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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 …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is this season anti-flair, or have the flair players lost their touch? There is a lot of talk of this season being great for casual players and less so for …

Whilst everyone is having their half time cuppa I thought I would follow up on my Essentials post (see hot topics) from this morning. This time looking at. . . 'The Supporting Cast: Part I' Keepe…

Morning Gents. I think it's coming to the point this season where many players are getting pretty much essential in teams to keep the pace with the l points. The remaining half of or so of your s…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Playing the market This is a crucial week for wildcarding. With the next premier league games more than a week away there's plenty of scope for double, even…

Fantastic Football Scout daily hot topic Last minute wildcard changes With a few hours to go there's not much time for Gwk 22 wildcarders to make a change. Let's have a look at your wildcard team…

Killian here from www.playon.co.uk, This week we are running a special game for new users – Free Entry, £100 Guaranteed pot. If you haven’t tried PlayON yet, it’s worth a look this week.…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic More complex fantasy games This one's from Mark. He asks: "Do you like games that allow fantasy managers to change captains or their lineups within the gam…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Saints upheaval With worrying news reports about Southampton emerging this week can we rely on their players to help us for the second half of the season? …

Scoutcast Questions Mark and Granville will be recording their latest podcast tomorrow and will be featuring a new item where they answer some of your questions. Feel free to leave your question…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Today’s is from Stilicho. He wonders if now is the time to stock up with the sudden array of good mid price midfield options. Suddenly there are quite a…

Long Post Alert!! Hit the Wildcard button this GW and most people seem to be facing the same decisions even if we each end up with different teams. Here is how I think most people will be picking …

One very VERY easy and OBVIOUS thing fpl can do to stop template teams: When it began they thought everyone played 4-4-2 so they made it so that you had one backup plus your starting11 based on a …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The case against Januzaj Oddly I’m looking to get rid of Januzaj the week 28,730 managers have got him in. Here are my reasons. I’ve made a tidy pro…

2nd Half of the Season Shifts: It's consistently demonstrated that the 'big' teams start winning more clean sheets in the second half of the season (arguably more due to 'smaller' teams becoming l…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is the SAS attacking formation back on? With Suarez essential, Aguero looking ready to start against Cardiff and Sturridge proving he's still a great prospe…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Gwk 22 key wildcarding decisions Each week new wildcard conundrums emerge. Here's the latest. Be good to get your thoughts in any of these and add your own…