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The Complete Guide to Scout’s tips and advice for FPL Gameweek 15

Yes it’s Tuesday, and yes you are reading the Fantasy Football Scout Guide to Gameweek 15.

With less time to ponder transfers and delve into the stats, thankfully one decision is relatively straightforward – handing Jamie Vardy the captain’s armband. The Leicester City marksman is top of the captain poll with a whopping 55 per cent of the vote. 

In his members-only Captain Sensible article David offers much more than just armband recommendations. He assesses the credentials of the best attacking players and considers which ones have an opportunity to turn underlying stats into points by casting his eye over the fixtures.

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Greyhead last week dared to suggest in his the Great and the Good article that Mark and Ville should buy Vardy. At least one of them listened! Ville sold Abraham as part of a hit to acquire the in-form Foxes forward. (Yes, you read that right – Ville took another hit). However, will he regret selling the Chelsea forward with an enticing home clash against Aston Villa tomorrow?

Neale brought us the latest team news from across the Premier League, Frank Lampard had this to say today: 

Yeah (he’s coming along) okay. We’re giving him every possible chance to be fit. He’s still got some pain in the area of the injury so we’ll make a judgement call tomorrow. It’s one of those, it’s painful for him. So it’s a bit of a pain threshold thing, does it affect his movements? As I said, I wouldn’t want to commit today.

– Frank Lampard

Interestingly Neale has included Abraham in his predicted line-ups.

Amongst other players under consideration for Gameweek 15 is Wilfried Zaha, with Pro Pundit Andy starting a hot topic and a discussion between Joe, Sam, and Az on Monday’s Scoutcast. Crystal Palace are currently second in the fixture ticker and, as Sam mentioned, Zaha is looking better in recent weeks following an indifferent start to the season.

Dele Alli’s performances under Jose Mourinho have thrust him into the spotlight. A player Az picked as his differential last week, many are now considering him over teammate Son Heung-min. This includes Pro Pundit Tom Freeman who has Alli at the top of his watchlist

Spurs players caught the eye in Neale’s lessons learned from Gameweek 14, with Serge Aurier in particular prospering under the new manager. The shock result of the weekend was Chelsea’s home defeat by West Ham, but Neale had some comforting words those with Christian Pulisic in their squads:

Pulisic owners can console themselves with the fact that the American international was at the heart of some of Chelsea’s biggest chances.

– Neale Rigg

Andy is considering taking a hit to acquire Pulisic, who is also included in the Gameweek 15 Scout Picks. The team came in £2.0m under budget as cheaper options dominated.

With player value at the forefront of their minds, rotation and benches were debated ahead of the festive schedule by the Scoutcast. Sam revealed she’s benched 176 points due to high-scoring cheap defenders. This has allowed her to invest more money elsewhere in her squad and understandably given her a benching headache. 

Az also launched a hot topic on festive differentials.

Two excellent community articles were penned in the last two days: do not despair if you have a poor rank there is hope as RubberDucky can testify – he jumped from 1.3million in Gameweek 9 to 50,000 overall in Gameweek 13; and Kroos Kontrol opened debate on the FPL Bargains Team of the Decade.

To view all our discussions please visit our Hot Topics page, and if you’ve got some analysis, scout reports or features brewing, be sure to visit our community section to submit your article.

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Community Competitions

For a full update on all FFS Mini-Leagues and Community Competitions, please click here to read the latest round-up. 

For those interested in the Head-to-Head Leagues, the main page can be linked to here. The fixtures for Gameweek 15 can be found below:


Use the drop-down menus to show your league and division. To find out which league and division you are in, follow the instructions on the main Head-to-Head page.

Once the Gameweek starts, if you click on your opponent’s name you will be linked to their team on the FPL website.

Best of luck for Gameweek 15!

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872 Comments Post a Comment
  1. thewhitepele
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Whats the move here? Have 1ft 3.4m itb. Mount to Son/Alli?

    Gazza
    TAA Soy Lunds
    Mane KDB Maddison Mount
    Vardy Jimenez Ings

    Button, Cantwell, Rico, Lascelles

    1. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Wait for who scores better tomorrow and go with them

    2. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Alli

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      The move is to relax until Thursday night.

      1. thewhitepele
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Wow actually managed to miss the deadline

    4. Luton_Fan
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Alli

  2. dshv
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Pope
    Robbo soy lund
    Sterling mane mount perez
    Tammy vardy kane

    Hope for something good. Good luck all

  3. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hurry up and update I have Two free transfers!!!! Haha

    1. Stockport Hatter
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Aren't you best chilling into Thursday/ Friday? Transfer someone in tonight and they may get injured/ suspended tomorrow or Thursday.

  4. RubberDucky
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Well how will all feeling going into GW15?

      1. Luton_Fan
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Not optimistic. My team looks great on paper which normally equates to huge disappointed lol

      2. All Hail K
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        A lot of good choices this week. Think there's a lot of managers feeling smug right now!

      3. TOPCAT1960
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        too quick to take proper decisions

    • Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      At least one of this is happening

      A) Sterling benched
      B) Sterling booked and misses the easy game this weekend

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Sterling benched & booked for diving while warming up?

        1. Think
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          After so much overthinking I drop him on Wildcard

      2. El Presidente
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        He could be benched and booked. Jackpot!

      3. CMJC
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        He’ll get another return

    • DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Didn't realize it was a half six deadline. Tammy benched I think.

    • Think
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Finally Wildcard
      Henderson McCarthy
      Lundstrum Soyancu Tomori Targett Kelly
      Mane KDB Alli Maddison Zaha
      Vardy Ings Mousset

      Best luck to all

      1. Luton_Fan
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Good team

      2. All Hail K
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Just using the wild card now? That's discipline! I think I had a birthday or two since I used mine.

        Good luck mate!

    • Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      One match at 7:30 pm and then the other at 8:15pm is strange. Catch the first half of the Palace game before switching over to Burnley vs City then?

      1. Stockport Hatter
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        It's the Amazon Prime TV rights. They've set the kick off times.

    • Tcheco
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Come on Sterling. One last haul & you're off

    • Doctor Evil
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      What are the chances Palace & Burnley win tonight? Tempted to put a punt on