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Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who is your top differential for Gameweek 6? Mine is .....fanfare....Peter Crouch...as unfashionable as a pick can be, but against Newcastle his knock downs…

Going of GB's post last page what's the highest you've ever finished overall in the season? Would be interesting to see how well the regular poster on here does.

So Man U back four could be..... Rafael - Rojo - one of Blind/McNair/Thorpe - Shaw Thorpe and McNair have yet to be added to the game as of yet.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Holding back your wildcard Every year I've used my wildcard by gwk 9. This year feels different though. Price changes aren't such a factor and cheap options…

Final post from my newly constructed "Wakatronic stats generator" looking at likely goalscorers from open play, and this time it's the turn of the forwards...The numbers have been processed through…

There's been some talk about Daniel Sturridge's return on this site, but not very much. Although he might not feature in the Merseyside derby on Saturday, these are Liverpool's next ten fixtures: …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How long do you give a player before you consider ditching? For me it depends on the opposition but if a striker can't score against easy opposition - I'd c…

inspired by discovering man city have 6 away games in their next 9 i had a look deep inside aguero. so deep that i found his first pet's name, his mother's maiden name and that his prostate is just…

Dear Scouts, I dont suppose there's any way we can try and make the Scout Picks Champion selection process less of a popularity contest? Just think that would be fairer. It really puts me…

LONG POST ALERT 😀 I'm sitting on Balotelli with enough in the coffers to bring in Agüero ahead of Manchester City's amazing run of blue on the Season Ticker... but having dug a little deeper, th…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic We have a winner in our search for a Gameweek 6 Community Scout Picks Champion. This week Giggs Boson has emerged victorious, beating off late charges from …

Hello I work as a data scientist, and I have noticed some common misconceptions on this site. 1. Being Due There is no such thing. Scoring goals can be viewed as a random process, scoring a goal…

Is United attack even necessary? The goals are likely to be spread around numerous premium priced assets. Falcao 11m RVP 12.4m Rooney 10.4m ADM 9.8m Mata 8.8m Herrera 7.3m Of these 6 players I d…

::::: Dead Team Challenge - GW5 Leaderboard Updated ::::: Before I begin, just to let you know that a mistake was made last week which has since been corrected, so apologies to The Casual for that…

I've currently got Ramsey(with Sterling & Di María as my other big hitters). Usually i'd be looking to jump ship after just one assist in his last three league games(and a half hearted game in the…

Southampton's central midfielders: a word of caution At the beginning of the season, I wrote Schneiderlin, Cork and Wanyama off as picks. Davis and JWP seemed the much better picks, with natural …

Early Bird Cup Update: The dust has no settled on GW5, and another exciting round of the Early Bird Cup has ended - leaving just 4 survivors to compete in the semi finals. View all the action by …

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 FINAL RESULTS Well, after what was definitely a "different" week with all but one of last season's top 7 winning a game, I present to you this week's SPC results…

Fantasy Football Scout Community Champion needed. As you may have noticed we’ve revamped our Scout Picks. Mark, myself, Paul and a community champion picked by you each week are up against each …

If you were going to WC now, what would your GK picks be?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL stick or twist Are you sticking with your captain? Who's in, who's out?

What did you predict at the start of the season would happen that you were completely wrong about. For me I thought West Ham would be in a mess and would concede loads and score few with Sam tryin…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining and why? And is there anyone yet to make a transfer this week? Who are you considering this morning and for who?

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 Good evening everyone. Later than normal (I say this every week...) but here we go, it's that time again! Scout Picks Challenge! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For …

Jonty’s hot topic regarding Match of the Day suggesting Fabregas ‘looks for’ Costa was interesting… but I’m always sceptical about MotD analysis. You can make any point with the right cli…

Killian here from PlayON, This week we have a Free Entry £250 Guaranteed Pot on offer, as well as our usual £1,000 Guaranteed Pot - you can enter the games now at www.playon.co There are also …

Ineresting topic I just thought of with team selection: Do you hedge your bets? or play for maximum points? two scenarios come to mind 1) Play a goalie/defender from the same club? or bench the d…

We have a quartet of great community articles for you this morning. Here’s Puntmaster with his latest trio of differentials http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/09/18/gameweek-5-best-punt…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are we wrong to never captain Baines? History has told us that Baines is a good player to own but handing him the armband is risky. A Palace goal this weeken…

Baines hasn't been this cheap since 2009/10, 5 years ago!! But is he worth it? These are his PPG (Points per Game) values from the previous 4 seasons. . Season........PPG ..13/14 ........ 5.28 .…

::::: Dead Team Challenge - GW4 Leaderboard Updated ::::: Congratulations to our current leader, The Casual who is on an impressive 272pts, which equates to an amazing Overall Rank of 1.3k... :sho…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Partnerships This is inspired from a comment JK made yesterday about whether to ditch Hazard. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/09/17/say-w…

The Form Gauge. I've decided to do a new weekly thing called The Form Gauge. With this I'll be looking into teams form in the Premier League over a three week and six week period. We have a watch …

People without Di Maria have a real dilemma, his price is rocketing very fast, and he will soon be out of reach for mny. Those looking at the stats for comfort are kidding themselves. He may of…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Top tips for climbing your mini-leagues It's only four weeks into the season and already some managers are panicking over their mini-league position. It is …

Evening all! The 'Early Bird' Cup has claimed another batch of distinguished scalps. We now move into the Quarter finals, the last 8, which will of course become 4 after GW 5's doors have slammed …

Season Keepers At the start of the season, I (like many) thought that Ramsey and Hazard looked like the main season keepers. Ramsey has not done anything to contradict this yet. Hazard has been un…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 5's Community Champion will be .....Doosra He won this week's vote and now goes head to head with Mark, Paul and myself to reclaim some pride for t…

The Saints host CSs against WBA and NEW and suddenly their defence is essential? Burnley, Swansea, Spurs and United also have 2 CSs. And you can grab their defenders for 4.0m, 4.5m, 5.0m & 5.3m res…

Just want to say, I'm willing to answer any questions regarding Leicester (expected line up etc.), should you require information. Sort of what Lucy does with Saints, I'll be available. Repost.

I've been banging a drum since the start of the season about Everton's clean sheet prospects. It was fuelled by this piece over at statsbomb: http://www.statsbomb.com/2014/08/epl-2014-15-season-pre…

Can Mourinho still shut up shop as effectively with Fabregas in the side? Chelsea's away trips to the league's best attacking sides all resulted in clean sheets last season. These are their midfiel…

Fantasy Football Scout Community Champion needed. As you may have noticed we’ve revamped our Scout Picks. Mark, myself, Paul and a community champion picked by you each week are up against each …

was di maria that 'omg stop what you're doing and get this man in at all costs' today? i'm not going to play the QPR card as great fixtures exist, that's what happens over a season. it's more the i…

Evening. This summer, TorresMagic helped me run a World Cup Picks Competition in the Deadzone. I would be happy to do the same for the Champions League. If you are interested, please post your pic…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL stick or twist. What are your ufpl plans today? Who didn't captain costa and is looking for a new captain? With most games played yesterday benches m…

Can people please pay attention to this. The FPL we love is under threat Sterling 47.8 Fábregas 42.6 Ramsey 42.4 Sigurdsson 38.7 Hazard 15.9 Diego Costa 49.2 Rooney 35.5 Naismith 33.8 Stur…

I remember a few watershed captaincy weeks last year. I think it was Suarez away at Spurs in his second game back or something? Huge haul, most didn't captain, and captainers got a huge jump. Co…

Killian here from PlayON, There's less than 1 hour left to pick your teams for the £1,000 GUARANTEED POT this week - entries close at 10.45. There's also £1,000 in GUARANTEED pots available in…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining/ vice captaining this week and why? I've added vc as I think we may need them this week.