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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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 - …

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

Fantasy Football Daily Hot Topic - Sunderland assets With David Moyes being announced as the new Sunderland manager this morning does that make you more or less likely to pick up one of their play…

Fantasy Football Daily Hot Topic - That third striker... A lot of Fantasy Managers will likely be looking towards a more affordable player for the third striker slot. There's a good few players to…

Those of you who have been regulars on here for a while will remember my “Consensus RMT” posts. The idea is simple – I collate RMTs for a given period, then report the frequency with which th…

Any valid arguments left why Zlatan should / shouldn't be in our gw1 squads?

Do you have Hazard in your team? Why or why not?

Everyone seems to think aguero is a necessity I would much rather have silva and Costa for 18.5 then aguero and gradel? Is aguero really that essential when you spread the money around you can g…

I think a certain 5.5m midfielder might prove to be the bargain of the season who is a personal favourite for me - Max Gradel. The pacy left winger joined Bournemouth from St.Etienne last summer fo…

The Rate My Team Surgery is now open. The first of this summer's dedicated RMT Surgery articles has now been published. Please use this to submit your RMTs and remember to give advice to others to…

*** FFS Premier League 2016/17 *** I am setting up a H2H league for 20 managers, 10 mods and 10 elite players from FFS. I have been in contact with AZ who is already rounding up 10 mods. I now n…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FA crackdown on dissent Next season could see more red cards than ever before thanks to change in the rules where players who confront match official and u…

Hey Folks, Saw a few posts on this the other day but no answer. If anyone else is having a problem with resetting their password and not receiving the confirmation email I solved it for me by addin…

RMT Tool set for Monday launch. We have had to make some changes to the Members area RMT to factor in changes by FPL this season but aim to have that sorted next week, with a Monday launch pencile…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FPL Player List Bargains Which players do you think have been kindly priced and could be set to far outperform their price tag? For me Walker at 5.5m, comp…

For all the gravless peeps out there tonight, if you want to get more responses & get noticed, a grav goes a long way. https://en.gravatar.com/ Register with the same email you're using for FFS, …

Zlatan Just going from Ruth_NZ article from a while back on player value. He used the example of Eden Hazard at 11.5m and looked at whether he was worth it, and what he needed to score to justify …

Mini-leagues now open: Opening Day League (1441-838) - entries will be closed by 10.30am Wednesday. Top 10k Any Season (1441-819) - only for those whose history shows that they have finished the s…

What are all of your rank expectations/goals this season???

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it time for FPL to recognise the important role that defensive midfielders like Kante play? Or are you happy with goals, assists and clean sheets still ru…

Hey guys! I've been looking over stats in the members area since the Euros finished, and came across Rakkhi's article on Shots on Target being the 'One Stat To Rule Them All'. For those that don't …

Fantasy Football Scour daily hot topic Yesterday I canvassed ideas for a 2016/17 FPL Dullard XI. With WBA cheap midfielders and defenders joining the likes of James Milner it proved that dull can …