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 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, 10 months ago | 51 |
 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, 10 months ago | 109 |
 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, 10 months ago | 27 |
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, 10 months ago | 21 |
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, 10 months ago | 28 |
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, 10 months ago | 16 |
 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, 10 months ago | 70 |
 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, 10 months ago | 9 |
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, 10 months ago | 122 |
 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, 10 months ago | 37 |
 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, 10 months ago | 48 |
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, 10 months ago | 10 |
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, 10 months ago | 31 |
 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, 10 months ago | 31 |
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, 10 months ago | 103 |
 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, 10 months ago | 24 |
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, 10 months ago | 117 |
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, 10 months ago | 2 |
J0E | GWK 37 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who is your captain choice for DGWK 37 and why? | 8 years, 10 months ago | 54 |
 @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, 10 months ago | 2 |
@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, 10 months ago | 21 |
 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, 10 months ago | 13 |
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, 10 months ago | 103 |
 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, 10 months ago | 66 |
 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, 10 months ago | 43 |
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, 10 months ago | 53 |
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, 10 months ago | 26 |
 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, 10 months ago | 45 |
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, 10 months ago | 6 |
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, 10 months ago | 84 |
 @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, 10 months ago | 37 |
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, 10 months ago | 60 |
J0E | Wildcard regrets and GWK 37 changes Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Wildcard fall out - early days but what move/moves are wildcarders pencilling in for GWK 37? Anyone considering a hit to ditch a Chelsea asset ahead of pote… | 8 years, 10 months ago | 69 |
 Parm | Goal Scoring Mids Stats Some great goalscoring seasons from midfield this year, here's an explanation on how they happened by using xG and chances created maps, which explain a fair bit. Eden Hazard has scored at more th… | 8 years, 10 months ago | 30 |
Team Cruel | Eliteserien GW7 Picks Scout Picks GW7 Hansen Hedenstad - Stølås - Ryerson Sander Svendsen - Adegbenro - Riski - Åsen Bendtner - Sigurdarson - Mortensen ___ Captain Poll results Adegbenro 40 % Sigurdarson 30 % Stø… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 10 |
 THE REAL RON ⚽ | Can we count on Conte to not rotaté? The Chelsea Rotation Question Personally, I don't see Spurs rotating too heavily. Poch won't want another season to fizzle out like the last one. But Chelsea? Yes, maybe. The FA Cup Final to come … | 8 years, 11 months ago | 30 |
J0E | The Genuine Double Gameweekers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The genuine Double Gameweek 37 squad With Spurs cave in last night the title could be wrapped up within Gameweek 37. This could mean Chelsea opt to rest pla… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 45 |
 FPL Virgin | Time to dump Chelsea and Spurs players? How many Spurs and Chelsea players do you own in total? I own 3 (Hazard, Alonso and Kane). What's the plan? Are you taking hits to ship them out? | 8 years, 11 months ago | 42 |
@ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge gw36 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 36 *** APOLOGIES - I DIDN'T REALISE THERE WAS A GAME ON TONIGHT *** Please do not pick any Spurs and West Ham players - they'll score zero. GW33 results: http://w… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 11 |
@ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge gw34 results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 34 RESULTS Apologies for Gw36 - I will open it straight after this. I didn't realise there was a game on tonight. Of course Spurs and West Ham players are ***EXCLU… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 0 |
 Spencer | Wildcard blunder of the week Balls! I forgot to press the wildcard button! -40 and with Anichebe captain. What a way to start the game week! Thanks for the reminder Jake Donahue, just a bit too late! | 8 years, 11 months ago | 54 |
J0E | Gameweek 36 captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this gameweek and why? | 8 years, 11 months ago | 75 |
 rainy | Why Wenger has to play Sanchez up front. An hot topic last week by Bedknobs and Boomsticks got me thinking, and I had a look at Sanchez' double-figure FPL returns this season with reference to his playing position and Giroud's presence on… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 12 |
 BigManBakar | Time to go Eriksen over Alli? I think quite a few WC'ers on here are missing a trick by picking Alli over Eriksen to double up with Kane. Over the past four gameweeks, Eriksen has created nearly triple the amount of chances tha… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 47 |
J0E | GWK 36's best differential will be... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic We struggled on the scoutcast to come up with some credible fantasy island risks this week.....but can you do any better? Who do you think is the best fanta… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 53 |
 d1sable | Sky Sports FF - Average remaining transfers Sky Fantasy Football Average remaining transfers: Top 10 - 1.30 Top 100 - 1.37 Top 1000 - 1.90 Top 5000 - 1.93 Good news? | 8 years, 11 months ago | 6 |
 Enzo the Baker | Why not double up on Arsenal mids? The case for a double up with Mesut Ozil I think we're being driven too much by emotions and not by experience / statistics while avoiding Ozil. This is evident because the two algorithms to pick… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 46 |
J0E | Wildcard Algorithm Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Wildcard/Double Gameweek Algorithm As discussed on last night’s Scoutcast I have started to use a very basic algorithm to assess the best player prospec… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 82 |
 Az | The non-wc club - transfer plans Thought I would just make this post for any that are in my situation with no WC and are enviously looking around at all these flashy template teams knocking about. The question is: If you have no… | 8 years, 11 months ago | 56 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight Leave your questions for the team here. 9:30pm kick off. | 8 years, 11 months ago | 112 |