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 J0E | Time to bail on Saints defence? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic With the likes of Boruc and Wanyama injured and poor fixtures is it now time to bail on the once secure Southampton defence? | 10 years, 4 months ago | 22 |
 PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from www.playon.co.uk, This week there’s a bounty on Robbie Fowler’s head - take him on in a £1 one-on-one game and one person who beats him will win £10 free credit. As usual,… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 1 |
J0E | The Community Team Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic The Community Team Behind the scenes we've started getting some early discussions in on new article/feature ideas for next season. One that is gathering mom… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 50 |
J0E | Stick or twist Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Stick or twist With key players suspended this weekend and others now prone to rotation what are you doing with your flagged and benched players? Can you af… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 31 |
 Ryan | Striking a Balance Ok so here's the deal regarding team structure. As far as I can see, apart from Ramsey, there are no good mid priced mids. There are plenty of solid cheap mids and expensive mids but none in the mi… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 29 |
 HVT | How to increase your rank 1. Fill a plastic bottle of water with stones and place it inside your toilet cistern. It will save water on every flush. Use either a one litre bottle, a milk carton or a few small plastic… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Last minute hit success stories Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Last minute hit success stories This one is from D1sable He asks: "Have taken a last minute hit (-4) etc and have it pay off in style instantly? If so who… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 21 |
 Granville | Bonus points system Great example last night of bonus points system not working. A total of 15 points were given out rather than 6. Had Palace not scored then I suspect a few West Ham defenders would have also picked… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 65 |
 President John F. Keninnsie | Budget defender rotation *Budget Defender Rotation* With expensive strikers and midfielders becoming popular again, many people are going to have to shift funds from their defence. I've discovered some decent rotations wi… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 21 |
 Smarty Pants | Top 100 Heroes some interesting teams in the top 1K • the only guy in the top 1K who didn't make a single transfer this season http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1405403/event-history/14/ • the only guy… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
Smarty Pants | GW14 Stats TOP 1,000 FPL players Stats GW14 Full Stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdHJ5VWtIXzV5Vk1LczdsV2UxUElhckE&usp=sharing HIGHLIGHTS GW14 transfers made 1010 Poin… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 36 |
 Los Pollos | Most spectacular ever 'the answer is in the question' post When is the January wildcard valid? | 10 years, 4 months ago | 23 |
 banskt | Goalkeeper rotation options With the recent injuries to the goalkeepers, I needed to rethink about my goalkeeper strategy for the rest of the league (yes, I am talking till GW38) with 2FT in hand and 10m budget. What would be… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 17 |
HVT | The Ultimate 'Casual' Team Boruc (rip) Terry / Coleman / lovern Rambo / Yaya / SG / Hazza Suarez / Aguero / Rooney Is this the ultimate "casual team" ? | 10 years, 4 months ago | 17 |
 maxi - REAL ENGLISH FAN | Team Value is a Joke! Team value is a bit of a joke mate. First off you lose. At least half of your gains anyway. Second if its spread around your team its worth even less. Say everyone goes up by 0.3 you only get 0.1… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 16 |
J0E | How Could FPL Be Improved? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today’s hot topic is from Evs. He asks: “If you could make any improvements to the FPL game what would they be, and why do you think it would improve it… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 124 |
 Valar(Keith) | Walcott to break into the Arsenal team? So Wally got 20 odd minutes vs Soton.. Would have come on early vs Cardiff but wenger decided to tighten up, played 15 odd minutes in the UCL(did he? cant remember).. Been in first team training fo… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 32 |
 Evs | Southampton keepers are double red. Which way do we turn? Well, as are many I struck by the DOUBLE Southampton keeper curse. Just to keep me on the edge, I'm getting Pantomime as a replacement. It's that time of the year after all 😉 | 10 years, 4 months ago | 30 |
J0E | Gameweek 14 rotation fears Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will be rested during Gameweek 14? And who will be the key differentials that may seize the opportunity to fill their place? | 10 years, 4 months ago | 13 |
 Konig Luther | Ranking targets RANKING TARGET...to see how much you need: 1st: 917 1000th: 845 5000th: 821 10,000th: 810 20,000th: 797 30,000th: 789 40,000th: 783 50,000th: 778 80,000th: 767 100,000th: 761 150,000th:… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 10 |
J0E | The Dawn of the Cheap Striker Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Is the dawn of the cheap striker upon us? With Deulofeu and Gouffran getting on the score sheet yesterday and heavyweight midfielders still proving their … | 10 years, 4 months ago | 18 |
Smarty Pants | TOP 1K STATS: GAMEWEEK 13 Top 1K Stats this week for those interested Full stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdFVzZ283Y3dqWUFfTVBGWWNWaFNkS0E&usp=sharing TRANSFERS AND TEAM VALUE Numbe… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Aguero(c)-less managers unite Fantasy football scout daily hot topic So is anyone not captaining Aguero this week? If not who have you gone for and why? | 10 years, 4 months ago | 24 |
PlayON | The PlayON Q&A Killian here from PlayON, This week we have a £500 guaranteed pot on offer at www.playon.co.uk. If you have any friends / work colleagues that might be interested in PlayON, we would really appr… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 7 |
 GreenWindmill | GWK 13 Captain Stats My weekly look at the captaincy choices and their form against this week's opposition. For those struggling to pick a captain and who believe in bogey teams, etc. here are the popular captain choi… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Guess Mark's Transfers Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic It's competition time. Mark is being cagey about his three transfers that he has already made this week. No prize, apart from the kudos of being right, but… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 51 |
J0E | Don't Shoot The Messenger Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today's is from D1sable again....he's on a roll. He asks: "What's the worst piece of advice you have given a fellow Fantasy manager?" And was it deliberate… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 16 |
 HurriKane | Failed Bandwagons: Which Did You Fall For Or Avoid? Bandwagons this year I gladly stayed away from HBA - everyone was crazy about him a month or so ago but seems to be out of favor now Barkley - looks promising but 4 blanks in a row Lallana- faded … | 10 years, 4 months ago | 13 |
 Gargamel | Introducing the Gargatron Good evening everybody. Some of you will remember that I last year made a little program that presented some stats for your FPL team. I ran it from my own computer by entering an ID and thereby pr… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 35 |
 Dogba | Jagielka v Distin Everton CBs! Jagielka versus Distin: It looks cut and dry looking at the points, but I decided to look at the data before making up my mind. * Both have played every single minute this season, so… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 28 |
J0E | Benteke 2nd Season Syndrome Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today’s is brought to you by D1sable. He asks: “Has Benteke firmly been smacked with second season syndrome or will the return of his lieutenants Gabby… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
 Mr Smith | Lukaku Keeping Pace With Rooney I keep reading how Rooney is in great form and a must have etc etc but then comparing the stats to Lukaku, someone who has generally been out of form recently, the stats are quite surprising (beari… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 12 |
 Agbonlahorse | Benteke stats - Benteke owners - Since joining Villa last year, he has scored 34 goals in all competitions for us. I looked at the common factors in all of his goals and was pretty amazed to see just how relian… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 15 |
J0E | Balancing the tightrope Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Balancing the tightrope The suspension tightrope is bulging, especially with Rooney now placed on it. Mark asks: “With the Suspension Tightrope growing … | 10 years, 4 months ago | 12 |
 The Sarjeant | Further Aguero vs Suarez investigation Aguero Vs Suarez - Captaincy Conundrum - GW 13 Aguero and Suarez are both undoubtedly in amazing form, and both of these players have favourable fixtures for game week 13. Some people have said it… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Keep calm and capt Aguero (or Suarez when ManC are away) Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Today's is from D1sable. He asks: "Has the issue of who to captain simply come down to captain Aguero at home and Suarez at all other times." | 10 years, 4 months ago | 52 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | GW13-20 Rotation Just a reminder for those considering defensive or midfield rotation that gameweeks 13-20 constitute the longest fixture block of the season. So from now until New Year's Day, teams in Group 1 wil… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Clean sheet Christmas options Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Today's hot topic is from D1sable. He asks:"Who will be the 'key' defensive players over the xmas period. I have seen a lot of focus on the attacking side … | 10 years, 4 months ago | 12 |
Smarty Pants | TOP 1K STATS: GAMEWEEK 12 Here we go 🙂 GW 12 Statistics for the Top 1000 FPL players Full stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdGpZZUF5NDVneW16M3hGOEhhYXBkMkE&usp=sharing HIGHLIGHTS TRA… | 10 years, 4 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Captain decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this week and why? | 10 years, 5 months ago | 31 |
 beric | beRate My Team who's got a dodgy line-up this week? share your team if its shit! | 10 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, This week we are asking the FFS community to critique our newly designed site ahead of it being launched - http://playon-ui.herokuapp.com/ In addition to the new design… | 10 years, 5 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Take the 5th Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Take the 5th. Today’s FFS hot topic is brought to you by Evs. He asks – “The 5th midfielder.... is having a good one such as Ravel or Januzaj availa… | 10 years, 5 months ago | 21 |
The Sarjeant | Christmas fixture schedule There's been some talk recently about the congestion of upcoming fixtures, between now and January. I wanted to take a look into this and see what teams have the most matches to play, and how many … | 10 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
GreenWindmill | Gameweek 12 Captaincy Form My weekly look at the captaincy choices and their form against this week's opposition. For those struggling to pick a captain and who believe in bogey teams, etc. here are the popular captain choi… | 10 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Fantasy Football Addiction Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today's daily hot topic was brought to you by community member Templatastic. He asks: "At what moment did you know you were 'addicted' to fantasy football?" | 10 years, 5 months ago | 37 |
 Nice to Finally Michu | Early Game Review In recent years it has been seen as an unwise move to captain a player in the first game of the weekend, the best players seem to falter and it is a crapshoot most owners want to stay away from. Bu… | 10 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 TorresMagic™ | Fantasy Ashes For those interested in Fantasy Ashes. Code : 409872 http://cricketdreamteam.sportal.com.au A dozen of us in it atm. | 10 years, 5 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Cheap bench options - stick or upgrade? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Cheap bench options - stick or upgrade? We have been pooling our brain cells up at FFS towers to come up with some more daily hot topics ideas. Today’s i… | 10 years, 5 months ago | 27 |
 Just A Hat | Will Mark Beat Granville This Season? Daily Hot Topic Who will be the dominant manager come the end of the Season? Gran "Injury Prone" Ville or Mark "Wrong decisions at every turn" Sutherns | 10 years, 5 months ago | 10 |