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Who was the BEST fpl bargain over the past 4-5 years? A) Charlie Adam (Blackpool) B) Geovanni (Hull City) C) Miguel Perez Cuesta (Swansea)

Splitting the £100m between goalie, defence, midfield and attack has always interested me and I never seem to get it right. I always intend on getting a balance and stacking a bit in defence but …

TRIGGERLIP:S GUIDE PART 2 PLUG AND PLAY How to cut down on hits and avoid problems Yesterday I posted my template for budget allocation. (see below). Many people cant understand why I would l…

I'm looking forward to seeing Higuain in the Premier League. Whilst we wait for Paul's Moving Target article, I thought I would take a quick glance at his league stats for the last few seasons: ht…

Lesson from last season: Get nailed on bench fodder, or rotate the last two attacking spots. Nothing is worse than having an team injury and your back up doesn't even play.

Morning all, Here's my contribution to the keeper rotation combos. These are worked out based on strength of oppostion, designed to avoid Utd, City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool and Everton …

Wait, HUL/AVL for Chelski to start with in GW1 😯 That'll be points galore!

SO then Chaps, with new managers all over the top of the table, who do you think is going to finish 123 this season? My friend bet me 100 CHF that Arsenal and Liverpool would be in top 3.... i qui…

So with the fixture list now out, spread sheets compiled, rotation options weighed up and heavy hitters earmarked, which are the teams and players people are looking to focus on for the first six w…

would appreciate your input. please rate the following fixtures from a defensive standpoint on a scale of 1-3 with 1 being easy and 3 being hard. this is your predictions for this upcoming season a…

A very comprehensive read here analysing the opening fixtures for each club.with stats included.. http://www.whoscored.com/Blog/dxvha0memeintqots07qba/Show/League-Focus-The-Premier-League-Opening-…

Every 2 way rotation available for every club this season plus a guide to the Rotation Finder for people new to rotations. You can find it in the sidebar of my blog along with my Season Ticker I pu…

Here is the template that I use to begin the season, individual prices will vary slightly but the framework is tried and trusted Goal keepers 4.5 m4.5 Basically no more than 9m spent on keepers …

Just a thought for non-RvPers How many of these alternatives (Higuain etc) do you realstically expect to be set-piece hoggers like RvP is, he takes pens free-kicks and corners from the right. It's…

Possible budget friendly GK rotation options up until Jan WC (updated): Ruddy (Nor) £5m / Begovic (Sto) £5m - Total £10m EVE, CPL, SOU, MCI/tot, AVL, NOR, ful, WBA, CDF, SOU, WHM, SUN, CPL, CD…

Fixture breaks are traditionally great times to wildcard to take advantage of price rises and deal with international injuries. Here's the three breaks during the first half of the season. Weeken…

So which players are you penciling in for the first six games?

Home and away 38-game rotating pairs: Man United - Man City Arsenal - Spurs Newcastle - Sunderland Chelsea - Fulham Everton - Liverpool Aston Villa - WBA Cardiff - Swansea Stoke - Norwich Southam…

The teams with favourable first 6 fixtures: Spurs Liverpool City Newcastle (from GW2) Norwich Everton WBA Southampton West Ham

Premier League fixtures in full. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/fixtures So what are your early thoughts? Welcome to the latest daily topic from the Fantasy Football Scout t…

PREMIER LEAGUE OPENING DAY FIXTURES: Saturday, 17 August 2013 Barclays Premier League Arsenal v Aston Villa Chelsea v Hull Crystal Palace v Tottenham Liverpool v Stoke Man City v Newcastle …

In terms of captaincy, what was your success and failures in captain choices?

What was everyone's most fruitful transfer last season (hits included)? I'll kick us off: I bought in Figueroa the gameweek he played Reading away and he got me a goal, an assist, a clean sheet an…

Wildcarding : when to do it? Hello All, Just ran out some analysis on correlation between rank and when someone played their WC. Interesting results. A huge amount of data collected, so here's my…

Who were the most nailed on players last season? Anyone got the minutes? Gerrard was up there right?

FPL runner-up Kelvin Travers said: "If I could field 11 players, I wouldn’t take a points hit" With that in mind, would any of you pick 4 x 3.8m players as permanent, season long bench fodder? …

Home vs Away. Just like to say, that in four years of doing my own Season Ticker, last year was particularly unusual in terms of Home/Away results, particularly among the lower orders, in which I c…

The Premier League fixture list comes out tomorrow. This gives the perfect chance to start some early planning of goalkeeper rotation. So what are everyone's plans for goalkeepers this season? Rot…

Players that will be overpriced this year in terms of mid-priced FPL bargains: Basically these are players that were golden last year, but we will have to think twice about even touching them this…

Observations I've made on Mkhitarian: Positives: He's either footed and seems to be able to strike the ball exceptionally well first time, he appears to like hitting the ball low and hard in the p…

HeMan's last season with Shaktar: 39 appearances, 25 goals. 64% ratio, not too shabby 😀 It's an unfair comparison but RVP scored 26 goals in 38 appearances (68%) 😉 If he comes in at around 7.5m…

Biggest punt you're seriously considering starting with? I reckon I'm gonna give 👿 Kagawa a run out to start with.......

Before the fixture lists comes out and our thinking gets all muddled by rotation spreadsheets; Who are you expecting to be solid defensively this year? Mine; United, City, Arsenal, Spurs, Pool an…

For those who like the Attacking Stats posted earlier today, here are the Defensive Stats 🙂 http://allthingsfpl.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/clubs-defensive-stats-201213/

I see Coutinho is being looked at quite seriously for next season. While I do have quite a high opinion of the player, I do however have a few hesitations. Last season we got him for a very low pr…

Looking at the same mid price mids who did well at the end of last of season is surely a waste of time due to price hikes, form does not transfer over from season to season and new underpriced mids…

A certain West Ham defender emerged last season as the fantasy football community's latest cult figure. But which other cult heroes and villains of the fantasy game have there been? And which have …

For anyone interested in stats 🙂 http://allthingsfpl.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/clubs-attacking-stats-201213/

If you weren't going for RvP or Bale, who do you think would be the next best source of cover for their respective teams?

I've been playing around with the FPL stats for last season, breaking it down for each player by home and away performance for goals, assists, PPG, etc. and I thought this might be worth sharing: …

Contrasting the value of big hitting defenders and mid price midfielders Average of top 10 Defenders 6.0-6.5: 129.6 Average of top 10 Midfielders 6.5 and below: 138.4 (Not included Michu or Fella…

Who are the 5 players you will build your team around this year? RVP, Sturridge, Oscar, Bale. Walcott for me. Probable value 13, 9.5, 8.5, 11, 10 = 52 on only 5 players 🙁

With the points system as it is, and with defences decling (although Mourinho's Chelsea and Moyes' Manchester Utd may prove to buck the trend - perhaps!) and the money being better invested in atta…

Any thoughts on possible oop players for the forthcoming season?

"Luck" and do we analyse too much? A paradoxical post by all accounts - but here goes. There are a number of 'ghost teams' which score very highly. In fact, far higher than many teams that are su…

Only a passing visit but I thought I'll leave you with this question. Has the general rule of balance within your squad changed? Is the Uber defence now the way to go? Is 3-5-2 the new 3-4-3? W…

What impact does playing a summer competition have on FPL players the following season? Mata playing the Euro's & the GB Games last summer certainly had an effect on him at the start of the season…

Yesterday we asked for your worst fantasy football blunders. Today it’s bragging time as we ask you to tell us about your greatest fantasy football success stories. It could be getting a player i…

If you could give one piece of FPL advice what would it be? Mine would be: Watch as many games/ MOTD as possible

I've never been certain about West Brom assets. Who do you reckon could be a good option next season?