Scout Network

What plans are the Scout Network implementing for the rest of the season?

Gameweek 19 is a big milestone in the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) calendar – the halfway point of the season. At this stage we as FPL managers have learned a lot about teams and players to target as well as those who make good bench and differential options.

We asked the Scout Network to share their reflections on the first half of the season and for their plans for the second half.

FPL Family

During pre season I recorded an FPL Family X video with Josh Bull, the 2019/20 FPL Champion. I have always considered myself to be a loyal FPL manager preferring to hold on to my players, as I’ve never really deployed upside chasing. During the video one of the things that Josh said to me was he maintained his premiums throughout his winning season, only moving them on in cases of injuries.

This struck a chord with me as it’s something that I have always thought I did, but this year it has been my focus. I have invested the majority of my money in Harry Kane (£11.2m), Son Heung-min (£9.7m), Bruno Fernandes (£11.3m) and Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) and they have consistently been there from about Gameweek 3 onwards. Holding these players through some difficult matches has resulted in some really positive hauls – especially for Son and Kane against the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal.

This season I have moved my peripheral players around, making key differential picks at the right times (e.g. Tomas Soucek (£5.3m), Michail Antonio (£6.3m), double Saints defence) and this has had a positive impact on my rank. I have come to terms with not owning some of the other premiums due to budget restrictions and I know that over the course of the season the points will likely even out – but I won’t have the stress and disappointment of missing hauls.

For the rest of the season I am planning to continue this strategy as it is working well so far. I decided to buck the trend and not play a chip in Gameweek 19 and therefore carry both my Triple Captain and Bench Boosts through to the second half of the season, alongside my second Wildcard. This will be important for covering any further blank Gameweeks and also means I can use my Triple Captain chip later on in the season to give me a boost, at a time when many other FPL managers will already have used their’s. 

FPL Family Sam

FF Titans

Stones produces season-high haul as City keep another clean sheet

I have managed to navigate both Gameweeks 18 and 19 without the use of a chip. There was always the sense that I may have missed out but somehow it feels more comfortable to hold on to all the chips at this stage. The season is literally only halfway through.

There have been more postponements, injuries and fixture changes than any other season in recent memory, so I feel somewhat vindicated to be a “chip scrooge” at this stage.

I have broadly followed three principles and will continue to do so until the COVID situation turns the corner in the UK (and the rest of the world)
• Never Captain and Vice-Captain players from the same team
• Keep a very strong bench
• Make transfers as late as possible to the deadline

I expect to slide down the Overall Rank for the next few weeks as teams around me use their Wildcard and other chips. I plan to use my Wildcard near Gameweeks 25 and 26 to build a fresh team for the run-in when I also expect fewer personnel changes and rotations to Premier League teams.

FF Titans

FPL Froggies

Vardy and Ings start in Sunday's early kick-offs

More than ever, the first part of this FPL season has been about adjusting our game. First, to the penalty fest of the few first gameweeks, then to the COVID related events. It has emphasized one part of the game that we, FPL Froggies like to frequently remind our listeners. Patience is key and don’t get carried away by your week-in week-out Overall Rank as big swings could happen and the season is 38 Gameweeks long. Be aware of the opportunities (Diogo Jota (£6.6m), John Stones (£5.1m), James Justin (£5.0m) etc..) but stick to your strategy and give time to your set and forget assets, they will come good. 

The halfway mark is also a relevant checkpoint to review our strategies. We headed into Gameweek 19 with overall rankings of 331,000 (Romain) and 231,000 (Benjamin) without having played any of our chips (bar the first Wildcard). Heading into Gameweek 18 without considering the Free Hit chip underlines our overall strategy, don’t bring more variance into a game that already suffers from it due to the context.

The small number of games in Gameweek 18 led us to think the risk of a Free Hit being spoiled by a late game cancellation and with the games not being very appealing, we held. This turned out to be a good call as Benjamin outscored the average (44 to 30) and Romain lost just five points to the average.

Although at the time of writing we still wait for the complete outcome of Double Gameweek 19 (for which neither of us have activated any chip), we feel in a good position to embark on the second part of the season with the luxury of having all of our chips available.

As soon as the context is (hopefully) ]better, we will switch to a more aggressive style. Until then, we will apply some of the new 2020-2021 special golden rules. One of them is very questionable but we both agree on it. Since the beginning of the season, we are not paying any attention to our team value. We are willing to wait until the last moments to do our transfers as we value the latest fitness/COVID news more than the price tags. This is also related to the bigger pool of players available in the last few years which brings more mid-priced opportunities during the season. Although budget is tight, we don’t feel as priced-out as we used to during the previous seasons. 

Until Gameweek 25 and a possible Wildcard, when we will have a better idea of the Blank Gameweeks and Double Gamweeks to come, we will be sticking to our minimise-the-variance strategy. We don’t see any major mistakes or weaknesses in our teams (we always like to look at our teams from weaknesses to strengths as we believe an FPL manager should always address his/her team’s weaknesses first). 

Then after Gameweek 25, we will loosen it up and bring the adrenaline in through our chip deployment. We have spent too much time behind the sofa. 

The time to jump on the chip usage is coming soon. 

FPL Froggies

The FPL Experiment Podcast

Injury latest on De Bruyne as Gundogan emerges as Man City's best FPL attacker

Unpredictable is the word of the season. A word that has been dragged through the dirt in FPL circles. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just rely on a Liverpool clean sheet every week and casually stick the armband on Salah without a thought? Or does navigating the unpredictability make the game more interesting?

The problem is that just like real-life football coaches, FPL managers need to adapt. The ones who are stuck in their ways find themselves languishing, while the ones who evolve flourish. 

The aim of The FPL Experiment podcast is for three friends to manage a single team to finish in the top 50,000. It has been exciting to understand whether three heads are better than one in the most peculiar of seasons. We realised early on in the season that we needed to move quickly to adapt to the changing landscape. An expensively assembled defence was dead and Patrick Bamford was apparently a thing. We pulled the Wildcard trigger at the end of a disappointing 32 point Gameweek 4 that left us at a lowly 1.3m. It paid off instantly with an 84 point Gameweek 5 and we surged up the league edging towards our target of 50k. We jumped on the form players at the right time, with Emiliano Martinez (£5.1m), Jack Grealish (£7.7m), Bruno Fernandes and Mohamed Salah racking up the points.

In recent weeks though we’ve plateaued. Captaincy decisions have been a huge factor. Backing Salah while he’s blanked hurt our rank and deeper thinking around captaincy is a key area of focus for the second half of the campaign. 

We always planned to build a squad for Double Gameweek 19 knowing we’d Free Hit in Gameweek 18. This was running smoothly until COVID started impacting Premier League fixtures and played havoc with our carefully laid plans. We played Triple Captain on Kevin De Bruyne (£11.9m) in Gameweek 19 in an attempt to offset our squad filled with Leeds players – this hasn’t exactly paid off! 

Now a new evolution seems to be taking place. There’s great value to be found in defenders like John Stones and Aaron Cresswell (£5.4m). And James Maddison (£7.1m) looks irresistible. As we have seen this Double Gameweek, plan it right and you can see some monster points hauls. Unpredictability is not an excuse!

The FPL Experiment Podcast

El Statto

El Statto Stat Dashboard

This season has certainly thrown in a few added challenges hasn’t it. We’ve had last minute match cancellations and unknown positive COVID tests to deal with. I was caught out in Gameweek 19 after building for the Double Gameweek, having three players from Leeds and Southampton receive the late cancellation, then followed by the Illan Meslier (£4.7m) no show in his one game!

That said I think I have managed to navigate through Gameweek 18 and 19 well, and currently sit with a 500,000 rank rise from it. I’m now inside the top 500k with three chips to use in the second half of the season so I’m optimistic I can push on and continue to rise the ranks. Now we have a lot of data, I’ll be using my stats dashboard to help me review teams and players for potential transfers.

The challenge this season has been in midfield with the premium players. While as expected they are all scoring well, they have been inconsistent. Salah on a current run of five games with no returns being a classic example. I’ve actually kept faith with Kane up top at the expense of another premium midfielder and have been happy with his consistent, if not spectacular, return of points.

I feel the template is breaking a little now which is great. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£7.6m) is no longer a go-to cheap forward option for everyone (25% owned) and with forwards not scoring heavily it is good to see different formations and player selections among the community. My main lesson I’ll be using in the second half of the season is to leave transfers as late as possible to give you the best chance with further cancellations and positive tests. And also to be flexible, there will be a lot of doubles coming for some teams so jumping on and off these will hopefully enable rank rises as a result.

El Statto

What’s happening in the Scout Network?

Last week saw the first episode of Scout The Gameweek released. Hosted by Sam from the FPLFamily, the first episode featured Ted from Ted Talks FPL. Sam and Ted discussed Gameweek 18 and looked ahead to Gameweek 19.

Scout Network: Thinking ahead to the blank and double Gameweek in 18 and 19
Scout The Gameweek promo

Episode two was released on Thursday afternoon and see’s Sam and her guest FPL Nymfria look back at Double Gameweek 19 and ahead to Gameweek 20.

This week we have also been proud to welcome FPL Froggies and Football Index Trader to the Scout Network.

FPL Froggies

The FPL Froggies released their most recent podcast this week. Podcast #13 “Dream of procrastination”  is available on Sound Cloud, Apple Podcast, Deezer, Spotify and anywhere else you listen to your podcasts.

FPL Family

The FPL Family have had a busy week with two appearances on the FPL Show and Lee’s appearance on the most recent FPL Podcast. Sam also launched the new Scout Network Podcast, Scout the Gameweek. The FPL Family YouTube channel passed 16,000 subscribers and their Twitter page smashed through 40,000 subscribers. Scout Network Lee and Sam will be appearing on the FPL Show twice again as well as Sam making an appearance on the FPL Podcast.

FF Titans

The FF Titans released some new featured articles on their website this week include one on the “Golden” FPL rules as well as a useful FPL Glossary for beginners.

El Statto

This week El Statto took a look at the recent improvements by Manchester United and asked whether their defence was now a good FPL option. Next week El Statto will be looking at Leicester and why their players are still going under the radar.

Sam FPLFamily <p>Fantasy Football Scout's General Manager. Half of the FPLFamily. Pundit on the FPL Pod, Fantasy Show and Sky Sports News&nbsp;</p> Follow them on Twitter

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  1. Camino Aleatorio
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Lingardinho to

    West Brom
    west Ham
    Sheffield United
    Tottenham
    Newcastle

    Seems that Jose Mourinho has the most to offer the player

    He would not be intimidated by Ndombele, Lamela, or LoCelso

    But isn’t Erickson a possibility to return?

    1. Sterling Malory
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Why would anyone want him?

      I'm a Sheff Utd fan and would be pretty disappointed with his signature. Snodgrass would've been better.

    2. Evil Greg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      He would be best going to Newcastle.

      1. 1569Tippins
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Steve Bruce will play him at centre half!

    3. Boxwoods
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      MLS

  2. BenDavies
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    After a disastrous DGW I find myself just outside the top 1k. Was unceremoniously kicked out after a pathetic 97 points.
    Now ranked 1020, nearly doubled my rank.
    I have now put it behind me and am pleased with my rank at the halfway point of my first serious FPL season.

    On to the upcoming gameweek, is anyone considering captaining Bamford? No real standout captain options barring Bruno, could be time for a punt.

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Mega brag for most part.

      1. BenDavies
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        No brag. I've adjusted my expectations for the season after finding myself at this rank. Not happy with my team either currently, which is the result of a poor WC16.

    2. Sterling Malory
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Mate, disastrous is 64 points. 40k to 165k.

      Ive sold Bamford on WC, but what do I know. Could go either way, as could your captain punt.

      1. BenDavies
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Selling just before Newcastle seems unwise, surely?

        1. Sterling Malory
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          So would bench Antonio, Gundo, Grealish or Bamford?

          1. BenDavies
            • 11 Years
            3 years, 2 months ago

            true...

    3. Sloane426
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Your season history is nothing short of atrocious.

      1. BenDavies
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        I was 14 in my first season. So those seasons I was very young and didn't take the game seriously.

        1. Sloane426
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          The last 3 years in particular

          1. BenDavies
            • 11 Years
            3 years, 2 months ago

            The last season I played prior to this season was 17/18, and for those 3 seasons preceding that I did not play past the 10th GW or something. I've only played seriously in 12/13, 13/14 and 14/15, all of which I was underage.

    4. aleksaa2
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Why not captaining Chris Wood?

      1. aleksaa2
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        I heard he is on pens too.

        1. BenDavies
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          You are so cruel 😀

          1. aleksaa2
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 2 months ago

            For your rank and Bruno's EO, he is the only choice. His EO this week will be massive. I'd protect my rank in your position, rather than make any punt.

            1. BenDavies
              • 11 Years
              3 years, 2 months ago

              You make a very good point, and I am likely going to do that. I'm a very conservative player anyway, so I aim to protect my rank first with captain and then go for punts elsewhere.

    5. Groot the Leveller
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I've had Bamford all season, but he's nearing the last chance saloon v Newcastle.. Leeds have been poor over the last few, bamford looked peripheral, and dcl beckons...

      1. BenDavies
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        If Leeds can't beat Newcastle, then it's definitely time to sell. I will give both Bamford and Raphinha a chance against Newcastle, though.

    6. noquarternt
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      These subtle brags get less and less subtle every day...

    7. Evil Greg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I probably had chance of a rank like this once, but I used to take a -8 every week and end up with a team value of about 117m lol.

    8. waldo666
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Ew, I just got a bit of sick in my mouth.

  3. Sterling Malory
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    On WC, would you make any changes here?

    Martinez
    Stones Cancelo Shaw
    Bruno Son Grealish Gundo Salah
    Kane Antonio
    Areola Dallas Mitchell Brewster

    Maddison or Rodriguez over Grealish?
    DCL worth a go?

    1. Hart-ake
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I would go Maddison over Grealish and attack the fixtures. Great looking team though!

      1. Joggers Nipple
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Same thoughts as this guy ^

        1. Sterling Malory
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Cheers

    2. Evil Greg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Personally prefer another striker over Gundog but you can't argue with the logic. Bamford or DCL would be my choice there with Smith-Rowe in a 3-4-3. Not sure you need Areola. Fabio Silva at 5.2m could be useful fodder over Brewster if you have the budget. Long term Grealish, this week I like the JRod.

  4. Sloane426
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Bench 1.
    (A) Robertson
    (B) Justin
    (C) Coufal
    (D) Dallas

    1. Hart-ake
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Robbo.

    2. OleBall
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Not Robbo

    3. Boberella
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Crazy to bench Robbo. Waste of money of you ever consider benching.
      Would have to be Justin. Everton will start scoring again with JRod back

  5. Hart-ake
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Gundogan or a Leicester mid for the next 3?

    1. Joggers Nipple
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I would prefer Maddison. Went Gundo as meant I could get Kane

    2. sunzip14
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Gundo, if only next 3 is considered

  6. Joggers Nipple
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Morning, getting the feeling my team is a bit template/ safe/ dull. Any input?

    Martinez
    Dias Coufal Cancelo
    Gundo Salah Son Fernades Soucek
    Bamford Antonio

    Forster Mitchell Holgate Brewster 0FT 7.6M ITB

    Next week- Brewster to Kane (0.9ish left)
    Some time soon- Holgate to Shaw

    All chips left if thats relevant. Thanks for any thoughts.

    1. Vazza
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I like it very much

      1. Joggers Nipple
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Cheers

    2. sunzip14
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Gtg. Nice team and nice plan

    3. Boberella
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Nice team and good planned moves.
      There's a reason the template is the template

    4. Joggers Nipple
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Cheers all

  7. sunzip14
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Better option? Got Stones in the team.

    A) KDB>Gundo (then Wilson>Kane next gw)
    B) KDB+Holding>Gundo+Cancelo (-4), (can still afford Wilson>Kane next gw).

    1. Joggers Nipple
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      a

  8. Vazza
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Best pick out of these please

    A. Rudiger
    B. Targett
    C. Konsa
    D. Holding
    E. Coufal

    1. sunzip14
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      E then B, for me

  9. Oliver Tockman
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    A) Gundogan
    B) Foden
    C) Maddison
    D) Other

    1. sunzip14
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      C in isolation, A if combined with another player

      1. Luton_Fan
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        You almost gave me a heart attack saying maddison in isolation

        1. sunzip14
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Haha! not the best of times to use these words.

    2. ScoutHelp
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      A

  10. Roy Rovers
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    A - Martinez (bur) or McCarthy (ARS)
    B - Cresswell (cry) or Dallas (new)

    ???
    ??? Stones Shaw
    Bruno Grealish Salah Son Gundogan
    Antonio Bamford

    Michell Vardy

    1. aleksaa2
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Martinez for sure and Cresswell probably.

    2. FPL Theorist
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      The former on both

      1. Roy Rovers
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Cheers to both

    3. Joggers Nipple
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      ab

      1. Roy Rovers
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks!!

  11. OleBall
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Play one:
    A) Dallas
    B) Soucek
    C) Justin

    1. FPL Theorist
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      A

    2. Luton_Fan
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      A

  12. Ragabolly
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Risers: Sterling (11.5) Maddison (7.2) Targett (4.7)

    Fallers: Klich (5.4) Kilman (4.0)

    1. aleksaa2
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Cheers, Raga!

      1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Whenever I see the word raga this pop ups in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHs8vra6xcY

    2. FPL Theorist
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Cheers Ragabolly!

      Such a relief to have reached the part of the season where the price changes calm down.

    3. Ragabolly
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Have to say that we can't keep saying "oh, it must be wildcards". Doubt actually that there are that many wildcards active for GW20. At this point, we have to admit that the algorithms we know don't match what FPL towers are doing behind the scenes for price changes.

      1. noquarternt
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Just bizarre more people haven't cottoned on to this. We've had months and months and yet there are still: 'OMG he was nowhere near a rise!!!!' and 'fplstats is a fraud!!' posts nearly every price change.

        1. Boxwoods
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Hardly been outcries at “nearly every price change.”

          1. noquarternt
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 2 months ago

            Have a look at how many ‘can’t believe X didn’t drop’ or ‘can’t believe X didn’t rise’ posts there are.

            1. Boxwoods
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 6 Years
              3 years, 2 months ago

              There have been a number of such posts. I submit that the number of rise/fall events/non-events that have been called out is not disproportionate in relation to the number of rises/falls that have occurred. Also don’t think it’s crazy for heads to be scratched when a player is shipped approaching a million times and exceeds the predictive threshold for numerous consecutive days yet holds firm.

      2. aleksaa2
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Either the algorithm has changed totally or they changed a rule when a player's price is protected.

      3. Ruth_NZ
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        No, it was always so. The special arrangements which slow things down around DGWs were always applied and then disapplied manually. It could very easily be that they are still in force and won't come off until GW21.

        1. Baps hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Prices "partly frosen" for dgw players looks possible. Or they have done something with the thresholds and how they calculate pre dgw ownership, sales and buys. Would be interesting to try to find out, but someone else has more data and better tools for it, so not worth the effort.

      4. CasaBanter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Presumably you’ve looked at a list of players the algorithm hasn’t predicted correctly, and looked for trends in them?

        Possibly you’d like to post the list here (with dates of changes) to see if the FFS community can help?

      5. jtreble
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        “... we have to admit that the algorithms we know don't match what FPL towers are doing behind the scenes for price changes ...”. Maybe. Perhaps, “”we have to admit that the algorithms we know don't match what FPL towers are doing to the price change algorithm ” might be possible as well (i.e., not ad hoc manual intervention). Reverse engineering algos is difficult. Good luck.

      6. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        They quite clearly transitioned to the American Economics algorithm for Price changes:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-PtEJEaqY

    4. Champions League Varane
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Last second did KDB -> Sterling nice and Targett rise too 🙂

    5. FPL_Crisis
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Surely most of the sterling buyers are coming from Kdb sellers
      Was expecting a double drop

    6. waldo666
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Cheers Ragabolly.

    7. Too Mane Men
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Just a hunch but it feels like they’ve enhanced how sensitive players rise/drop in relation to their ownership. Sterling going up whilst KDB survives etc.

    8. French Gooner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      What happened to Gundo ? Was expecting a rise, fplstatistics had him at +105

      1. Ruth_NZ
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        FPL decided that the mass hysteria about a 5.5m midfielder that no-one will ever captain needed to be calmed as a public health measure.

      2. CasaBanter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Gundo’s had more transfers in and fewer out than Sterling and they’re similar ownership so it’s a bit bizarre. My hunch is there’s a different algorithm when a player is flagged as injured and then the clocks get recalibrated when players come off the injured list.

        1. CasaBanter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Maybe there’s also now a weighting applied based on the ranking of the person making the transfer. Ie, if more top 10k people transfer a player in, they rise more quickly, (possibly to stop too many templates developing)?

          1. The Point About It Is
            • 11 Years
            3 years, 2 months ago

            The point is that getting a good team value is part of the game. Being able to roughly predict when the prices will rise/fall is an element of skill - the same as predicting whether Salah will score or not. By increasing the random nature of rises/falls, FPL has taken away this element of 'skill' and therefore reduced the value of the game. I simply don't understand why FPL would want to make their game less fun to play.

            1. Baines on Toast...
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              3 years, 2 months ago

              Is it skill to open FPLstatistics?

              1. The Point About It Is
                • 11 Years
                3 years, 2 months ago

                Is it a skill to read FFS?
                The point is that it is a skill to make use of the information available to make decisions that allow you to do well at the game. By changing the game by increasing the random nature of price changes means that the gamne becomes less skillful.

            2. CasaBanter
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 9 Years
              3 years, 2 months ago

              I don’t believe it is random. I just think we haven’t figured it out yet.

              What do you think @Raga?

            3. CasaBanter
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 9 Years
              3 years, 2 months ago

              Agree about team value though. It can help later in the season. I’m currently £105.4m

    9. Baines on Toast...
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      For sterling, I’ve always had a theory that players are quicker to rise when it means recovering the starting price rather than growing outright

      1. Ruth_NZ
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        That is true (and fairly well known I think).

    10. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Cowboys Ted, they’re a bunch of Cowboys

  13. Boxwoods
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ridiculous about KDB.

    1. OleBall
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      ?

      1. Boxwoods
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Three quarters of a million + transfers out. Exceeding -100 on FPL stats for umpteenth day. No drop.

    2. Casual Player
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      It’s been pretty clear all season that players don’t drop when injured (or it takes a really long time)

      1. Thomas Shelby from Birmingh…
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Is it so? I transferred him out for Sterling to avoid price drop

  14. Luton_Fan
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ive gone triple man city defense. Eeeeek

    1. NOMONEY
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      laporte fernandino zinchenko?

      1. Vazza
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Kompany, Kolorov, Klichy?

    2. Evil Greg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Same, last week thankfully .

  15. Kiwivillan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Missed out on Sterling before rise but if I do KDB>Foden instead (already have Gundo) I can afford Soucek+Bamford to Salah+DCL the following week. Or just get Sterling?

    1. Luton_Fan
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Foden for me

    2. OleBall
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I'm going Raheem

    3. Joggers Nipple
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Double MC def and Gundo rather than Foden or Sterling?

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        For sure imo

  16. Luton_Fan
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    My cat is getting put down tomorrow. Will need a good gw20 to cheer me up 🙁

    1. Boxwoods
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Sorry mate. Cruelest thing ever how short our time with pets is.

      1. Luton_Fan
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks mate. Had him for 18 years. He has had a long and happy life but doesnt make it any easier. ;(

    2. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Very sorry to hear that

      1. Luton_Fan
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks

    3. dark91
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Sorry for your loss. Hopefully you get a great GW20 score

    4. Nate(U)dog(ie)
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Sorry to hear that mate, never a nice thing to deal with. Our family cat had to be put down a couple of years ago after we had him since he was a kitten, think he was about 14/15. Was so upsetting, he had such fight in him when they gave him the last needle but I can never get rid of that image of his tail finally slowing down and stopping moving which is when I knew. But he clearly wasn't himself or well at all in those last few weeks and I hated seeing him in such pain. Never nice but the only way to think about it sometimes to keep going. Best of luck.

  17. Vazza
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Best pick out of these please

    A. Rudiger
    B. Targett
    C. Konsa
    D. Holding
    E. Coufal.

    1. Fantasizer
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      B

    2. Kun, Ayew Nigerian?
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Target Villa's upcoming DGW.

      1. Sterling Malory
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Any idea when this is? Currently on Maddison over Grealish on WC.

        1. Kun, Ayew Nigerian?
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Latest would be GW 26

          But could be 23

    3. Sterling Malory
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      B or E

  18. Fantasizer
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    please help:
    pick 3 out of-
    a.Targett
    b. Saka
    c. wood
    d. coufal
    e.tierney

    1. Boberella
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Definitely not C.

  19. villian-ty
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Thoughts on Villa assets? They playing teams around them in the next 4? Will they keep performing like they are? Burnout?

    Burnley - A
    Southmapton - A
    Westham - H
    Arsenal - H

    1. Luton_Fan
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Traore over greals for me

    2. Alisson WondHaaland
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Not the best fixture run tbh. If you have them Id keep, if not there are certainly better options imo

    3. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      They're a midtable team ; wouldn't expect much from them but close games in all four. Seriously thinking of shipping Grealish.

      1. Bushwhacker
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        But DGW's are an issue.

  20. FPL Bond @ Twitter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Are the prices of KDB and Vardy locked?

    1. Casual Player
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      If not locked then it needs a lot to move them. All season there’s been injured players over -100 that never move.

    2. The FPL Units
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      No one knows. Someone posted the 'rules' for price changes and it it clear there is a 'threshold used to determine price changes. What is not clear is what the threshold is and any criteria applied for the different scenarios. Ie is it the number of buyers/sellers, time factor, injuries change the thresholds being applied etc.

  21. Alisson WondHaaland
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Thoughts on Robbo to Cancelo for -4? Regardless of Liverpools form, Im not a fan of those Pool fixtures at all

    1. Fudgy
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Im strongly considering it myself

    2. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      If you can bare the rotation risk.

    3. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Yes Pool fullbacks are duds now. I’m doing the same move

    4. BROOKLYN GOONER
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Same plan, but might choose Dias, esp if it looks like City will get a DGW24

    5. Pops15
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I'm looking at the same move. Double up with Dias. Might even give Cancelo the armband this week. Looks like a guaranteed clean sheet and he's due an attacking return

  22. fplfansss
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    GTG? 1FT 1.1 ITB
    McCarthy
    James, Cancelo, Targett
    Gundo, Salah, Bruno, Son
    DCL, Kane, Bamford

    Subs: Button, Soucek, Mitchell, Taylor

    1. The FPL Units
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      G2g

  23. vincentwsho
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    DDG
    Dias Stones Cresswell Coufal
    Saka Gundo Salah (VC) Bruno (C)
    Bamford Kane

    4.0 Dallas Soucek Brewster

    Good to go?? Thought of starting Dallas but don't know who to bench

  24. Boomerang V
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Rashford flagged 🙁

    He will probsbly miss the next gane won’t him?

    1. Bushwhacker
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Didn't look too bad ; but then none of these recent injuries have. . .

    2. Salan
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Probably miss next game, Sols has no ground to risk him in a home match vs SHU. He can field Martial Cavani Greenwood.

  25. Casual Player
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Went to Gundo early to avoid his (non existent) price rise because I really wanted 6.6 ITB rather than 6.5...

    1. Boxwoods
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Boo

  26. Pukki Blinders
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Son or Kane and why?

  27. FPL Doctor
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Predicted city lineup anyone?

    1. Arctic monkeys
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Ederson
      Cancelo Dias Stones Zinchenko
      Rodri Gundogan
      Sterling Bernardo Foden
      Jesus

  28. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Will Saiss go down today...he is at -96.6?
    Thanks

  29. FPL Doctor
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Chance of Foden starting GW20?

    1. Arctic monkeys
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      High imo

  30. The Polymath
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Everything I've tried has backfired while my ML rivals just seem to get the breaks. I have decided that this is not my year in FPL and just to enjoy and stop over-analysing. Already feel a lot better.