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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

J0E
Leicester's perfect storm. Who's next?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Leicester's perfect storm. Who's next? During 2015/16 Leicester enjoyed a perfect storm of circumstances which helped them achieve Premier League glory. 1…

9 years, 10 months ago23

Ryan
Mourinho's return

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are the implications for FPL with Mourinho expected to take over at Manchester United? Here's a few of my thoughts on what we can expect - There will …

9 years, 10 months ago36

FFFrog
Fantasy Frogball Euros Tournament

Fantasy FrogBall Euro's! This is a tournament that will work in the same way as the actual Euro's- but on the McDonalds Fantasy Game. Each team of 3 people will represent the nation of their choic…

9 years, 10 months ago62

Konig Luther
Euro 2016 qualifiers stats

For everyone playing EURO'16 Fantasy here is the list of each player score in european qualifiers fantasy: http://web.archive.org/web/20151114014506/http://en.eqfantasy.uefa.com/UEFA/15812/client…

9 years, 10 months ago6

J0E
Favourite FA Cup Final Goal

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What is your favourite FA Cup final goal or moment?

9 years, 10 months ago18

Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
Euro 2016: Set Piece Takers

Euro Set Piece - newly updated: https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/ropen.do?rid=qqpl5ba9123d6bd4143b4b68a59b6847400ff

9 years, 10 months ago10

Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
Tournament Feedback Needed

Afternoon! Could everyone who participated in my tournament take some time to post feedback? Hoping to run it next season and would like to know your thoughts on how to improve things. Even if yo…

9 years, 10 months ago1

J0E
Euro 2016: Best Premium Purchases

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic EURO 2016 - Premium best buys Yesterday's daily hot topic took a look at EURO 2016's best budget offerings. Today I thought I'd ask who you think are the mu…

9 years, 10 months ago37

Parm
Euro 2016: Group C Prospects

Group C Germany: Neuer; Höwedes, Boateng, Hummels, Hector; Kroos, Schweinsteiger; Götze, Özil, Reus; Müller. It saddens me that Schweinsteiger might actually start over the wealth of youngste…

9 years, 10 months ago7

Parm
Euro 2016: Group B Prospects

Group B. England: Hart; Clyne, Smalling, Cahill, Rose; Dier, Alli, Wilshere, Sterling; Kane, Rooney. Before you all shout at me this is what I think Roy will play, not what I would play, you're …

9 years, 10 months ago10

Parm
Euro 2016: Group D prospects

Group D Spain: de Gea/Casillas; Juanfran, Sergio Ramos, Pique, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Thiago, Iniesta, Fábregas, David Silva; Alcácer. de Bosque will probably start Casillas over de Gea, the ba…

9 years, 10 months ago12

Parm
Euro 2016: Group A Prospects

Here we are lads. Some random Euro 2016 stuff that you've all been waiting for. Group A... France: Lloris; Sagna, Varane, Koscielny, Evra; Diarra, Matuidi, Pogba; Griezmann, Giroud, Martial/Coma…

9 years, 10 months ago12

J0E
Euro 2016: Best budget buys

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With Euro 2016 Fantasy Football preparation getting in full swing I thought it'd be good to compile a list of strong budget prospects. We all know the main…

9 years, 10 months ago44

roscola
UEFA Euro rules clarified

Some of us* have been wondering about the contradictory rules in the official Euros game. The Rules section states that all your points for a matchday will be scored by your starting XI, whereas th…

9 years, 10 months ago62

d1sable
SkyFF Private League + Winners!

Just want to give a shout out for our Sky paid league. Despite having only 183 enter we claimed the third highest scoring league overall (the highest paid league) behind only FFS itself and Sportin…

9 years, 10 months ago13

Kings of Lyon ★
Going Out with a bang winner

Congratulations to Lee Byron (Goonerbyron) for winning the Going out with a bang league and securing the mystery prize of a full paid FFS membership for the 2016/17 season!! @Lee when membership …

9 years, 10 months ago12

Az
Az's £5 Buy-In Cash League Final Update

Az's £5 Buy-In Cash League Final Update: Big thank you to everyone that joined my cash league at the start of the season, it's been a really interesting league (I was hovering in 4th-5th for a lo…

9 years, 10 months ago10

J0E
Rough with the Smooth - end of season special

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - End of Season Special How did the season end for you? What were your smoothest victories in mini leagues and rank aspirations? Wha…

9 years, 10 months ago91

andy85wsm
Happy Birthday Doolittle!

A little birdy (Mark Zuckerberg) tells me it's Doolittle's birthday today. Happy Birthday!

9 years, 10 months ago6

Piggs Boson
Euro 2016: The case for the defence

Defenders seem to do a decent job of competing with the top strikers. Remember, there is no bonus in this game, so a defender CS and a striker goal are completely equal in pts. ...................…

9 years, 10 months ago8

Irish Madridista ⭐
The Best Goals (that don't usually make best goals lists)

Anyone have any particularly underrated goals in their minds that people need to see but may not have actually seen? 😀 Two examples: I always loved this goal purely for Guti's assist: https://ww…

9 years, 10 months ago90

J0E
Scouting the promoted sides

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Seeing as we are now denied the joy of selecting from the ranks of Brighton next season I thought I'd focus on some other promotion targets to consider. He…

9 years, 10 months ago55

J0E
The Dembeleless Curse Continues

This season Kane has 24 goals in the 27 games Dembele has started and 1 goal in the 11 games he didn't. Can we just all accept now that this Dembeleless curse is very real indeed. I'll certainly…

9 years, 10 months ago15

andy85wsm
Your Current Overall Rank

Goooooood morning! FPL is dead, long live.....FPL? How did your seasons go in the end? Anyone have MLs reliant on the United game? I'm currently 80k so not my worst season, and hopefully it'll r…

9 years, 10 months ago80

J0E
ManU and Bou Ownership Stats

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Manchester and Bournemouth player ownership. With Manchester United very likely to field a B team with the FA Cup in mind, those with Bournemouth assets co…

9 years, 10 months ago29

Rhinos
FPL Status on Man Utd vs B'mouth fixture

When the Manchester United v AFC Bournemouth match is rescheduled it will remain within Gameweek 38. Automatic substitutions and the final fantasy points will be updated after this fixture is compl…

9 years, 10 months ago18

FFFrog
FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION

FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! Sorry it's late! INSTRUCTIONS In this competition you enter 5 predictions for ANY 5 fixtures in the upcoming gameweek.…

9 years, 10 months ago12

J0E
GWK 38 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who is your final captain of the season and why?

9 years, 10 months ago22

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 38 GW37 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/13357459 The final gameweek of the season! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't…

9 years, 10 months ago24

Tsumo
Final day flashback - 2007

Nostalgia time! I've been checking this site most weeks for nearly 10 years although I don't post so much anymore. Big thanks to Mark and the lads for all your hard work this season. Here's the en…

9 years, 10 months ago6

J0E
Final day of the season memories

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are your best final day of the season memories. Anyone captain Tchoyi? Anyone get a final day hattrick? Or win a mini league with a final kick of the …

9 years, 10 months ago29

Total coverage achieved?

Has anybody managed to use players from all 20 teams this season? If you put your FPL ID in here then scroll to the bottom it tells you how many appearances in your squad you've had from each team…

9 years, 10 months ago97

J0E
Frequent Posters Cup - The Road to the Final

Here's Jarvish with a look back at the Frequent Posters Cup and a look ahead to this weekend's final. Feed Feo (FPL id 38093) takes on Sepp Blattered (FPL id 461736) in the inaugural Frequent Pos…

9 years, 10 months ago4

Ruth_NZ
Beware Final Day Hits

GW38 Hits This post should be hulked as a public health warning in view of the maniacal GW38 hitfest going on. People maybe don't realise that the very worst week to take an unnecessary hit in te…

9 years, 10 months ago22

Gwk 38 Stat Attack

Here's another re-post of historical (last 10 years) Gameweek 38 stats. Seasonal Average Goals per Game: 2.66 Gameweek 38 Average Goals per Game: 3.04 Seasonal Average Scoreline: 1.54 - 1.12 Game…

9 years, 10 months ago2

jmcclory123
Home & Away Form

----Arsenal v Villa--------- Villa Goals conceded in last 5: 10 Villa Goals conceded in last 5 AWAY games: 11 Arsenal Goals scored in last 5: 6 Arsenal Goals scored in last 5 HOME games: 9 Villa…

9 years, 10 months ago12

Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
How Good/Bad Was Your Gameweek 1 Team

Looking back...how good/bad was your GW1 team? How many players have you kept all season? Here's mine: Schmeichel Hennessey Ivanovic Koscielny Francis Huth Steven Taylor Hazard Walcott Ritchie Ma…

9 years, 10 months ago49

Bedok
In Search of Next Season's Mahrez

This year many of us chose Mahrez from GW1 and it was fortunate. He was a cheap 4th or 5th mid but we saw something at the end of last year that made us take a punt. Anyone you have the same feelin…

9 years, 10 months ago45

Arteta
Friday Afternoon Pressers

Next pressers 12.30pm - Mauricio Pochettino, Jürgen Klopp 1pm - Claudio Ranieri, Alan Pardew, Eric Black 1.15pm - Guus Hiddink 2pm – Everton (Unsworth&Royle), Ronald Koeman 4pm - Louis van G…

9 years, 10 months ago0

J0E
Season's regrets

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What was your biggest single regret this season? Perhaps you missed out on Aguero's five goals? Perhaps you had too much faith in Chelsea early on? Or perha…

9 years, 10 months ago75

Kings of Lyon ★
Going Out with a Bang Update

Going out with a bang penultimate update If you are in the top 3 can you let me know here or send me a message on Twitter - @Kingsoflyon7 Before GW32 I started a FFS league to determine how best…

9 years, 10 months ago18

J0E
Next Season's New Chip Should Be...

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What new chip would you like to see next year? This was discussed on last night's scoutcast. We came to the conclusion that the bench boost and triple capt…

9 years, 10 months ago143

Bøwstring The Carp
Yes/ No Challenge for GW38

Yes/ No Challenge for GW38 It's in the title really. Answer each question with a Yes or No. 10 questions this week listed below. In the even of a tie, I have added in an open-ended bonus question …

9 years, 10 months ago108

Bøwstring The Carp
Yes/No Challenge Results

UPDATE Results are in from the Yes/ No challenge and despite nobody managing to get all 11 correct, our winner is CRUICKY with 9 out of 11 right answers. Congratulations 🙂 1) Will Sturridge outs…

9 years, 10 months ago4

J0E
Live Scoutcast tonight (9:45pm) Leave your questions for the team here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast Tonight (9:45pm) Join us tonight when we assess another rollercoaster double gameweek and look ahead to the final Gameweek of the season. F…

9 years, 10 months ago82

Prøphet
Most influential FFS posters this season

Morning all! I would like to ask you fine people since its the end of the season this: Who was the most influential poster to you this season and why? Who's advice did you listen to? I will sta…

9 years, 10 months ago54

FFFrog
FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION

FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! INSTRUCTIONS In this competition you enter 5 predictions for ANY 5 fixtures in the upcoming gameweek. For Example for G…

9 years, 10 months ago20

Kings of Lyon ★
Going Out With A Bang Analysis Requests

When performing analysis on the usage of this chips in the Going Out With a Bang league, what type of analysis would you like to see? http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/800290/standings/

9 years, 10 months ago24

Arteta
Tuesday's Press Conferences

Press conferences Everton - 12:00 Chelsea - 13:00 Norwich - 13:00 Liverpool - 15:30

9 years, 10 months ago2

J0E
The Midfield Maze

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Midfield Maze Our poll to find the best Fantasy Football midfielders of 2015/16 has now launched. The interesting thing about that list is that so few were …

9 years, 10 months ago40