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J0E
Mini-Leagues' best prizes and worst forfeits

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What impressive or unusual prizes have you won in your mini-leagues? What has been the worst forfeits? (Anyone worse that Genius' mini league forfeit of a …

9 years, 3 months ago 20

⚔★Vibudh★⚔
We're on the hunt for saboteurs

Has anybody ever had their team sabotaged by a competitive friend/foe. Have you yourself ever been so angry with a fellow player that you have sabotaged their team and made 150 transfers? I only as…

9 years, 3 months ago 22

Dugout
FPL Chip Scores - The Results

Thanks for all the responses. Here are my findings: - firstly it's important to acknowledge what several people have said - the BB chip and very hard to evaluate because most of us played it strai…

9 years, 3 months ago 0

Piggs Boson
Bang for your buck - points and cash analysis

Did a quick analysis of PpG over the season. Below I've said how many players are above 5.0 PpG, and then listed the top 3. I've also given my take on the stats. . Goalkeepers: Zero above 5.0 - Hi…

9 years, 3 months ago 28

J0E
Your favourite 16/17 defenders

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who have been your favourite three defenders this season and why?

9 years, 3 months ago 44

⚔★Vibudh★⚔
Chelsea's best players

Lets do this for every PL club starting with Chelsea : Who do you think is Chelsea's 1)Best Player 2)Player of the Season 3)Most underrated player 4)Most overrated player 5)Your Favourite player fr…

9 years, 3 months ago 59

Dugout
Points gained from chips

Hi, has anyone done any work on average points gained for each chip? If you reply here with your "Chip points gained", I'll work out the average...

9 years, 3 months ago 95

Team Cruel
Psychic cow

Manchester United will LOSE Europa League final to Ajax… according to a psychic Dutch cow. A COW famous in Holland for predicting the outcome of football matches has had its say on the Europa Le…

9 years, 3 months ago 54

FPL Virgin
What can improve FPL next year?

3 Suggestions for FPL Next Season - My Two Pence 1) Double Clean Sheet Chip This could replace AOA which people slate and then say they find useful. Simply put, when this chip is played, your s…

9 years, 3 months ago 53

J0E
Best keepers 2016/17

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who were your best two goalkeepers in 2016/17? And next season will you be opting for a cheap goalkeeper rotation or going for a regular starting expensive…

9 years, 3 months ago 20

Samwise the Brave
How to pick a solid defence

Hey All Now the season is over I am looking for some general advice How do people pick solid defenses? Every season I have the same issue, I just cannot get the defense right, regularly getting 0…

9 years, 3 months ago 32

TopMarx
How Will Wembley Affect Spurs?

re-post from previous page - Spurs record at Wembley since 2015: Loss vs Chelsea (0-2), 2015 EFL Cup final (Kane 0 goals, 90min) Loss vs Monaco (1-2), 2016 CL (Kane no goals, 90min) Loss vs Bayer …

9 years, 3 months ago 9

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…

9 years, 3 months ago 26

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…

9 years, 3 months ago 34

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 …

9 years, 3 months ago 53

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…

9 years, 3 months ago 32

Parm
FPL Launch Date: week commencing 10 July

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

9 years, 3 months ago 31

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…

9 years, 3 months ago 18

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.

9 years, 3 months ago 82

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…

9 years, 3 months ago 23

@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…

9 years, 3 months ago 0

@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…

9 years, 3 months ago 19

J0E
GWK 38 Captaincy

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

9 years, 3 months ago 39

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 …

9 years, 3 months ago 24

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

9 years, 3 months ago 21

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 …

9 years, 3 months ago 4

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) …

9 years, 3 months ago 31

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.…

9 years, 3 months ago 3

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…

9 years, 3 months ago 18

liiusions
Highest GW score before doubling or tripling?

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

9 years, 3 months ago 36

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…

9 years, 3 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.

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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

9 years, 3 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.

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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 …

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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?

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 months ago 2

J0E
GWK 37 Captaincy

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

9 years, 3 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 …

9 years, 3 months ago 2