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 Silver_and_Gold | Strange season! Strange season... 1. KdB - must have! world class! assured points each GW! 2. Liverpool - stats showing very low xGC. Defense will come good 3. Southampton after Spurs game - whipping boys! Target … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 15 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan GW23 - Scout picks and chips Scout picks GW23 here: https://twitter.com/allsvfantasy/status/1312073737408262144?s=21 How are you all getting along ahead of the internationals? WC popped or is it being saved ahead of the DGW25… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 5 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 4 Captaincy Lots of armband anguish last week with blanks for many of the big hitters, but surely we won’t be seeing that sort of captaincy carnage again this week?! Kevin De Bruyne and Mohammed Salah lead… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 37 |
 BigManBakar | GW3 Review The Review – GW 3 Greetings all! I present to you this week’s “The Review” as I cast my eyes on the Premier League football played over the weekend: (Data taken from FFScout with permiss… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 21 |
 gryffsonofarthur | Brewster: essential or value-blocker? After monitoring the Rhian Brewster transfer speculation for the last few weeks, I thought he'd be a shoo in as a 4.5 playing striker for Sheffield United. However with the abundance of mid price … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 52 |
 Geoff | GW4 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 28 |
 G-Whizz | GW4 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW4 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/urduoo (Provided by Betbrain) GW3 clean sheet results CHE: 46% ❌ TOT: 44% ❌ MCI: 42% ❌ EVE: 38% ❌ LIV: 38% ❌ MNU: 38% ❌ WOL: 38% … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 25 |
 RedLightning | Mini-leagues Update after Gameweek 3 Mini-leagues Update after Gameweek 3: This is surely the most unpredictable season ever. Teams have been flying high one week, then crashing down to earth the next, many experienced managers inclu… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 7 |
Geoff | GW3 Rough with the Smooth How was your GW3? 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 3, here: | 5 years, 8 months ago | 59 |
 AK ⭐ | Further Thoughts on The New Chelsea After reading the Hot Topic by the ever brilliant Portsmouth Bubblejet, I thought I had to jump in and talk about some points made here. https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/09/26/southampt… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 10 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday 8pm - leave your questions here We'll be back with another Scoutcast on Tuesday at 8pm There's plenty to talk about after a testing Gameweek 3 #FPL Let us know your questions here. 🙂 | 5 years, 8 months ago | 44 |
 Iceball | Son Selling Strategies Son to Mahrez or some "safe" pick like Barnes, Rashford, Zaha? Very tempted to get Mahrez for 2 games and then see what happens, maybe get Son back before Brighton and WBA. What is your "Son-plan"? | 5 years, 8 months ago | 32 |
 TopMarx | What's the deal with the crazy football results? Some thoughts on team performance so far: 1) Fitness. Different teams are at different levels of fitness, and the pre-season was especially short. 2) Squad changes. Players leaving can be just as… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 16 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | The New Chelsea As I watch more Bundesliga matches than Premier League, a word in defence of Timo Werner and Kai Havertz. Both are good players, but Chelsea currently don't seem to have planned how to use them pro… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 38 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan GW22, Scout picks and captains How are you all doing in between the Double Gameweeks? Captains, transfers, general life stuff? 🙂 Scout picks are here: https://www.allsvenskan.se/fantasy/fantasy-football-scout-gw22-scout-picks … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 15 |
Gregor | Gameweek 3 Captaincy First off, in case you haven’t heard, there was a problem with the usual widget for the Captaincy Poll so they tried something different this week, suffice to say it has not gone down well and th… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 24 |
G-Whizz | GW3 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW3 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW3 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/un7uvi (Provided by Betbrain) GW2 clean sheet results MNU: 49% ❌ EVE: 43% ❌ LEE: 43% ❌ LEI: 43% ❌ … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 14 |
Geoff | GW3 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 43 |
 Az | FPL BlackBox | Episode Four Hey all, Mark, Luke (a.k.a. d1sable) and I recorded FPL Black Box Episode 4 last night and there's lots of ways you can watch / listen if you missed it last night. The idea of FPL BlackBox is to … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 12 |
BigManBakar | GW2 Review The Review: GW 2 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of The Review where I look back on the key numbers of GW 2 with a look ahead to GW 3: (Data taken from FFScout with permission) 1) Wh… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 20 |
RedLightning | Mini-leagues Update after game-week 2 Mini-leagues Update, GW2: FFS Head-to-Head leagues (https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/head-to-head-leagues/): Over eight thousand FPL managers have now been allocated to appropriate twenty-te… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 1 |
 Lateriser 12 | The FPL Wire - Episode 4 The FPL Wire Episode 4 - The Boys Played Well (its a good one) Youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gnMb9tKU8Fo&t=3014s Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5c9qKwPsPUjAxZ9WTT5nUM Apple: https:… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 9 |
Az | Bale and Reguilón added Bale (£9.5m) and Reguilón (£5.5m) both added. Both prices as expected IMO, although was some hope that Bale would be priced identically to Son (£9.0m). I'm really tempted by Bale. I know he … | 5 years, 8 months ago | 35 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight (Tues) 8pm - leave your questions here Scoutcast tonight at 8pm. Az and I will be joined by Karam. Feel free to leave your questions here. | 5 years, 8 months ago | 26 |
Geoff | GW2 Rough with the Smooth How was your GW2? 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 2, here: | 5 years, 8 months ago | 59 |
Geoff | Wanted: Mods for Arabic content Anyone out there interested in being an mod for Arabic content? Looking for a few, so please email me if you're interested! Geoff@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | 5 years, 8 months ago | 0 |
 DantheManinaPan | To wildcard or not to wildcard, that is the question. I was so so tempted to wildcard today, and very nearly hit the trigger, but I decided that before I would, I’d write down a list of reasons why it might not be worth it to see if I could convince… | 5 years, 8 months ago | 29 |
Gregor | Gameweek 2 Captaincy All aboard for Aubameyang? No arguing with the poll from me this week as the in form Arsenal man takes on a West Ham side that lost comfortably at home to Newcastle last week at the Emirates in t… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 28 |
Geoff | GW2 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who had a poor GW1 (or didn't have a fixture), or has very low ownership. Have you seen something in someo… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 46 |
G-Whizz | GW2 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW2 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW2 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/uj1sku (Provided by Betbrain) GW1 clean sheet results LIV: 47% ❌ ARS: 40% ✅ WOL: 39% ✅ CHE: 38% ❌ … | 5 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
BigManBakar | GW1 Review The Review: GW 1 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of The Review. Presented below is my analysis of the Premier League action in GW 1 with a look ahead to GW 2: (Data taken from FFScout… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 14 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan DGW21 - Scout picks and chips Double Gameweek time in Fantasy Allsvenskan! Scout picks are here, be sure to check them out: https://www.allsvenskan.se/fantasy/fantasy-football-scout-dgw21-scout-picks Will you use this opportun… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 7 |
 andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 2 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 2. 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 us… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 0 |
TopMarx | The Great And The Good Community Team Great to have these articles again this season and what a good opportunity for the community to get involved. For those who would like to put themselves forward for selection, as mentioned by the… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
 Camzy | Are Man United's fixtures overrated? I think a lot of people are blinded by Manchester United right now because of this Palace fixture (which btw, isn't even that good considering Palace's decent GW1 showing against Southampton). Thei… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 39 |
Lateriser 12 | The FPL Wire - Episode 3 New Episode Alert "Why did you have to ask me first?" - The FPL Wire Ep 3 Zophar, BigManBakar & I discuss GW1 Observations, Spurs Assets, Early Wildcards, Mo, Everton, Chelsea, Liverpool, Budget … | 5 years, 9 months ago | 13 |
Geoff | Gameweek 1 Rough with the Smooth How was your GW1? 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 1, here: | 5 years, 9 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight (Tues) 8pm - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight -8pm Az and I will be joined by Simon March! Feel free to leave your questions here. | 5 years, 9 months ago | 37 |
 DavidMunday815 | Fulham vs Arsenal Match Data Live Hi everyone, Just to let you know that the match data from Fulham v Arsenal has updated in the Premium Members Area. Make sure you head over there now to view average positions of every player, to… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan GW20 - Scout Picks Scout picks gameweek 20 here https://twitter.com/allsvfantasy/status/1304710556604039169?s=21 Anyone else caught up in the Tankovic hype or do you think it was just a flash in the pan last week? A… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 8 |
Gregor | GW1 Captaincy Auba - Ownership: 48.5%, Poll: 53.31% Salah - Ownership: 32.3%, Poll: 25.65% Mané - Ownership: 14%, Poll: 3.89% Werner - Ownership: 49.4%, Poll: 3.53% Those percentages for Salah are quite su… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 23 |
BigManBakar | GW1 Preview The Preview: GW 1 Hi everyone! Having a tough time deciding on your FPL team? Here I address the most common dilemmas in the FPL community right now, hours before we head into GW1: (Data taken … | 5 years, 9 months ago | 16 |
BigManBakar | Promoted Teams FPL Assets Which FPL assets to pick from promoted teams? Hi everyone, I hope you have been keeping well over the break. Presented below is an overview of this season’s promoted teams as we head closer to … | 5 years, 9 months ago | 20 |
andy85wsm | Not the eye test vs stats debate again... Enjoyed this, and I think it's always important to have a good eye for both stats and general play, I think even the most hardened "stats people" would agree. Everyone loves a good eye test v stat… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 10 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 1 We're back with a new season of Community Champions, ahead of FPL 2020/21. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 0 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan BGW19 - Scout Picks and captains Scout picks for blank gameweek 19 here: https://www.allsvenskan.se/fantasy/fantasy-football-scout-gw19-scout-picks Honestly, it's a tough gameweek with most teams struggling to field more than 7-8… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 28 |
TopMarx | Is there value in going big at the back? Thank you for the article kierenbwfc. It's an interesting debate and it's good to see Pro Pundit Darren Wiles also favouring a big-at-the-back approach, as I am too. FPL is a limited-budget game, … | 5 years, 9 months ago | 38 |
Lateriser 12 | The FPL Wire, Episode 2 The FPL Wire Episode 2 is now live. This week, Zophar, Bakar & I discuss Wildcards, Going without Mo, Kai, New, Eve, Lei, Captainces & our teams. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOPL3C1… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight (Tues) 8pm - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight! Starts at 8pm. Feel free to leave your questions here. | 5 years, 9 months ago | 45 |
 pundit of punts | Reasons to wildcard in GW4 10 reasons to WC in GW 4 - 🙂 1. Chelsea mid of choice to emerge after the first few gws 2. Getting the likes of Vardy, Aguero, Jimenez etc as their fixtures turn gold after a few gws 3. Mid pri… | 5 years, 9 months ago | 50 |