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I've been looking at defenders and especially trying to pick out a few good cheap options. I've mainly picked out some stats from the distribution and goal threat tables to see which defenders r…

I've been thinking about the "eye test". Is it a meaningful tool for analysing FPL players? I would say yes and no. Why can't they just be replaced with hard statistics? For me the reason why th…

There's one myth that's being perpetuated on here about Liverpool that's getting rather annoying, and is a classic example of FPL managers carrying on conclusions from seasons past. Last season'…

Was just thinking about how many of the premium mids (8M plus) are actually worth getting right now with upcoming fixtures in mind so here is my analysis on them starting off with a look at all the…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What are you looking at doing with Arsenal assets, and why? With quite a few options to choose from across the side, Emery has already surprised us by rest…

Haven’t commented much on here lately but having seen people talking about fixtures and teams having a run of great matches, I thought I would add my thoughts. Firstly I decided in the summer th…

I'm going to be putting some time into getting fixes/tweaks done to the Members Area tools and tables started next week, or at the very least planned. What would you like to see? Feel free to be …

I posted this a few pages back but it bottomed out... could be useful and would like to hear some thoughts. 'Will Son replace Moura following the IB?' Seen this question floating around a lot ove…

Holebas - No Way Jose I like many, have looked at getting in Jose Holebas. I’m on my wildcard so it’s pretty easy to fit him in. However looking more into the fixtures I think he’s a lot les…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic After speaking with David yesterday today’s Hot Topic is about some articles the writers would like feedback on, specifically the Scout Notes and the Lineu…

Just finished watching the 8 part mini series, Man City: All or Nothing. For those of you who haven’t seen it I would highly recommend. Even if you aren’t a city fan (as most of us here would n…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What is your interest level in the international games? Will you be watching some? Which games are you interested in? Will you watch for the games themsel…

The Injuries and Bans tab, labelled Injuries at the top of the site, now can be sorted by whichever column you choose. If that isn't working for anyone please let me know

For those on WC’s, here’s an idea to help build your team. Excluding punty captains (Alonso, Mendy, Mane, Eriksen etc), how many genuine grade A week in week out captain choices are there in t…

Gameweek 4 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 4 here:

It is becoming very clear this season that we have now entered into a post-security era in relation to secured starting berths for players in the 'top' teams. Even promoted sides like Wolves and F…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the first International Break now underway what's your transfer strategy, and why? Will you make transfers early, trying to catch price rises and knowi…

Gonna wade in on the Salah debate; The pros of keeping: 1) There is nothing to suggest Salah will significantly regress from last season's superhuman efforts, stats are all in his favour 2) No p…

Live Breakfast Club - 11:15 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxYKQ8pgJ7V8wwh4hLsSXQ/live @FFScout_Joe @DavidMunday815 and @FFScout_Granny discuss: Our GWK 4 sides Granville's wildcard Reaction t…

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Lets bring it on! Onside 9 - if you see this, please feel free to get in touch somehow! I'd love to learn about automating the process. GW3 results: https://www…

New Video - Gameweek 4 Conference Call I'm joined by Skonta Rigga to look over the key points from GWK 4's press conferences Klopp rotation tease Man Utd defensive worries Ings' blistering for…

4.5m Midfielders, who we all going for? Stephens - Guarentees starts, not going to get any attacking points but maybe the odd CS point Westwood - As above but maybe at risk when Defour returns M…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW4 and be a popular transfer in for GW5, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some…

For those with Danny Ings, what are you doing this week? 'Mark Hughes reveals that Danny Ings has a "bad blister" on his foot, but has trained today and will be monitored ahead of the weekend.' I…

Liverpool's fixtures between the two international breaks, GW5-8: Sat: Spurs (A) - Prem Tue: PSG (H) - UCL Sat: Southampton (H) - Prem Tue: Chelsea (H) - EFL Sat: Chelsea (a) - Prem Wed: Napoli (a…

The Live HOF has been updated for the first time this season! Where do you rank? Surprised to see some of the names at the top?

Sorry to say this but the Scoutcast is not nearly as good as it used to be. It used to be the FPL highlight of my week but now other pods have easily overtaken. Jonty is a great asset but he's not…

GW4 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week the top DS Liverpool (645DS) only beat Brighton 1-0 while Arsenal (537DS) beat fellow Londoners West Ham 3-1. Man City (435DS) could only draw 1-1 wi…

Just noticed fulham and west ham rotation-heaven, never against a top6 side: (WOL, EVE, WAT, eve, bri, car, BOU, BUR, hud, STH, new, CAR, CPA, W-H, WAT, WOL, HUD, BRI, bur, bou, BRI, cpa, cpa, FUL,…

Referee appointments for GW4, figures in brackets are penalties per match for last season plus GW1-3. Leicester City v Liverpool - Paul Tierney (0.11) Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham - Lee Probert…

Tony Coppen, the new world #1, has already used three of his chips (Bench Boost, Wildcard and Free Hit). I wouldn't be surprised if he plays his Triple Captain chip in GW4. His chips have turned o…

Updates 1. Niemi let me know last week that he hasn't had the time online and onsite that he thought he would, as other things are taking up more time than he expected. He is stepping down as a mo…

New Video David and I discuss the best captaincy picks for GWK 4 Aguero's record v New Hazards's v Bou J-Lingz bombshell dropped Watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU65X5tIbW4

If FPL changed the impact of price falls occurring below a players Purchase Price, to match the algorithm for value gained – so that for every 0.2 that a players value dropped below the original …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Salah, Mane, Robertson, and TAA have all performed well so far, as have some other Liverpool assets, and many of us have tripled up for the opening fixtures.…

Does anybody else think that a back heavy team is only going to be viable short term? Having 3 6m+ and a 5+ is almost the norm and it probably won't be long until we have all of Trip, Alonso, Mendy…

Live Scoutcast tonight (9pm) Joining me on tonight's show will be David, Andy and FPL General Leave your questions for us here Also make sure you subscribe to our Youtube channel to ensure you …

Gameweek 3 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 3 here:

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 4 Once again this year, we will have a champion representing the community to take on the Scout Picks every week with a chance to win a prize at …

I've posted a few times about my approach this year - I've written a program that selects the best possible team & transfers from the RMT tool. So far, I've got 237 pts (79, 78, 80) with no chips …

Credit to Licious Lizard for this one; Do you think there is any merit in holding players with short term bans/injuries or do they need shipping straight away? Does anyone plan on keeping Richa…

New suspension rules; ‘This season, any cautions players receive will be specific to the competition they were playing in at the time. So, a yellow card in an FA Cup game, for instance, wouldn'…

So the question on many manager’s minds today: who to replace richarlison with? Here’s 5 possibilities: 1. Mkhitaryan- need to find a bit of money to upgrade, but excellent fixtures, in an a…

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 3 Sorry, on holiday with my family but GW2 results will be available tomorrow! For this week, let's go...! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven'…

Scout cast had a great idea about a guide to reliable journaslism in the wake of the Guardian’s Aguero nonsense. I was a jouro (not football) for 10 years so thought I’d offer my ten cents on w…

What are you looking to do with your FTs this week? Who is your captain? Now in the final third of the season, how have your goals changed? Are you now looking for differentials? How does your te…

Breakfast Club 11:15am tomorrow. @FPLGeneral , @DavidMunday815 and @FFScout_Joe reveal their GWK 3 line ups and react to the Man City team sheet. Watch the stream via our Youtube channel - https:…

We've spent a bit of time this week working behind the scenes on the code behind the RMT numbers. There are 3 components to the RMT model: the team numbers, the playing probabilities and the play…

New Video Mark reveals his Wildcard team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JP3gKAVxA

A few more thoughts on the idea of templates: of course it was covered a lot more extensively on the earlier hot topic, but another reason people say (complain?) that we already have a small pool o…