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 Ludo | Aguero Without Silva Stats Aguero starting without Silva, under Pellegrini: 2014-15 PL: 5 games, 5 goals and 3 assists (excluding Everton match, where he went off injured after 7 minutes) CL: 2 games and 3 goals 2013-14 … | 10 years, 6 months ago | 27 |
 Doolittle | Kolarov Is Not Essential...But He Is Awesome Just to pull Jonty up on one thing; I don't believe your idea about being central to attacking play has any real relevance to whether the Kolarov bandwagon will last. The rotation threat is a valid… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 41 |
 Dr Dream | GWK 5 Falling Stars Falling stars GW5… Usual rules…Falling stars is a fictitious squad/team made up entirely of players who have fallen in price since GW1 and are collectively valued less than the 100 mill origin… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
 J0E | Gwk 5's best differential will be... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which player will be Gameweek 5's best differential? | 10 years, 6 months ago | 44 |
J0E | A World With No Fantasy Football Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic This was asked of us last night in the scoutcast by Disable, but thought we'd open it up to the community as well. If Fantasy football didn't exist what wo… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
 dush64 | Dido's Response Dido's response My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I, play this game at all. Too many hits, too many failures, can't rise in rank at all. And even if I could it'd all be wasted, with the casual… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 9 |
 rhysybball | Dear Stanville... (to be sung to the tune of Eminem's 'Stan') Dear Granville, I wrote you but you still ain't replied I told you my transfer ideas, and who was in my side. I sent two emails back in summer, you must… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 127 |
Ludo | Gwk 5 Captaincy: Aguero v Sanchez Aguero's stats are good, Sanchez's stats are good. Palace and Stoke are both quite leaky at the back, but there's not much in it between them. Aguero is explosive, but Sanchez is just as explosive … | 10 years, 6 months ago | 56 |
J0E | Chips So Far Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Chips So Far Be great to hear from anyone who has already played their chip. How did it go? Do you regret not saving it for a DGWK? What about the all out… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 45 |
Ludo | Keepers Stat Attack I’ve been struggling to decide who to play between Butland and McCarthy, as I’m not sure which is the better fixture for a keeper, ars or MCI. Instinctively, I followed the logic of going for t… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 26 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Wed 9pm - Leave Your Questions here Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast Questions We have a live Scoutcast planned for 9pm Wednesday. Ahead of that we'd like to gather your questions for Mark, Granville and co. | 10 years, 6 months ago | 89 |
 Ryan | Saving the AOA Chip Until Last I think its likely I'll play my AOA chip in GW38. Not many clean sheets in the final week. | 10 years, 6 months ago | 51 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | Dating advice...from Fantasy Football experts If you're going on a first date tonight, the first thing you should do is......................... | 10 years, 6 months ago | 151 |
J0E | The Scout Picks Lottery Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Scout Picks Lottery Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 5 This season we have revamped how we involve the community in our Scout Picks. … | 10 years, 6 months ago | 16 |
 Rhinos | Captain choice strategy Captain choice strategy; There are a number of thought processes that lead us to decide who to put our armband on 1) Gut feel This has to be the most pleasing strategy when it works, no worrying … | 10 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Is Rooney no longer a striker? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Wayne Rooney no longer a striker? Given his role in midfield over the seasons, lack of Premier League attacking threat and failure to score in open pla… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge - GW4 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GW4 RESULTS Apologies - its been a maniac week and I knew I could take some more time due to internationals. But finally, here are GW4 results! ***** SCORES ON THE BOARD *… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 2 |
 andy85wsm | Video games? Saturday evening, missus is away, I've spent all day entertaining the kid and now he's in bed! Time for some computer games (rocking evening). Think I'm going to give Destiny another go. What vid… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 108 |
J0E | Do internationals matter anymore? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Do internationals matter anymore? Given the importance of club football, especially in England, does international football matter anymore? Did you used… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 34 |
 Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos | Latest Members Tables - Best Team Attack and Defence Morning folks! @Members - Check these very useful tables out for team attack and defence 🙂 http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/7897/ http://members.fantasyfootballsco… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Wasting a Transfer Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it worth wasting a transfer? How often do we make a transfer only to see the player we draft in blank, while the one that is ditched score handsomely? Ha… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 71 |
 Boris Bodega | The Sack Race First PL Manager to get the sack this season will be.......? | 10 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
J0E | Best Community Article in August Vote Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Vote now for your favourite community article of August Each month we honour the endeavours of our community writers by offering a £20 Amazon voucher to th… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 48 |
 Demí | Players International Break Itinerary Below, i've rounded up a list of those away on international duty for their respective national sides. The list is in order of players for specific countries, and has the respective dates too. They… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
J0E | How Did Deadline Day Impact on Your Fantasy Team? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which transfer window move will have the biggest impact on your team. Any Myhill owners nervous that Lindegaard will usurp him? What about Silva owners, wi… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 4 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 4 Please leave your tales of woe and joy from Gameweek 4 here. We are looking to find out what key transfers you made that… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 86 |
J0E | How do we turn it around? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How do we turn it around? For the many of us with a seven figure rank how do we turn it around and rise up the rankings. Much of the tried and tested fo… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 50 |
 Weasel Boy | Aguero and Sanchez are killing my team Having g Aquero and Sanchez in my team is killing me score wise. May try a different captain next GW. | 10 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Bonus Round Up Sorry for the long post. I’ve been looking at the BPS from over the last 4 gameweeks. In short, fullbacks have been thriving from the new system, scoring more bonus points each gameweek than stri… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 19 |
andy85wsm | Rank milestones post GW4 Don't be too worried about your ranks just yet lads. You might not get number 1 but top 10k is only a few weeks away potentially.... 1: 296 pts 10: 278 pts 100: 263 pts 1k: 245 pts 10k: 226 pts 10… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
 Belsunz | Most disappointing player so far Who's the player that disappointed you most in these first 4 GWs? My nomination goes to... Wayne Rooney. | 10 years, 6 months ago | 39 |
 Ruth_NZ | The pitfalls of a rigid team structure Why has the "FFS Template" performed badly over the first 4 GWs? Well, one thing is player selection hasn't turned out well. But there is an interesting underlying factor. Experienced FPL manage… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 19 |
andy85wsm | UFPL - MD2 + 3 teams Ultimate Premier League.... As we're getting into the final stages of the first window of transfers which have to be used by 12th September I've had a look through the teams playing in Match Day 2… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 4 |
J0E | Ufpl discussion Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL stick or twist Which players are you substituting out, which are you bringing in? Any key players stand out for transferring in after yesterday's ma… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 22 |
J0E | Gwk 4 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 4 and why? | 10 years, 6 months ago | 47 |
 Judas | Is Yaya over performing in FPL Does anyone else think that we are perhaps being deceived by Yaya Toure's stats so far this season? He has scored 2 goals and notched 2 assists in 3 games and after going up in value is £8.8m...H… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 42 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Another Friday, another bit of Fantasy Football excitement! Ladies & gentlemen, the Scout Picks Challenge is here again! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 72 |
J0E | Hall of Fame updated The Live Hall of Fame has now been updated to take into account the first three Gwks of the season. (Note this is only available for Members) http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/hall-of-fa… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 10 |
Dr Dream | Falling Stars - Gameweek 4 They’re back….Falling Stars GW4 and a selection of players we have been quick to ditch..all of who have fallen in price (not second keeper) and all for less than the original 100 mill budget. … | 10 years, 6 months ago | 22 |
J0E | Gwk 4's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 4's best differential? | 10 years, 6 months ago | 102 |
 Wingate | Timing the bench boost? BENCH BOOST People keep saying save it till a DGW, but I disagree, - Realistically when we prepare for a DGW we aim to bring in circa 3/4/5/6/7 DGW players, obviously dependent on how big a doub… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 32 |
J0E | Were we wrong to ditch Rooney? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Have we got Rooney all wrong? Is he actually a fantasy asset after all who is on the verge of one of his great runs of goals? Or were Club Brugge just woeful… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 28 |
 Nickofoz | Thursday's Press Conferences Today's Press Conferences: 08:45 Watford news conference 09:00 Arsenal news conference 09:30 West Ham news conference 12:30 Tottenham news conference 13:30 Bournemouth news conference 13:30 Norwic… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
 ​ | How Long is 'For The Long Run'? Just want to post my thoughts on Ryan's statement "Nothing is for the long run in FPL" as I feel it could generate some discussion on this new page. So here goes: The way I see it, if you're playi… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
@ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge - The results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GW3 RESULTS Admittedly, it's been a case of pure laziness that I haven't posted the results this GW! For those of you who are sharp eyed, you'll have realised the spreadshe… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 10 |
 | Statches or Matches? Stat-ches or matches? We haven't had one of these for a while... but do you prefer cold-hard stats, or the instictive punters feeling about someone you've watched live? Coutinho is a prime examp… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 49 |
J0E | Key Transfer Deadline Day Issues Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Next week's transfer window deadline day. What are the key remaining transfer issues that are set to influence your transfer decisions? I think Stones to C… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 58 |
 The Governor | Backing The Home Team Okay, so I have uncovered the reason for my poor start. I'll be the first to admit that I'm very much a 'fixtures' man - More precisely, a 'homer' When there is a tough decision to be made on who… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 12 |
Bøwstring The Carp | Full Backs Are Hogging Bonus Sorry for the long post. I’ve been looking at the BPS from over the last 3 gameweeks. In short, fullbacks have been thriving from the new system, scoring more bonus points each gameweek than stri… | 10 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
 tm245 | Mahrez & Midfield Heroes Of Seasons Past Don't think this is article worthy, since it is by no means comprehensive and quite self-selecting, but when getting Mahrez I was thinking about the bandwagons that truly were worth hopping on for … | 10 years, 6 months ago | 9 |