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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

J0E
Friday Quiz

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Here’s a quick quiz about last season’s Premier League for today’s hot topic. I’ll start easy and get harder 1. Who scored the most own goals? 2. Wh…

9 years, 11 months ago75

Christina.
Strategies for the Fox game

Fox strategy?

9 years, 11 months ago22

J0E
Can Costa Really Break The Template?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Back to the Premier League today Diego Costa looks certain to be a Chelsea player for next season and thereby bringing back a fantasy asset that has long al…

9 years, 11 months ago25

J0E
Fox World Cup Fantasy Game Discussion

Anyone playing the Fox Sports World Cup fantasy game? Looks really good so far and just like FPL. Website seems pretty quick too. http://worldcupfantasy.foxsports.com.au/ If anyone has any leagu…

9 years, 11 months ago33

CABAYE4
Are The Right Teams At The World Cup?

This might go down badly with some on here, but does anyone else think that Europe should have more spots in the WC? I can't help feel that the group stages would be more competitive if say Swede…

9 years, 11 months ago44

J0E
Can Germany Win the World Cup?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Can Germany win it? Germany always perform well at international tournaments. Could this be their year to actually win it. And which of their players will…

9 years, 11 months ago10

roscola
Roscola's World Cup fixture ticker

Since everyone else was too lazy to make a WC fixture-ticker for me I had to make one myself. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Qqaj3dS4F_by1NZ0dFaEo1cW8/edit?usp=sharing I expect much disagreem…

9 years, 11 months ago22

Saniul
Will recovered balls scupper the McD game?

Anyone else thinks that 1 point/recovered ball would kill the McD game completely?

9 years, 11 months ago18

El Muñeco
Italy Update

I recently wrote a community article on the Italy squad and thought it would be useful to provide a quick update. -The Italians played out a 0-0 friendly with Republic of Ireland. The most signif…

9 years, 11 months ago3

Piggs Boson
FPL defender pricing - What's your preference?

*** Which defence do you prefer? *** Poverty 4.5 - 4.5 - 4.5 - 4.5 - 4.0 The Emperor 7.0 – 4.5 – 4.5 – 4.5 – 4.0 The Master and the Apprentice 6.5 – 5.5 – 4.5 – 4.5 – 4.0 The Th…

9 years, 11 months ago37

Tony Warner Fan Club
A Happy Meal of Recovered Balls in the McD Game.

Going to retread some old ground here but I thought as the game gets nearer, I'd use some data from FIFA's WC 2010 stats to further highlight how absurdly biased the 2014 McDonald's WC points scori…

9 years, 11 months ago10

J0E
LATEST COMMUNITY ARTICLES - SCOUTING USA AND WORLD CUP QUALIFIER STATS

Two more community articles published - Blue Lion's look at World Cup qualifier stats http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/06/03/world-cup-qualifiers-goals-scored-and-conceded-stats/ And Wa…

9 years, 11 months ago3

J0E
Community Article of the Month

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Community Article of the month The response to the launch of our community submissions section has been incredible. During May alone we published 41 article…

9 years, 11 months ago28

WorldCupDanB
World Cup Penalty Takers

I've updated the penalty taker doc (I used a list someone put on here to fill gaps but don't know who it was so sorry I can't credit you). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sSZkkkpihf-9C0zpt…

9 years, 11 months ago4

J0E
Argentina - could this be their World Cup?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Argentina - could this be their World Cup? Messi and co have been underachievers in recent years. But could this finally be the year that Argentina relive p…

9 years, 11 months ago19

J0E
2014/15 FPL ambitions

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Yesterday we published an update to our Hall of Fame. There are some impressive veterans and new managers alike in the new table. What is your realistic a…

9 years, 11 months ago40

J0E
Best team names

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best team names Over the years what have been your favourite Fantasy Football Team names? Looking for some good play on words. My favourite recent one …

9 years, 11 months ago31

J0E
Latest Community Article - Scouting Ghana and new attack/defence rating formula

Latest community articles The Sarjeant has come up with this very impressive article using his own attack and defensive ratings to assess groups A-D. First appearance of a table in a community art…

9 years, 11 months ago8

J0E
The Best World Cup Differentials Are....

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic We've had a cavalcade of great articles from the community and Paul over the last few weeks looking at World Cup teams. Plenty of differentials have emerged.…

9 years, 11 months ago4

DGW blindness is for Kinnea…
Where next for Southampton?

What will be of Soton next season. line up will look like this Boruc Clyne Fonte ........ Chambers ....... ........ Warde-Prowse Davis ...... ........ With about £80m to fill in the gaps. A decen…

9 years, 11 months ago15

J0E
Latest Community Articles - Scouting Bosnia and BPS explained

Latest Community Articles Demi weaves his magic over the Bosnian teamsheet. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/29/scouting-bosnia-herzegovina/ I'll get the other a look at the bonus s…

9 years, 11 months ago31

J0E
FPL Bonus - stick or twist?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Got a really interesting community article coming out later today about FPL bonus points. Its a really indepth look at what players have to do to get bonus -…

9 years, 11 months ago48

J0E
Latest Community Articles - Group B, GK strategy and World Cup friendlies

Latest Community articles Really handy guide to the World Cup friendly fixtures from Christina http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/28/world-cup-warm-up-games/ Asquishypotato takes a l…

9 years, 11 months ago1

J0E
The Pochettino effect

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Pochettino effect. Spurs have notoriously been a tricky team for us Fantasy managers. Prone to swapping managers quickly as well as rotating players tha…

9 years, 11 months ago15

Parm
some early World Cup predicted lineups

So i've spent some time trawling through scout articles, community articles, qualifying statistics and online previews and come up with my team predictions for all 32 World Cup starting XI's: htt…

9 years, 11 months ago48

Heydudes13
Recovered Ball Stats

Those RB stats from this season's UCL throw up some interesting names... Ramos Pepe Chedjou Lombaerts (If he starts) Busquets Mascherano Godin Shite defences at the World Cup could be worth a loo…

9 years, 11 months ago27

J0E
Latest Community Articles - Scouting Greece and Italy

Latest Community Articles Christina travels to Greece to see if their defence really is still an art form. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/27/scouting-greece/ Meanwhile El Muneco h…

9 years, 11 months ago0

J0E
Can LVG revive Manchester United's Fantasy Prospects?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Club allegiances aside, who is happy that Manchester United may at last have some players we can invest in after a dire 2013/14 in fantasy football terms. W…

9 years, 11 months ago11

J0E
Latest Community Article - Scouting Nigeria

Latest Community Article. FC Borecelona has been on a Scouting mission to Nigeria - read his excellent analysis of their chances here..... http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/26/scoutin…

9 years, 11 months ago0

sully sonic
Favourite World Cup Moment, Team and Player

i'm just just hoping it's a better worldcup than 2010! what is your favourite world cup moment? and favourite world cup team? best world cup player to watch?

9 years, 11 months ago29

WorldCupDanB
Full Fantasy iTeam Player List

Not sure if this is useful to anybody other than me but anyway here is a full player list taken from the Fantasy iTeam app. It has Name, Country, Price and Position, its correct as at yesterday (P…

9 years, 11 months ago4

J0E
Colombian players and other key World Cup differentials

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Colombia looks like a fine place to find cheap differentials - Juan Cuadrado especially. What other cheap differentials are you looking at in the FantasyiT…

9 years, 11 months ago7

Dr Dream
Members Table - Touches in the box (Mids)

Touches in the box (mids) season long..always a good stat for players from open play (as oppose set piece duties).. http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/4315/

9 years, 11 months ago16

Dr Dream
Members Table: attacking defenders

Bit of a quite night...so some stats...Some of the 2013/14 season long stats for defenders. Arranged by ICT threat, a click on the columns will rearrange them significantly for other stats...http:/…

9 years, 11 months ago27

J0E
Are Spain a spent force ?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are Spain a spent force in international football or are their players still worth considering in Fantasy World Cup games? Which Spain players are you most …

9 years, 11 months ago15

Mark
FFS UEFA Announce WC Tournament

Here's the FFS UEFA tournament community article...comments opened on this to capture all the recruitment chatter... http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/25/ffs-uefa-world-cup-2014/

9 years, 11 months ago0

Saint Steve-O (@EliteFPL)
Sunday's transfer rumours

Just thought i'd post a few transfer rumours I've seen this morning that (I feel) have a realistic chance of happening & ones that look to affect FPL for the good or the bad... *Liverpool are plan…

9 years, 11 months ago4

J0E
Qpr or Derby: which is best for fantasy managers?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic This weekend's Championship play off is one of the world's most lucrative football matches. But which of QPR or Derby would be best for Fantasy managers?

9 years, 11 months ago13

J0E
Latest Community articles - Promoted sides and Croatia

Latest Community Articles Here's an excellent look at how promoted sides have performed after stepping up to the Premier League by Jairzinho. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/23/newly…

9 years, 11 months ago5

Elniñorules
New FFS Uefa Competition

FFS UEFA Announcement Apologies about the delay. Presenting to you ladies and gents. FFS World Cup 2014 http://uefacouncil.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/ffs-world-cup-2014-pilot/

9 years, 11 months ago33

thetinkerman
World Cup Predictions

Who are people tipping for the following? 1. World Cup winners 2. World Cup beaten finalists 3. Top scorer 4. Surprise team/dark horse 5. Biggest disappointment (team) I think: 1. Brazil 2. Arge…

9 years, 11 months ago24

J0E
A 14m Suarez - Get in or avoid?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic It doesn't take a time travel expert with a crystal ball to work out that Luis Suarez will be priced at 14m next season. Given this price hike will he be wo…

9 years, 11 months ago29

Saint Steve-O (@EliteFPL)
Burnley's New Recruits

Not exactly the biggest Premiership transfer news, but for those interested in cheap options from the promoted clubs (in this case, my team Burnley) looks like we will be signing Michael Kightly (&…

9 years, 11 months ago23

J0E
Latest Community articles - Goal stats and Uruguay

Latest Community articles Very handy list of goal and assist stats of World Cup players by the Sarjeant http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/22/the-world-cup-the-players/ And this excel…

9 years, 11 months ago2

J0E
UFPL discussion

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL discussion Yesterday we heard from Alex Bowers - the winner of last season's UFPL Beta game. Who is going to play the game next season? What did you t…

9 years, 11 months ago22

J0E
Latest community articles - Europa League and Iran

Two new community articles published. Our latest include a look at the curse of the Europa League, by Triggerlips http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/05/21/the-curse-of-the-europa-league/ …

9 years, 11 months ago0

J0E
Fantasy i-Team tips, teams and strategy

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Fantasy i-team game tips, teams and strategy So who is playing this game and if so what is your strategy? Also feel free to post your team.

9 years, 11 months ago53

Alan Davey
Fantasy iTeam Q&A

It's great to be finally working with you all, thanks for the article. If anyone has any questions or feedback in regards to the app, ask away. You can also contact me at either - feedback@fanta…

9 years, 11 months ago36

J0E
Latest community article - Scouting The Netherlands

Latest community articles Got this informative run down by Pompeyfan of the Netherlands...also notes he highlights the potential of a good out of position prospect in their ranks. http://www.fant…

9 years, 11 months ago2

FACUPARSE
What will ManU's defence look like next season?

De Gea Rafael Jones Smalling Buttner Top 4 😆

9 years, 11 months ago25