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 Alberto Tomba | Preseason analysis request Mods/God(not Fowler), last year Coutiandbelow5th did an incredible table of preseason appearances for each premieleague team which resulted in a few hottopics and he is apparently taking it up a no… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 5 |
 GreenWindmill | World Cup Fatigue tl;dr I don't have a particularly nice way to present it but I've been having a quick look into how well Premier League players start the season after reaching the late stages of the last couple o… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 23 |
 J0E | 2014/15 clean sheet/goals/assist predictions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your predictions for next season Who will score the most goals? Who will get the most assists? Which team will get the most clean sheets? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 44 |
J0E | World Cup Game Lessons Learnt Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Lessons leant from World Cup fantasy football games With the World Cup now over I thought I’d ask what lessons you’ve learnt from playing World Cup fant… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 11 |
 Jafalad | Time To Abandon Offside (and other ideas) 1. Offside. It’s time to do away with offside in football. Offside in the attacking half anyway. Hockey has done away with this rule for the benefit of the game (and television) and other inv… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 116 |
 BigManBakar | How did you find Fantasy Football Scout? A question which always intrigues me. How did you find out about FFS? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 49 |
 Jimjam | Fixture Rotation Analysis Morning all, Just got bought my season membership and had a play with the interactive ticker. I thought I'd share some rotation analysis I just threw together. I noticed a lot of rotation analysi… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 10 |
 wizacar | FPL tips for first timers Some basic FPL tips for first timers like me? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 22 |
J0E | 2014/15's top scoring FPL players will be... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are your FPL predictions next season? Who will be the top scoring goalkeeper/defender/midfielder/ forward? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 27 |
 Fantasy Gold | Is Pre-Season Form A Factor? How much will pre-season influence your squad selection? Have people just got a template of players they will rigidly stick to from the start or is an evolving process? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
J0E | Will 2014/15 be the year of the attacking full back? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Will 2014/15 be the year of the attacking full back? A feature of the World Cup has been attacking full backs. Last season in FPL centrebacks were the best… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 20 |
 Demí | Who's been the World Cup's best player? Official WC POTT nominees just been announced. Who'd get your vote? 1) Di Maria 2) Hummels 3) Kroos 4) Lahm 5) Mascherano 6) Messi 7) Muller 8) Neymar 9) Robben 10) Rodriguez Can still get 100/1 … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 22 |
J0E | 3rd Place Play Off Line Ups Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic 3rd place play off line ups. The 3rd place play off game is traditionally full of goals and plenty of rotation as squad players get the chance to show manag… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 4 |
 President John F. Keninnsie | Is a Chelsea defender a must? Posted this a few hours ago, interested in some more opinions... Is a Chelsea defender a must? In the first half of last season, excluding matches against the top 4, Chelsea failed to get clean s… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 19 |
 Heydudes13 | Where will Sanchez play? RP Arsenal fans, Where do you expect Sanchez to play? Intriguing fantasy potential and I think if Walcott's thought to be not fit for the start of the season then he will slot in in that position… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
 Baines on Toast... | Caution in considering Van Persie for FPL this season? Is RVP set to be a massive red herring this season? Everyone will draft him in due to United's fixtures and the LVG factor, but he finished last season on the sidelines and has had a flop of a Worl… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
President John F. Keninnsie | World Cup Flop XI Who would be in your World Cup Flop XI? Casillas, Pepe, Song, Palacios, Fred and Costa spring to my mind... | 9 years, 9 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Your World Cup All Star XI Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What is your team of the tournament so far in the World Cup. Who would make it into your all star XI. As this is a fantasy football site feel free to let fan… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 19 |
 EmreCan Hustle | FPL Should Reclassify Players Mid Season Two changes which I feel would make FPL even better this season; 1. At some point during the season (maybe the winter transfer window) all OOP or POO players should be re-classified into the posit… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 38 |
 Carrick Doesn't Deserv… | More Points for Passers A change I'd like to see in FPL some way to appreciate the pass-master midfielders who don't score or provide the final ball for a goal. be that through points for pass accuracy/completion or for … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 52 |
 Dino | Brazil's defeat - stats v reality Right OK don't shoot me I just think people are getting carried away with Brazil's performance last night. "Worst world cup displays I've ever seen" - Jonty. I think people are overreacting with … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 45 |
Demí | Brazil or Spain's defeat: Which was the bigger shock? Quite a bit of debate about this. Which was the bigger shock result in this world cup? Holland hammering Spain or last night? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 19 |
J0E | Premier League Set Piece Takers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic We've been turning our attention to the Premier League and next season's set piece takers. I've started updating our set piece takers page here but am keen… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 14 |
President John F. Keninnsie | Your FPL past, present and future Let's talk FPL... How many seasons you've played FPL: 2 Last years rank: 21k Best rank: 21k Goal for this season: Top 10k finish Yours? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 61 |
 Respect My Authoritah | FPL GK Rotation Options Afternoon all! Ahead of the new season, I've been looking into potential GK rotations. Stepping away from home/away and going by fixture strength, 3 options stood out to me: Palace/Burnley: CHE/ar… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
 Christina. | Your 3rd striker in FPL will be... Kind of related to Jonty's hot topic above.... Rvp/Sturridge will be the most owned strikers I'm assuming. Who will be your choice for the 3rd spot? Are you selecting one of the newly promoted s… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 30 |
J0E | Your 4 FPL Big Hitters will be.... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your four FPL big hitters will be.... Most seasons the pricing of FPL tends to mean four players of 9m ish and upwards is the maximum number of big hitters … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 43 |
 d1sable | Sky Fantasy RMT from d1sable Anybody done any Sky Fantasy drafts? I don't mind giving them a quick RMT if you post them here. Can't promise my advice will help, but il try. | 9 years, 9 months ago | 75 |
 A. | Who will be the next Boselli? Start of last season I nearly went with a trio of £7m forwards: Aspas, Kone, RvW Looking back i realise how lucky i was that i saw sense and changed it. Strange how pre-season friendly fever can… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 14 |
J0E | World Cup semi-finals predicted line ups Predicted line ups Our sem-finals predicted line ups article is now published. If you have any suggestion of changes to make please leave them either here or in the comment section of the article.… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 2 |
GreenWindmill | Fantasy Warping Reality Anyone else feel there are certain players whose real life footballing worth is over/underestimated around here as a result of their FPL performances? Ones which leap out at me as overrated are ce… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 25 |
J0E | Community Article of the Month Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Community Article of the Month Each month we offer a £20 Amazon voucher to the author of the most popular community article of the month. To take part i… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Pics from the FFScout annual get together Just posted some pics on our Facebook page from the Fantasy Football Scout staff team's annual get together, which took place over the weekend. We were joined by none other than FPL 2013/14 winner … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 56 |
BigManBakar | FPL: Who have you penciled in ? Coming back to the FPL debate... Which players have been pencilled in your team for the upcoming season? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 50 |
 The Sarjeant | When does FPL Open - No One Knows! Re-post with an added year. For those wanting to know when FPL opens, there isn't an actual date just yet. But if we look at previous seasons, we can predict when it'll be available. 2013/14 - O… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 13 |
 @ocprodigy | Arsenal transfer gossip Do we think there's actually logic to these Sanchez to Arsenal rumours? Not going to lie, he'd be straight into my FPL squad but I think he's such an unnecessary signing for Wenger to fork out £32… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 22 |
 Dr Dream | 3rd place play off stats A couple of stats ahead of this week and next weeks picks in respect of the final and 3/4 place play off when the pressure is off Since 1990 a total of 9 goals have been scored in the finals Since… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
 stilicho | Fantasy game variety Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How many games do you plan to play next season? Do you think it best to stick to one? Or do you like to mix up more complex fantasy games with simpler ones… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 34 |
J0E | McDs reappraisal Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic McDs reappraisal After initial issues with the McD game have its problems now disappeared? Is the game now the one you hoped it would be? What changes wou… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Sky Game Early Thoughts and Team Selection Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Sky Game Who is playing the Sky game and what kind of early teams have you come up with. Following its launch yesterday I've had a look at creating a team … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 34 |
 PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, We have a £2,500 GUARANTEED POT on offer today - just for the Quarter Finals Gameweek. You can enter up to 3x different teams into the game. Deadline is 15.00 today - … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 2 |
J0E | Quarter Final Predicted Line Ups Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Quarter Final Line Up predictions It's time to get those crystal balls out and predict the quarter final line ups in the World Cup. We now have a community … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 3 |
 jaredmason | McDonalds Player Stats Hey folks, not sure if this already exists somewhere else, but I created a spreadsheet to consolidate the previously posted spreadsheets for rounds 1-4 into a table format. I thought it might be us… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 10 |
 DHWizzo | The case against picking Brazil players The argument for not picking any Brazil players: Going in as tournament favourites I entered WC fantasy planning thinking I would always need some Brazil cover, but that PoV has quickly shifted af… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 15 |
 CubeBrick | Players missing the QFs Does someone have a list of key players missing quaters?! | 9 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
J0E | World Cup QF differentials Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Differentials will be key to the success in the quarter finals, with most teams having reliable players like Messi, Rodriguez and Robben. Who are your key … | 9 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
 Irish Madridista ⭐ | Best movie/footballer mash ups Seems a tad slow.. and I'm bored.. and I have faith in your creativity. Inspired by Hamez "007" Rodriguez's latest headline.. Best movie-title / footballers-names crossovers? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 64 |
 Saniul | Swansea's prospects Well, what do you guys think of Swansea? Was their last season only a Europa-induced slump, or the teams around them are much better than them now? | 9 years, 9 months ago | 13 |
Irish Madridista ⭐ | World Cup Surprise Sensation XI Most impressive World Cup XI so far? Players that have been SURPRISINGLY good.. | 9 years, 9 months ago | 16 |
 asquishypotato | World Cup disappointing XI Who is your individual poor performance 11 so far? Not necessarily the teams that bowed out early, but those that have had a shocker of a world cup individually? For me it is: Casillas Maxi Pere… | 9 years, 9 months ago | 30 |