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Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What is a Fantasy Island Risk? We are looking for your help to define a Fantasy Island Risk, for this element of the Scoutcast - where we select a player t…

Why is everyone about Stephens over Yoshida now?

Tip of the day... Dont get caught up in pre-season hype with unknown premier leagues quantites. Who remembers Boselli ???

Thought I'd provide everyone with my thoughts regarding the Super Cup, specifically in relation to United players and how they will fair in our fantasy teams: De Gea - The Spanish shot-stopper can…

Big apologies to Prokoptas. Meant to get this up before the Cast and completely forgot as I went on air. Rest assured, I will leave this up to mid-morning. A fine debut. Welcome to the team Pr…

Here're some (updated) stats for you: FF Scout template team / most selected players (sample = 50 RMT's from the last article): Elliot (84%) - Foster (54%) Cedric (44%) - Kolasinac (36%) - Mee (3…

Just wondering if a mod can make this a HT. So over preseason, I've been following each team, and putting together a preseason "press conference" essentially, taking everything managers have said …

First Live Scoutcast of the season - 9:30 tonight. Feel free to leave your questions for the team here.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are any of the midprice forwards worth getting? With many failing to impress last season would it be better just to get a cheap non playing 4.5 striker and …

It is actually intriguing to see that Carroll at 4.5 isn't being considered as a 4th mid option by many, if only fpl had priced him at 5 or 5.5 he would have been a 4th choice mid for lots of teams

Who are people looking at when it comes to £5.5m mids? This would be for a 4th midfield spot. Have you got your eye on someone to start with a view to being able to change? Is Tom Carroll actual…

Scott Dann anyone? I need someone to share the love with. 5.0M, huge goal threat (9G in last two seasons, missed half a season(!)), presumably nailed on with jersey nr. 6 and Palace moving to 3 cen…

It's that time again to vote for your favourite community writer of the past month. All you have to do is mention the name of the author who was your favourite for July in the comment section of …

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 1 For the first time this season we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance o…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Did the Community Shield alter your thinking, given that both sides look out of sorts with key players missing through injury or summer fatigue? What now fo…

http://www.gravatar.com you fellas with no picture on your name, do yourself a favour, go to this site, spend 4 mins making an account for free and volia! You have a bit of personality, ppl are rep…

I got to thinking about a previous post on points per match and I decided to break it down into points per 90 minutes played. Here are the results of some of the top players from last year and mos…

Hello everyone! My final pre-season review is aimed at the newly promoted team Brighton & Hove Albion. Their opponents arrive at Amex Stadium after winning the Audi Cup championship by beating Nap…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic All Saints Day Saturday sorted out a few issues for those shopping for Southampton assets ahead of their very kind early run of games (SWA, WHU, hud, WAT,c…

I think we sometimes try to be too clever for our own good around here, last year I played it safe and sensible and improved from top 200k (crap) to top 19k. Here's some things which helped me. 1…

Good afternoon everyone! The match that I bring you today is between Crystal Palace and Schalke 04. Again, feel free to ask any questions you may have or to give your opinion. The point is of this …

Scout Picks GW18 Rossbach Ruud - Hedenstad - Remmer Andersen - Adegbenro - Brochmann - Zahid Ohi - Vilhjalmson - Mortensen (Had to make a decision on fourth mid as only three mids were picked m…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Will Leicester out fox us? Last season was dire for Leicester, as they struggled to stay in the Premier League, let alone retain their title. As a re…

The weekend fixtures Saturday Burnley v Hannover 3pm Crystal Palace v Schalke 3pm Southampton v Sevilla 3pm Watford v Real Sociedad 3pm Stoke v Leipzig 4:45pm Liverpool v Athletic Bilbao 5:15pm Sw…

Its unbelievable how many people are undermining the value of Kane compared to Alli and Eriksen because of the 3m difference in price and only looking at his overall points scored compared to them …

Hello everyone! Today I bring you another small analysis of a game that many of you may have missed. I'm talking about Torino - Huddersfield. Once again feel free to ask any questions you may have …

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Will Sanchez be in your GWK 1 squad? The transfer silly season has perhaps reached its peak when it comes to Alexis Sanchez. With just one year left on his contract and rumours that he wants a m…

Let's get a little debate going: Has pre-season showings so far shown that Manchester United are worth doubling up on in attack? Is one asset enough? Is Lukaku even essential? Are you considering …

Mane is absolutely the pick of the lot in LIV midfield and worth the premium at 9.5 for me. Don't know why he isnt being picked in more teams. He lives for goals and was the guy at the end of most …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The theory you think will come true in 2017/18 is.... I love a good theory - Kane can't score without Dembele, West Brom can't score on a Monday and so on.…

Bournemouth are stacked attacking wise. I've just spent the past hour researching their pre-season form, quotes from Eddie Howe, and how they finished the end of last season. Defence A.Smith/Fran…

Hello everyone! I just saw the match between Wolfsburg and Newcastle and I would like to share with you my thoughts about it. Coach Rafael Benítez has launched a team in a 4-4-1-1 system, with go…

Here're some stats for you: FF Scout template team / most selected players (sample = 60 RMT's from Jonty's "Rate My Team Surgery" article): Foster (68%) / Elliot (67%) Trippier (73%) - Daniels (3…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Salah’s pre-season form too good to ignore Salah’s strike against Bayern last night was his fourth of Liverpool’s pre-season campaign. Clearly …

In my effort to find the cheapest possible defensive unit (in a 3 at the back formation) I've come up with this rotation scheme for the first 7 gws. I plan to use my WC over the 2nd international b…

not spending time on this to be bottomed out! Choose a team. Choose a 4.0 keeper. Choose some bench fodder. Choose an OOP defender, Choose a f*****g big lad up top Choose wingers, wingbacks, Compa…

I see a question being asked quite regularly on here is that how will the signing of Matic impact Pogba. The common perception is that this will free up Pogba as an attacking option as he can play …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your top punt for FPL Already our first RMT surgery article has created a number of talking points. Who is the best third striker? Which 4.5 midfielder is …

I'm trying to summarize all the trending Hot Topics over the last week to distill the best/most controversial advice FFS has had to offer so far. Here are my takeaways : - This is the season of Wi…

Penned some thoughts while waiting to download the new episode from Winterfell. All these doom and gloom hot topics about what if you don't get our essential englishman. Ya he's a great pick but le…

Anybody formed a counter argument to the don't get West Brom defenders? Do we all really hunk they'll do that bad? Who's going without any?

Can't wait to hear how spending £40-50m on a 29 year old will make an £89m midfielder play good.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic City v Kane When the FPL player list was revealed Kane was, for many, the first name on their team sheet. But with Spurs patchy form in pre-season and Kan…

Is this season going to end with everyone playing 5 at the back. The no. of options at attacking wing backs at top teams has never happened before. Arsenal and Chelsea look set to play with wingbac…

Are you also contemplating starting the season without Kane? Assuming : - a lot of us are building a team for 4 to 7 gameweeks at most (GW4 and GW7 are international breaks), - most of us want Spu…

Being as Doosra has him,..My thoughts... The captain pick in this game is by far the biggest consideration. The two best in the game are Sanchez and Kane who just happen to rotate Home and away pe…

Sorting the pre-season wheat from the chaff, this is a cautionary tale from last season. On the eve of the 2016/17 season, the Telegraph highlighted 10 stars of pre-season. Here's the who's who and…

Premium mids - maybe only one is needed? We can almost declare only two are needed, and maybe even just one. Sanchez - great player great returns - but 12.0, not playing forward anymore with lacc…

Alli vs Kane Spurs first off are generally quite slow off the mark - proven again with their preseason performances so far, leading Pochettino to admit they are a bit behind in preparations for th…