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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

andy85wsm
Griezmann speculation

Let's talk about Griezmann He has said that a move to Man United is rated at "6 out of 10". That's led to speculation that it all comes down to the Europa League. Win and he'll move, lose and he w…

8 years, 7 months ago26

J0E
Is Kane worth 13M+?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Kane essential in 2017/18 priced at 13m or even higher? A price hike for Harry Kane is assured after another stellar campaign. But with plenty of other p…

8 years, 7 months ago34

AA33
Top 1K Overall FFS Poster Positions

Update of FFS posters with ranks inside top 1000 (1k) rank from GWK 37 (along with some more names) Overall Rank - FFS Username 8 - Hana 12 - Ogie 15 - Billy Ketsu 22 - Gothenburgsaints 29 - Ali …

8 years, 7 months ago53

Stats Don\'t Lie
FPL Changes Wishlist

So with the season now over, I thought we could start a series of discussions to do with the new season. Today's Topic: Rule Changes What are some changes you'd like to see Introduced into next ye…

8 years, 7 months ago32

Parm
FPL Launch Date: week commencing 10 July

Counting the days... We can reveal: next season's game launches week commencing 10 July.

8 years, 7 months ago31

Somethodox
20 lessons learnt

Hi folks, By way of a memo for myself for next season I've listed out my lessons learned from this year. Thought it might be interesting to share and also hear the thoughts of the more grizzled in…

8 years, 7 months ago18

J0E
GWK 38 rough with the smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 38 rough with the smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy from GWK 38.

8 years, 7 months ago82

Piggs Boson
Hit Warning: Average Points Per Game

Average Points per Game 7.1 - Kane 6.9 - Sanchez 6.2 - Jesus 6.1 Hazard 6.0 - Eriksen 5.9 - Alli & Lukaku 5.8 - Zlatan & Mane & Alonso 5.6 - Costa 5.4 - KDB & Coutinho 5.3 - Aguero 5.1 - Ozil & Fi…

8 years, 7 months ago23

@ocprodigy
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 37 RESULTS

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 37 RESULTS The penultimate gameweek results! ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS ***** Scores on the doors; 1st - The Tinkerman (137pts) [3pt] Top 4% - FFS Scout (135pts), M…

8 years, 7 months ago0

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge - Gameweek 38

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 38 The final gameweek! IanP1970 has officially earned the crown, and well played to him! He came from way behind to a dominating lead. Second and third are still w…

8 years, 7 months ago19

J0E
GWK 38 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 38 and why?

8 years, 7 months ago39

TopMarx
Top 5 Career Hall of Fame – Gameweek 37 Review

Latest Top Five HoF article - Gameweek 37 review: Double Gameweek 37 was a tumultuous week for our Top Five career Hall of Fame (HoF) managers. FPL legend Ville Ronka is on the verge of his worst …

8 years, 7 months ago24

Mark
Koscielny Trains & is Bibbed up

Koscielny trains then, with bib theory indicating he starts...scroll for a shot of him bibbed up http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20170520/arsenal-train-before-everton-match

8 years, 7 months ago21

HuttonDressedasLahm
Teams with something to play for

Teams who can't change position... SUN MID HUL EVE MAN TOT CHE Champions league potential 3-5th MCY LIV ARS The following can gain over 2 million pounds per place in the league, so could be on big …

8 years, 7 months ago4

J0E
Who will win FPL this year?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will win FPL this year? With a 33 point gap between second and third this year’s FPL looks to be a two=horse race between Uwais Ahmed (2469 points) …

8 years, 7 months ago31

Team Cruel
Eliteserien GW10 Picks

Scout Picks GW10 Lie Rolantsson - Hedenstad - Ruud Helland - Haugen - Riski - Sigurdarson Mos - Omoijuanfo - Mortensen ___ Captain Poll results Omoijuanfo 62.5 % Rolantsson 18.8 % Brochmann 6.…

8 years, 7 months ago3

Mark
Welcome Mat to FFS

Scheduled that while on the bus so couldn't post. I just wanted to publicly welcome Mat to the team. Already, after just a couple of weeks I can see the enthusiasm and passion from Mat that's goi…

8 years, 7 months ago18

liiusions
Highest GW score before doubling or tripling?

Anyone know what the highest score from a player in a GW is?

8 years, 7 months ago36

AA33
High-flying posters

Some posters here who are in the top 1000 (1k) Overall Rank - FFS username 7 - Billy Ketsu 11 - Ali Dia 17 - Ogie 39 - Hana 45 - Gothenburgsaints 51 - Pukka 57 - pitstop1 77 - Kurtinho 117 - Hakc…

8 years, 7 months ago51

J0E
GWK 37 Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 38 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear about your tales of woe and joy here.

8 years, 7 months ago109

TorresMagic™
Hakchak wins LMS Competition

Congratulations to Hakchak for winning Last Man Standing beating 3385 others. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19J-eCIdjdktdZMDhbv0tfBBED6CzyZhjV0dk4xOXXpE/pubhtml?gid=1225343660&single=true…

8 years, 7 months ago27

J0E
Fantasy Gameweek 38 wildcard

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 38 Wildcard As was well documented last week Spencer spectacularly messed up his wildcard by taking a 40 pt hit and forgetting to press the button…

8 years, 7 months ago21

J0E
Scoutcasters transfer and captain moves

Scoutcast captaincy and transfer moves With the beach in sight we didn’t find time on last night’s Scoutcast to run through our captaincy and transfer plans. Here’s what we would have said…

8 years, 7 months ago28

J0E
Home Comforts in Gameweek 38

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Home Comforts in Gameweek 38. Gameweek 38 historically has an above average number of goals. But as discussed on last night’s Scoutcast this is particul…

8 years, 7 months ago16

Celt Abroad
Lessons learnt

What are folks key lessons learned this season? For me, my worst ever season, three big mistakes: 1. Concentrating too much on earning value in the first half of the season. Combined with rapidly…

8 years, 7 months ago70

Team Cruel
Eliteserien Picks GW9

Scout Picks GW9 Linde Hedenstad - Rolantsson - Ruud - Lundstrom Zahid - Haugen - Svendsen - Jevtovic - Braaten Sigurdarson ___ Captain Poll results Rolantsson 40 % Sigurdarson 30 % Bendtner 1…

8 years, 7 months ago9

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm or thereabouts. Feel free to leave your questions here

8 years, 7 months ago122

Pieterke30
What to do with Hazard?

What to do with Hazard?... Heavily discussed on here so I think it should be a HT.

8 years, 7 months ago37

Crystal Ball
Reward the CEntral Mids

Started this as a reply to Tupper Hazard's point about defensive mids and potentially having a different class of player for them. The issue for me is choice- central mids make up one of the large…

8 years, 7 months ago48

J0E
Last Chance in 2016/17 to be a Picks Champion

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 38 For the last 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 …

8 years, 7 months ago10

J0E
GWK 38 Differential Captaincy Options

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 38 Captaincy Differentials Gameweek 38 is often a goal fest and can also be a golden chance to take a risk with the armband. With mini-league or rank…

8 years, 7 months ago31

Abel Xavier
Gw 38... Goals goals goals!

If we know anything about GW38 history, it's goals, goals, goals. I've had a look at the last 5 years. Average goals per game for that season, and the same for GW38 2015-2016 Season Average 2.84…

8 years, 7 months ago31

J0E
Is the bench boost best used earlier?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is the Bench Boost best used away from end of season double Gameweeks? For the second season in a row the bench boost chip, when used during an end of seaso…

8 years, 7 months ago103

tm245
Measuring Bench Boost

Not sure measuring Bench Boost simply by your four designated bench players is the most accurate. I think for many the chip gave us the security to build a fifteen man squad for this DGW, which in…

8 years, 7 months ago24

J0E
Season run in ambitions

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are your realistic ambitions for this season? Is a first top 10k position in your grasp? Are you leading or chasing a mini league?

8 years, 7 months ago117

Team Cruel
Eliteserien GWK 8 Picks

Scout Picks GW8 Rossbach Hedenstad - Rolantsson - Rosted Haugen - Midtsjø - Adegbenro - Lund Nielsen Bendtner - Mos - Lindberg ___ Captain Poll results Mortensen 33.3 % Lindberg 22.2 % Mos 22.2…

8 years, 7 months ago2

J0E
GWK 37 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who is your captain choice for DGWK 37 and why?

8 years, 7 months ago54

@ocprodigy
Scout picks challenge gw35 results

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35 RESULTS Tick tock tick tock... getting to the business end! ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS ***** Scores on the doors; 1st - IanP1970 (59pts) [3pts] Top 4% - Mince n …

8 years, 7 months ago2

@ocprodigy
Scout picks challenge gw37

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 37 Results coming today and tomorrow for GW35 and GW36. Having a few issues calculating GW35 scores... ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't bee…

8 years, 7 months ago21

ChelseaGuy
The case for Sterling

The Case for Sterling over Sane City has arguably one of the best fixtures this GW, making City assets a priority. KDB and Jesus are the main lure, but for those looking for budget friendlier opti…

8 years, 7 months ago13

J0E
GWK 36 Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 36 Rough with the Smooth feel free to share your tales or woe and joy here. Particularly keen to hear from any of the 100 club.

8 years, 7 months ago103

andy85wsm
Sanchez re-think?

Alexis Sanchez. A lot of people were looking away from captaining Sanchez, and perhaps even looking at transferring him out of our teams. Has the goal and 3 BPs made you re-think? Have you (like …

8 years, 7 months ago66

A.T
The Top 10K is dominated by newbies

82% of the top 10k have never finished there before. That surprises me. Not sure if that is normal is it?

8 years, 7 months ago43

J0E
Gameweek 37's best differential

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be GWK 37's best differential? Will it be a double gameweek player? Or will a single gameweek emerge as the best?

8 years, 7 months ago53

andy85wsm
End of season differentials

Taken from FPL Discovery. These stats are for GW36 so it's likely they'll increase % for GW37 but still....some potential differentials for your team going by top 10k ownership De Bruyne - 2.2% Wi…

8 years, 7 months ago26

HuttonDressedasLahm
When will Chelsea rotate?

Even if Chelsea wrap up the league v West Brom, surely the big guns still play in front of home crowd v Watford to celebrate the win? Rotation in 38 only

8 years, 7 months ago45

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 37

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 37 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you…

8 years, 7 months ago6

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm. Feel free to leave your questions here

8 years, 7 months ago84

@chapellefpl OR 577TH
There is no beach, only football.

Btw this 'on the beach ' term which keeps getting thrown about is nonsense imo. Supposedly Southampton were one of those teams. Did you watch the game tonight? Passion from all the players playing …

8 years, 7 months ago37

J0E
Why ignore GK (c) for DGWKs?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Why aren’t we captaining a goalkeeper every double Gameweek. GWK 27 Grant emerged with 13 points, while triple Captaincy favourite Aguero got 9 GWK 34…

8 years, 7 months ago60