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 emyoueffsee | Is FPL’s bonus system fair? I'm sure I'm the millionth person to say this but the Bonus point system is a joke. Why do we even need bps? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 60 |
 Duffy Dunk | The Gameweek 31 defence trap Earlier I said that after today's results, with just 1 clean sheet out of 14 teams that played, I wouldn't have high hopes from any defenders from the available teams in GW31. From the top 6 only L… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 8 |
 Viper | Gwk 29 Captaincy: Kane v Salah Imagine Salah was actually really really clinical, he'd have about 40 PL goals already. Could have had four today. It's going to be hard to not captain him again next week despite Kane at home to … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 38 |
 TopMarx | Career Hall of Fame Top 5 - Gameweek 27 Review Guys, my belated Gameweek 27 review of the Top Five & Gameweek 28 Preview http://bit.ly/2ovVFqz Right, off to play football now 🙂 | 8 years, 1 month ago | 1 |
 J0E | Gameweek 28 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 49 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW28 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 28 Both missing GWs out tomorrow. Guaranteed. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the star… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
 Mark | Ref is Mili's Friend vs Spurs Following my cock-up in this thread... https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/02/23/the-weekend-team-news-240/?hc_page=2#hc_comment_17708147 ...the outlook has flipped for Milivojević owner… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 31 |
J0E | Gameweek 28's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 28's best differential and why? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 33 |
 G-Whizz | GW28 Odds/Stats GW28 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Manchester City (DS 539) beat Leicester 5-1, Chelsea (531DS) beat West Brom 3-0 and confirming my ignorane of stats below 350, Manchester Uni… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 35 |
J0E | New Ideas For Chips New ideas for chips The Norwegian Fantasy Eliteserien competition gets underway soon. This is based on FPL's gameplay but with some key differences - most notably it does not have FH, BB or TC … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 78 |
J0E | Are Man Utd Worth Bothering With? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are Manchester United worth bothering with? Manchester United may have potentially two double Gameweeks but there recent attacking form has been atrocious.… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 36 |
 Team Cruel | Fantasy Eliteserien back for a second season Fantasy Eliteserien (Norwegian league) is back for a second season! Link: https://fantasy.eliteserien.no/ For those that are unaware, Fantasy Eliteserien is the closest thing to FPL. The concept, … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 13 |
J0E | Defensive changes Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Defensive changes Whether free hitting, wildcarding or holding back your chips over the coming Gameweeks is it now time to refresh our backlines? Tricky f… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 39 |
 Benster | Gameweek 38's Wealth of Options Just been looking ahead to the GW38 finale, and I can see everything coming down to who you pick on that day. Get it right and you could be in for a massive haul. The biggest problem is picking the… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 20 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight Feel free to leave your questions here. As well as looking ahead to Gameweek 28 we will also consider the latest regarding blanks, double Gameweeks and chips. | 8 years, 1 month ago | 159 |
J0E | Live Hall of Fame Updated Live Hall of Fame Updated Members can see where they are here https://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/hall-of-fame/live/ | 8 years, 1 month ago | 12 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 28 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 28 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
J0E | Is it worth getting in players blanking in GWK 31? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it worth getting in players blanking in GWK 31? For those not using their free hit or wildcard chip for Gameweek 31 are you still tempted to get in play… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 32 |
J0E | Your perfect Gameweek 31 side Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your perfect Gameweek 31 side We now know that, barring an incredible result from Rochdale against Spurs today, there will be four fixtures taking place i… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 59 |
 ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️ | Bgwk 31: Mane v Liv defender I think Mane is such a great differential for the upcoming weeks. With essentially Salah and Firmino canceled out due to such high ownership the only downfall with owning Mane is missing out on Liv… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
 Rainer | FA Cup QF draw perfect for GWK 35 FH Chip PERFECT!!! draw for GW35 Free Hit! | 8 years, 1 month ago | 26 |
 TorresMagic™ | Free hit chip - best week to use For those with the Free Hit chip, when are you currently thinking of using it? a) BGW31 b) DGW34 c) BGW35 d) DGW37 e) GW38 f) another GW | 8 years, 1 month ago | 39 |
 agueroooooney | The Free Hit Chip Double Gameweek Strategy How come there's been no mention of a strategy involving using the FH chip in a double gameweek? People are covering every eventuality with the fixtures but I haven't even seen this mentioned. Her… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 29 |
J0E | Time to bail on Chelsea? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Time to bail on Chelsea? Given their tough fixtures and blank Gameweek 31 is it time to start ditching Chelsea assets. Are you Alongo or Alonstay? What o… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 44 |
J0E | Wildcard GWK 32 v 33 I was thinking of playing my wildcard in Gameweek 33 as it is closer to Gameweek 34 when I can use a bench boost. Using it in GWK 33 rather than GWK 32 would in theory give me extra information re … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 97 |
 matzi11a | Server and Backend Upgrades Hi all, we are performing some upgrades to the site over the next hour. Everything *should* continue working as normal during this period but you may need to do an occasional reload. | 8 years, 1 month ago | 11 |
J0E | Targeting the Gunners Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Arsenal assets? Given a Gameweek 31 fixture for Arsenal looks unlikely many will be shunning their players. But with bags of creativity in midfield, … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 23 |
J0E | Best Liverpool Assets Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Liverpool Assets With strong form, excellent fixtures and a guaranteed match in Gameweek 31, investing in Livepool assets looks key over the coming w… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 51 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Top 10K Chip Use Top 10k. Anyone got the stats on % used FH and WC? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 17 |
J0E | FA Cup results wish list Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FA Cup Wish List What outcomes are you looking for this weekend and Monday’s FA Cup games, given that those that progress will miss Gameweek 31? A lot … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 62 |
 Individual | Quality v Quantity in planning for blanks Hi all I've written a short piece on quality v quantity in our planning for the blanks, based on my experience last year http://whogottheassist.com/quality-v-quantity-for-the-bgw-a-cautionary-tale… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 37 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm Feel free to leave your questions here | 8 years, 1 month ago | 151 |
J0E | Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here. Particularly keen to hear from anyone with Alonso (c) and an incredible vic… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 115 |
J0E | Holding out for a hero Who have been your heroes this season? And what heroes would you recommend for the coming Gameweeks? This is something Mark got in touch with earlier after realizing that he’s still holding out… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 97 |
J0E | Targeting the relegation scrappers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With most of the relegation embattled teams doing well over the weekend should we perhaps be targeting some of their assets, particularly as cheap options i… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 31 |
 FPL Virgin | Free hit chip: gwk 31 v gwk 35 14 teams are projected to play in GW35. Are you telling me that a Wildcard team for GW34 won't be able to get a decent team out for GW35? Are we assuming all 15 players will be from those 3 fixtu… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 119 |
 Deus | Time for a top heavy front three? Shall we consider heavy top3 with Kane Kun and Firmino now? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 38 |
 Numb | Scoutcast feedback Feedback on the ScoutCast (seeing as Mark is around 😉 ) Things I like: Banter between them especially when Granville is involved Talking about their teams and plans When they have guests to mix … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 126 |
J0E | Gwk 27 lessons learned so far Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 27 lessons learned so far Kanexit 2 a success This was the final round in the second Kanexit move, before spurs fixtures ease and City’s get m… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 31 |
 Granville | ‘Unedifying’ scoutcast criticism It's really unedifying to see the FFS community having a good old pile-on Mark and the scoutcast team for criticising Aguero at a time when he was struggling a little. I just wonder how they would … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 175 |
 diesel001 | Kanexit 2 - Rough with the Smooth Kanexit. Share your tales of joy or woe. Mine: GW24 did Kane and Gross to KDB and Firmino. Kane and Gross since GW24 = 39pts. KDB and Firmino = 47pts with Firmino having a game to play. What that … | 8 years, 1 month ago | 20 |
J0E | Gameweek 27 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 107 |
 Twisted Saltergater | DGWK planning for the wildcardless For those who’ve played their second WC already but still have the FHC for blank GW31, is the best tactic now to load up on potential DGW’ers? So, in other words, get in players who don’t pla… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 20 |
 How I met your Mata | The Kane (c) early kick off conundrum Really want to captain Kane but due to his 12:30 kick off it's putting me off | 8 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW27 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 27 Gameweek results will be tomorrow sorry I’m really behind! On holiday next week. Been working 50+ hour weeks.. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you wh… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 27 |
J0E | Gameweek 27's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be this Gameweek's best differential? Mahrez? 😉 Or another? | 8 years, 1 month ago | 112 |
 fusen | What if I stopped playing? Deadzone Post "What if I stopped playing?" I made a page that'll show you your FPL score if you had stopped playing the game in any given gameweek. So if you stopped in gameweek 14 and made no fu… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 56 |
J0E | Player blinkers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Player blinkers There have been a number of players this season that look great captains and transfer targets, but are being ignored by many. Take Mohame… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 47 |
 ktk_interista | Captain fantastic Salah More reasons to just keep the captaincy on Salah until GW31. If being the most consistent and explosive fantasy asset all season, the highest owned in an ultra-attacking team is not good enough for… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 33 |
G-Whizz | GW27 Odds/Stats GW27 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester United (590DS) beat Huddersfield 2-0 and for the second week in a row Chelsea (385DS) failed their rating (last week 479DS) an… | 8 years, 1 month ago | 26 |