team. Feel free to leave your questions for tonight's Scoutcast here. All being well tonight's live scoutcast should start at 9:…

10 years, 10 months ago48

J0E
Rotation Candidates?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be rotated? Which players are most likely to be rotated for the final three games. Will Chelsea look to rest the likes of Eden Hazard or their defe…

10 years, 10 months ago28

SPorting
Is it Time to Sell Hazard?

Hazard Waning Is he still the main CHE man to keep until the end of the season no matter what? Or is it time to sell Eden and use the cash to bring in those players in form + something to play fo…

10 years, 10 months ago17

You Must Be Jokin Ere
Mids The Winners In 14/15 Bonus Revamp

I've compiled the season to date (up to & incl GW 34) Bonus Points Stats. Details as follows: Total Games: 339 Total Bonus Points: 2166 Average Bonus Points Per Game: 6.4 Goalkeeper : 90 pts (4.…

10 years, 10 months ago1

J0E
End of season ambitions

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With three Gwks left what do you think you can realistiy achieve this season? Is the top 100, 1000 or 20000 within your grasp? Or is mini league glory ach…

10 years, 10 months ago91

J0E
Gwk 35 Captaincy

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

10 years, 10 months ago53

@ocprodigy
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35 Admittedly, I'm behind on GW34 results as it only finished Wednesday night but I will have it up later tonight (hopefully) so bear with me please! In the meanti…

10 years, 10 months ago28

Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
Hello again, FFScout

WARNING: LONG POST ALERT First, I would like to express my deep sympathy and personal sorrow to Absinthe's, Simon Humber's family and friends. What a positive man, and inspiration he was - an exam…

10 years, 10 months ago227

J0E
GWK 35's Best Differential

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 35's best differential/punt?

10 years, 10 months ago28

AK ⭐
Rest In Peace Absinthe

I am not sure if everyone's or anyone's aware about Absinthe here. This is what Triggerlips has on his blog. Simon Humber, one of the original members of Transfer Hub passed away today. He had b…

10 years, 10 months ago141

Ruth_NZ
Assessing the GW 34 wildcard

Assessing the GW34 Wildcard Building on an earlier post that showed GW34 wildcarders to have averaged a 24-point gain in the top 10k (84 points wildcard average vs 60 points non-wildcard average p…

10 years, 10 months ago23

A.T
Current rank milestones

1st: 2208 100th: 2102 1k: 2044 5k: 1988 10k: 1960 50k: 1884 100k: 1846 Thanks to Christina for the numbers 😉

10 years, 10 months ago14

J0E
The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gwk 34 tales of joy and woe.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 34 tales of joy and woe. We are looking for your input for our new regular community article. Called…

10 years, 10 months ago37

J0E
DGWK Surprise Stars

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Double gameweek surprises Dawson, Harper and N'Doye are the surprise stars of Gameweek 34's double fixtures. Will Gameweek 37 be the same with Wickham, Welb…

10 years, 10 months ago56

Sunny 😎
Remembering your casual past

I'd like to know about how people on here used to play fpl in their casual days. I was a casual for many years as I started playing fpl at a very young age. I used to captain Terry every game bec…

10 years, 10 months ago47

Kings of Lyon ★
Arsenal Unlikely To Rotate For DGWK 37

I am seeing a lot of chat of potential rotation for the Arsenal DGW, but I think this just paranoia. I am by no means an Arsenal fan but from my understanding Arsene Wenger doesnt make wholesale ch…

10 years, 10 months ago9

Ryan
Liverpool's Next Striker Should Be...

Who will be Liverpools new striker next season? They certainly need one if they want to challenge for the title as Rodgers suggests.

10 years, 10 months ago73

J0E
Watford and Bournemouth Prospects

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Watford and Bournemouth prospects. Who are the players from these two promoted sides we ought to be considering. Who from them can cut it in the Premier Lea…

10 years, 10 months ago49

Brian (Not the Messiah)
Can Bournemouth Stay In the Premier League?

I live in Bournemouth and love the idea of watching premier league games locally. They also play nice attacking football. Thoughts on whether they'll stay up next year?

10 years, 10 months ago29

thetinkerman
Arsenal DGW Rotation fears

Anyone else reckon the Arsenal DGW will turn into a single gameweek for most players as Wenger rotates? They have the FA cup final to prepare for and won't want to risk any injuries. There's also …

10 years, 11 months ago30

Az
FFS FIFA XBOX TOURNAMENT

Seen a few posts lately about people asking about games of FIFA and a comment suggesting that a FFS Fifa tournament would be a good idea. Happy to set up a FFS FIFA tournament, have just emailed J…

10 years, 11 months ago45

theoldgit
Reviewing the Bonus Points system in FPL

Time for a review. How can John Terry play the best game of his life, yet get 0 bonus points? The obvious answer is, the bonus system is flawed. Don't get me wrong, the existing system is far bet…

10 years, 11 months ago44

Spencer
LEAVE YOUR SCOUTCAST QUESTIONS HERE

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scoutcast questions All being well we should have a live scoutcast tonight at 10pm. Could you leave your questions here. Also we are particularly interest…

10 years, 11 months ago102

foley_fd
Today's Press Conferences

Today's pressers: Brendan Rodgers (10:00) Jose Mourinho (12:00) Steve Bruce (12:30) Nigel Pearson (14:00)

10 years, 11 months ago2

Mark
Error Message When Posting Comments?

We've had a few users experience issues posting comments following tonight's upgrade of Wordpress. Users can view the site fine but receive an error message on posting comments. If this is affe…

10 years, 11 months ago14

Billy Gilmore
Dead Team Challenge Update

Long time, I know, but finally got around to an update of the Dead Team Challenge. First one in 14 GWs 😳 Here's the leaderboard with Kroos Control building a bit of a lead over Athletico Timb…

10 years, 11 months ago16

Demí
PL Team of the Year discussion

TOTY announced: De Gea, Bertrand, Terry, Cahill, Ivanovic, Matic, Coutinho, Hazard, Sanchez, Kane, Costa http://i.imgur.com/clbR6Ob.png

10 years, 11 months ago22

J0E
Points Hits (And Misses)

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Has Gwk 34 made you more or less keen on points hits? How have this week's hits worked out for you so far? Thought it'd be a good timing to ask as so many…

10 years, 11 months ago51

Jairzinho
N'Doye Punathon

DAME PUNS ROUN'DOYE-UP Demi (+17) N'doye will always love you Jairzinho (+1) N'Doye would walk 500 miles. 42 Epic Fails (+1) N'Doye would walk 500 more. Fuzzy (+2) N'Doye need you duh duh duh d…

10 years, 11 months ago12

Zasa
Gwk 34 Ownership stats

GW 34's top 1000 template XI: (most highly owned players per position according to FPL rules) Schmeichel (28.6%) Terry (54.7%), Skrtel (47.9%), Schlupp (35.4%) Hazard (99.9%), Sterling (82.1%), S…

10 years, 11 months ago6

J0E
Gwk 34 Captaincy

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

10 years, 11 months ago40

Zasa
DGW odds

Paddy Power clean sheet bookies odds - (decimal and fractional odds) ManCity: 2.00..............................................(evens) Chelsea (vs Lei): 2.20...................................(6/…

10 years, 11 months ago3

Ryan
Is Costa the ultimate DGW differential?

The biggest differential anyone can have this week is Costa. No player has more potential to do serious damage in your mini-leagues/OR than him. If you're chasing it could be massive.

10 years, 11 months ago39

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 34 Turned around for a few mins and missed 8pm! What can you do eh?! Either way, Scouts Pick Challenge timeeeeee! GW33 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co…

10 years, 11 months ago32

J0E
Injury Transfer Conundrum

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Injury transfer conundrum Should Remy still be a doubt this weekend he would represent one of my worst transfers this season, managing not a single minute i…

10 years, 11 months ago38