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Is Baines Worth 8m if he goes to Manchester United?

It seems that despite all the modern advances in football, there still seems to be a place for the old fashioned big bustling Center Forward. Following on from an earlier discussion about players…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who is the worst player you have ever transferred in? Why did you do it and how long did they last in your team?

Doubling up with two players, playing the same position, in the same team. A viable option? I've seen all these beautiful rotation spreadsheets(Thanks every one for the hard work!) that has been p…

I've been taking a look at the last 10 years of clean sheet data. Primarily I wondered, are clean sheets declining and how do promoted sides compare to established ones? I'm curious if cut price …

What was everyone's best season in FPL? Be honest! I have been playing it for 2 season now, I have to say last season(12/13)

Best FPL player of all time poll: 1. Henry 2. Drogba 3. Van Nistelrooy 4. Van Persie 5. Baines 6. Rooney 7. Gerrard 8. Lampard 9. Ronaldo 10. Other I'm not talking statistically, I just mean in y…

Another question i want to ask. How much do you back your instinct while playing FPL? I was thinking about this the other night when Jonty posted the Dullard vs Gambler thread. I am a gambler/risk …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What is the most amount of money you've won playing fantasy football in one season? Those involved in cash mini-leagues, what is the best way to arrange pri…

How important is building team value early in the season to your FPL rank? How many of you play your WC early(eg during international break) to specifically build TV early on? Triggerlips touched …

Hello All, Managers obviously have a huge impact on the way the teams perform, so I thought I'd do a bit of analysis on Mourinho's performances the last couple of seasons to see if anything intere…

Very long post warning 😯 Yesterday I asked for advice of what should be included in a building your squad guide for my ML, so here is the first attempt. Feel free to ignore, rip apart, laugh…

Someone asked earlier about clean sheet trends throughout the season so I've dug up my research from last year - pales in comparison to what Chris Glover's blog covers (obviously) but might still b…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic A new batch of recruits will be joining the Premier League this year. Some coming up from the lower leagues, others from abroad. But which will be this year…

How much does bias affect your FPL playing? Does anyone have a hated player they would never ever bring in? Or put too much faith in their own team suddenly turning it around? Or what about the i…

For the next season, who do YOU think will be the most improved team? I see Southampton as this team, and many of their defenders will be good cheap assets such as Clyne for CS and assist potential…

3-5-2 Not a valid strategy with 100 m budget Last season many managers switched to a 3-5-2 strategy with the xmas wildcard. I went that route myself and it proved very succesful. However with …

Ps Apologies in advance for the long post An analysis of our FPL budget Re the3rds assumption that you get 20-25pts per million I think this is the wrong way to look at our cash. If you start w…

Deadzone.....advice..... How does play this game, to the best of their abilities, without it taking over their life?. Its kinda the reason I took a year off. I miss it dearly but I need to limit i…

Just got asked by a friend what I thought about United's centre back pairing under Moyes. I'm curious to hear your thoughts? 🙂 This was my answer: I still think Rio and Vidic will be our 1st cho…

I should have done this a long time ago but I just looked at how often I used my 5th mid last season and shocked myself. 11 times; 4 times by choice and 7 times enforced. That's a lot more than I t…

Do people think there are any rule changes that could be implemented in FPL to encourage more diversity in teams? Found the Power5 certainly took something from the game last year in particular

Hello everyone, I just wondered what sort of scouting techniques people used to judge new additions to the premier league? I quite (un)fortunately support a Championship team so have seen most of…

Well I think we do need to get a bit inside the new season. And I do think we all have some players in the back of our heads for the upcoming season. Let's talk about the Watchlists. My watchlist…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic There's lots of transfer speculation going on as usual over the summer. But which is the Premier League transfer rumour you most want to come true ? Is it …

FORM Vs FIXTURES Have been looking back through my player histories looking for correlations between form and fixtures. Its not a compehensive survey (im too lazy) but it looks to me from a practi…

Evening Lads, Some more three way rotations I've found for anyone interested. Cheers 🙂 Southampton/Stoke/WestHam First 7 CAR/CPL/STK/WHM/EVE/CPL/SWA Next 12 WBA/FUL/AVL/HUL/SUN/FUL/CAR/CHE…

What are peoples opinion of Frank Lampard as a fantasy prospect this season? Price prediction 8.5/9 Will he play week in week out? Thoughts?

which liverpool players are people consider? sturridge, coutinho and aspas? price prediction coutinho and sturridge? 8,5 both, would be my guess

Who will be the latest victims of second season syndrome? Southampton?

opening 6 fixtures taken into account, who are the 5 must have players that will be in your opening team ??

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Are you a dullard, maverick or dullardinho? Dullard – The sensible fantasy football manager, who makes carefully calculated moves based on form, fixtures …

It seems like this season a lot of squads are filling out with a lot of options in each position: Liverpool - Suarez (at the mo), Sturridge, Aspas, Alberto, Borini, Coutinho, Sterling, Suso, Down…

Triggerlips the answer is quite obvious. Some people are good at fantasy and others aren't. Everyone on this site can see the same data, articles, stats, etc. Yet there are still MANY posters who…

Looking through the sticky posts and hottopics of the last week gave me an idea I'd like to share. Quite a few of the posts that present thought out research and analysis would be wise to remember …

CAN YOU LEARN TO BE GREAT AT FANTASY FOOTBALL? Following on from the previous post about studying poor teams i would like to pose the above question To me it seems a simple game, anyone should be…

Thought i'd do some research into the set piece takers for the Promoted teams as i don't think it's up yet on here: Cardiff: Pens - Maynard and Whittingham have both taken them, with Maynard taki…

Was just looking at the clean sheet statistics for last season and I'm starting to wonder if we put too much stock into home/away rotation. 115 (58%) of CS came at home last season compared to 84 (…

2013/2014 PREMIER LEAGUE WINNERS This year must be the closest ever to call at this stage! I think it could be Manchester City.

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic The first gameweek of a season can produce some surprising high scorers. Mladen Petric and Nathan Dyer shocked many of us during Gameweek 1 last season with…

Redundant Midfield Problem I think FPL are facing a real problem here. That position is the only one where bar a group of 10ish players the rest were completely redundant due to such a massive swi…

Further to my previous post a few days ago on the Top 10 overall in last seasons FPL and how the cost of their teams at GW2 divided up across Goalie, Defence, Midfield and Attack here is an overvie…

Ok, so in conjunction with fixtures and rotation, which defenders have the best attacking potential? Firstly, these are the defenders who scored 3 or more goals last season: Big Hitters Baines I…

Thoughts on how Chelsea will line up in defence under mourinho? Personally I think their best is Cole Ivan Terry Azpi Unlikely though. Anyone think Luis or Cahill can claim a spot?

Expensive not always best There is a natural tendancy to assume that more expensive equals better, we all have this bias, and it can be detrimental to our fantasy prospects. Hands up if yo…

Right then lads, anyone thought of any witty FPL Team Names for next season 🙂 ? I'm normally rubbish at these type of things... Lets hear your best / worse !

in terms of defenders do you prefer one constant player (expensive or mid priced) with two rotating pairs (or a 4 way rotation) or do you prefer two constant players with a three way rotation?

Arsenal: Stoke (H), WBA (A), Palace (A), Man Utd (A), Cardiff (A), Man City (A). - Away in 5 out of 6 matches after CL weeks Chelsea: Fulham (H), Norwich (A), Man City (H), WBA (H), Southampton (H…

What is the worst thing you've done as a result of your fantasy football addiction?

We are asking in our poll (see middle column on the home page) which of you will be going without one of RVP and Bale when the new season gets underway. We have also asked which of you will be loo…