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| Author | Hot Topic | Date | Replies |
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 J0E | Gameweek 15 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 44 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - Gameweek 15 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 15 Gameweek 14 results tomorrow, sorry! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the start of t… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 45 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | CLEAN SHEETS - GAMEWEEK 15 What the clean sheets are saying - Gameweek 15 So this list is made up from the form and fixtures elements from the captaincy article: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2016/12/08/what-the-fix… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 19 |
 andy85wsm | Is it time to ship Charlie Austin and who for? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Charlie Austin is the talk of the town right now and seems to have been ruled out for Middlesbrough at home by Puel. Given that he has a history of shoulder… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 66 |
 Arteta | Friday press conferences Today's press conferences Stoke - 8:30 Bournemouth, Hull, Crystal Palace, West Brom, Sunderland - 9:00 West Ham - 10:00 Southampton - 11:00 Tottenham, Middlesbrough - 12:30 Chelsea, Liverpool - 13… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 5 |
 Burton | Price changes are part of the game - get over it! Just listened to the podcast, and am genuinely shocked at this bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFyemb97K4&t=50m35s The scouts, it turns out, fundamentally misunderstand the game they've bee… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 124 |
J0E | Spurs assets at the double Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Spurs midfielders are still only owned by a small number of FPL managers, with not a single one managing to breach the 10% ownership mark. Are the majorit… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 49 |
Arteta | Thursday's pressers Today's press conferences Arsenal - 9:00 Burnley - 13:00 Swansea - 13:15 Everton - 14:00 Leicester - 16:00 | 9 years, 3 months ago | 6 |
 TokyoRisingSun | Christmas Carroll Risks I see lots of talk about getting Andy Carroll in for December. This is a man who has only played about 38 games in 3 years for WH. No chance he makes it through December unscathed. It's an unnecess… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 7 |
 Geoff | The power of market forces Just listened to the Scoutcast and I think they have it a bit wrong on the price rises. The market does seem more volatile but Jonty saying that price rises have 'become the game, not part of the … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
 That Was Easy! | Captaincy decisions: attack v defence How much weight do you give to the defensive strength of the team against your captain vs. the strength of the captain's attacking potential? Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are turning teams over,… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
 Dino | Is Sanchez overachieving? Sanchez has 7 shots in the box, 6 on target in total and 5 goals over the last 4 gws. Considering one of these was clearly offside and he has benefitted from some shall we say dubious goalkeeping i… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 101 |
J0E | Why ignore KDB and Iheanacho? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Why ignore KDB and Iheanacho? Given both excelled the last time Sergio Aguero was absent from the City side through suspension are we in danger of overlooki… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 64 |
 ktk_interista | KDB: Buyers Beware Be warned if you are buying KDB now. I am not questioning his ability, he is world class. However, we have to differentiate between City from GW1-6 and City starting GW 7 (the Spurs loss). Every si… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 28 |
 makaveli123 | Current rank milestones Rank and points: 1: 938 1k: 850 10k: 813 20k: 800 50k: 780 100k: 763 500k: 710 | 9 years, 3 months ago | 5 |
 uptheboro | Up the Boro Who wants a Boro Update? Of course you do! To the lucky few who will have seen Boro last night, you will have been treated to a passing masterclass...evidence that we can adapt our game according… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 32 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast - Wed 9pm - Leave Your Questions for the team here Live Scoutcast - Wed 9pm - Leave Your Questions for the team here. Change of day and time this week so be sure to tune in tomorrow night at 9pm. Granville can't make it due to political commitm… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 124 |
J0E | Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 14 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth Leave your tales of joy and woe from GWK 14 here. Sanchez captainers be gentle with the rest of us. 😉 Remember its what you did… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 103 |
 Hands Guber | Excessive Price Changes Are Ruining FPL So with the frequency and frankly ridiculous sensitivity of price this year the rash and reactionary managers are being rewarded. Was waiting to ensure Sanchez didn't get injured midweek but now I… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 46 |
 1 | Christmas Rotation Comes Early This Year Have seen Christmas rotation being very much dismissed on FFS lately due to the article below.This should not be the case. https://mathematicallysafe.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/fixture-congestion-is… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Scout Picks Lottery - GWK 15 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 15 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 | 1 |
J0E | Your Magnificent Seven Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who are in your magnficent seven? In this template less season even the demise for four matches of Sergio Aguero somehow conspires to bring in even more op… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 93 |
andy85wsm | Can He Be a 4th Midfielder? Talk to me about Can.... Is he really an option? At £4.8m is he just going to cause problems later on when it comes to upgrading? Moses any good? Philips still an option even with fixtures? Som… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 23 |
J0E | Aguero Ban Shock Waves Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero Ban Shockwaves A lot has been mentioned already about the best Aguero replacements. For most it will be an easy move to get in which ever of Kane, C… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 113 |
 Horizontal | Climbing the ranks This post is to encourage people who've had a terrible start to this season not to give up all hope. I know that I'm no longer a regular in the DZ but wanted to revel in the very temporary glory of… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 35 |
Geoff | Gwk 14 fall out - the pressing issues How about a 'Pressing Issues' Hot Topic? There look to be some close decisions on some important players. In some cases both mentioned players are may be worth having, but for the purpose of this … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 20 |
 Ibracadabra | The case for Iheanacho The case for Iheanacho. A bit long, but believe he could be great value with these 3 points: 1) Aguero is suspended 4 matches, not the traditional 3 for a red card as this is his second RC of th… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 13 |
ktk_interista | Is Sanchez now essential? Is Sanchez the most essential player in FPL this season? Arsenal look better than ever and capable of winning big and grinding out results as well. Sanchez playing as a CF and in great form. He is… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 52 |
 The Fantastic Mr Fox | Happy Birthday Mark Going by TM's post.. Happy B'day Marky Mark And may the trend of scoring goals on your bday continue for you as well | 9 years, 3 months ago | 43 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 14 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 14 GW13 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/14547955 ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 45 |
Your Mum's Athletic | Clean Sheets - Gameweek 14 Clean Sheet Analysis - GW14 - takes into form/fixture/odds of keeping a clean sheet 1. Middlesborough 2. Stoke 3. Man United 4. Liverpool 5. West Brom 6. Tottenham 7. Southampton 8. Arsenal 9. Lei… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 48 |
J0E | Gameweek 14's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 14's best differential and why? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
 Pacer. | Hits, Rank and Motivation Interesting to hear Jonty saying what he said on the scoutcast about taking hits and taking chances I found the last 3 years that despite getting better at FPL (I worked my way up a fairly competi… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 68 |
J0E | Ibra or not to Ibra Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Ibra or not to Ibra? With two more goals Ibra is getting hard to ignore. But we've been there before. A strong set of early games was ruined by a six game b… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 41 |
 FPL Virgin | Scoutcast Yays, Nays and Maybes I'm a big fan of the scoutcast, but does anyone else find it frustrating that they rarely give a straight yes-or-no answer to the community questions. Jonty brilliantly spotted the prevailing them… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 79 |
 Chicken-Mandy | Can Walcott 'Cover' Sanchez After last nights scoutcast thought I would look into whether having Walcott can effectively 'cover' Sanchez: These are Sanchez's returns and then Walcott's GW1: 2 - 5 GW2: 3 - 3 GW3: 16 - 5 GW4:… | 9 years, 4 months ago | 45 |
 Mark | Latest Site Update The Captain Poll is now added to the mobile/tablet view under the Recent Comments in the slide-in sidebar (first button). We've also added the vote count to comments on mobile/tablet. | 9 years, 4 months ago | 12 |
J0E | Club Loyalty v Fantasy Loyalty Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How Does Club Loyalty Influence Your Fantasy Football Decisions Are you a fan of a Premier League side, either current or past and has that influenced your … | 9 years, 4 months ago | 36 |
 Jafooli | Clash of the heavyweights - Sanchez v Hazard Who is more important to have for next 4-5 GWs - Sanchez or Hazard (already have Costa)? Cannot have both unfortunately...... | 9 years, 4 months ago | 42 |
 The Bandit | Bench Boost - Best To Wait For A Double? I'd be interested to hear peoples opinions and experiences of playing the Bench Boost chip during a double game week. I only played UFPL last season so haven't used one before. It seems to be the … | 9 years, 4 months ago | 60 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight (9:45pm) - Leave your questions here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight (9:45pm) - leave your questions for the team here. | 9 years, 4 months ago | 99 |
 Differentiator | Bargain Swan Fer You Fer may well be enough for 2.3m cheaper... Had some discussion on this a bit earlier: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2016/11/28/this-much-we-know-gameweek-13-4/?hc_page=8#hc_comment_145313… | 9 years, 4 months ago | 10 |
 tm245 | Top Managers Captaincy Scores Just checking out FPLDiscovery stats and at the end of each gameweek he shows what the average captaincy scores are for that week's top 10K as well as overall. Just ran some numbers to see how I f… | 9 years, 4 months ago | 41 |
 Lateriser 12 | Turning Around GB's Team Just thought this should go here. The Giggs Boson Story. About GW7, we got news from a regular around these parts (The Fantasy Football Freak) that Giggs Boson was not keeping too well. He menti… | 9 years, 4 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 14 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 14 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 | 0 |
J0E | Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 13 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 13 Rough with the Smooth Let's have your best tales of woe and joy here. Best will be read out on the Scoutcast. Remember its what you did do not … | 9 years, 4 months ago | 131 |
J0E | Coutinho replacement candidates Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Coutinho replacements. He's the most popular midfielder in FPL but it looks like Philippe Coutinho is set for a spell on the sidelines. We don't know the… | 9 years, 4 months ago | 61 |
 Exeter Gently | A Physio On Coutinho Injury my two cents on the coutinho injury as a physio, and owner. i know others have taken it upon themselves to qualify the nature and degree of this setback, so here is what i believe in a few short p… | 9 years, 4 months ago | 12 |
J0E | Gwk 13 captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining the Gameweek and why? | 9 years, 4 months ago | 41 |
@ocprodigy | Scoutpicks Challenge - GW13 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 12 GW11 results tomorrow, apologies. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the start of the … | 9 years, 4 months ago | 32 |