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Skonto Rigga
Thursday's Press Conference Times

Afternoon, all! Six pressers today, the rest tomorrow. Thursday's list: 12:45 - Marsch 13:30 - Potter, Rodgers, Hasenhuttl 14:00 - Parker, Silva

4 years, 1 month ago 6

☈☾
GW1 Blunders and Next Steps

What mistakes did you guys make before GW1 selection? How are you planning to correct them?

4 years, 1 month ago 53

TopMarx
RMT Refresh & FPL Points Added

Hi All, the projections and RMT have had another quick refresh this evening, and FPL points are now appearing in the stats tables.

4 years, 1 month ago 4

The Train Driver
Salah v Haaland - which one to captain this week?

Owners of both Haaland and Salah? Who are you capping for the next gameweek? Both home games and oposition seems similar imo. Both are on penalties. Both players capable of double digits.

4 years, 1 month ago 20

RedLightning
GW1 Rough With The Smooth

Rough with the Smooth, Gameweek 1. How did your Gameweek go? You can share your tales of joy and woe here.

4 years, 1 month ago 13

Athletic Nasherbo
Any lessons learned in GW1 so far?

What did you learn today, if anything?

4 years, 1 month ago 34

THFC4LIFE
Who’s got a planned move this week?

Who’s got a planned move this week? What is it and when will you be making it? Son to KDB here, will go for it if KDB looks like rising

4 years, 1 month ago 19

Geoff
Last minute A/B questions

Last minute A/B Hot Topic! For those who haven't seen these, 30 mins to the deadline we do a Hot Topic for your last minute questions about your team and moves. Please phrase your question in a w…

4 years, 1 month ago 55

TopMarx
RMT final update for GW1

The Members RMT has been given a final update following today's press conferences. Our numbers are in line with the team odds for the next two Gameweeks and team season betting markets. They are a…

4 years, 1 month ago 6

Skonto Rigga
RMT Surgery with Tom

Get your questions in for Tom here!

4 years, 1 month ago 76

Skonto Rigga
Friday's Press Conference Times

Morning, gang! This list was mailed through yesterday so there might be one or two alterations (Pep's time changed from 1.30pm, for example, but that's reflected here). Some of the times given are …

4 years, 1 month ago 2

Skonto Rigga
Thursday's Press Conference Times

Morning, folks. After much delay and hassling of contacts, here is the presser list for Thursday (all times BST)! Arteta - 12pm Vieira - 1pm Marsch - 1.30pm Lampard - 1.30pm Parker - 2pm Cooper - …

4 years, 1 month ago 6

Camzy
Start with Kane or Haaland?

Erling Haaland. Yes or no? So I've thought about this at length and also listened to quite a few pods about it as well. And in the end, I most agree with Pras's assessment of the situation. Is Kan…

4 years, 1 month ago 39

☈☾
Both Leicester GKs priced at £4.0m

Iversen 4.0m Gamebreaker!

4 years, 1 month ago 27

Portsmouth Bubblejet
Leicester City Goalkeeper update...

Leicester City goalkeeping situation update just now - if the Leicester Mercury is to be believed, it would be between Ward (£4.0m) and Iversen (not listed in the FPL) if Schmeichel leaves: "Dann…

4 years, 1 month ago 28

FPL ZB
Man City Midfield - yay or nay?

Hi all, After the community shield and the general number of options in the midfield bracket this year, how do you rate the Man City midfielders? Is this the Grealish breakout year? Will Mahrez …

4 years, 1 month ago 26

TopMarx
Community Shield stats added to the Members Area

Members can now access stats from the Community Shield yesterday. In the Members Area, switch the competition to 'English Community Shield' near the top of the page and click 'Go'. The expected da…

4 years, 1 month ago 7

Stamford B
How highly do you rate Martinelli, Rashford & Neto?

Martinelli, Rashford and Neto are ace. Discuss

4 years, 1 month ago 36

Piggs Boson
Kane or Haaland?

Pep on Haaland: "It's the first 40 minutes he's played. He's missed 4-5 training sessions. He needs weeks. He's not like Phil Foden, for example, in two days training session he can play 180 minut…

4 years, 1 month ago 23

Christina.
4.5m defender - GW1 CS?

Give me a 4.5m def that will keep a CS in wk1

4 years, 1 month ago 23

seamusseamus
Is Ederson good value at 5.5m?

One of Ederson or Alisson absolute essential this season imo

4 years, 1 month ago 15

Davinho
How big a loss are Jesus and Sterling to City?

I think some people underestimate how much of a loss Sterling and Jesus will be to the way City play and the numbers they contribute. Without pace in those wide attacking areas they’ll become eas…

4 years, 1 month ago 31

Geoff
Members Only chat - Arsenal assets

Members Only chat here, so feel free to share any Members Area data you want. Which Arsenal players are you getting? And are they influenced by data, ownership, or something else? 'Martinelli’s…

4 years, 1 month ago 46

ted mcnure
Could a GW1 Bench Boost pay off in the long run?

Anyone for BBoosterism? After about 50 drafts, which I havent inflicted on you.. I seem to have a cracking 11, with a BB of maybe 12pts poss.. I reckon it´s worth it to be able to focus the budget…

4 years, 1 month ago 20

TopMarx
Members Only - RMT Update

RMT given a quick refresh: Lingard included, Zinchenko switched to Arsenal, and Bailey given a minutes boost at the expense of Ings. Reece James remains the best value player over the first six GW…

4 years, 1 month ago 1

G-Whizz
GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds

GW1 fixture odds can be found here: https://prnt.sc/qMdd9sqwjLb6 (Provided by Betfair.com) GW1 clean sheet odds: LIV: 49% MNU: 49% MNC: 48% NEW: 46% TOT: 46% CHE: 42% AST: 36% ARS: 35% LEE…

4 years, 1 month ago 16

Az
new YouTube graphics: quick survey

Hey all! If you've been watching the videos on the YouTube channel this week, you'll notice we have some new graphics! I'd really appreciate it if you could give me some feedback on them, there's…

4 years, 2 months ago 1

RedLightning
FPL Mini-Leagues to enter

The Opening Day League (league code 947lmo) is for teams that enter it within 24 hours of FPL going live for the new season. It will be closed to new entrants at about 4.20pm on Wednesday 6th July …

4 years, 2 months ago 32

FPLShakenBake
Bargain hunting

Who's everybody's bargain then? For me it has to be Jesus at £8.0m. 0.5 XGI per appearance last season. He's now the main man at Arsenal, so less rotation likely

4 years, 2 months ago 32

J0E
Third Wildcard!

Third Wildcard! Unlimited free transfers can also be made between Sat 12 Nov 13:30 and Mon 26 Dec 13:30 when the Premier League season has been adjusted to accommodate the FIFA World Cup Qatar 202…

4 years, 2 months ago 7

Az
Should Son have been classified as a FWD?

So Son is a midfielder again, and a pricey one at that (£12.0m). I'd have liked to have seen him as a forward, given that his heat map is very similar to the likes of Jota - and he was often the …

4 years, 2 months ago 29

Andy_Social
Is Salah still a must-have at £13.0m?

That Salah price is very naughty. All the others are reasonable or lower than expected. Is Salah really value at 13m? I'm starting to wonder.

4 years, 2 months ago 14

RedLightning
New price reveals

What are our reactions to today's price reveals?

4 years, 2 months ago 25

Skonto Rigga
Conte and five subs: How he handled Perisic in 2020/21

A nice tie-in with the article above and a great bit of research from Wilko on Conte and his wing-backs at Inter in 2020/21, when five subs were allowed: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/202…

4 years, 2 months ago 0

FPLGOOD
FPL Value - part two

There have been many good points here lately about how the best value is in defence and midfiled - or even in the goalkeeper position. However one thing that has been overlooked (or just missed b…

4 years, 2 months ago 21

Chilli Heatwave
FPL Value - part one

Some sums that may be of interest. Using LiveFPL pricing, if we take the top 6 players from each position classification and divide their scores by the prices individually, then take the average ac…

4 years, 2 months ago 25

Portsmouth Bubblejet
Home/away fixture rotation pairs

Each club has one team with whom they always rotate home-and-away. Some pairs are allocated due to close geographical proximity, created by the need to spread police resourcing. Other pairs exist p…

4 years, 3 months ago 8

Skonto Rigga
Season Ticker live for 2022/23

The updated Season Ticker for 2022/23 is now live on the sidebar!

4 years, 3 months ago 5

G-Whizz
Who's the first name on your team sheet for this season???

In the past seasons this has usually been an easy question to answer and I've normally started with Salah and worked my way from there, but this year he won't be the first name on my team sheet... …

4 years, 3 months ago 55

Babit1967
Is one premium mid or forward enough?

Early doors here but anyone tempted by one premium & filling the rest of the team with a decent first 11 ie good mid priced options like TAA, Dias, Kulu, Maddison etc.

4 years, 3 months ago 39

rainy
Arsen-sible throw-in rule change?

It’s been reported that a pet project of Arsene Wenger’s, the kick-in, was tabled as a potential replacement to the throw-in at the Ifab general meeting yesterday. BBC reporting no plans as yet…

4 years, 3 months ago 27

Camzy
FPL Price Prediction Sheet

My FPL price prediction sheet has been updated with new signings. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tOXOHLkK5PaJPke_a7o4uQT707lDpKWAlr5y6VmcXU4/edit?usp=sharing Not long now until we get fi…

4 years, 3 months ago 49

17th Time Lucky
What will be the impact of the five subs rule?

5 subs rule, what impact do we think it will have? I think it will mostly influence the following: 1 - wing backs. This is a high intensity role, I can imagine them being rested once a game is …

4 years, 3 months ago 12

RedLightning
Optimal Zombie Team

Can anyone find a better set and forget zombie team than Andrew Gower's one quoted in the article? 2682 pts, ranked 1873 and costing 99m doesn't sound that impressive - the Optimal Dead Team Squad …

4 years, 3 months ago 6

Camzy
How can forwards be made better options?

We all know that forwards have been the biggest disappointment of the 21/22 season. If you were FPL towers and could make a change to the current system what would you do? A) Make forwards have 5 …

4 years, 3 months ago 48

J0E
SCOUTCAST questions - season review and lessons learned

Season review Scoutcast - lessons learned. Tues 8pm. Join Andy and I as we look back on the campaign and consider ways to approach the game differently next time around. We are featuring lots of…

4 years, 3 months ago 19

Camzy
Can any lessons really be learned from 2021/22?

I'm seeing a lot of season review and learnings type of posts, which are nice, but I genuinely don't think you can take 'broad learnings' from this past FPL seas. It's just been such a strange and…

4 years, 3 months ago 34

Skonto Rigga
Fulham/Bournemouth fans - we need you

Any Fulham or Bournemouth fans out there in the FFS ether? Myself and Tom will be writing The Promoted series soon and while we do plan on watching the 2021/22 Championship boxset to brush on your …

4 years, 3 months ago 10

RedLightning
GW38 Rough with the Smooth

Rough with the Smooth, Gameweek 38. How did your Gameweek go? You can share your tales of joy and woe here.

4 years, 3 months ago 26

Ragabolly
Price Changes

Risers: Toney (6.9) James (6.5) Joelinton (5.9) Matip (5.3) Raya (4.4) Sessegnon (4.4) Fallers: Weghorst (6.2) Willock (5.3) Schär (4.1)

4 years, 3 months ago 20