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Fantasy football scout daily hot topic What's your policy for taking a hit to ensure you have at least one player on your bench? With so many injuries at the moment many managers' benches are f…

Falling stars Getting into my stride now...Another look at those Crocs and random fallers who are currently costing less their opening GW values arranged into a squad whose total is at or less tha…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic There seems to be a real lack of quality budget defenders this year. Any reason why so few options exist? Or maybe you don't agree, if so feel free to list t…

Which of these premium defenders would you rather have in your team from these options? Reasons appreciated if possible 🙂 Walker (6.0) Dawson (5.1) Ferdinand (5.5) Vidic (6.0) Rafael (6.0) Nasta…

Discussion topic: Baines as Captain this week? Discuss (he's not in the Captain poll options, hence worth discussing)

What do we look for in a striker? I would like to suggest a semi scientific method to evaluate strikers. Basically, we look for 9 elements with different weighting: A - quality - most important -…

Lots of folks taking hits at the moment - how do people judge whether they think a hit is worthwhile or not? Do you look at the next game and decide whether Player A will outscore Player B by at l…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With some of fantasy games most popular players falling to injury over the last week many managers' teams are already looking like a shadow of the one they …

If money is no option here are my top walcott replacements in order Ozil Michu Oscar Ramsey Yaya Toure Eriksen

What is the best formation moving ahead ? I usually prefer 3-4-3 but ready to listen suggestions with reason. Thanks in advance

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Walcott owners...what are you doing with him should he be confirmed out until mid October? I'm assuming wildcarders will be ditching. But if he's only out f…

Falling Stars----Update An update for those who have been following my falling stars posts every Thursday....and for those who are unfamiliar...It's a fictitous squad made up of fifteen random fal…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic This season seems very different to all the others I've known. Defenders are mopping up the points, familiar, previously reliable players are misfiring and e…

For anyone who is operating with rotating pairs in defence or midfield, GW6 constitutes the end of a fixture block in which teams are either home or away on a regular basis. The ten blocks create…

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Suarez or sturridge and why? Is Suarez worth his price? Or will the cheaper Sturridge match or even better his points tally over the coming weeks? What do …

Just a quick fact finder for those Arsenal captainers. I could go into more detail but its gone past the deadline now, meh. Since 2008/9 when Stoke came back to the top flight Arsenal have scored …

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Last minute panics - what is the best and worst 11:29 Sat am transfer or captain change you have made?

Killian here from PlayON. I’m happy to answer any questions you have about PlayON or about the article above. One point to note is that we have changed the deadline for finalising your team f…

Wayne Rooney has now either scored or assisted 40 goals in his last 44 Premier League games. Since the start of 2012-13, no side has kept more clean sheets in the Premier League than Manchester Ci…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will be Gameweek 5's ultimate differential? There were some great punts last week from some of you (eg Giggs Boson's Rooney (c) and Moses p…

Could this be the season where defenders become the highest scorers in their respective teams? I decided to compile a brief list of the top scoring defender vs the top scoring attacker 9 teams ha…

Hat tricks last season Van Persie 2 (and 1 brace) Suarez 2 (and 3 braces) Gomez Cazorla (and 1 brace) Bale Walcott Kagawa Bentenke (and 2 braces) Sturridge (and 1 brace) Nolan Lukaku (and 2 brac…

Why Lukaku? Warning this is a long post and people who are not even thinking of Lukaku in their plans can skip right past. This article will give you a better view of Lukaku based on the statistic…

Do you think it's possible that RVP will remain at exactly 14m for the whole season? So many players already own him who will likely eventually become dead teams, and so far he's never really got c…

So many players are dropping in price each day. Miralles and Kim both fallen for me. You can't keep hold of any player waiting for their points this season. Mata has fallen from 10.5m to 9.8m !!!

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Arsenal look irresistible right now as an attacking force with great fixtures. How many and which Arsenal players do you plan to get? Feel free to put forwar…

This might sound madness but stick with me. Arsenal attacking players may be ones to avoid. Lots of people are trying to shoehorn in 3 Arsenal attacking players and yes their attack looks great. T…

Just a heads up...regrettably we've just tried to record a ScoutCast but the Skype call kept dropping due to problems, I think on my connection. We just had to abandon it I'm afraid. I'm on holida…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Be good to compile any Champions League game advice in one handy hot topic for those looking to make changes. Feel free to leave your CL game questions her…

Lamela, Eriksen, Chadli and Lennon would be better options if they were assisting Van Persie,Sturridge, Giroud, Rooney,Suarez or Benteke. Soldado reminds me of Giroud this time last year, needing …

Here's my reasoning for owning Ozil as well as Wally and Giroud currently. 1: Goal scoring: A lot has been said about Ozil being "just" an assister. Now the evidence is there to suggest he of co…

The case for the premium defenders and just, defenders This is not a gloat post, the next line is important. Ok, so I just wildcarded and am pleased with the points result : 74. However, I can't h…

Afternoon all just a quick post calling for honesty: Which of you were bigging up these fpl failures pre-season - Cornelius, Van Wolfswinkel, Altidore, Bony (to an extent), Kone, Mannone, Kim, Ko…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Those that drafted Victor Moses in ahead of last night's game took a risk, which duly paid off? If anyone played Shelvey last night they were also in for a s…

Here are some players with great potential, who were popular, solid picks at the start of the season but who are not in good FPL form. For each player, say whether you think it's better to stick an…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic David Moyes has said he plans to field Wayne Rooney up front with Robin Van Persie and expects him to score around 30 goals this season. http://www.theguar…

Effect of Pienaar on Baines: Everton vs Chelsea http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367446/gamecast.html?soccernet=true&cc=4716 Cardiff Vs Everton http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367446/gamecast.html?socc…

Fantasy football scout - daily hot topic. In yesterday's three scoring games with a clean sheet a total of six defenders gained bonus points. Forwards are going to have to fight even harder to …

Few thoughts on bonus points so far 1. Only 2 mids have received more than 3 bps in total so far this season. Yaya and Ben Arfa both 5. 2. 14 defenders have scored more than 3 total bps. 3. Olivie…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The new bonus point system (BPS) so far appears to be benefitting centre backs. But what of the defensive midfielders? Is there a case for further tweaks t…

Killian here from PlayON, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the player picks article above or about PlayON in general. If you add them as replies below, I'll answer them all. Tha…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic So there's less than 24-hours to go in the Sun Dream Team Transfer Window. Being limited to a window is not what we're used to but it's an interesting mecha…

Killian here from PlayON, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the £5,000 guaranteed article above or any questions about PlayON in general. If you add them as replies below, I'll an…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic If money was no option what is the best 15 you could select now in the FPL game? I wonder which cheaper players may sneak in and which expensive players you'…

Best thrills in FPL? I'll have a go 1) Keeper getting a pen save + CS 2) Defender scoring whilst keeping a CS 3) Captain scoring a hattrick ----- Most deflating FPL occurrences: 1) Captain miss…

the story of the injury free dutchman who went nuts, but not without his wobbles. jan 2011. van persie scores his first goal of the season. injury has restricted him to just 1 start before then. …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic This one is inspired from an earlier post from Esalman To what extent will RVP's performance against Palace define how fantasy managers view him. If he blan…

How to win your ml (dirty tricks but no cheating!) 1. Always taunt rivals. It works every time. They get nervous! 2. If you're ahead send messages or speak to rivals and tell them exactly what y…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With wildcards in play this week alot of familiar names keep getting mentioned. Here's your chance to add some new names into the pot of those that have gone…

This big numbers post would seem a good time to reveal my strategy so far...being as it covers it nicely... Came into the season with a strategy or two...I've been guilty in the past of chasing la…