The Community started preparing for Christmas early this week with strikers topping their shopping lists. Our community writers and hot topic posters were on hand with some useful advice on the best forwards to purchase as well as how to earn some extra cash. Our Members tables take a close look at Liverpool players, while we see who is already in the festive party mood in our community leagues round up.

The Community Articles

When Wild Rover gives advice about winning cash in Fantasy Football, the community takes notice. The regular poster recently scooped a £1,000 monthly prize in Ultimate Fanasy Premier League and urges those playing the game with a poor overall rank to switch tactic towards these more regular goals. This prompted a further discussion on how some of the community are also favouring short-term gains above overall rank playing Fantasy Premier League.

For those looking to maximise their points in Gameweek 14, our regular community writers were on hand with a wealth of advice. The Sarjeant dropped by with his colour-coded look at latest team form, YMA has popped down the bookies once again for inspiration, while Seaman has been visiting the fans forums to gauge their opinion on the weekend’s games.

Meanwhile, Rakkhi has taken an in-depth look at fixture difficulty to see how it affects the performance of the game’s top strikers and captaincy candidates.

Don’t forget, if you’ve got some analysis, scout reports or features brewing, be sure to visit our community section to submit your article.

The Hottest Topics

Finding the best striker options is proving tricky ahead of the packed festive schedule, with plenty of forwards having great fixtures as well as showing superb form. Beavis’s discussion on Christmas striker shopping shows just how tough it is to pick just three.

There was further chat about strikers with the best fixtures from Irish Madrista, while our discussion on Sergio Aguero revealed that opinion is divided as to whether the Manchester City man is an essential purchase this winter.

For Limpar, Christian Benteke looks one of the best options, particularly with Liverpool’s kind upcoming run. However, he is less enthusiastic about Romelu Lukaku’s chances this week of goals, after investigating how well Bournemouth have tightened up at the back in recent Gameweeks.

In midfield, Balders has revisited his regular look at how the mid-price midfielders have fared this season. His update shows that just four players in this price range, including Ross Barkley, have either met or exceeded expectations so far.

Those with Barkley certainly had reason to be cheerful after his Gameweek 13 brace. This week’s Rough with the Smooth details how the week’s top performing players either helped or hindered our community’s Gameweek scores, while our latest Hall of Fame update details how last weekend’s games effected Fantasy managers’ career-long standings.

Although Francis Coquelin is far from a viable Fantasy option, his lengthy absence through injury could effect the points potential for Arsenal’s defenders. Sinik wonders whether without his protection the clean sheet prospects for the likes of Hector Bellerin and Laurent Koscielny could be at risk.

There is also concern, from Mark II, that Arsenal’s attacking output this weekend could be dented due to improvements in Norwich’s backline following their drubbing away to Newcastle earlier this season. This could prove costly to those considering captaining Alexis Sanchez, however there is still considerable optimism that the end to his Premier League goal drought is in sight.

Another cause for optimism in a Gunners’ goal bonanza is that Arsenal take on the Canaries on a Sunday, a far better day for attackers, according to Dynamic’s look at the best days of the week for goals.

Finally, The Rains of Castamere became the latest community member to be inspired by music. In his look at the best strikers, he used Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to separate the very frightening from the forwards capable of bringing thunderbolts and lightning to a match.

The Members Tables

For those looking to tap into Liverpool’s good form and fixtures, Doosra has made this table looking at their best passers and strikers. Budget and premium options that are due points are also covered in my latest goals and assists imminent tables, while attack-minded defenders are the focus of Balders’ latest table.

If you’re a member and are yet to get to grips with the custom statistics tables, you can view this movie for an explanation of how they work. Also, remember to tag them so that people can find the tables with ease.

The Community Tournaments

In TorresMagic‘s Last Man Standing competition, wh05nxt hit the top score in Gameweek 13 with 107. There are now 1411 teams qualified after 129 were eliminated when the safety score was set at 46.

Balders dropped by with a look ahead to the latest fixtures in the FIFFSA 5-a-side tournament and his Community Grand Play Offs.

The FFS UEFA Champions League themed tournament has reached the fifth round of the group stages. Here’s Jaffalicious with an update on the latest results.

Andy continues to hog the limelight at the summit of the FFScout Moderators and Contributors league, while Stewart White is the new leader of the Top 10k Any Season mini-league, which is organised by RedLightning.

If you are running a community tournament and would like the latest scores included in future Community Round Ups please email me a brief summary of the current leaders and a link to your league, spread sheet or head to head competition, at jonty@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk.