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 Geoff | Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did your transfers pay off? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Share your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 38 |
 Andy_Social | Teams with motivation I've a hunch that with the PL sewn up and 3 cup comps to win, City will ease off in the PL and rotate even more than usual. I'm gonna gradually divest myself of my 3 City assets, losing one for GW2… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 41 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | February Community Writer of the month vote Hey all, Later than billed (apologies for that, very much my fault) but another new month means we ask for your favourite Community writer from February. As always, the winner will walk away with … | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
 andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 28 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 28. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST Tues 8pm! David and Seb will be joining me to look ahead to GWK 28. Feel free to let us know your questions. | 5 years, 1 month ago | 16 |
 G-Whizz | Pre-deadline A or B questions! Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy/transfers/bench/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other people af… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 104 |
 RedLightning | FFS Mini-League and Community Tournaments round-up, GW26 Welcome to the Fantasy Football Scout mini-leagues and community competitions round-up after Gameweek 26, an eventful record Double Gameweek. As well as the two main FFScout Leagues, we also report… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW27 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW27 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/10dt7si (Provided by Betbrain) DGW26 clean sheet results: Part One: MCI: 52% ❌ LIV: 45% ✅ TOT: 44% ✅ BHA: 39% ❌ WOL: 39% ❌ FUL: 38… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 4 |
 BigManBakar | GW26 Review The Review: GW 26 Greetings everyone, welcome aboard to the latest edition of “The Review” where I cast my eyes on FPL events, past and future, heading into GW27: (Data taken from FFScout wit… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
Geoff | GW27 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form this GW, stepping up with a big score, and why? Maybe someone who hasn’t scored well lately, has very low ownership, or is being broadly overlooked in the c… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 29 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 27 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 27. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
 tbos83 | Worst decision of the season What's your worst decision of the season? Mine = not getting Martinez | 5 years, 1 month ago | 77 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues - leave your questions here Live SCOUTCAST TUES (Time TBC) Ahead of tomorrow's Scoutcast feel free to let us know your questions. Will let you know tomorrow re time as may be an early evening meet up. | 5 years, 1 month ago | 12 |
G-Whizz | Pre-deadline A or B questions! Time for a pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy/transfers/bench/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other people afte… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 146 |
 Legomané | Notional DGW Captaincy matrix Any last minute captaincy or triple captaincy doubts? This matrix might help you 🙂 IMAGINE if every consecutive pair of gameweeks had formed a Double Gameweek so far this season — how would ea… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 10 |
G-Whizz | DGW26 Fixtures and clean sheet odds DGW26 fixture odds can be found here: Part One: http://prntscr.com/10610ak Part Two: http://prntscr.com/106111l (Provided by Betbrain) GW25 clean sheet results: MNU: 48% ❌ BHA: 46% ❌ MCI: 43% … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 15 |
BigManBakar | GW25 Review The Review: GW 25 Greetings everyone, welcome aboard as I present the latest edition of “The Review” ahead of the biggest double GW in FPL history: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) Bef… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 19 |
 Collie01 | Ranking the DGW Captains I think captaincy will be a huge factor this week. There will be plenty of TC chips in play with lots of good DGW options. I'm looking primarily at 3 things: fixtures, form and stats. Stats taken p… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 57 |
Geoff | Gameweek 25 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? How did your bench perform? Did your transfers pay off? Did your captain return? Share your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 37 |
 Camzy | Is Gundogan (C) for DGW26 being overlooked? Are people not considering Gundogan for (c) this week? He's the highest scoring player in the game since he started his little scoring run by a distance. The underlying stats support this. He's fa… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 20 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 26 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 26. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST 8pm Tuesday night Join @DavidMunday815 @KaramTayser and I as we look ahead to #DGWK26 #FPL Let us know your questions here on chips, strategy, teams and players to target | 5 years, 2 months ago | 21 |
Geoff | The Ticker, RateMyTeam, and Projections are updated Just in case you haven't heard, we have fixtures 😉 The new fixtures that were announced (see the previous Hot Topic) are now updated in RateMyTeam, Projections, and in the Ticker. If they aren't … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 7 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Double Gameweek 26/27 Confirmed A bit later than expected, but DGW 26 and DGW 27 have been announced... right as the deadline bell dings! Oh they're so definitely doing this deliberately to mess with us 😉 Games moved to Gamewee… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 53 |
Geoff | DGW25 A/B Thread Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy? Transfers? Your bench? Chips? Lineups? Etc? Please post as an A or B question: [Question] A. [option] B… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 148 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Is WC 25 in order to BB 26 a bad plan? I see a lot of people wasting their wildcard just to BB in 26. More than likely you already own 7-10 of the players you are wildcarding into. Hard to justify deploying the most important chip in th… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 55 |
Camzy | DGW BBing: best strategy or problematic? All this WC talk is making me think that BB'ing GW1 is the best way to do it. You get a free wildcard to construct your team to just explode out the gates. Then you can do an early WC and setup you… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 32 |
BigManBakar | GW24 Review The Review: GW 24 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I answer all your pertinent questions ahead of the upcoming double GWs: (Data taken from FFScout with conse… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 20 |
Geoff | FFS Cup entry reminder Friendly reminder that the Open Cup entry deadline is the same as this Gameweek deadline, so signup now if you haven't and you want to! https://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/cup/24/entry/ | 5 years, 2 months ago | 3 |
Geoff | Pep hints at DGW26 and DGW27 fixtures Pep seems to have given away the DGW situation for City: "Next one is Arsenal. Three days after, Champions League, three days later against West Ham, three days later we have Wolves, three/four da… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 24 |
Legomané | Thursday pressers (GW25) Thursday Press Conference times: Bielsa - 12.30pm Hodgson - 1pm Nuno - 1pm Dyche - 1.15pm Hasenhuttl - 1.30pm Porter - 3pm Allardyce - 3pm https://twitter.com/ffscout/status/1362314660423233536?… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW25 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW25 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/zyut0i (Provided by Betbrain) GW24 clean sheet results: CHE: 52% ✅ MCI: 47% ✅ & 41% ❌ MNU: 47% ❌ WHU: 43% ✅ EVE: 38% ❌ & 15% ❌… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 22 |
Geoff | Gameweek 24 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Share your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 2… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 43 |
 Deulofail | Requested changes to comment forum Please can we have the ability to follow posts and be notified of replies? If this has to be via email for now, then so be it. I know we can do this for our own posts, but I always forget, and woul… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 119 |
 FPL_Crisis | Targeting doublers with captaincy? The psychology of captain choice in dgw is interesting. Fernandes is always a popular option each and every week whilst Gundogan formed a huge bandwagon in recent weeks and was a popular choice in… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 33 |
Geoff | Best Champions League picks With Champions League starting up again, who are you going for? Who are the sure picks in your team? Who are the differentials? How is captaincy playing out? Remember, this Community Article wil… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 2 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST TUES 8pm Joining @SebWassell and I is @DavidMunday815 Feel free to leave your questions for us here, partic on the #DGW25 sides - Leeds and Southampton. | 5 years, 2 months ago | 18 |
Legomané | PRE-DGW24 DEADLINE A OR B QUESTIONS Time for a Pre-Double-Gameweek deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on chips/ captaincy/ transfers/ bench/ anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answ… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 155 |
BigManBakar | GW23 Review The Review: GW 23 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I look ahead to the upcoming double GWs and chip strategies in detail: (Data taken from FFScout with consent… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 12 |
Geoff | FFS Cups are open for entry For anyone who hasn't seen this, the FFS Cups are now open for entry! https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2021/02/12/prizes-on-offer-as-the-2020-21-ffs-cups-open-for-entry/ | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | DGW24 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form this GW, stepping up with a big score, and why? Maybe someone who hasn’t scored well lately, has very low ownership, or is being broadly overlooked in the … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 17 |
 tommo123 | How many DGWers will you have for DGW24? How many DGW player people have for this week? | 5 years, 2 months ago | 23 |
 Lateriser 12 | When best to play Wildcard and Bench Boost? I've been mulling even more over factors to consider with WC and have penned my thoughts in this article. Have more thought after yesterday: -SOU/LEE have cheap assets. Commit to them now, BB in 25… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 30 |
Camzy | Danny Ings dgw hero? I really want Danny Ings in GW25. I thought he was very unlucky to get nothing vs Newcastle. Southampton are also getting all their best players back now. I think he's a very strong differential go… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 30 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 24 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 24. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW24 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW24 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/yv892l (Provided by Betbrain) GW23 clean sheet results: CHE: 47% ❌ TOT: 45% ✅ MNU: 40% ❌ BHA: 39% ❌ LEI: 37% ✅ WHU: 34% ✅ LEE: 3… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 14 |
 The Polymath | Home form vs Away form It's becoming clear how much home fans make a difference to a team's results. For the first time in top flight history we have more away wins then home wins. Which teams do you think this has benef… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 17 |
Geoff | GW23 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 64 |
 Stormbringer22 | Make your own plans before listening to others Hi guys, hope you don't mind a question for the ones that have consistently done well in the game over the years and/or are doing well this season. How much information do you consume every week i… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 57 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here LIVE SCOUTCAST Tues NIGHT 8pm Join @SebWassell, @KaramTayser and I to look ahead to #DGW24 and prepare for the tricky upcoming #FPL schedule. Feel free to leave your questions here | 5 years, 2 months ago | 22 |