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 Sz21 | Is Vardy to Aguero Madness or Genius? The case for Jamie Vardy- Sergio Ageuro.. Seriously considering bringing in Aguero this GW. I have just 1ft but 6.1m in account. Here is some rationale. Would love to hear others opinions.. Trying… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 26 |
 J0E | The Rough with the Smooth – - Gwk 17 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - GWK 17 Feel free to leave your tales of woe and joy from the week here. Especially looking for audacious captaincies or transfers as… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 62 |
 Gargamel | FPL Now Has Best Ever Bonus System I'll probably get hounded out of town for this, but I think the BPS system works in a good way. Özil really didn't do as much as he normally does, and Sagna added a good amount of clearances and i… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 35 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Is 'value' redundant? Is "Value" gone this season? We hear a lot about a player being 'value for money' a lot over each season. But this year to me the term is bandied around way too often to have any significant meanin… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 12 |
Sz21 | Lukaku and Vardy Balloon Debate Lukaku (9.0m) Vardy (7.3m) If you had to choose 1 of these to sell. Who would it be? Thinking of Vardy. | 10 years, 2 months ago | 22 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gwk 18 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 18 This season we have revamped how we involve the community in our Scout Picks. Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent th… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 3 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast (Tues 9:30pm)- Leave Your Questions Here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scoutcast Community Questions Feel free to leave your questions for the team here. | 10 years, 2 months ago | 100 |
 Abel Xavier | Dead Team Calculation £88m The price this season's perfect dead Dream Team (so far) would have set you back ahead of Gameweek 1 4.5 Gomez or Butland (both have played all games and have same points) 5.0 Toby 6.0 Sma… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 24 |
 Numb | Which Premier League Manager Are You? If FPL managers were like Premier League managers... Which manager are you like this season? Are you in danger of getting sacked? | 10 years, 2 months ago | 53 |
J0E | UFPL Discussion Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL Discussion How did yesterday go for you? Who is out? Who comes in? And who were your stars? Also how are those playing the monthly game doing? In the… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 5 |
J0E | GWK 17 Captaincy Decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this week and why? | 10 years, 2 months ago | 39 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 17 Gameweek 16 will be posted tomorrow, apologies. Work Christmas party. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, ever… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 56 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | Hazard benching v Sun among Mourinho's final decisions "Telegraph Sport can reveal that Mourinho picked his Chelsea team for the Sunderland game in the hours leading up to his dramatic dismissal and it is unclear whether or not that will now been chang… | 10 years, 2 months ago | 18 |
 Zasa | Gameweek 17 Stat Attack GW17 Stat Attack - "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data." Highlight of the week: Go… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
 ANON. | Is Owning Sanchez, Ozil and Ramsey Doable? Thoughts about having Sanchez, Ozil and Ramsey? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 77 |
J0E | Fantasy Island Risk and Clean Sheet- GWK 17 Fantasy Island risks and Clean sheets Seeing as there is no Scoutcast this week I thought I'd put some of our research into hot topics. Yesterday I took a look at how Dembele influences Kane's poi… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
J0E | Kane, Dembele and Alli Analysis So I've done a bit of research into the Alli effect on Kane and why Dembele back could be good news for Kane. It looks as if Dembele offers far greater chance creation and passing accuracy from cen… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
J0E | Tonight's Scoutcast cancelled Scoutcast cancelled. Sorry to report that the Scoutcast tonight has been cancelled. Mark's son is unwell and he's needed on fatherly duties tonight. We will pack our notes up for now and hopefu… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
 Zizoulicious | The Holy Trinity of Goals This season 85% of goals have been scored from inside the box. So when looking at underlying stats, I think it's vital that a player at least matches his shots on target with shots in the box. Find… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 23 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight - Leave Your Questions Here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight (9:30pm UK time) Feel free to leave your questions for the team here. | 10 years, 3 months ago | 100 |
 Kavali | Top Picks Among FPL Veterans I wrote some simple "program" in excel, and import 34 FPL squads (11 teams from FFS Moderators & Contributors League, 16 from Overall Hall of Fame, 3 from currently top 100 overall and four more). … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
Abel Xavier | Christmas Rotation In last year's 28th/29th December fixtures, the following players were rotated, having started the previous game on the 26th Dec. Arsenal - Gibbs, Rosicky, (Giroud was ineligible after a red card … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 14 |
 John Colby (C) | Which Liverpool and Arsenal Mids? Looking to overhaul my midfield. Is Ramsey the perfect foil to Ozil owners or will Sanchez have an effect on Ramsey's points potential when he returns? Is Henderson the way to go into Liverpool's m… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
 Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos | Forget Fixtures and Price - Form is King Morning folks! I believe this season has proved that we should always be following the form players, regardless of fixture and price. Look at Mahrez, Vardy, Igahlo, Lukaku, Ramsey, Ozil. Don't … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 32 |
 Piggs Boson | Mahrez or Lukaku for the armband Mahrez(C) or Lukaku(C)? 😛 | 10 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
J0E | The Rough with the Smooth – - Gwk 16 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - GWK 16 Feel free to leave your tales of woe and joy from GWK 16 here. The best ones will be read out on tomorrow's live Scoutcast (W… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 75 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gwk 17 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 17 This season we have revamped how we involve the community in our Scout Picks. Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent th… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 3 |
Zizoulicious | 2015/16's Best XI...so far Moving on from Wakey's qn, if you were a prem manager for a year and could pick any 11 current prem players to be in your starting XI, depending on your managerial style, who would you go for? Fo… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 59 |
 Every Dog Has Its Day | Mahrez's Eyepopping Away Stats This is Mahrez's points when he plays away from home. 81 minutes - WHU - 10 45 minutes - BOU - 1 90 minutes - STK - 11 45 minutes - SOU - 4 90 minutes - WBA - 15 88 minutes - NEW - 9 89 minutes - … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 9 |
 | Is it time to sell Harry Kane? Time to sell Harry Kane...? Yes, I'm being serious. That was infuriating to watch and, frankly, if I didn't have more important things to do, I'd be thinking about it. - Penalty box touches......… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 26 |
 Ayew Serious | Happy birthday Adam west Hey Everyone, It's Adam West's Birthday Happy Birthday | 10 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
J0E | UFPL Discussion Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL discussion Who is coming in for you today and how are the monthly players doing so far. I'm 100th for December and just 25 pts off the £1,000 but w… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Gameweek 16 Captaincy Decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 79 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 16 GW15 results: Right above this post... ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the start of… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 62 |
 DeadStarComing | Clearer Assists and Get Rid of Captains I don't comment very often on here but just wanted to say how much I enjoyed listening to this weeks Scoutcast! A lot of funny talk about the two things that frustrate me the most about FPL - award… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 56 |
J0E | Gameweek 16's Best Differential Will Be... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be this Gameweek's top differential and why? | 10 years, 3 months ago | 51 |
J0E | Has Giroud done enough to smash the frontline template? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Has Giroud done enough to smash the frontline template? With five goals (one an OG admittedly ) in the last two games has the Arsenal man done enough to sec… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 35 |
 Stoke me a Clipper | Another take on team form Hi Peeps. This got lost in the Team Form comments section, and I want some thoughts on the analysis because i might do it regularly if it works.... I do like the weekly article (http://www.fantasy… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Playing the Percentages Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Playing the percentages We had a good discussion last night about playing the percentages - getting high ownership players in to help avoid a ratings slide … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 87 |
Zasa | Manchester Teams Midweek Stats Recap & highlights with some stats of the Tuesday CL match between ManCity vs M.Gladbach. ManCity: On paper it was a 4231, though it played as a 433 with a fluid front three, Sterling in as false … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 13 |
 Demí | Christmas Cracker Name your best differential over the Xmas schedule? Theo Walcott. 1.5% ownership. | 10 years, 3 months ago | 46 |
 rhysybball | 12 Days of Scoutmas On the twelfth day of Scoutmas, my gameweek gave to me... Twelve Deeneys Diving Eleven Payets Probing Ten Lovrens Leaping Nine Busses Parking Eight Mané Minutes Seven Swans a-Winning Six Ö… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 36 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast (Tonight 9:30pm) - Leave Your Questions Here Scout Cast Tonight - join the team tonight at 9:30pm (after the Champs Lg matches) where we will be discussing your questions and looking ahead to Gwk 16. Feel free to leave your questions for th… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 125 |
J0E | The Rough with the Smooth – - Gwk 15 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth Please leave your GWK 15 tales of woe and joy here. Remember to only mention what you did do (Eg captained Mahrez) and not what you di… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 79 |
 Enzo the Baker | Top 100K Christmas Challenge To remind ourselves that FPL is a marathon, not a sprint, I guess many of us try to set targets in terms of Overall Rank for stages in the season. In the last couple of years, the formula I've foll… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 26 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 16 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 16 This season we have revamped how we involve the community in our Scout Picks. Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent th… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 2 |
 Twisted Saltergater | Manager classifications I posted this on Friday while the pages were moving quickly. It tickled me writing it, anyway 😛 I think we should all have a "manager classification" next to our username. This will give the per… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 19 |
Bøwstring The Carp | Message to the Captain Hindsights To all the captain hindsights out there, I still believe KDB (2), Hazard (2), Kane (2) and Firmino (3) were decent options, even (C) options to go with prior to the deadline. Obviously many would … | 10 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
J0E | UFPL Discussion Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL discussion How has the week gone so far? Who comes in over the next two days? Who were your stars? And your flops? Also keen to hear for others who h… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
 Rödallegabomb á´¿á´® | Effective Ownership update - GW15 RP, bottomed 🙄 Last week I touched on the topic of 'effective ownership'. The original post can be found here: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/11965699 I thought it would be i… | 10 years, 3 months ago | 12 |