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 Dr Dream | The case for Eriksen Tsk...Tadic....pfft Going to try a new tactic..i'm going to try shouting... ERIKSEN IS THE THIRD HIGHEST SCORING MID IN THE LAST FOUR GAMEWEEKS !! ADM 40 pts Diame 28pts Eriksen 26 pts...and fix… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
 Epic Fail | Are we right to never bench or captain Leighton Baines? Let's get to the bottom of this Baines: 'Never bench, never captain' malarkey. It's forever thrown about but rarely explained. Which camp are you in and why? It's possibly already obvious, but pe… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 21 |
 Just A Hat | Worst FPL Players Who have been your most pathetic FPL players so far this season? I'll start 1) Krul - no explanation needed reason and now I have no goalkeeper for this week as I have McCarthy on the bench for s… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 35 |
 J0E | Time to strip Costa of the captaincy? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Time to strip Costa of the captaincy? Given Costa has scored in six games but only got bonus points in three of those is it time to turn our attention to ot… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 23 |
 President John F. Keninnsie | Baseline bonus magnets in attack Hey lads, I've been intrigued as to why Costa has been getting very few bonus points even when he's consistently scoring goals. Even though he has scored in 6 different games, he's only received ba… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 12 |
President John F. Keninnsie | Baseline bonus magnets in defence Following on from Jonty's community article about Bonus Point Magnets in Defence, I've taken it a step further and removed the top 12 BPS magnets' clean sheet, goal and assist points to find out th… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 26 |
 JK - Cønt ⭐ | West Ham Potential At Both Ends Of The Pitch West Ham are funny one They seem to be more attacking this year and have only just registered their first CS of the season Yet they haven't conceded a lot of goals and their defensive stats are s… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Gameweek 8's Community Scout Pick Champion Will Be... Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic We have a Scout Pick community champion. He may have been unlucky in Dr Who and the Genesis of the Daleks but in fantasy football votes he is a worthy win… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
 | A word to the wise on Walcott With the news of Walcott being back in full training, a timely re-post..... 😀 A lot of people talking about, and even planning, getting Walcott in. You might remember about this time last year, h… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 Rupert The Horse | Is it worth getting a good player from a terrible team? @ Applebonkers, Jonty et al. Would a "what if" sticky be worth it? E.g. a great player with true ability and threat in an awful team, be worth it? Baines at QPR or Rooney at Burnley. Just spittin… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
J0E | Scout Picks Community Champion Needed - Apply and Vote Here Fantasy Football Scout Community Champion needed. As you may have noticed we’ve revamped our Scout Picks. Mark, myself, Paul and a community champion picked by you each week are up against each … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
President John F. Keninnsie | The Pros and Cons of selling Fabregas Since it's a popular dilemma at the moment and this place is super dead, I thought I'd share why I got rid of Fabregas this week. Firstly, I'll outline my transfers. Fabregas, Naylor and Bardsley … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 45 |
 facer | Danny Welbeck's Injury - our expert Facer delivers his verdict Danny Welbeck injury update The incident occurred as Danny Welbeck burst on to a through ball from Oxlade-Chamberlain. The defender makes a clean tackle but appears to clip Welbeck’s ankle in th… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Take the fifth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Take the Fifth Is it me or is this year particularly bad for cheap fifth midfielders. In previous years the likes of Sterling and Januzaj have emerged as v… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 19 |
 DGW blindness is for Kinnea… | First come, first serve on players I read the article on "points make price rises" and it reminded me of a change that I wanted in FPL. The problem for me was that post-January the template was formed (this season, for whatever re… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 51 |
 Think Tank | Points Make Price Rises? Is it time for FPL Towera to shake up their game format? Why do player prices rise because of increased ownership, as opposed to good performance? it doesn't make sense. It rewards the template b… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
J0E | Gameweek 8 top differentials Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who would your trio of punts be for Gameweek 8. Next week we'll see some great articles and posts from Puntmaster, Arvination and others looking at key dif… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
Dr Dream | Falling Stars Gameweek 8 Falling Stars… It’s been a while since I did one of these so a refresher course first…Falling stars is a fictitious squad/team made up of players who have fallen in value from their original… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
 goriuanx | What do you like most about this site? What do you like most about this site? Mine would be the help you get from the community on here when making transfers | 9 years, 7 months ago | 50 |
DGW blindness is for Kinnea… | FFS pet peeves I hate it when my post is bottom of the page. # things you hate about FFS feel free to list yours below | 9 years, 7 months ago | 134 |
 Christina. | Fabregas exit routes Come on losers. Give me a Cesc replacement up to 7.8m And don't say Tadic. | 9 years, 7 months ago | 41 |
J0E | Which basket are you placing your eggs in? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which basket are you placing your eggs? Who is looking to focus their budget on one part of the team, either in defence, midfield or forward? Is there now … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
 applebonkers | Hazard or Sandler Quiz the aim of this game is to simply say whether you see eden hazard or adam sandler added to a famous sporting image. if you don't get 10/10 then i'm afriad my observation that hazard looks like earl… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 31 |
applebonkers | Costa (the one from Blue) or Cazorla Quiz costa or cazorla? (antony costa from blue, not diego) 1) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwxCGjyIcAAGPCb.png:small 2) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwyPNNhCAAAXxZA.png:small 3) https://pbs.twimg.com/med… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
J0E | What to do with Arsenal? What to do about Arsenal? Arsenal have great fixtures but are arguably a team in flux. Welbeck's chief provider Ozil is out for at least 10 weeks. The brilliant Sanchez often finds himself benched… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 23 |
J0E | What's Wrong With Bandwagon Jumping? What’s wrong with jumping on bandwagons? Behind the scenes we’ve been having an interesting discussion about ownership and how it effects transfer decisions. For me ownership is key to trans… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 51 |
 RoysCallerAnne | Don't read too much into stats I'm sorry, but all these stats tables that get posted on these boards drive me crazy. Top of the pile for shots from defenders doesn't mean a fook if you can't shoot properly, as most defenders ca… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 95 |
 Granville | Perils of the very early transfer Hot topic: With the players on an international break and many of them scheduled to play twice, an early transfer comes with substantial risk. This season, the upside if the early transfer is slig… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 34 |
 Az | Early Bird Cup - Final Results Early Bird Cup Update: THE FINAL: Massive, Massive congratulations to Dušan Citizen, who has won the Early Bird Cup, defeating DT42 in the final by a score of 67 - 59. 32 people entered, now D… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 BeachBadger | Scoutcast Improvements Bit late to the party but I only just got good internet access again and want to bring up the Scoutcast. I think it could do with a bit of a revamp. No offence to Mark, Granville and co but I think… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
 Kerz | Best ever goal What's your favourite goal in the history of football? Mine has to be this Zlatan goal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgqsaDnsEq8 | 9 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
RoysCallerAnne | Your Luckiest FPL moment is... What is your jammiest slice of luck ever in FPL, preferably with an outrageously unpopular player! Remember that Boxing day when Fergie "rested" Wazza because he had a few sherry's with Colleen on… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 61 |
 thepuntmaster | Guide to Punting Since my articles have been quite successful I'm beginning to think that the way in which I choose my punts isn't just fluke 😉 I thought I'd write a bit on how to choose a punt (I didn't think the… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Gameweek 7 Scout Picks Results Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Just an update on the community scout picks. I'll be launching the vote for Gameweek 8's champion next Monday at 10am. In the mean time here's the results o… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
 Evs | Are Keepers harshly treated with Point allocation ? I'm not one to moan about the baps system (really, I'm not) but... Something needs to be done to give a boost to the keeper bps. I mean what did Dai De Gea have to do?! (Yes, I do own him) Surel… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
 Honeybadger | International break fixture list Some of the most important international games - schedule during the break that concerns FPL (based on teams with players picked by a relatively high amount of managers) 8 Oct: Ecuador – Colombi… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 3 |
J0E | UFPL Stick or Twist UFPL stick or twist Who is sticking with their captain? Who is twisting? How many players are you bringing in? Who stays on the bench? For me I'm ditching around 20 pts by shifting capt from ste… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
 rickardinho | Is Aguero worth it? Is Aguero worth his 12.2 price tag over 7.3 Welbeck? Let's consider some numbers: Welbeck costs 7.2, Aguero 12.2, which is about 70% more of Welbeck's price, but lets use 50% to allow for captain… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 66 |
 Miami Monkey | Silva Falls Victim To Bonus Rules I’d like to start this post by saying that it is needless and will not change anything, but I hope it will be cathartic for me and those who read in agreement. Anybody watching today's encounter… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
 Twelve years a slave | How chasing bandwagons can end in tears The budget striker shuffle, highlights the dangers of buying differentials on the grounds of a few good weeks. Ulloa had scored 26 points in the previous 3 , while Naismaith had scored 24 in his pr… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 50 |
J0E | Gameweek 7 Captain Decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining and why? | 9 years, 7 months ago | 42 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUTPICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 7 This is a momentous occasion ladies & gentlement. The Scout Picks Challenge entries are opening dead on time. (Even delayed the cinema with the girlfriend to en… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 67 |
 Ludo | The case for Jack Wilshere With Arteta and Ramsey out for a few weeks, it seems likely that Jack Wilshere will come back into the side this weekend, partnering Mathieu Flamini. I've had a look at how Arsenal have got on prev… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 12 |
J0E | Three New Community Articles Now Live New community articles just published Arvin-ation with a trio of attacking punts...some good ones here. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/10/03/gameweek-7-attacking-punts/ A new FFS UEFA… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 |
 PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, We have a £1,000 Guaranteed Pot on offer this week, where you can enter up to 3x different teams before the 10.45 deadline. You can also take on the Fantasy Football … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 2 |
J0E | Community article of the month winner Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Community article of the month winner Thanks to everyone who voted for their favourite community article of the month. I'm delighted to announce that Puntm… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 9 |
Az | AZ Early Bird Cup Update Early Bird Cup Update - The Semi Finals! In an exciting semi final which featured Dusan Citizen easily dispatch Costa - the chosen one and DT42 beat myself thanks to a stoke clean sheet, there is … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 4 |
J0E | Investing in Arsenal and Everton. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Everton and Arsenal's fixtures take a serious up turn after the international break from Gameweek 8. Which of their players do you have, which do you want t… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
Twelve years a slave | Don't Drop Sigurdsson I see many are starting to question Siggi. He is playing just as well as he was at thestart of the season,points will arrive as long as he plays in the hole.There are four times when he should be s… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
 Anorak | UEFA Champs Lg game problems - How Can The Developers Get It Right? After all the UCL game issues again last night, I've had some more discussions with the UEFA team publicising the game and they are keen to get more details of the problems people are seeing. The g… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 32 |