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J0E | Who will be GWK 32's best differential and why? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be GWK 32's best differential/pre wildcard one week punt? And why? | 9 years, 11 months ago | 32 |
FFFrog | FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION - GW32 FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION - GW32 Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! INSTRUCTIONS In this competition you enter 5 predictions for ANY 5 fixtures in the upcoming gameweek. For Exampl… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 40 |
J0E | Double Gameweek Definites, Probables and Maybes Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Double Gameweek Definites, Probables and Maybes Like many of you with wildcards intact and a bench boost or triple captaincy to use over GWKs 33 and 34 I’… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 47 |
J0E | No Scoutcast Tonight 🙁 Apologies but tonight's Scoutcast has been cancelled. Making the new site look lovely has taken priority. Provisionally the next one will take place next Wed (Apr 6) | 9 years, 11 months ago | 4 |
Mark | Downtime Today Just a heads up... We're going to be taking the site down, maybe for several hours this morning while we undergo some upgrades and changes. You will see a temporary message while this takes plac… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 15 |
Kings of Lyon ★ | Chips Mini-League For increased visibility Following the great idea by Back on The Horse I have created a private league which will run from GW32-GW38. The purpose of this league is to understand which way is best… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 80 |
J0E | DGWS - what can history teach us? Fantasy Football Scout Double Gameweeks - Can We Learn From History? Double gameweek players have the potential to offer Fantasy managers huge points returns. Rooney's 64 captaincy hau and even … | 9 years, 11 months ago | 41 |
draftcup | Is Sanchez worth his price tag? For anyone deciding whether to include Sanchez in your wildcard teams, here are some numbers to consider. With at least one of Giroud and Welbeck on the pitch this season (all competitions), Sanch… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 12 |
The Hindu Monkey | Sanchez v Kane - The DGWK Dilemma TIP: If you're tearing your hair out on whether to keep your spurs/foxes assets or go hell for leather on your wildcard/bench boost - remember, turn the problem around As such: Would you feel wo… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 27 |
J0E | Live HoF update Live Hall of Fame now updated. There are now 4 FFScout mods and contribs on the first page (top 50). There are some other notable risers and fallers too. Members can view the latest here.... http… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 32 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 32 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 3 |
| BPS Study A short BPS Study BPS vs Bonus Points graph: http://imgur.com/Y6CyJC1 BPS Thresholds so far this season: < 20, never any bonus points 25, 25% got at least 1 bonus point, 10% of which got 2 bonus… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 17 |
J0E | Butland Exit Plans Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Butland replacement. Whether wildcarded or wildcardless, with two frees, one free, no playing goalies or a good back up Butland is very well owned so … | 9 years, 11 months ago | 20 |
Ryan | DGW Perfection The perfect storm GW32 WC Robles Elliot Bellerin Gabriel Dann Sakho Janmaat Sanchez Firmino Payet Barkley Bolasie Aguero Lukaku Wickham GW33: 6DGWers - Save FT GW34: 15DGWers - Bolasie -> Couti… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 71 |
J0E | Everton and Palace double trouble Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Everton and Palace double trouble For Everton's triple double (GWKs 33, 34 & 37) we all know that Lukaku is looking like the must have player. But given Ev… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 40 |
| Maxed out double game weeks Double Gameweeks Maxed Out. GW32 WC Robles, Hart Dann, Koscielny, Sakho, Clichy, Clyne Sanchez, Ozil, Coutinho, Barkley, Bolasie Aguero, Lukaku, Wickham Robles, Dann, Barkley, Bolasie, Wickham, … | 9 years, 11 months ago | 23 |
J0E | You Know Double GWK fever has struck when.... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic You know that double Gameweek fever has struck when...... | 9 years, 11 months ago | 47 |
J0E | Everton and Palace DGWK 33 Discussion Everton and Palace Double How has the news that Everton and Palace now have a double gameweek 33 changed your plans. Anyone tempted to wildcard right now to maximise their double double. Also w… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 40 |
J0E | Home Comforts and Away Day Blues Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Why are some teams so bad away from home? Given that Aguero will be a popular captaincy pick during the double Gameweek I thought it would be good to get yo… | 9 years, 11 months ago | 32 |
Nickofoz | Mitrovic at the double Anyone thinking Mitrovic could be a nice DGW differential? Coming into form, Newcastle have a lot to play for and he has SWA, MCI. He's also on pens, could see some points for him in both of those … | 9 years, 11 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Gameweek 32 punts and differentials Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 32 punts and differentials With wildcards fluttering round in Gameweek 33, the next gameweek is a great opportunity to opt for a punt. For me I t… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 36 |
J0E | DGWK Second Thoughts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic DGWK second thoughts Who is having second thoughts about fielding a full 15 with a wildcard and bench boost for GWK 34? Is the form of single gameweekers … | 9 years, 12 months ago | 65 |
Irish Madridista ⭐ | Is Pelle the fella to make our teams stellar? Anyone considering Pelle? No DGW, but no blank either and lots to play for, seems to be a player that does well in bursts too.. Newcastle, Everton, Villa in GW33-35... | 9 years, 12 months ago | 21 |
andy85wsm | DGWKs Are Clouding Our Judgement Never known two double game weeks where we feel we absolutely must have 11 DGW players (15 in this case). Maybe because we can it's clouding our judgement...definitely is mine. Although my judgeme… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 30 |
RoysCallerAnne | DGWK Differentials As my train wreck season comes to it's ungainly conclusion, I'm simply going all-out differential on my currently active WC. I will stick to the brilliant stuff posted on here regarding maximising … | 9 years, 12 months ago | 16 |
Jøssy ⭐ | DGW Tool Created You might find this tool I created helpful... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WMoQEicmkrJMusLUmzb0FuVCkBQ44xyKB22LkHTJ7hM/edit?usp=sharing Some pointers on what it does: - States the DGW… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 0 |
Twisted Saltergater | Another DGWK Tool Hey DGW planners Here's a simple template where you can fill in the player and team you have in mind, and it will auto fill in the fixtures they have. I found it quite useful to see which combina… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 23 |
Lightbody | Which SGWers to Keep? So. Anyone who's WCing 32 or 33 for BB in 34, who's considering keeping single GWers like Kane, Alli and Mahrez (even Simpson)? I can't see anyone in Mahrez's price bracket who's likely to outsco… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 52 |
ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$ | Frequent Posters Cup Update FREQUENT POSTERS CUP - LAST 32 RESULTS (repost) iCon 91 v 66 Sjaugen Feed Feo 88 v 83 Danno Spineless Weasel 87 v 78 Gooner Kebab $howMeTheMane 87 v 83 HVT Slartibartfast 87 v 84 Thunder_Mike Spec… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Rough with the Smooth - Gwk 31 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 31 How was your gameweek? Lots of chuffed Kane captainers I imagine. What about Aguero captainers? Anyone own Fabregas? And… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 92 |
Evs | Pick Players That Aren't Already On The Beach Remember folks, pick players from teams who have something to play for at the end of the season. Obvious statement I know, but just saying... | 9 years, 12 months ago | 31 |
J0E | In Gameweek Changes - UFPL and Sky Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In Gameweek Games Changes - UFPL and Sky What moves are you making today? Was yesterday a wash out for your UFPL captain? What of Sky. Mahrez captainers wi… | 9 years, 12 months ago | 4 |
J0E | Gwk 31 captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? Kane and Siggy the obvious choices I imagine. But is anyone daring to be different? | 9 years, 12 months ago | 44 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 31 GW29 results tonight, apologies for delays. As for GW30... That was cancelled as I was drunk... ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been a… | 10 years, 6 hours ago | 53 |
FFFrog | FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION GW31 Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! INSTRUCTIONS In this competition you enter 5 predictions for ANY 5 fixtures in the upcoming gameweek. For Example … | 10 years, 11 hours ago | 43 |
J0E | GWK 31's Best Differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 31's best differential and why? | 10 years, 16 hours ago | 54 |
Arteta | Friday's Press Conferences For those who haven't seen it yet: Arsenal - 9.00 West Brom - 9.00 Sunderland - 9.15 Manchester City - 12.45 Newcastle - 13.00 Norwich - 13.00 Chelsea - 13.15 Southampton - 14.00 | 10 years, 16 hours ago | 0 |
In Bale We Trust | DGWK 34 Forwards What three strikers are people thinking of taking for DGW 34? Presumably Lukaku, Aguero and who else? | 10 years, 1 day ago | 56 |
J0E | DGWK 34 Defenders DGWK 34 Defenders Who will play both games? Just some very basic early notes on defenders at four key teams during the DGWK 34. Liverpool Safe Mignolet – He’s missed just one Premier Lea… | 10 years, 1 day ago | 16 |
J0E | When The Chips Are Down Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Chips - The Haves and the Have-Nots On last night’s Scoutcast it was lamented that the chips could give too much of an advantage to those who plan ahead a… | 10 years, 1 day ago | 67 |
gaurava1216 | GWK 33 Wildcard Strategy My Comments on DGW 34 for those using WC in 33....BB in 34 and TC in 37..... A) Pick 3 Liverpool players -------DGW 34, Play 35, play 36, DGW 37. Players in contention IMO: Either Moreno/Clyne DF … | 10 years, 2 days ago | 22 |
Mr Pink | The Case for a GW36 WC Currently leaning towards WC36 for the following reasons: 1) I can get 9 DGW players in GW34 without a hit. If anything, experience has taught us that a SGW player with a good fixture might very w… | 10 years, 2 days ago | 37 |
McNulty | Dare You Go Aguero-less for the DGWKs? Just continuing on from Grimandi's post in the other article (link at the bottom)... Has anyone considered an Aguero-less wildcard team to bench boost in GW34? Might seem like madness but there… | 10 years, 2 days ago | 27 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast (Tonight 9:45pm)- Leave Your Questions Here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:45pm DGWKs will surely be on the agenda - feel free to leave your questions for the team below on the doubles and any other Fant… | 10 years, 2 days ago | 61 |
Ryan | All Quiet on the GWK 36 Wildcard Front Its all gone very quiet on the alternative option 'WC GW36 BB GW37' Why is this? | 10 years, 3 days ago | 78 |
| DGWK Players Longlist Before we get knuckled down in a gameweek 34 "template", let's cast our net wide. Liverpool: Mignolet, Moreno, Sakho, Milner, Lallana, Hendo, Firmino, Coutinho, Studger Everton: Robles, Coleman, … | 10 years, 3 days ago | 39 |
BuK II | Gwk 33-37 Transfer Plan Thinking about GW33 wildcard out loud and how to get 15DGWers for GW34, 11 out in GW35 and 11 DGWers for GW37... Everton, Liverpool and Crystal Palace have 7 matches in the 5GWs so loading up on t… | 10 years, 3 days ago | 53 |
Bøss ⭐ | Punt or Plan - Gameweek 31 Transfers anyone else planning to prioritize transfers for DGW players that will be potentially rising in value (so that they can afford them come GW34) or are you planning to punt between now and the GW33 W… | 10 years, 3 days ago | 15 |
Bubz | At the Double! Time to Triple Up on Liverpool So triple Liverpool is basically essential if they have 2 DGW's and a fixture GW35 right? | 10 years, 3 days ago | 17 |
J0E | DGWK 34 and 37 strategy Hot Topic – Double Gameweek Strategy and Discussion So we now know when the double gameweeks will be with GWK 34 and 37 looking like busy times for being a Fantasy manager. Here’s what we kn… | 10 years, 3 days ago | 70 |

