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| Author | Hot Topic | Date | Replies |
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Deulofail |
Free Hit Rules
Free Hit: Make unlimited free transfers for a single Gameweek. At the next deadline your squad is returned to how it was at the start of the Gameweek The Free Hit chip can be used once a season, … |
8 years, 6 months ago | 34 |
J0E |
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31 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, 6 months ago | 6 |
J0E |
Blank Gameweek 31 Dream Team
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 31 Dream Team What would be your dream XI for Gameweek 31.....and please give reasons. This is especially applicable to those with a Free Hit c… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 50 |
J0E |
Gwk 30 lessons learned ...so far
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 30 - Lessons learned so far. Here’s a few to get the discussion started. Feel free to comment on these or suggest your own. Patience proves a… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 68 |
andy85wsm |
Time for Kanexit 3?
Is anyone taking out Kane for GW31? I fancy a punt on a striker and it also means if I keep my wildcard until GW33 I can take another punt on a different striker in GW32. Lukaku v Swansea (h) Aub… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
RedLightning |
New mini-league
I have created a new mini-league (Last 8 Game-Weeks, 757-1280283) which will start scoring in GW31. It should be interesting to see which chip strategy proves most effective over the final 8 game-… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
J0E |
Gwk 30 Captaincy
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? |
8 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
Niemi |
Eliteserien GW1 Community Scout Picks
Community Scout Picks GW1 Linde Kitolano - Teniste - Parr Ulland Andersen - Haugen - Koomson - Sigurdarson Bendtner - Lehne Olsen - Stokke Community Captain Ulland Andersen with 45% of the vot… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 2 |
@ocprodigy |
Scout Picks Challenge - GW30
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 30 GW26 results:https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/17722196 I'm flat bound this weekend (somehow, even with the MMR vaccine, I've contracted MUMPS) so… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 30 |
J0E |
Gameweek 30's best differential
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 30's biggest differential? I actually think it could well be an Arsenal asset - who we are all avoiding due to GWK 31 fever and that B… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 84 |
G-Whizz |
GW30 Odds/Stats
GW30 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Tottenham (579DS) beat Huddersfield at home 2-0, Liverpool (488DS) faced Newcastle at Anfield and beat them 2-0 and finally Manchester United… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
RedLightning |
Chips, BPS and other possible FPL changes
What FPL changes would we like to see for next season? I would suggest the following changes to chips and to BPS: Chips: Keep the Wildcards. Get rid of Bench Boost. Keep Free Hit but change its na… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 81 |
J0E |
Sky Blue Thinking
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Manchester City issues With tough fixtures and inevitable rotation due to Champions League commitments is it time to ditch Manchester City options. Or ar… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 48 |
SW6 |
BGWK 31 - Clean Sheet Odds
Some quick statistics for you, these are implied odd of these events occurring in GW31 according to betting sites: Liverpool CS: 55.6% Watford CS: 7.1% Huddersfield CS: 34.8% Palace CS: 34.8% B'… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 19 |
J0E |
FFS Cup cut off revealed
FFS Cup qualification latest Article and first round draw will be published tomorrow. But we can reveal now that the cut off from the qualification round was 60 points with a rank of 211070 or … |
8 years, 6 months ago | 63 |
J0E |
GWK 31 players worth taking a hit for
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which players is it worth using a Free Hit Chip on or taking a hit for in Gameweek 31? This follows on from Ragabolly's research into GWK 31 player ownershi… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 104 |
Twisted Saltergater |
The case for free hitting in Gwk 31
Have just watched the Scoutcast back and found myself shouting at the screen regarding the GW31 situation 🙂 A free hit in GW31 is almost a perfect storm, imo. - There are brilliant non-GW31 play… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 120 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29 Rough with the Smooth
Gameweek 29 Rough with the Smooth Let us know about your Gameweek highs and lows here. Remember it's what you did do, not what you didn't. |
8 years, 6 months ago | 73 |
J0E |
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight - feel free to leave your questions for the team here 9:30pm start |
8 years, 6 months ago | 119 |
tafrère |
Why is GWK 35 better for the free hit chip?
Why is GW35 a better gameweek to use FH ? |
8 years, 6 months ago | 51 |
Individual |
Tosun & Aubameyang's surprise bonus awards explained
Hi all Inspired a bit by the questions I've seen over the weekend on BPS I carried on from where I left off on our most recent podcast and looked into how two of the biggest sore points of this we… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 50 |
J0E |
Community Writer of the month vote – February
Community Writer of the month vote – February It’s that time again to vote for your favourite community writer of the past month. All you have to do is email us here community@fantasyfootba… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 7 |
J0E |
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30 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, 6 months ago | 0 |
Numb |
Chips Strategy and the Great Gameweek 31 Trap
CHIPS STRATEGY - HAVE WE ALL* GOT IT WRONG? So, I know that the "received wisdom" on here has been to plan for GW31 without FH with a view to using FH in 35. But, as a useful comparison, my ML lea… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 71 |
J0E |
Gameweek 30 Captaincy - Kane v the rest
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic At last Salah has a worst fixture than others. Suddenly the armband is up for grabs. What are your early thoughts on the captaincy? Is Kane the obvious ch… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
Ragabolly |
Ownership of Gwk 31 players
I calculated something that might be useful while planning the coming GWs: The average number of GW31 players in current top teams is: Top 1k: 5.96 Top 10k: 5.7781 Top 100k: 5.52487 Note that this… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 28 |
Toby Lerone |
What to do with Wilson?
Wilson owners, what is the plan? I'm struggling |
8 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29 Lessons Learned So Far... | 8 years, 6 months ago | 69 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29 Captaincy
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? |
8 years, 6 months ago | 75 |
@ocprodigy |
Scout Picks Challenge - GW29
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 29 Catching up! Up to GW26, GW27 and 28 this weekend thanks... ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening … |
8 years, 6 months ago | 32 |
G-Whizz |
Doosra's Gameweek 29 Stats
GW29 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Liverpool (449DS) beat West Ham at Anfield 4-1 and Leicester (354DS) disappointed with a 1-1 draw at home with Stoke. Spurs (330DS) beat Crys… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
J0E |
Gameweek 29's best differential
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 29's best differential and why? |
8 years, 6 months ago | 52 |
Flynny |
Sterling: sell or keep?
What r sterling owners doing? No guarantee he starts at weekend....pep doesn't need to rush him.... Think I'm going to replace with eriksen .... |
8 years, 6 months ago | 35 |
Maximus Bonimus Pointimus |
Is FPL getting boring?
Anyone else getting... whisper it quietly.... bored of FPL? First time i can remember where I'm genuinely not fussed about the run in. 10 GW's, we know about BGW31, and a couple of DGW's. If you pl… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 69 |
Ludo |
How Spurs beat their Wembley blues
Tottenham may have won 6-1 against ‘only Rochdale’ last night, but I think it’s another indicator that their Wembley woes are now firmly in the past. They struggled there at the start of the … |
8 years, 6 months ago | 17 |
THFC4LIFE |
Thursday's Press Conferences
Today’s Presser’s 1.00pm Huddersfield 1.15pm Burnley 1.30pm Leicester Palace Stoke 2.00pm Watford Swansea |
8 years, 6 months ago | 6 |
J0E |
Snow Memories
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Snow memories Matches getting called off due to the weather have become increasingly rare. But when it happens it can be devastating to some FPL managers… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 27 |
nevertrustbony |
What skills are needed to do well at FPL?
Hey, I finished 37th a few years ago, so i've put it on my cv, I'm just wondering what skills people think it takes to do well at FPL? I'm currently applying for finance related internships. |
8 years, 6 months ago | 59 |
Ragabolly |
let it snow, yes or no?
Hey guys, I calculated the ranks of the top 50k in the case of Arsenal vs City game postponement. You can find them in the spreadsheet here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hNH4vULpI6LysWa-… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
Pierce34 |
The Salah Captaincy Conundrum
It's funny how the scout tweets talk of the 'Salah captain conundrum'. What conundrum exactly? It's simple - you captain Salah most weeks if you want to get the most points! Was it at least address… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 52 |
J0E |
End of the line for Man City assets?
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it end of the line for Manchester City assets? This was a question posed by DarrellB and Toblerone52 for last night’s Scoutcast. As we ran out of time… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
J0E |
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here
Live Scoutcast tonight Feel free to leave your questions for the team here |
8 years, 6 months ago | 147 |
pjomara |
Arsenal: Fixture v Form
Arsenal are dead in the water and there's no point getting any Arsenal players, right? |
8 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
The Left Duke #3 |
Advice for those who 'can't catch a break'
Feel like I can't catch a break lately...anyone else feeling the same? Any punt I bring in isn't doing squat....Wilson, Daniels, Walcott and now Deulofeu. Didn't go Shaqiri as rival has him and i'… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 71 |
J0E |
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 29
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 29 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, 6 months ago | 0 |
J0E |
Gameweek 28 Rough with the Smooth
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 28 so far.... Feel free to let us know your highs and lows of the week so far. Particularly keen to hear from anyone who… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 70 |
J0E |
Gameweek 28 Lessons Learned So Far….
Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 28 Lessons Learned So Far…. What lessons have you learned from the matches so far. Here’s a few to get the discussion started Captain Salah… |
8 years, 6 months ago | 64 |
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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months ago | 38 |

