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 Captain Shirokov | Favourite FPL Pick This Season Right, want to provoke a bit of discussion around here because it's quite slow atm. Who has been your favourite FPL pick this season? Take into account flair, price, ownership levels and returns. … | 10 years, 2 months ago | 46 |
 J0E | Breaking the template Fantasy football scout daily hot topic The breaking of the template Aguero has seen more than 250,000 transfers out this gwk and managers are turning to a variety of options from Dzeko to Girou… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 21 |
 | Aguero Replacements Stat Attack The Aguero Replacement Options - The Stats: Edin DZEKO Plays for: Man City Price: £6.8m Owned by: 7.1% Last 5: 9 / 1 / 7 / 7 / 15 Next 5: CHE / nor / SUN / STO / blank Strengths: - Plays for City… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Transfer window winners and losers Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Transfer window winners and losers With a flurry of new recruits already announced let's have a look to see who will be the winners and losers. I'll start … | 10 years, 2 months ago | 17 |
J0E | Aguero Replacement Options Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero replacement options. If as feared Aguero is set to be sidelined with a hamstring strain what are his owners planning to do. Keep if he's only out for… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 21 |
 Christina. | The Kunundrum THE KUNUNDRUM So, Kun hobbled off last night. I'm no medical expert, so let's look at the upcoming City fixtures: 3 Feb: Chelsea(PL) 8 Feb: Norwich(PL) 12 Feb: Sunderland(PL) 15 Feb: Chelsea (… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 17 |
J0E | Scoutcast Questions for Mark and Granville Questions for Mark and Granville Our podcast pair will once again be looking to answer your questions this week. Feel free to leave your questions here and they'll have a rummage through tomorrow … | 10 years, 2 months ago | 43 |
 Guy Demel's SH | West Ham options assessed I wrote one of these earlier in the season and it was well received, so here's my second edition. I've seen a few posts appearing about West Ham players, so heres some analysis. The fixtures (last… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Is RVP a viable option? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is RVP now a viable option given his impressive return last night and some great fixtures for ManU? Can Robin Van Persie now challenge Suarez for the armban… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 31 |
 PlayON | PlayON Q&A Killian here from www.playon.co.uk, A quick note to mention that we have a £1,000 Guaranteed Pot for the midweek matches - just pick your team and enter before 17.45 this evening. Also just to… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 9 |
J0E | Early line ups - where and when will you be? Fantasy Football School Daily Hot Topic It’s another early line ups Hot Topic. Given that the line ups come out at 6:45pm here and 5:45am in Sydney, Australia and 1:45pm in New York we are eithe… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 33 |
 Reckoner. | The Case For Winston Reid So with the news that Winston Reid should be back for the next GW I've had a look at his defensive prospects. I've looked at every game he has played over 60 minutes in since West Ham returned to … | 10 years, 2 months ago | 11 |
 Dino | Expensive defenders: Worth the hassle? Big defenders, fire and forget? Some defensive stats for those thinking of going three big defenders and two bench fodder defenders. Chelsea 6 clean sheets 2 have been at home and 4 away Man… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 17 |
J0E | New recruits and game changers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic New recruits and game changers. Of the players that have come in or switched clubs during the transfer window which do you think will have the most impact. … | 10 years, 2 months ago | 13 |
 Courtois in the Rye | Expensive defenders - are they worth the extra cash? Expensive defenders - where is it worth the extra money? The obvious choices everyone is facing, particularly on the wild card are: Mert vs Kos/Sagna: for me it's worth saving the money and goin… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 16 |
 Ninjaa | The Six Wildcard Essentials? For the January wild card who are the 6 players that are must haves to have in your wc team? | 10 years, 2 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Dare you strip Suarez of the captaincy? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Time for a different captain? With Suarez against the tight Everton defence this week is gwk 23 a good time to place the captaincy elsewhere? And if so o… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 28 |
J0E | Early line up tips Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Early line up tips This Gameweek offers fantasy managers a rare treat; we get to see a large number of team sheets before the deadline . From experience of… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 19 |
 Tim Canterbury | Guide to FPL success The rules of FPL Choose your initial squad and your WC teams very carefully Start with the obvious and work to the fringes. Don't drop Suarez so that you can afford Clyne over Burner Players wh… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Rule Change To Help Mavericks Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FPL rule changes to reward mavericks The Casual’s post (see hot topic widget) on the danger of differentials has inspired me to think of a possible rule c… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 28 |
 Give The Todd Some Love | Choosing a username How did you guys think of your usernames? (This might have been asked before) Mine's pretty obvious for anyone that watches Scrubs. Some on here seem really obscure though, I think it would be coo… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 55 |
 Will - Fantasy Football Hub | The danger of differentials Dear Mark, Firstly can I say that you are clearly a better FPL manager than me. BUT this year you keep making one major error that I think a lot of us a susceptible to - you are trying to be to cl… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 27 |
J0E | Who is getting Mata straight away? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Mata So when the inevitable official confirmation of Mata's move to ManU is made who is going to put him straight into their side? And where do we think h… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 14 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | Wildcard Punts Okay so a lot of people are playing their wildcard next week and have a FT which they might as well use up so I thought I'd write a post about punts for this week only, good time to potentially cat… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Gameweek 28 planning Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 28 planning How are you planning for Gameweek 28 when Manchester City and United both miss a game. Are you prepared to bench your assets from tho… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
J0E | What to do with Coleman? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
 Koflok | Casual or Inspired? @Jonty When you say there's always gonna be player like last season RVP and this season's Suarez, I agree. Every season there's always gonna be a season keeper. Almost similar to Bale's essential … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Is this season anti-flair? Or have the mavericks lost their touch? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is this season anti-flair, or have the flair players lost their touch? There is a lot of talk of this season being great for casual players and less so for … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 34 |
 Evs | The Supporting Cast: Part I Whilst everyone is having their half time cuppa I thought I would follow up on my Essentials post (see hot topics) from this morning. This time looking at. . . 'The Supporting Cast: Part I' Keepe… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 49 |
Evs | The Essentials Morning Gents. I think it's coming to the point this season where many players are getting pretty much essential in teams to keep the pace with the l points. The remaining half of or so of your s… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 64 |
J0E | Playing the market Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Playing the market This is a crucial week for wildcarding. With the next premier league games more than a week away there's plenty of scope for double, even… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
J0E | Last minute wildcard changes Fantastic Football Scout daily hot topic Last minute wildcard changes With a few hours to go there's not much time for Gwk 22 wildcarders to make a change. Let's have a look at your wildcard team… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
PlayON | PLAYON Q&A Killian here from www.playon.co.uk, This week we are running a special game for new users – Free Entry, £100 Guaranteed pot. If you haven’t tried PlayON yet, it’s worth a look this week.… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 1 |
J0E | Complex fantasy games Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic More complex fantasy games This one's from Mark. He asks: "Do you like games that allow fantasy managers to change captains or their lineups within the gam… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
J0E | Saints Upheaval Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Saints upheaval With worrying news reports about Southampton emerging this week can we rely on their players to help us for the second half of the season? … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
J0E | Scoutcast Questions for Mark and Granville Scoutcast Questions Mark and Granville will be recording their latest podcast tomorrow and will be featuring a new item where they answer some of your questions. Feel free to leave your question… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 74 |
J0E | The mid price, midfield goldmine Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Today’s is from Stilicho. He wonders if now is the time to stock up with the sudden array of good mid price midfield options. Suddenly there are quite a… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
 Deadeye367 | Key Wildcard Decisions Long Post Alert!! Hit the Wildcard button this GW and most people seem to be facing the same decisions even if we each end up with different teams. Here is how I think most people will be picking … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 18 |
 maxi - REAL ENGLISH FAN | Should FPL only let you pick two strikers? One very VERY easy and OBVIOUS thing fpl can do to stop template teams: When it began they thought everyone played 4-4-2 so they made it so that you had one backup plus your starting11 based on a … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 16 |
J0E | The case against Januzaj Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The case against Januzaj Oddly I’m looking to get rid of Januzaj the week 28,730 managers have got him in. Here are my reasons. I’ve made a tidy pro… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
 Simon March | Second Half of the Season Theories 2nd Half of the Season Shifts: It's consistently demonstrated that the 'big' teams start winning more clean sheets in the second half of the season (arguably more due to 'smaller' teams becoming l… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Is the SAS attack back on? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is the SAS attacking formation back on? With Suarez essential, Aguero looking ready to start against Cardiff and Sturridge proving he's still a great prospe… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Key wildcard decisions - the story so far. Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Gwk 22 key wildcarding decisions Each week new wildcard conundrums emerge. Here's the latest. Be good to get your thoughts in any of these and add your own… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
 Trigg ⭐️ | First 5 names in your Wildcard team Here's one ... first 5 names on your WC teamsheet. Not including Suarez as he is too obvious! | 10 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
 Heydudes13 | Lukaku: ditch or keep? What are Lukaku owners doing? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
 Mary | FFS Top 200 league stats Stats for top 200 in FFScout league: http://docs.google.com/document/d/1okjvRR9dOmpHOZ0AfzfsnPkgqj5sY1PDcorphVNsdLE/edit?usp=sharing Summary: Percentage still in cup: 53.50% Average Team Value… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
Evs | Why do you Love Ade? Adebayor lovers, please explain to me rationale of getting him over others in similar bracket? eg Soldado, Lukaka or Giroud. | 10 years, 3 months ago | 30 |
J0E | Wildcard surgery Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Last minute wildcard surgery With many of you wildcarding this week I thought I'd start a handy thread to discuss your last minute changes. Key questions w… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 57 |
PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, If you have any questions about PlayON or about the article above, just add them as replies below and I will answer them all. Two questions we would like the opinion o… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Unlikely season saviours Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Unlikely season saviours In the 2011/12 season all looked lost for me after the first few weeks. I’d missed the bandwagons at the time. But about five w… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 20 |