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 THE REAL RON ⚽ | Stones' Starting Role Cemented. Seen a lottttttttt of people ask if Stones will play GW1. He will. 🙂 Here's why: HE'S FIT: City have played just three pre-season games, keeping no clean sheets and playing players out of positio… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 Davido989 | Liverpool Preview Liverpool – the forehead perspective. Goalkeepers: New boy Loris Karius (£5m) has a broken hand and will miss 6-10 weeks, paving way for Simon Mignolet (£5m) to start the season. Nice and e… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
 J0E | Will You Be Considering Pogba? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Will you be considering Pogba? What price would you like him to be? Could he be another Yaya Toure and get amongst the goals and assists? Or will he be the… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 45 |
 JAC THE CAT | The toughest H2H league in FPL As the new season is almost upon us I introduce the all new “FFS Premier League” The league is made up of 20 teams from the FFS community, 10 managers with a previous top 500 ranking and 10 m… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Make Room For Redmond I think if Redmond is nailed for the first few games. a lot of people are missing out on a huge opportunity that we don't see quite often. Like with Michu (from the 2012/13 season) and Ayew from l… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 44 |
J0E | ShoeMaker FPL Research - Help Wanted Here's some news from TheShoeMaker about some research he is carrying out into FPL strategy that he hopes you will be able to help with. He says: " Over the last couple of weeks I have been spend… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 5 |
J0E | Live Q&A with the professor 1:30pm Q&A with the Professor The Professor – Chris Atkinson, who has developed our Hall of Fame and Rate My Team, will be popping by at 1:30pm to answer any questions you have on these tools. Feel f… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 56 |
 Piggs Boson | FPl starter tips I'm seeing lots of new posters around here recently. So here's some basics the site has learned over the years that most of us agree on: 1. Cheap keepers are usually the best choice. They represen… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 26 |
 d1sable | Aguer-no? So not to put anyone off Aguero because lets face it we are all going to have him but something to consider i feel is rotation that Pep has a habit of and has been talking up again. We were lucky … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
J0E | The Scout Picks Lottery Is Back! Fantasy Football Scout Daily hot topic Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 1 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 5 |
J0E | Community Shield - What Will It Tell Us? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Community Shield - what will it tell us? What do you hope to learn from today's Community Shield. For Leicester do you want to fine out if Musa is the rea… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 16 |
 Eden Hazardous | Are set piece takers overrated? How many goals are scored through set pieces as a ratio to the entire team's goals? Last season , Total Goals Scored by all teams = 1026 Goals scored through indirect FKs = 68 Percentage = 6.63%… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 12 |
J0E | The Morning After The Draft Night Before Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Morning After The Draft Night Before For those playing in our draft leagues in DugoutFC how did it go? Any notable successes? Any unwanted failures? H… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 30 |
J0E | The Pros and Cons of Picking a 4m Non Starter Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it worth playing with just 14 players? This is an idea that I know Triggerlips has been looking at recently that is ideal for those who plan/reluctantly… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 65 |
 thepuntmaster | New Players Stats Update Hello everyone, hope you are all well! Here's the latest update to the New Transfers Spreadsheet. I've added the new arrivals since the last update as well as updating prices to players who have b… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 3 |
 Zasa | Conte's Chelsea- Detailed Analysis I wanted to add on to my post about the 4-2-4 system I wrote a few days back - (http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2016/07/24/the-numbers-game-201516-review-tottenham/?hc_page=12#hc_comment_1360… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Has Hazard Done Enough To Get In Your Side? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Has Hazard done enough with two goals and an assist in Pre-season to work his way into our teams? Or is his price tag still too high for a player that only m… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 40 |
J0E | Manchester United Revival - Key Questions That Need Answers Fantasy Football Scout Manchester United Revival - Key Questions That Need Answers As a fantasy football manager I'm very excited about the prospect of Manchester United once again offering us s… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 30 |
 Clumsy Sakho | best of the 6.5 strikers? Battle of 6.5s - been analysing data over battle for 6.5s striker options. Whilst Andre Gray clearly leads the race for final product last season - notching 23 goals and 8 assists in 3410 minute… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
 Ludo | Past Promoted Forwards Andre Gray scoring 8 goals in 5 friendlies is impressive stuff, but what should also be attracting fantasy managers is that he's been involved in 8 of Burnley's 11 goals whilst he's been on the pit… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 35 |
 Az | azs cash leagues - vacancies Hi All, Opened up some more spots in my £5 and £20 entry cash leagues for the coming season! Please email me at fantasyfootballaz7@gmail.com with which league you'd like to enter (it can only b… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 8 |
 JK - Cønt ⭐ | Toffee Williams Leaves Swansea With Plenty To Chew On Williams at Everton raises a couple of interesting FPL questions. Firstly, will he be as much of a BAPs monster at Everton as he was at Swansea Secondly, where does it leave Swansea. £10m for… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Pre Season Stars – Who Is the Real Deal? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Pre Season Stars – Who Is the Real Deal? So far there have been some prolific scorers in the pre season friendlies. But which will be a Michu, and which … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Community Writer of the Month – July Community Writer of the Month – July We are once again looking to give away an £20 Amazon voucher* to your favourite community writer of the month. To vote for your favourite please mention th… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Are Budget Forwards Best Avoided? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Do any of FPL's budget (6m or below) forwards appeal - or are you looking to spend more? The obvious upside in selecting a budget friendly forward is that i… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 36 |
Bøwstring The Carp | PreSeason Stats Spreadsheet Big thanks to Tony Hibbert, Malcolm Tucker and Reedy for the help (would have been lost without that info) So I've got a spreadsheet with all of the preseason data so far; player, price, team, pos… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 8 |
 Twisted Saltergater | Team balance is a great tactic I'm always wary of paying top dollar for a player who was considered underpriced the previous year. Half the trick is knowing which player and his supporting cast are the real deal, and which may … | 9 years, 8 months ago | 46 |
J0E | Tracking the Veterans - Top 20 HOFers request Tracking the Veterans request Kavali has asked if any of the top 20 in the FFS Hall of Fame could email him their new FPL ID for inclusion in next season's Tracking the Veterans season. This is … | 9 years, 8 months ago | 7 |
d1sable | Overlooked? or Under cooked? So which player do you rate enough to actually put in your team (that's the key part) that you think the masses on here have overlooked? Ill throw Cedric's name out there (again) at 5m. Season o… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 23 |
 Evs | New Kids on the Block Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic: New Kids on the Block Morning all, I'm stepping into the breach today for the Daily Hot Topic 🙂 Every season a new player arrives in the Premier League … | 9 years, 8 months ago | 26 |
 Parm | Andre Gray - get him while he's hot Hey guys, sorry to bother you. I was going to do a nice article on £6.5m forwards with a swanky introduction but after writing 650 works on Andre Gray I'm not sure i'll be able to squeeze in all… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 6 |
Davido989 | Best attacking full back! Are you Shaw? Fullbacks: Luke Shaw has played 4992 minutes of PL football. Or 56 games, if you like. - 0 goals - 2 assists - 61 chances created Hector Bellerin has played 4807 minutes of PL football. Or 54… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 20 |
THE REAL RON ⚽ | Is Andre gray just a flat track bully? Andre Gray - Goals for Burnley 15/16: Gray scored 23 whilst at Burnley, but against 12 of the 23 other teams. League position - Team - Gray goals: 24th - Bolton - 4 20th - Fulham - 3 18th - Brist… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 28 |
 Ryan | The Strong Front 8 Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - The Strong Front 8 A traditional GW1 team usually consists of a cheap 4.5m attacker who you will bench every week. Rarely does this player offer any consis… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 55 |
 JS27 | Non-Jonty Dembele effect There has been plenty said about the respective merits of Spurs players in the first 4 games of the season with Dembele missing, but just how important was he last year? With Dembele in the side S… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 40 |
 andy85wsm | Transfer Wish List Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - Transfer wish list We've not even hit August yet and Premier League clubs have already signed 71 players since the end of last season. With 16 days left u… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 46 |
thepuntmaster | Value for money? Good evening everyone, hope you are all well! Here is the updated version of my New Players Analysis Spreadsheet. http://bit.ly/2auNGHa The main new feature is the "value" column being filled i… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 11 |
andy85wsm | Rotation, Rotation, Rotation Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - Rotation, Rotation, Rotation Every season when FPL launches one of the first things people do is look for the best rotations, usually for goalkeepers and d… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 49 |
andy85wsm | Early Wildcard Planning Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - Early Wildcard Planning With the changes last year to how wildcards work there has been more of a move to using the first wildcard early. As someone who ha… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
 MrMaverick | A maverick rotation for the masses For the kind folks that asked The teams I've chosen for this rotation are Watford, Stoke, Sunderland, Leicester and Middlesbrough. Clean sheets are becoming increasingly scarce as the quality in m… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 33 |
 Kings of Lyon ★ | pre-season predictions Time for some bold statements for the season ahead - - Vardy wont score more than 10 goals this season - Janssen will score more goals than Kane - Hull, Burnley and Watford will be relegated - … | 9 years, 8 months ago | 35 |
andy85wsm | Form or Fixtures? Fantasy Football Daily Hot Topic - Form or fixtures? Form or fixtures is a big topic of conversation between Fantasy Managers throughout the season and one that never goes away. At the beginning… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 21 |
andy85wsm | Liverpool midfield - too many options? Fantasy Football Scout - Daily Hot Topic - Are there too many Liverpool midfielders to choose from? With Wijnaldum having now signed for Liverpool they have a plethora of options in midfield - Wij… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 36 |
Zasa | Does 4-2-4 really exist? Is 424 some mythical formation? Did peeps make it up by playing FIFA? Can you really have a formation that's 'that' attacking? History seems to answer this with a resoundingly 'yes' vote. Well, a … | 9 years, 8 months ago | 14 |
 Numb | Simple steps to Success Here's mine FWIW... 1. Spend as little as possible on keepers - 8.5 - even if they don't get a CS they can get saves 2. Early on, also, don't spend too much on defenders - CSs are difficult to pre… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
 Kavali | Beat the vets - top HOF'ers needed In my Veteran's sample for upcoming season there will be a room for Top 20 Hall of Famers. So please, if you are in top 20 spots, send me an email with your new season ID on kavali985@gmail.com Che… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 15 |
andy85wsm | New Managers - right to be wary? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic - New Managers For Fantasy players, new managers to the league are often something to be wary of as we just don't know how they're going to perform, who they… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 11 |
Ludo | Are the best those that have had a rest? Anyone else targeting players who've had the summer off? Without the Euros or Copa America, they should be fresh for the start of the season. Currently, Aguero is my only player that went to an int… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 11 |
andy85wsm | Price prediction results Apologies for the delay on this but I finally have some time to write up the midfielder and forward price challenge results. Big thanks to Greenwindmill for making all the effort to collect the ent… | 9 years, 8 months ago | 12 |
Piggs Boson | Mahrez and Vardy - fatigue or regression? Mahrez - 36 starts First 18 games: 13 goals, 7 assists Last 18 games: 4, goals, 4 assists Vardy - 36 starts First 18 games: 15 goals, 3 assists Last 18 games: 9 goals. 3 assists . Both dipped in … | 9 years, 8 months ago | 19 |