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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.

Evening Gents Had a look at the Ramsey footage and thought I'd post a few notes In a nutshell, he turns sharply, slips and inverts the right ankle unexpectedly. The movement is not at an extreme …

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Premier League is back babyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! And with that, we have this gameweek's Scout Picks Challenge! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven'…

Attacking stats for last week.....Top one may be problematic for some if his manager decides that a player who gets in a position to have that many chances is worth another pick...possibly....Secon…

Can't help with clean sheets but I can show those defenders who are bombing forward and making a nuisance of themselves up front...Flagged the top one last week before he notched...Not sure what's …

Killian here from PlayON, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about PlayON - if you add them as replies below I'll answer them all. I'd also welcome any suggestions anyone has for how we…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Gameweek 4 shaping up to being one of the puntiest weeks ever. With heavy hitters like Ramsey, Costa, Hazard and Sturridge nursing injuries and players re…

Killian here from www.playon.co, As per the article above, we have £2,000 in Guaranteed Pots on offer this weekend. You can also now start earning an income from your fantasy teams, as explain…

Fantasy Football Scout I’ve noticed a few posts saying that Danny Welbeck isn’t a good striker misses too many chances In reality though he was one of the most lethal strikers in the Premier …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The polls closed at 10am in what was the closest contest yet to be community champion. At 10am Arvination edged out Doosra by a nail biting 1 vote. The final…

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 …

UFPL INVESTMENT ANALYSIS Decided to have a little look at the data for the opening three gameweeks in UFPL and thought I'd share my findings ahead of the final deadline for our squads. [For anyon…

As you no doubt know, many Premier League players and clubs are backing the #rainbowlaces campaign run by the UK charity Stonewall, which is aiming to get players to sport rainbow coloured football…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Where next for the template? With the fixtures shifting after the international break and injuries mounting up what do we think the template formation will …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Given price changes are less frequent this season should FPL consider abandoning this part of the game altogether? If not how would you like to see the game'…

Nick may be fifth on the hall of fame but He no longer knows what he is doing 😀 So far my wildcard has gained me no money and no clue as to who to replace my current players with. Its starting t…

Reposting due to new post. Thought I'd do a little post on attacking rotations since a few people are on their wildcard. One of the problems with owning Naismith is, due to his price, you don't w…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who is playing a Champions League fantasy game? Can you recommend any differential options that offer good value for money? Be good to compile a list here o…

OOP mids ? not really, but they are... Had a couple of conversations in the last couple of days about "touches inside the box" for mids..and mids playing a "high Avg position" (amounts to the sa…

Its a human trait that most people don't like change. This year has seen a change to the FPL transfer system and how prices rise/fall. This seems to have resulted in a lot of discussion (mostly…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be this season's surprise stars? We've had three gameweeks of stats and games to look at. Who do you think will be the surprise stars of the season…