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As things quieten down over the first international break of the year, it's a good time to scrutinise what has happened so far. We often like to talk about the things we’ve got right, but what ab…

It's official! Fantasy Football Scout's head to head leagues are now live. Big thank you to Mir, Geoff, Mat and Will for setting this up. Looking forward to this challenge!

Salah 36 points for £12.5m = 2.88 pp£m Mane 25 points for £11.5m - 2.17 pp£m Firmino 27 points for £9.5m = 2.84 pp£m The most basic formula shows Salah and Firmino basically the same value, …

Hey everyone, Over this IB we're looking to put together a members area FAQ (as well as updating the main site's one) or, more specifically, making a "How to" page for members. I appreciate that t…

Who, in your opinion, are the current 2 or so best forwards in the 6-7.5m bracket? Would like to know your reasoning too.

Hello everyone, It’s that time of the month where we ask you to vote for the Community writer that you believe has made the biggest/most important contribution in August. The winner will receive…

Community Tournament, the Pundits Playoff : player registration now open! Great news, we already have enough team managers for the competition to kick off, so anyone who wishes to take part can reg…

Gameweek 4 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW4 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gam…

Nice and easy this week isn’t it? Raheem Sterling goes into GW4 with an ownership and a Captains Poll backing both just shy of the 50% mark and on the back of 5 goals in the first 3 games as Manc…

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Apologies, completely lost my mind and forgot to open GW4 so I know its late UK time. Still a good 11 hours at least to register though! GW3 results: https://ww…

A shout out to the new Community Tournament ("The Pundits Playoff"). I've been lucky enough to manage a team in the last 2 Community Tournaments and just want to call attention to the newest one t…

What we learnt in the runup to gameweek 4… Liverpool Klopp will not rest players until after the IB, so expect a full strength team. Alisson’s recovery will still take time because after the …

First and foremost, thank you Meltens for the weekly articles, you do a superb job! Good luck to Henrik Mäkitalo, Daniel Sebestyen and Simon Eriksson for the rest of the season too. On to the key…

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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o…

As you might have noticed (if you read pretty much any comment on the last page) Martial is out of the Southampton game. https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/20755043 Is he worth sellin…

Absolutely no way you should play the WC if a -8 gets you close to your preferred team. 8 points is nothing in the grand scheme of things, you can make up those points immediately or at least over …

Whilst it’s not directly FPL related, one of the big talking points at the weekend was the impact of VAR. There were a number of contentious decisions made already this season where VAR have eit…

New article, quick repost. Interested to hear people's views. Quick forward vs mid argument. Low value Mids are never consistent imo and their respective players e.g. Pukki over Cantwell, Barnes …

Calling all players of Fantasy League: my next piece will be out next week and in addition to an update on the Scout league (like Greyhead's excellent 'Learning from the Great and the Good' article…

GW4 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Liverpool (505DS) beat Arsenal 3-1 at Anfield, Manchester City (430DS) beat Bournemouth 3-1 away and Tottenham (368DS) lost 1-0 at home to New…

Think you can beat the scout picks? Prove it! Gameweek 4 is on it's way but we need a Community Champion to represent us against the Scouts! Last week FPL Mike The Knight commendably beat the sco…

Gameweek 3 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW3 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gam…

Greetings everyone, welcome to the latest edition of The Review. Here I am penning my thoughts on how the Premier League drama in GW 3 unfolded: 1)Salah and Sterling sit top of the charts for big …

Spurs loss to Newcastle is no fluke. Lets not forget they also fell behind to Villa and struggled to break them down for 89 minutes. While most will point to Eriksen benching as the culprit, I thi…

GW3 was a case of non-existent clean sheets with only 3 teams defying bookies odds and recording a shut out: Southampton (28%), Villa (21%) and Newcastle (10%). These low percentages show just how …

‪Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday ‬ ‪Feel free to leave your questions here - as usual we will look at the key players, teams and talking points. ‬

Aguero at 15.7% ownership, with those fixtures. It would be so fitting of him to explode when no one has him. Fingers crossed it's not today, as I'm hoping to find a way to accommodate him. People…

It’s a much closer battle at the top of the Captaincy Poll this week as Mohammed Salah is knocked off his perch by both Tottenham’s Harry Kane and Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling but who wi…

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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o…

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 3 Friday night game?! We're not getting caught out on those this year! Ladies and gentlemen, let's begin SPC GW3. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you wh…

Everton have kept 10 clean sheets in their last 13 Premier League games, another against Villa and I will strongly consider the double up.

They Might Be Tired (Gameweek 3) Trying out a new update… if useful to the FFS community I’m happy to do this regularly to note which teams have midweek competitions, whether home or away, and…

People slating wildcarders as knee jerkers, noobs or sheep are way off the mark, many have planned for it and many have done it successfully for years. #crappingyourselvesatbeingleftbehind

Who has really passed the eye test in your opinion but getting missed out on the site? in the same breath, who is getting coverage but does not pass? My main choice is Firmino. He could have had 4…

GW3 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Arsenal (493DS) beat Burnley 2-1 with Liverpool (481DS) beating Southampton 2-1 away and Manchester City (408DS) surprisingly drew 2-2 with To…

The Review - GW 2 Having written a piece on how the action unfolded in GW 1, I once again cast my eyes on the Premier League action played this weekend. Here are 8 important takeaways for FPL mana…

Thanks for the email. You're correct that this feature isn't yet available, but team value and transfers made will be reintroduced in the coming weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience caused i…

Gameweek 3 and another Friday deadline approaches, but as always we need a Community Champion to represent us against the Scouts! The Community Champion picks a team to go up against the Scout Pic…

Gameweek 2 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW2 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gam…

Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxYKQ8pgJ7V8wwh4hLsSXQ Feel free to leave your questions for us here.

While there are merits to holding transfers and staying calm, there can also be a case made for an early GW3 WC. Which are you choosing and why? Keep in mind that, since we have different teams, …

In 2 games against poor opposition Liverpool have conceded 27 goal attempts. To put this in context, Man City have conceded just 8. Are the warning signs there to ditch double Liverpool defence? …

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 2 The stage is set... the FFS Scouts are licking their lips at the thought of showing their wise minds off again... the sky is clearing... and the challenge is ope…

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - 2018/19 SEASON RESULTS Apologies! So, so terribly sorry! Someone from my real life just informed me I never posted the final results... even though they were ready. So forg…

So, it’s another landslide for Mohammed Salah in the Captains Poll, but given the majority of managers went with the Egyptian last week only to lose out narrowly to Harry Kane captainers and more…

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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o…

GW20 in Fantasy Allsvenskan approaches and many managers are scrambling to get rid of Jeremejeff who’s now left Häcken for Dynamo Dresden. The fixtures looks interesting for a chip play, is this…

Press Conferences today... 08:45 – Newcastle’s Steve Bruce 09:00 – Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe 09:30 – Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 10:00 – Sheffield United’s Chris Wil…

Big thumbs up to the guys and girls in fpl towers for not showing team value and amount of transfers made by other managers. This move has made the game a lot fairer and is a step in the right dir…

8 important takeaways for FPL managers after GW1 Having rolled the scanner on the happenings of the football played over the weekend, here are some interesting points I came across in my findings …