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 Geoff | GW13 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW13 and be a popular transfer in for GW14, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in many of our sid… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 26 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 13 Captaincy A genuine captaincy conundrum on our hands this week as Everton’s Richarlison tops the captains poll thanks to a favourable looking fixture at home to Cardiff whilst regular poll leaders Mohamed … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 44 |
 G-Whizz | GW13 Fixture and average clean sheet odds GW13 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Community Article: Shouting the Odds https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/11/09/shouting-the-odds-who-the-bookies-back-in-gameweek-12/ Give it a read a… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 39 |
 FPL Scoop | Failed Bandwagons Can't imagine the Digne wagon will fail as badly as the Barkley one did. What other terrible bandwagons can you remember, from any season? | 7 years, 6 months ago | 36 |
 Jealous Viper | Season keepers? What players do you consider season keepers? For me, I've got eyes on Richarlison. Think Everton end up top 8 in goals scored, he is loved by Marco Silva and could keep starting during the busy Chr… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
 Flaming Flamingo | Sanéty check With Mendy's injury, I've seen many on here look to bring in Leroy Sane. The reasoning for this is largely based around this quote from Pep earlier in the season: "He is not being left out because… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
 avfc82 | Are we overlooking Walker? In light of Benjamin Mendy's recent knee injury, the majority of attention has been directed at Aymeric Laporte, which has seen his ownership increase to 12.8%. With his price on the rise too, he'l… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 23 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 13 Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 13 Once again, one champion representing the community will take on the Scout Picks this week with a chance to win a prize at the end of the sea… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday at 9:30pm - Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tuesday. Each week we look at the key player, team and talking point. Which player should we discuss and why? Which team should we discuss and why? What should our talking… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 45 |
 Duffy Dunk | Will North London Players Answer Green Arrow Prayers? Tottenham and Arsenal have nice fixture runs from gwks 15 and 16 respectively. What's your plan to take advantage of them? As an Aguero owner, and with Kane being the main attacking TOT asset, I fe… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 Legomané | Your FPL season so far An international break is always a time for jubilant or despondent reflection..so.. How has your season unfolded so far? Have you exceeded your expectations or are you struggling to get going? H… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
 BigManBakar | Martial Under the Microscope Hi everyone, hope you’re enjoying your time in the international break. Having done a piece on Laporte a couple of days ago, I thought I’d roll the scanner over another option which FPL manager… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 88 |
 D_R_S_PORT_S | Time to Dignefy Keane with our consideration? Finally decided to bring Everton defence in replace of mendy,but whom should I go with?? A)Digne(great assist potential and set pieces) Or, B)Keane(Bigger goal threat and likely high BPS) | 7 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 Maximus Bonimus Pointimus | Squad depth How deep is your bench? With 9 games in 5 weeks coming up (plus champions league & league cup) the already high level of injuries & rotation is only likely to increase... Are you taking the opport… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
Geoff | How many of your GW1 squad do you still own? Who is left in your team from your GW1 squad? I thought I had lots, but only have three: Aguero, Robertson, and Wan-Bissaka | 7 years, 7 months ago | 82 |
BigManBakar | Is Laporte the best Mendy replacement? Evening all, there's not much going on over this international break other than the big Mendy news so I thought I'd pen my thoughts on this interesting dilemma that Mendy's FPL owners are left faci… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 39 |
 d1sable | Sky FF Transfer Stats Average remaining transfers in Sky Fantasy Football: Top 10 – 13.2 Top 100 – 17.7 Top 1000 – 20.1 Top 5000 – 21.0 Cheers | 7 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
 Parm | Mendy injured - what are your plans? www.mancity.com/news/first-team/first-team-news/2018/november/man-city-benjamin-mendy-injury-news-latest-france Manchester City can confirm that Benjamin Mendy has undergone surgery on his left kn… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
 Dybala10 | Spurs assets for GW15 What Spurs options are people look at for GW 15? I'm conscious of form and fitness atm, but they have great options and when the fixture swings they have an incredible run up until late February. … | 7 years, 7 months ago | 35 |
 MANGE TOUT RODNEY | Fulham assets Very interesting news re Ranieri. Fulham assets to become an option again soon? Particularly Mitro/Schurrle? | 7 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
 GS456 | How many flags do you have? 5 flags wow Mendy, Ings, Maddison, AWB, Richarlison Anyone got more? | 7 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
Gregor | The Eye Test - GW12 The Eye Test - Did any players, preferably those that might be going under the radar, catch your eye during any games or highlights that you’ve seen over the weekend? I have to start with Newca… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
Geoff | Gameweek 12 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 12 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 12 here: | 7 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
 diesel001 | Salah and Aguero Salah at home: 8 8 8 3 15 8 Aguero at home: 20 6 7 8 6 13 7 Salah away: 9 2 2 2 8 2 Aguero away: 2 2 6 1 2 Salah's 2 decent scores away from home came against Palace and Huddersfield. His other… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 BenDavies | FFS Scout Cup Entry Reminder Closing Monday https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/11/01/fantasy-football-scout-cup-entry-now-open-2/ This is a PSA! If you haven't signed up to the FFS cup yet, you can do so now! | 7 years, 7 months ago | 6 |
 Lawrø | Manager Melee - Mods & Cons Team Hello everyone, I am excited to announce that there will be a mods and cons team participating in the Manager Melee this season! 😀 AZ Mark Joe Andy Luke David Geoff ZoumasBloomers RedLightning G… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 4 |
 Ragabolly | Top 10k EO and captains Players with the biggest EO in the top 10k Player EO Salah 121.76% Hazard 92.98% Agüero 87.82% Alonso 83.31% Arnautovic 70.10% Robertson 70.04% Mané 69.32% Wilson 62.44% Mendy 56.14% Ri… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE GW 12 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 12 For the first time in a very long time, I have a weekend free this weekend! Expect GW9,10 and 11 this weekend without fail. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For thos… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 35 |
 Defcons are for Kinnear | Maddison - what are your plans? Can we have a Hot Topic on James Maddison. Posts about him will appear on every page. Are you keeping him or shipping him? If shipping him then for whom? | 7 years, 7 months ago | 74 |
Geoff | GW12 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW12 and be a popular transfer in for GW13, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in many of our sid… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 37 |
d1sable | Sky FF Transfer Stats Sky Fantasy Football Average remaining transfers Top 10 - 14 Top 100 - 19.1 Top 1000 - 21 Top 5000 - 22.1 | 7 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
G-Whizz | GW12 DS, Fixture and average clean sheet odds GW12 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week saw Manchester City (734DS) trounce Southampton 6-1 and Chelsea (323DS) beat Crystal Palace 3-1. GW11 DS accuracy was around: 72% Last week's stats… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 23 |
 rnrd | Salah or Mané - or both? Salah VS Mané I have been an FPL Salah supporter since the very beginning last year and always have backed him. FPL is very much a game where you have to weight the stats, your eye-test result, a… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 47 |
 Bat Man | How to judge Liverpool Liverpool has scored 19 goals so far this season, only 2 more than Man Utd, and less than City, Chelsea and Arsenal. That being said, they have also played City, Chelsea and Spurs so far. Do we t… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
Lawrø | Community Tournament Deadline Reminder Hello everyone, If you haven't already, do check out the new FFS Manager Melee competition! 🙂 https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/10/29/announcing-the-ffs-manager-melee/ Here is an exam… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
Geoff | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 11 Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 12 Once again, one champion representing the community will take on the Scout Picks this week with a chance to win a prize at the end of the sea… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | Gameweek 11 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 11 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 11 here: | 7 years, 7 months ago | 84 |
Gregor | The Eye Test - GW11 The Eye Test - Did any players, preferably those that might be going under the radar, catch your eye during any games or highlights that you’ve seen over the weekend? I think those managers wit… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 46 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | Time to invest in Sterling? Sterling's 2 goals and 2 assists gave him 21 points this week, taking his season totals to 6 goals and 5 assists from 9 starts in 11 gameweeks. Only 2 players have scored more points so far this se… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 42 |
Geoff | Which expensive players do you want in your side? A formation shift in our FPL teams has been talked about the past few weeks and the results this weekend seem to continue the discussion. A strong midfield is looking like it could be a good way to… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday at 9:30pm - Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tuesday. Each week we look at the key player, team and talking point. Which player should we discuss and why? Which team should we discuss and why? What should our tal… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 81 |
Gregor | Gameweek 11 Captaincy With the news that Eden Hazard may only be fit for ‘40 to 45 minutes’ this week and Sergio Aguero fully rested on Thursday night and now up against a struggling Southampton side at the Etihad, … | 7 years, 7 months ago | 45 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GW 11 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 11 GW7 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/19192277 GW9&10 on the way - need to stop saying I'll do it and just find the time for it! Exhauste… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 21 |
Geoff | Members Only - RMT and Projections are updated RMT and Projections should be updating within a few minutes! Let me know if anything looks wrong, although it shouldn't. Who looks good and who looks bad? I find RMT is sometimes is a nice way t… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 16 |
Gregor | The Hazard Headache Maurizio Sarri has reported that he does not know whether Eden Hazard is fit to play for 90 minutes on Sunday; “He trained for a large part of the session yesterday. He can probably play for 40 t… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 62 |
 MyPrettyPony | Fantasy Football Scout Charity Cup Late additions will still be welcome, but I am hoping to sort out provisional squads for the second (real-life) FFS Charity Cup on Saturday 17th November after this weekend. Anyone who has already… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 2 |
Geoff | GW11 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW11 and be a popular transfer in for GW12, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in many of our sid… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Time to change formation? Following the “Mid-Priced mids” HT on Monday, I noticed a few people with plans to switch formation. So far, a 3-4-3 has been the template formation, especially recently. However, is it time to… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 29 |
G-Whizz | GW11 DS, Fixture and average clean sheet odds GW11 DS, Fixture and average clean sheet odds Last week there was only two real fixtures of note. Liverpool (521DS) beat Cardiff 4-1 at Anfield and Manchester United (392DS) won 2-1 against Everto… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 26 |
 Mikeharbrw | Batterings Revisited Batterings revisited The premier league is now 10 games old. As we move onto Gameweek 11 I thought it would be pertinent to revisit a favourite topic of mine from the summer- Batterings. A remind… | 7 years, 7 months ago | 17 |