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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

J0E
GWK 34's Singleton Punishers

The Single Gameweek 34 punishers. We know there will be plenty of double fixture action in GWK 34, we don't know which teams will be involved yet. But one other thing we do know is that there w…

10 years, 3 days ago101

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31 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…

10 years, 3 days ago6

Portsmouth Bubblejet
Alternative FFS glossary

As smugness / sneeriness levels are unbearably high on FFS this evening, time to update the alternative glossary of terms for the FAQ section: "Is X points good?" = "I have a very good score this …

10 years, 4 days ago55

J0E
In GWK Changes- Sky and UFPL

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In Gameweek Changes - Sky - UFPL How's the gameweek going so far? What are your key changes and captaincy moves to come? In UFPL who had a captain fail yes…

10 years, 4 days ago18

bitm2007
DGWK and Blanks - The Situation So far...

Teams with DGW's 3 x Everton form GW27 (Liv), GW30 (sun) and GW35 (Pal) 2 x Liverpool form GW27 (Eve) and GW30 (CHE) 2 x Manchester United form GW30 (PAL) and GW35 (WHU) 2 x West Ham form GW30 (W…

10 years, 4 days ago0

J0E
Gameweek 30 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 30 and why?

10 years, 5 days ago24

J0E
Aguero Without Toure

How does Aguero perform without Yaya? Pretty well. Here's a look at the matches Yaya was either absent for or played very few minutes GWK 8 - Yaya absent- Aguero gets 25 pts ( MCI 6 - 1 New) G…

10 years, 6 days ago39

Return Of Chamakh
What's Your FPL Motivation?

A couple of comments from Scratch's hot topic about Mini-League blocking (loading up on similar players from teams below you to stop them being able to overtake you) started up a bit of a conversat…

10 years, 6 days ago56

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…

10 years, 6 days ago60

Hooky
Friday's Press Conferences

No - pressers left today are 12:45 - Manchester City 13:00 - Norwich 13:30 - Chelsea 14:00 - Watford 14:30 - Arsenal 15:00 - Stoke

10 years, 6 days ago0

J0E
GWK 30's Best Differential

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be GWK 30's best differential and why?

10 years, 6 days ago51

Scratch
Mini-League Blocking Tactics

Damn I usually like jonyy he's a decent skin but having just watched the scoutcast, I absolutely hate his view on mimicking a rivals team just to win. Most of the fun of FPL is watching a match wi…

10 years, 6 days ago32

J0E
GWK 35 Planning (Or Why We Should All Support Reading and Watford)

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Why Fantasy managers should become Watford and Reading Fans One of the questions on last night’s Scoutcast was whether those wildcarding for the double ga…

10 years, 7 days ago59

Twisted Saltergater
DGW (c) Options

DGW34 - Who are you going to captain / triple captain? ARS :: CPL, WBA sensible: Ozil - dynamite: Sanchez - maverick: Koscielny CHE :: MCI, liv sensible: Costa - dynamite: Willian - maverick: Iva…

10 years, 7 days ago52

andy85wsm
What is 'template' ?

At what % does a player have to be owned for you to consider it template? A) Top 10k B) Overall

10 years, 8 days ago39

GreenWindmill
DGW 34 v 37 - the starts conundrum

Just been researching the suggestion that rotation will be more of a factor in DGW37 than in DGW34 with a view to considering the best time to WC. It seems to be a logical premise and the stats ba…

10 years, 8 days ago75

J0E
Double Gameweek Planning - Key Players

Double Gameweeks - Key Players, Ones to Consider and Differentials The double Gameweeks, or at least some of them are set to be revealed later this week. On top of that those involved in the FA Cu…

10 years, 8 days ago60

J0E
Live Scoutcast (Tonight 9:30pm)- Leave Your Questions Here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scoutcast Community Questions The live scoutcast will take place tonight at 9:30pm UK time. Feel free to leave your questions here. Tonight will be somet…

10 years, 8 days ago58

Why Arsenal FA Cup Progress is so important

From SmartyPants' website, 40% of the top 10k will have 8 or less players for GW30 if Arsenal win tonight. If Arsenal lose that ratio drops to 8%. Check out the scenarios tap for more info. http…

10 years, 9 days ago33

J0E
Ad redirect issues

Ad redirect issues If anyone is having any issues with ads on the site can you let us know what browser you are using, the device as well as the particular ad. It'll help our ad people to sort any…

10 years, 9 days ago9

J0E
Triple captain candidates- the consecutive kings

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Triple captain candidates- the consecutive kings One of the best indicators of whether a double Gameweek captain will be a success is how often they have …

10 years, 9 days ago59

Demí
Team Value Check

Quick team value check? TV: 109.7 SV: 105.1 Hopefully i'm in a position where i can splash out on attacking defenders like Ivanovic and Dann for their DGW's when i WC

10 years, 10 days ago66

Judas
GWK 30 Captaincy - Kane v Aguero

I've just done a big stat analysis on Kane vs Aguero for (C) this week and thought I would share the key points with you. I looked into the individual players form recently and a comparison of goal…

10 years, 9 days ago37

Wimbledon Doubles - Last 16 Draw

Hi everyone, I'm just posting this again for the daytime crowd. These are the Wimbledon Doubles Last 16 Results Northfield's Netters & DPR Trøndelag 68 96 157 84 73 166 Blue Lion & Gloria Kanc…

10 years, 10 days ago10

J0E
GWK 29 Rough with the Smooth

Gameweek 29 rough with the smooth We are looking for your tales of success and failure in Gameweek 29. Best ones will be read out on this week's Scoutcast. Remember its what you did (eg - transfe…

10 years, 10 days ago117

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 30 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…

10 years, 10 days ago2

Prøphet
Congratulations Prophet 🙂

Good morning FFS. Yesterday at around 20h i have become a father to a healthy boy. The feeling is incredible, everything people have said and way more. New chapter and everything. Just wanted to …

10 years, 10 days ago82

Your Player of the Season

Who is the player of YOUR FPL season? 🙂 i.e. the one who you'd say has made the biggest difference to your rank / mini-league.

10 years, 11 days ago57

Nomar
GW30 Captain Options

Captain options next GW: Kane: Villa's gameplan for the rest of the season appears to be stick 10 men behind the ball, hope to get to 75 mins at 0-0 then put Gestede on and hope to sneak a 1-0. …

10 years, 10 days ago25

Will - Fantasy Football Hub
Having a Poor Rank Has Never Been So Much Fun

This may sound strange but is anyone enjoying fpl MORE because they are doing badly? I had a great season last year (top 100) but didn't massively enjoy it because I felt the pressure on every dec…

10 years, 10 days ago30

Eden Hazardous
T20 WC Discussion

@Jonty , Will you have an article/hot topic for the T20 WC too?

10 years, 11 days ago47

J0E
MLS Fantasy Discussion

MLS Fantasy Deadline Discussion Had a request from some of our MLS Fantasy managers to start up a hot topic as there is a deadline in the game today. Here it is. Good luck with your Fantasy Socc…

10 years, 11 days ago46

J0E
Sky and UFPL in gameweek changes

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In Gameweek games - Sky and UFPL How did Super Saturday go for you yesterday? Anyone in UFPL not needing to make any changes? How is the hunt for the monthl…

10 years, 11 days ago30

Mahrez joins the 200 club

So Mahrez has joined the 200 club with 9 games left, how high can he go? 295 Suarez '14 284 Lampard '10 283 Ronaldo '08 271 Henry '03 269 Lampard '05, RVP '12 262 RVP '13 249 Bale '13 244 Ronal…

10 years, 12 days ago39

J0E
GWK 29 Captaincy and Bench Decisions

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining? Anyone dare not to go for Aguero? Which mid/fwd are you benching and why?

10 years, 12 days ago33

@ocprodigy
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 29 GW28 results due tomorrow - I've been drinking. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the…

10 years, 13 days ago53

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…

10 years, 13 days ago80

Your Mum's Athletic
ManU's Run In

Manchester United - The run in - can they finish in the top 4? After a 1-0 win against Watford on Wednesday, United now sit in joint fourth place alongside Man City, with the latter having a game …

10 years, 13 days ago16

J0E
Best Community writer of February vote

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Vote now for your favourite community article of February Each month we honour the endeavours of our community writers by offering a £20 Amazon voucher to …

10 years, 13 days ago27

Lateriser 12
Friday's Press Conferences

Press Conferences Today 08:00 Bournemouth 09:00 Arsenal, Norwich 09:15 Aston Villa 09:30 West Ham 12:45 Manchester City 13:00 Crystal Palace, Leicester, Liverpool, West Brom, Watford 13:15 C…

10 years, 13 days ago4

ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
FREQUENT POSTERS CUP 1ST ROUND DRAW

FREQUENT POSTERS CUP - HEAD-TO-HEAD FIRST ROUND DRAW Matches to be played GW29 - the winners of each match will qualify for the last 32 in GW31 along with the winners of the Last Chance Wildcard Q…

10 years, 14 days ago40

Lateriser 12
Klopp Effect Key To Season Run In

The case for the #Klopp effect There is a lot of talk about inconsistency with regards to this club but they have turned it around and they are banging in goals by the bucket. Its been a while and…

10 years, 14 days ago25

Your Mum's Athletic
What the Bookies Say - GWK 29

'What the bookies say mini-version' The top 10 in the FFS captaincy poll followed by their odds to score, according to the bookies, Vardy should be alot more popular in peoples' thoughts Re: capta…

10 years, 14 days ago7

Beavis
Is FPL 2015/16 Too Dull?

Have people enjoyed this FPL season? Personally I've found it very boring so far and have actually lost interest a bit, something's that not happened to me before even in other poorly performing se…

10 years, 14 days ago35

J0E
Rough with the Smooth - Gwk 28

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 28 Rough with the Smooth Anyone make some incredible moves this week? A Milner captaincy perhaps? Or an Ashley Williams move? Or how about some poor mo…

10 years, 14 days ago58

KingNidge
Arsenal Need A Williams

Ironic thing about Williams getting the winner tonight against Arsenal is that Wenger has been crying out for a centre half like him for years been right under his nose and couldn't see it.. fantas…

10 years, 14 days ago33

Nickofoz
Thursday Press Conferences

Five Press Conferences tonight (GMT): Everton: 9:00 Spurs, Sunderland, Southampton: 14:00 Stoke: 14:30

10 years, 14 days ago3

ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
Frequent Posters Cup - Qualifying Results

FREQUENT POSTERS CUP UPDATE Website now fully updated http://tyroreports.wix.com/ffsfpc Everyone in Main Qualifying with 38 points or above finished in the top 60 and progresses through to the GW…

10 years, 14 days ago20

Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
Fallen Stars- Don't Believe the Hype

'Fallen Stars' - Players who failed to live up to their Pre-Season hype: Ivanovic Hazard Sanchez Benteke Rooney Who else can you think of?

10 years, 15 days ago61

Camp No No
Why the Siggy Love?

What's with the Siggy love? His stats don't seem good at all.

10 years, 15 days ago45