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Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic So drafting in James Collins for Chester at 19:07 last night proved to be one of my favourite all time transfers. What have been your best transfers this s…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Tube strike horror line ups So if the tube strike is on I'm looking at a 2-4-1 formation with Sturridge, Suarez, Chester, Hudson, Noone and Terry all out or…

Just interested to know what peoples formations will be if the Liverpool game is off 3-5-2 for me

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Frontlines in flux With Sturridge outscoring Suarez regularly, ManC and ManU missing gameweek 28 and the gameweek 29 potential blanks to ponder is now the b…

Useful Information for GW29 ----------------------------------------- This is an FA cup weekend and there could be a few games called off. Here is some information that will hopefully help you plan…

I guess I am not the only one on here with half an eye on potential GW29 blanks. Many games are likely to be cancelled however some games are more likely to be cancelled than others. Therefore I th…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Will there ever be a new holy trinity? Hazard's hat trick yesterday took me right back to the glory days of the holy trinity- Lampard, Gerrard and Ronaldo…

An update on blanks and player-related questions that have been frequently asked recently: Teams definitely WITHOUT a game in GW 28: - WBA - MUN - MCI - SUN Teams definitely WITH a game in GW 29:…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Gwk 25 capt decisions Who are you captaining this week and why?

Killian here from PlayON, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the article above or about PlayON in general - just add them as replies below and I'll answer them all.

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Gameweek 28 planning. It may seem a long way away but in four gameweeks ManC, ManU, Sun and WBA will all miss a fixture. How are you planning for this? Are…

The case AGAINST doing Luis SUAREZ (C) this week. The teams Luis Suarez has scored against this season... Sunderland (14th in the table) 2 Crystal Palace (17th) West Brom (16th) 3 Fulham (20th) 2 …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Scoutcast questions for Mark and Granville. Feel free to leave your questions for our podcast pair here ahead of their recording this lunchtime.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Liverpool, ManC and ManU armband stats Our forthcoming Captain Sensible members article will have a wealth of stats around Gameweek 25 captaincy contenders…

Midfield differentials. I know these aren't template names around here but don't be so quick to write them off! Willian (7.5m) - Only 0.5% ownership - Definitely first choice now - Creates ALOT of…

Best fantasy asset: Pick the best fantasy asset from each team from this point on. So it doesn't matter what position just the player you think rack up the most points in this period. Tougher than…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best back line over the next four With Arsenal and Sunderland’s fixtures taking a tumble and Villa, Tottenham, Chelsea, Cardiff and Southampton’s fixtu…

Picking the right third striker (replacing Adebayor) to go with Suarez and Sturridge is doing my head in! Best "third strikers" to own right now: 1) Dzeko: (8.5/10) + Plays for the most attackin…

Im thinking Robert Snodgrass @ 5.9 could be a decent low-mid price midfielder after the City game and up until GW 34 HIs underlying stats has been very good last two fixtures including touches an…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Emerging differentials This weekend saw a trio of emerging differentials to further shake up the template. The three that caught my eye were Zaha, Oxlade …

LONG POST ALERT For those who like me are considering a striker, here is why you shouldn't bring in Dzeko or Negredo. Looking at the run of fixtures City have, Sat 08 February (A) Norwich City …

I started to write out a case for RVP but realised it would be about 10k words long so I gave up. He's in that bracket where there will always be better value players who return more PPM but at wha…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Gwk 25 captain options With Suarez coming up against the sturdy Arsenal defence there are arguably better captaincy options this week. Man city and man utd …

Right, want to provoke a bit of discussion around here because it's quite slow atm. Who has been your favourite FPL pick this season? Take into account flair, price, ownership levels and returns. …

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic The breaking of the template Aguero has seen more than 250,000 transfers out this gwk and managers are turning to a variety of options from Dzeko to Girou…

The Aguero Replacement Options - The Stats: Edin DZEKO Plays for: Man City Price: £6.8m Owned by: 7.1% Last 5: 9 / 1 / 7 / 7 / 15 Next 5: CHE / nor / SUN / STO / blank Strengths: - Plays for City…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Transfer window winners and losers With a flurry of new recruits already announced let's have a look to see who will be the winners and losers. I'll start …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero replacement options. If as feared Aguero is set to be sidelined with a hamstring strain what are his owners planning to do. Keep if he's only out for…

THE KUNUNDRUM So, Kun hobbled off last night. I'm no medical expert, so let's look at the upcoming City fixtures: 3 Feb: Chelsea(PL) 8 Feb: Norwich(PL) 12 Feb: Sunderland(PL) 15 Feb: Chelsea (…

Questions for Mark and Granville Our podcast pair will once again be looking to answer your questions this week. Feel free to leave your questions here and they'll have a rummage through tomorrow …

I wrote one of these earlier in the season and it was well received, so here's my second edition. I've seen a few posts appearing about West Ham players, so heres some analysis. The fixtures (last…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is RVP now a viable option given his impressive return last night and some great fixtures for ManU? Can Robin Van Persie now challenge Suarez for the armban…

Killian here from www.playon.co.uk, A quick note to mention that we have a £1,000 Guaranteed Pot for the midweek matches - just pick your team and enter before 17.45 this evening. Also just to…

Fantasy Football School Daily Hot Topic It’s another early line ups Hot Topic. Given that the line ups come out at 6:45pm here and 5:45am in Sydney, Australia and 1:45pm in New York we are eithe…

So with the news that Winston Reid should be back for the next GW I've had a look at his defensive prospects. I've looked at every game he has played over 60 minutes in since West Ham returned to …

Big defenders, fire and forget? Some defensive stats for those thinking of going three big defenders and two bench fodder defenders. Chelsea 6 clean sheets 2 have been at home and 4 away Man…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic New recruits and game changers. Of the players that have come in or switched clubs during the transfer window which do you think will have the most impact. …

Expensive defenders - where is it worth the extra money? The obvious choices everyone is facing, particularly on the wild card are: Mert vs Kos/Sagna: for me it's worth saving the money and goin…

For the January wild card who are the 6 players that are must haves to have in your wc team?

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Time for a different captain? With Suarez against the tight Everton defence this week is gwk 23 a good time to place the captaincy elsewhere? And if so o…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Early line up tips This Gameweek offers fantasy managers a rare treat; we get to see a large number of team sheets before the deadline . From experience of…

The rules of FPL Choose your initial squad and your WC teams very carefully Start with the obvious and work to the fringes. Don't drop Suarez so that you can afford Clyne over Burner Players wh…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FPL rule changes to reward mavericks The Casual’s post (see hot topic widget) on the danger of differentials has inspired me to think of a possible rule c…

How did you guys think of your usernames? (This might have been asked before) Mine's pretty obvious for anyone that watches Scrubs. Some on here seem really obscure though, I think it would be coo…

Dear Mark, Firstly can I say that you are clearly a better FPL manager than me. BUT this year you keep making one major error that I think a lot of us a susceptible to - you are trying to be to cl…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Mata So when the inevitable official confirmation of Mata's move to ManU is made who is going to put him straight into their side? And where do we think h…

Okay so a lot of people are playing their wildcard next week and have a FT which they might as well use up so I thought I'd write a post about punts for this week only, good time to potentially cat…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 28 planning How are you planning for Gameweek 28 when Manchester City and United both miss a game. Are you prepared to bench your assets from tho…

@Jonty When you say there's always gonna be player like last season RVP and this season's Suarez, I agree. Every season there's always gonna be a season keeper. Almost similar to Bale's essential …