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I want to register my frustration with the term "sideways move". Is Antonio > Son sideways? Is Firmino > Mane? Surely any transfer is designed to find a player that will produce more points (or m…

I have been pondering the Spurs defence for a while now and I have a few questions re which is the best option. Toby Alderweireld I always presumed Toby was the star man but looking at it close…

Captain Picks: Aguero vs Alexis - Will They Play Alexis Sanchez Alexis Sanchez's schedule now: Thu 6th Oct: Ecuador vs Chile Wed 12th Oct: Chile vs Peru Sat 15th Oct: Arsenal vs Swansea (GW8) Wed…

In your team who do you have that you consider not "following the crowd" or could be labelled a "sheep" on this site. They can be highly owned but it is picks you consider. Only one for me is Cos…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 8 and beyond frontlines. Who are the best three strikers to own for Gameweek 8 and the next six or so matches? Given that Aguero will be in most …

Hall of Fame Update News Been getting lots of enquiries about when the Hall of Fame will be updated. Firstly, huge apologies for the delay. With some technical changes taking place regarding FPL…

Costa 's overall ownership is almost 30% yet he is still a no go for many people here.The 2 reasons I see common are: 1) He is a card magnet and a suspension waiting to happen. 2) He is a bap repe…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 8 and other stories. What completely unproven, unevidenced myths do you back no matter what? With Gameweek 8 proving game changer for the last two se…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Passed their sell by date Watching England proved another example of how Rooney has passed his prime, something thankfully Jose Mourinho has noticed. He's n…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Early captaincy thoughts. Who are you captaining in Gameweek 8 and why? Will Aguero's love affair with Gameweek 8 sway you? Or do you dismiss talk of res…

Hey all - not sure the FFS Review I've been writing warrants it's own article (although correct me if I'm wrong 🙂 ) - so I might just keep tracking it but do it as a hot topic instead. That should…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Key Factor Behind Your Transfer Decisions Over in the community article section I've just written an article for Members about the goals imminent table,…

Is Kun really a straightforward captainicy pick this week? Ronald Koeman has faced Man City 4 times in his PL managerial career so far. Even though those games offered us a high number of goals (a…

Points per game is arguably the best stat out there, IMO. Always very indicative of future performances.

Son Heung-min (4 goals, 2 assists / 10.78 ppg / 5.69ppg last season): Next 4 games: wbrom (Conceded 4 in 3 at home = 1.3 goals per game) bou (Conceded 3 in 3 at home = 1 goal per game) LEI (Conc…

Ibra's first month: When the prices hit your eye like a big pizza pie, Zlat's amore. When his goal record did shine like you've had too much wine, Zlat's amore. Shots would rain in - a - lin - a -…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Bonus point magnets so far I thought I’d take a look at the bonus point stars of the season so far. I’ve gone for the top 8 as there are a fair few on…

Dear all, everyone here seems to be fear-mongering about Ibra drops - let me explain a bit how the price rises/drops work It's very easy for a player to rise above his base price as thresholds ar…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Community Writer of Sept Vote Its time to place your vote for your favourite Community Writer of the month. To vote simply name your favourite writer…

Confession time… Seeing as it’s the break I thought it would be a good time to head to the FPL church and try and get my sins forgiven. Currently at 450k odd treading water thanks I feel to the…

Will Sanchez start in GW 8? The last time after the international break he didn't start but I strongly believe that this time he will start because The last time they had to play a CL match on Tues…

One tip I'd like to share on choosing captains. I've been using it this season and last and I've found that it has something like a 90% probability that you will choose someone who doesn't blank an…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which teams have useless centre forwards for Fantasy, and which have good Fantasy choices. This is only partly to do with the actual quality of the team's …

Hi Will - can you email me at support@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk Urgent that we address this but that involves us communicating details to our ad agency. Anyone who has screenshots or even a de…

Hopefully we are close enough to the DZ that this isn't too overwhelming. Didn't feel long enough to be an article. Apologies if it hurts your eyes, I'll be on later to respond if there is any in…

Mid-Price Striker analysis: Points per game: Calculated by Points/(Total Minutes/90) Rank: (1) Austin - This Season 6.96 | Last Season 6.39 -- Fixture: BUR, mci, CHE, hul (2) Rashford - This Seas…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Ibra replacements Blank against Leicester at home. Blank against Stoke!. That's right Stoke. I've seen enough. It's time for Zlatan to go (although I'm s…

Son or Walcott? This must be a popular dilemma

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Chip Change Please Last season showed us what a game changer the bench boost and triple captain chips were when used around the double Gameweeks. The Al…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Coping with the GWK 8 fixture shift. Stoke's fixtures start to pick up (SUN, hul, SWA, whm, BOU, wat) and so too do Hull's (bou, STO, wat, SOT, sun, WBA) f…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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,…

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…

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…

It's good to see that the DZ are not engaging in all this Rashford nonsense. Trust in Ibra we do.

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…

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.

Wait...Aguero has not scored in 4 visits to the Liberty stadium!? Captain doubts

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…

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…

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…

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?

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…