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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…

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.