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 Ruth_NZ | Why have there been fewer clean sheets this season? The recent shortage of clean sheets has prompted me to have a look at what is actually going on. Is what we have seen so far this season the new normal? So what I have done is to run a comparison… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 26 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 7 COUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 7 GW6 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/14208428 ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every ev… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 58 |
 GuillermoDickero | Firmino v coutinho I've seen people quoting that Firmino's underlying stats are really good etc. However, even as an owner, when you look at Coutinho's stats and do a comparison over games this season, the only plac… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
 OPTA FPL | Aguero loves playing Spurs 🙂 .... or does he? 😯 I see lots of people keep saying Kun loves playing Spurs or Kun is a auto (C) everytime he faces Spurs? Because he scored 8 goals in 6 games vs Spurs? You dont remember that's 'old' Spurs, a dodgy… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 23 |
 J0E | Can you pass the Walcott bias test? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Theo Walcott a perfect example of how bias can influence our decisions. To some he will always be the injury prone rotation risk. While to others he is… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
 Give us a smile | Dynamic player statistic graphs Evening gents, I recently spent a bit of time scraping data from the FPL website and building a dashboard using that data in Tableau (data visualisation software). There's various stats you can c… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
 PvA | GWK 7 Captaincy Candidates - Pros and Cons CAPTAIN PICKS Ibra pros: On pens On free kicks Great fixture at Old Trafford Underlying stats speak volumes. "Due" if I've ever seen it Most likely the highest captained player overall this week … | 9 years, 6 months ago | 47 |
J0E | Best third strikers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Third strikers gathered lots of interest on last night's Scoutcast. Defoe, Deeney and Benteke were among those in the frame. Who is your preferred third st… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 42 |
 Kings of Lyon ★ | There's still hope! Back in GW8 of the 2013/14 season many of us were tempted to throw in the towel after such an awful start. For morale purposes I set up a FFS league for all of those managers outside the top 1,000,… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | The Case for Holebas...if fit. Why you should get Holebas if you don't already have him: 41% of WAT's attacks go down the left. 23% of their shots come from L (v 6% R). 1.6 shots + 0.6 key passes per game. £4.5 0.7% owners… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Is GWK 7 the week not to capt. Aguero? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is GWK 7 the week not to captain Aguero? With Ibrahimovic topping the goal attempt table and facing Stoke, with Sanchez looking to add to his impressive awa… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 33 |
 Jafalad | End the Rashford nonsense, trust in Ibra It's good to see that the DZ are not engaging in all this Rashford nonsense. Trust in Ibra we do. | 9 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
J0E | Has Ibra Got One More Game To Save His Reputation? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Zlatan overdue being ditched, or does he have one more game to save his reputation in Fantasy terms. Up against one of the Premier League's worst defenc… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 49 |
 Mark | The Liverpool Midfield - Round Six Right then, thrash out this Liverpool midfield issue. I sense we're wrong to stick with Firmino but experience already this season tells us it pays to show some faith. | 9 years, 6 months ago | 67 |
 JAC THE CAT | This king doesn't eat Swans! Wait...Aguero has not scored in 4 visits to the Liberty stadium!? Captain doubts | 9 years, 6 months ago | 34 |
 Numb | Rashford v Deeney! Pile onnnnnnn! Deeney is nailed on no matter what Rashford is nailed on this weekend, after that his involvement depends on his performances as United have many more options than Watford do Who is more likely t… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 GW5 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/14150750 ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every e… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 50 |
J0E | GWK 6 - Mark v Jonty - who will win? Mark and I are once again going head to head in FanDuel this weekend. Currently I’m winning 2-0. Will Mark prevail this week? Remember with no clean sheets for defenders and lots of points for C… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 14 |
J0E | GWK 6's Best Differential Will Be.... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 6's best differential and winner of the Nacer Chadli award for most unexpected points haul? | 9 years, 6 months ago | 77 |
 The Fantastic Mr Fox | Who's the bar steward in the black? Pens given by refs so far: Dean - 4 Madley - 3 Oliver - 3 East - 3 Taylor - 2 Clattenberg - 2 Mason - 1 Marriner - 1 Ref appointment gw6: MUN v Lei - Dean BOU v Eve - Madley LIV v Hul - Marri… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Attacking Defender Options Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scott Dann’s injury robs us of the game’s most attacking defender. For those on the search for an attacking defender who are you looking at? Are you op… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 19 |
J0E | 3-5-2 or third striker fun? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic 3-5-2 or third striker fun? Among the issues discussed on last night's scoutcast was whether, given the wealth of options in midfield, a 3-5-2 line up was h… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 30 |
 ​ | Will Capoue Continue To Collect The Points? Many people here in the Capoue + De Roon camp or Capoue + Diomande camp seem to be selectively remembering Ramsey and Yaya’s hot seasons when thinking about Capoue's hot start. Why not look to Z… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 92 |
 Smurf | Capoue - ignore the price, look at the points If Capoue was priced at 6.5m he would be a template 4th midfield pick by now, without a doubt. Regardless of his "poor stats". | 9 years, 6 months ago | 67 |
 Judas | Clean Sheets In Short Supply As clean sheets this season seem to be in short supply, I did some digging to see if this is just an illusion or if BPL defences this season really are struggling more than usual. I had a look ba… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
 Give The Todd Some Love | Watford player guide Following the excellent Boro post a few pages back, just thought I'd post some thoughts about Watford as people are actually interested in more than just our strikers for once. *Longer than I thoug… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Ibra v Sanchez Ibra v Sanchez From most of the wildcard teams and RMTs I've seen they either have Sanchez or Ibra. That seems to be the key decision many are making as having Ibra makes having Lukaku and Aguero … | 9 years, 6 months ago | 64 |
 Lyonnais | GW6 Wildcard - key questions Wildcard questions! 1. Your prefered goalkeeper pairing? 2. Who is your Everton defender of choice? 3. Capoue - 4th mid or 5th mid? 4. Keep Hazard or ditch Hazard? 5. Which Liverpool midfielde… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 41 |
J0E | Man City At The Double Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Man City at the double With an average of three goals a game and 88 goal attempts is it time to focus all our efforts on Manchester City attackers. Aguero… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Time to ditch Hazard? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Time to ditch Hazard? With two poor performances and some tricky games on the horizon is Hazard now ditchable. With many wanting Aguero back his hefty pric… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 38 |
 zizoo10 | Early kick off blunder of the week could fpl admins activate my wc for me by any chance? sitting on a 24 pt hit because i forgot to activate, had no idea there was an early fixture. finished top 1k last 2 seasons, so i'm holding hop… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 28 |
J0E | GWK 5 - Mark v Jonty - who will win? Mark v Jonty Mark and I are once again going head to head in FanDuel. So far its 1-0 to me and I’m £10 up as well after getting into the money slots thanks to a certain Belgian Everton strik… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 14 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 We are back on track with results, and ready to get kick started with gameweek 5 featuring Friday Night Football! GW3 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.c… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 53 |
 andy85wsm | Right to ignore defence? Are we ignoring defence too much or are there simply not enough clean sheets to go around? Most of the Ibra talk seems to be around downgrading to spend more money in midfield but should we be loo… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 47 |
J0E | Will The Foxes Out Fox Us? Fantasy Football Scout With all the huge hauls from the likes of Lukaku and Aguero last night proving he is essential are we in danger of forgetting all about last year's Champions - Leicester. A… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 15 |
 A.T | The curious case of Marcus Rashford Marcus Rashford looks likely to get his chance in the United starting lineup this week after Mou's comments following the Manchester derby. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/10575094/m… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 15 |
 ktk_interista | Daring to Go Aguero-less Late to the Jonty hot topic for Aguero plans so I thought I'd post my opinion as a new post. I think Mark is just haunted by his Aguero-less experiment last year that ended after just 1 GW but I se… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 55 |
J0E | Aguero Plans - Going Ibra-less or cheap in midfield? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero re hiring plans On last night's Scoutcast Mark and I put forward contrasting solutions to drafting Aguero back in and still being able to have a cred… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 72 |
 Rupert The Horse | Going Wild On Honeymoon A Honeymoon Wild Card: The squits, no hits and seeing who fits. Now for the average man or woman, if it so shall be; a marriage should be a time of wonder, joy and relaxation. A moment to savour,… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 40 |
andy85wsm | Value outside the big two? With so much current and potential value around is it time to start looking at a team without both Ibra, or Aguero or perhaps neither? Maybe it's knee jerk but there's some excellent buys out ther… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 36 |
J0E | GW 5 Captaincy - Early Thoughts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 5 captaincy choices - the most diverse yet? Who will you be captaining and is Kane actually the best bet? Home to Sunderland and Dembele back. | 9 years, 6 months ago | 44 |
Mark | Watchlist Thoughts... Morning all. Thoughts on the above. The Cazorla decision is against my better judgement as Sanchez clearly can and likely will outscore him, but the price difference, and Santi's form thus far is a… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 58 |
The Fantastic Mr Fox | Hold, don't twist The Theory of Hold. Now i know this is something which any serious FPL-er would practice, but in the early weeks when many other choices are scoring and players with seemingly less skill/effort th… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Too much choice, too little money. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Last year was arguably defined by consistent returns from cheap players such as Mahrez and Alli. Coupled with a lack of credible players from Chelsea and Ma… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 40 |
 Hyperion | Ozil vs Cazorla Had a quick look at Ozil and Cazorla's chalkboards from yesterday's game: Based on their passes received, Ozil receives the ball in more advanced positions than Cazorla, but Cazorla is more involv… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 10 |
ktk_interista | Does Santi bring Claus for concern over Ozil? After watching the Arsenal game today, I am worried as an Ozil owner. He is less involved than Cazorla who is supposedly playing the double pivot. We thought Cazorla and Ozil are sharing set-pieces… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
andy85wsm | Capoue - 4th mid? With Capoue having now scored 3 goals and gotten an assist in the opening 4 games is he worthy of the 4th mid slot, or is that too much of a risk considering it could be a major reshuffle if he get… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 34 |
 samaael | Back to School With Fantasy Football Asked my grade 6 class :''which striker under 8m should Mr Sutton get in his fantasy team?'' Decided we needed to look at data. Made some graphs on which stat best predicts goals. We made graphs on… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 4 |
J0E | GWK 4 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in gwk 4 and why? | 9 years, 6 months ago | 23 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Gameweek 3 results will be here tomorrow, apologies for the delays (out of my hands really - manual updates are time consuming and life got in the way!) GW2 res… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 52 |