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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…

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…

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…

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".

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in gwk 4 and why?

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…

Hmmm. How are Sanchez owners feeling? Think he'll be rested for PSG? Or does he not do rest? Is Ozil a better option now?

Mark and I are going head to head in FanDuel this week. Quick reminder of the scoring - only goalkeepers get clean sheets. CBI rules among defenders Chances created rule among midfielders a…

People saying that Lukaku is a terrible pick are just in denial. He scored in 7 consecutive games last season when he had good fixtures. That can't be luck. Similar situation now. I think he will…

Arsène Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of the game against Southampton: - on team news I haven’t seen Alexis and David Ospina because they arrived late last night. Everyone looks…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Unusual transfer situations In an interview this week Mo Farah revealed that just ahead of one of his races in the Olympics he was on his phone trying to so…

Friday's Pressers: 08:30 - Stoke 09:00 - Arsenal, Hull, West Brom, Crystal Palace 13:00 - Chelsea 13:30 - Man City, Man Utd, Sunderland

Benteke & Bony are over priced by 0.5m-1m. There I've said it. Everyone is banging on about either one being capable of scoring +/-15 goals. Of course they are. Both have in the past. But they ar…

Serious question - as Liverpool have never won the Premier League, do the community believe they can achieve the milestone in the near future or what will tip the balance in their favour?

So we have Coutinho, Firmino and Lalana. One tops the GA's, one the KP's and one the SiB milf list. Yet no one on WC owns any of them. Good luck then.

[IBRAHIMOVIC VS GUARDIOLA] You think the Manchester derby will be 0-0 ? It won't. I may even captain Ibrahimovic, and this article is the reason why : https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2…

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Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are this season's iron men and women. I'm every happy to be part of community regular Teddy's regular Iron Man competitions where we take each other on …

Anyone want to give their thoughts on the Derby? From previous history, quick effective counters with fast players running against Peps defenders will be the key. I think Pep will target Bailey an…

CL rotation for next week is a bigger factor than international minutes, imo

Thursday's press conferences Bournemouth - 8:00 West Ham - 10:00 Spurs & Middlesbrough- 12:30 Liverpool & Leicester & Burnley - 13:30 Everton & Southampton - 14:00 Swansea - 14:15

Ivanovic is dead man walking. I cant see him being in the side for much longer

Still very few prive changes I see. Fairly difficult to increase team value this season.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Lukaku Who is keen to draft him in based on Everton's fixtures? Who is fearful of his poor Premier League goal less run that stretches back to March. And…

The Scoutcast is back! We are Scoutcasting tonight at 9:45pm. Feel free to leave your questions for the team here.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Putting the fun back into Fantasy Football. A lot of people have been questioning my wildcard this week, wondering why after a relatively good start, with …