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@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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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.

9 years, 3 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 …

9 years, 3 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?

9 years, 3 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?

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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

9 years, 3 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 …

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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 …

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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?

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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!

9 years, 3 months ago 54

J0E
Gameweek 36 captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this gameweek and why?

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 3 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…

9 years, 4 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?

9 years, 4 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…

9 years, 4 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…

9 years, 4 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…

9 years, 4 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.

9 years, 4 months ago 112

J0E
GWK 35 Rough with the Smooth

GWK 35 Rough with the Smooth Let's her your tales of woe and joy here. Also be good to see if we can find a record breaker bench points score - lots floating around this week.

9 years, 4 months ago 109

J0E
GWK 36 Scout Picks Lottery

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 36 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…

9 years, 4 months ago 3

andy85wsm
Rate my wildcard team

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic: Rate my wildcard team With GW35 almost over we start turning our attention to GW36. With a lot of wildcards now in play lets have a look at your early wildc…

9 years, 4 months ago 146

andy85wsm
"On the beach"

Fantasy Football Scout; Daily Hot Topic With Southampton disappointing yesterday, at least from an attacking sense is it time to start re-thinking their assets such as Gabbiadini? With very littl…

9 years, 4 months ago 35

Steager
Is gwk 36 better for bench boosting?

Am I missing something? Why is everyone using BB in 37 and NOT 36? Would give you much more options for TC in 37. I have SWP, Yoshida, Monreal, Jaku. For 36, they all have doubles except Jaku, but …

9 years, 4 months ago 16

Team Cruel
Gwk 6 Eliteserien Picks

Scout Picks GW6 Janukiewicz Ruud - Rolantsson - Reginiussen - Gregersen Helland - Sander Svendsen - Riski Mos - Tagbajumi - Omoijuanfo ___ Captain Poll results Omoijuanfo 89 % Sander Svendsen 11…

9 years, 4 months ago 4

J0E
Gwk 35 captaincy

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

9 years, 4 months ago 65

diesel001
GW35 stats preview

GW35 Stats Preview Southampton have picked up 17pts from a possible 24pts at home against teams in the Bottom 10. Hull have the second worst away record in the PL picking up only 5pts from a possi…

9 years, 4 months ago 5

@ocprodigy
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35 GW32 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/15554068 I will catch up I promise. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been ar…

9 years, 4 months ago 24

Twisted Saltergater
Hot shots member table

Along the Big Numbers theme, I've created a "Hot Shots" table showcasing the best attacking threats. http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/17261/ Filters are: 1 in 3 sho…

9 years, 4 months ago 7

J0E
Gwk 34 rough with the smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 34 Rough with the Smooth Time to brag or take the walk of shame regarding the latest double Gameweek.

9 years, 4 months ago 85

Bedknobs and Boomsticks
Sanchez's poor form exposed

I've just been crunching some numbers on Sanchez by running the comparison tool of his performance over the last 6 weeks vs his performance over previous 6 week periods. The results are pretty gr…

9 years, 4 months ago 30

J0E
Is Sanchez double trouble?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic As the article states - Sticking or twisting on Sanchez looks like being one of the biggest decisions as we prepare for our crucial final Wildcard of the sea…

9 years, 4 months ago 46

dhamphiir
Thursday's press conferences

Bottom of the page Today's club Press conference 10:00 West Ham United 10:30 Crystal Palace 12:00 Southampton 13:00 Hull City, Swansea City 13:15 Burnley 15:00 Watford

9 years, 4 months ago 4

AA33
Three at the back for ManU?

Mourinho was playing with 3 centre -backs until Jones and Smalling got injured. Do we think he will revert back to that formation when Jones and Smalling are back? I think yes. They are expected to…

9 years, 4 months ago 11

J0E
Best wildcard enabler

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best wildcard enabler in midfield or attack With wildcards fluttering wildly over the next two weeks who are you considering as a cheap enabler?

9 years, 4 months ago 46

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 35

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 35 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…

9 years, 4 months ago 3

J0E
Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm. Leave your questions here.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm Leave your questions for the team here.

9 years, 4 months ago 120

Pep says
The highs and lows of FPL

What's been your lowest rank all season and where are you now? I was 850k after GW9 and am now 55k. Slow and steady climbs up to this point..

9 years, 4 months ago 155

Hasselbaink Forever
Today's Press Conferences

Tuesday's pressers - 09:00 - Arsenal 12:30 - Spurs 13:30 - Middlesbrough 13:30 - Sunderland 14:30 - Crystal Palace

9 years, 4 months ago 3