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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