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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

Magic Hamster
The RMT template team

I posted about 10 days ago a study I did based on 166 RMT posts and continued this and thought I’d update it. The sample has now been expanded to 306 RMT posts. The previous “most popular RMT…

10 years, 7 months ago27

andy85wsm
Curious case of Christian Benteke

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic - The curious case of Christian Benteke With Benteke’s move to Liverpool now sealed are you more or less likely to want him in your team? How will he fit …

10 years, 7 months ago67

Wolverine
Start as you mean to go on

I know it's a case of many factors over the season but usually the people who finish say in the top ten get very high up quite early on. I'd be interested to hear if any of these people have approa…

10 years, 7 months ago54

andy85wsm
How important is team balance?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How much does your teams balance affect your player choices? Last season’s winner Dufflinks made several mentions about keeping a balanced team so that …

10 years, 7 months ago46

Aston Villa-Boas
What about Kane?

Seems like everyone is avoiding Kane, but why?

10 years, 7 months ago41

Ryan
Is there a new baseline for defenders?

Just going to pitch this as an idea. With no 4.0 options. Is the old 4.0 the new 4.5? and is the old 4.5 the new 5.0? With so much value in the mid priced range can we have a defence of 4.5-5m de…

10 years, 7 months ago45

Ludo
Post Europa League Games

Bearing in mind that teams perform worse after Europa League games than they do otherwise, I think its helpful to look at the fixture lists of the teams involved with this in mind. Asterisks signif…

10 years, 7 months ago12

andy85wsm
New FPL additions

New additions to the game - anyone take your fancy? Amavi (AVL) DEF £5.0 Gomez (LIV) DEF £4.5 Roberts (MCI) MID £4.5 Bamford (CRY) FWD £6.0 Mitrovic (NEW) FWD £6.5

10 years, 7 months ago27

andy85wsm
Show us your leagues

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Today we’re looking for shout outs and details of the leagues you’re running in FPL and other Fantasy Football games. Let us know what clever and intere…

10 years, 7 months ago58

TorresMagic™
Last Man standing is back!

Last Man Standing is back! With the help of Andy85wsm, Last Man Standing will be up and running for another season. The code to enter is 13343-18364 with an article up sometime this weekend or Mon…

10 years, 8 months ago54

Lucy.
Lucy answers meaning of life with updates

Before I'm driven insane by all of the questions like 'Lucy, is x nailed on?', 'Lucy, will x start the season?', 'Lucy, which Saints players are you going for?', 'Lucy, is Yoshida a good pick' (for…

10 years, 8 months ago52

President John F. Keninnsie
Ivan vs Azpilicueta

The Ivanovic vs Azpilicueta decision is an interesting one. Something that always seems to come up in this discussion is 'Ivan will score 40+ points more than Azpi over the season, therefore he's …

10 years, 8 months ago60

Ryan
How important is player ownership for GW1?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How Important is player ownership for our GW1 teams? I see a lot of people are concerned about Hazards high ownership (54%). Personally this doesn't worry …

10 years, 8 months ago59

Jairzinho
Double Game Weeks

Double gameweeks are always important, and this season they could be even more so, with the triple captain and full squad chips coming into play. The best time to use the triple captain chip must …

10 years, 8 months ago19

WHY ALWAYS MESUT?
5-4-1

Wrote a massive essay... only for a new article to be posted 2 minutes later. Reposting here, hope it's okay. So this is a follow-up from what I posted yesterday: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.c…

10 years, 8 months ago30

Mark
Rooney & Depay Dream Ticket?

Today's Hot Topic... Lots of talk of Rooney and Depay as a combination in the press this morning. Early fixtures are certainly in their favour if they're able to rotate a little in their CL qual…

10 years, 8 months ago34

The Sarjeant
Mids more explosive than forwards?

10 years, 8 months ago19

Dr Dream
Base Line Team

@Sanchez...just for you and squad balance. Rate my BLT...some food for thought. So many RMT's..and quite rightly because there are so many picks...and good picks at that... I quite often reply t…

10 years, 8 months ago30

FPL Daniel
Could Falcao start with Costa?

Jose's words on Falcao. “If we want, we can play with Costa and him together – it is something they did before when they were in Atletico. Can he be the Falcao of Atletico? We believe so. I t…

10 years, 8 months ago36

WHY ALWAYS MESUT?
Strong defence

So, I'm looking at a slightly different strategy. I have no idea whether I'll go through with it, but it might be worth a thought. Till now, I have always used a 3-4-3 (or very rarely a 3-5-2) for…

10 years, 8 months ago98

Bøwstring The Carp
Watford - Pre Season Report

Paderborn 0 v 2 Watford Watford team 1st half: http://i.imgur.com/HXZL8Ez.png - Deeney and Vydra link up with the striker feeding a low through ball between the defence. Vydra slots home very cal…

10 years, 8 months ago9

andy85wsm
Which Arsenal midfielder?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which (if any) Arsenal midfielder are you looking to have in your team? Following a convincing win against Everton yesterday which included a goal from each…

10 years, 8 months ago33

Spectrum-FFS Doubles Champ
Help save last man standing

Right I know this somewhat goes against the rules here but I'm going to ask you guys to upvote this comment and flag it to bring it to the mods attention in the hope it gets a hot topic. On the pre…

10 years, 8 months ago16

President John F. Keninnsie
Captain strange

What has been your weirdest FPL captaincy? Last season alone I captained the likes of Balotelli and Jovetic, and I also captained Fonte in the week armband favourite Harry Kane scored a hat trick a…

10 years, 8 months ago41

Couti & the Below5th
Probable starters

Probable Starters 15/16 Update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03D_KnVF1fRbmxPTnhEOXJNaE0/view?usp=sharing

10 years, 8 months ago14

Dušan Citizen
Man City match report

This is how I saw Manchester City - Melbourn City 1:0 game. Scorer: Nasri Assist: Zuculini City played with a lot of youngsters. Hart, Zabaleta, Sagna, Denayer, Mangala, Kolarov, Fernandinho, S…

10 years, 8 months ago4

andy85wsm
Are you scouting pre-season?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How much will pre-season affect your decisions? We have all been burnt before by pre-season bandwagons (Boselli anyone?) but is there something to be said f…

10 years, 8 months ago27

Acquafresca
Man Utd Match Report

Man. Utd. 1-0 Club America FIRST HALF RECAP - - - - - - - Johnstone - - - - - - - Darmian - Jones - Blind - Shaw - - - - - Morgan - Carrick - - - - - Depay - - - - Mata - - - - Young - - - - - -…

10 years, 8 months ago20

Epic Fail
Is this an essential hot topic?

Obviously nobody is actually essential, but what does 'essential' mean to you in FPL terms?

10 years, 8 months ago30

Davido989
Liverpool Game Report

Liverpool vs Brisbane: 2-1 Goals: Lallana, Milner Assists: Milner, Henderson Starting XI: ------------------Mignolet------------- ---Clyne---Skrtel---Sakho---Gomez ----Henderson---Lucas---Milner--…

10 years, 8 months ago8

J0E
Is Henderson really the best mid price midfield option?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Henderson really the best mid price midfield option? As with Ivanovic's performance in our recent premium defender poll, our poll on the best mid price m…

10 years, 8 months ago33

thepuntmaster
New Player Analysis Update

*UPDATE* Here is the link to the update of my "New Players Analysis" Spreadsheet http://bit.ly/1I6RiZx It also features an additional "VS" section to help you decide between those players of a s…

10 years, 8 months ago6

Lucy.
Happy Birthday Lucy...oh, and Gareth Bale too.

Happy Birthday to me, Moussa Dembele, Sergio Busquets and Gareth Bale. 😀

10 years, 8 months ago44

Ibralicious
Nailed on Sunderland defenders?

So after the arrival of Kaboul, who's more nailed on for Sunderland: O'Shea, Coates or Mathews? :/

10 years, 8 months ago42

FISSH
Are we wrong about Benteke?

Clearing up some misconceptions about Benteke, this is a post from a Villa fan. Makes you want Benteke so much haha https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/3bjl5z/clearing_up_some_misconcept…

10 years, 8 months ago14

Parm
Fancy something new?

NEW #FPL ADDITIONS: Schwarzer [LEI] GK 4.0 Lindegaard [MUN] GK 4.5 Darlow [NEW] GK 4.0 Lascelles [NEW] DEF 4.5 Nyom [WAT] DEF 4.5 Andreu [NOR] MID 4.5 Clasie [SOU] MID 5.5 Moha [STK] MID 4.5 Le…

10 years, 8 months ago13

J0E
Ivanovic and the Premier Defence Options

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Ivanovic and the premium defence options Voting is now closed in our poll on who you think will be the best premium priced defender in Fantasy Football next…

10 years, 8 months ago44

Concrete
Balanced Team or Top Heavy?

Is a good balance to your team necessary and do you feel that you can place less emphasis on a certain area of your team to improve another? E.g. More punts on Gks so you can better the rest of yo…

10 years, 8 months ago8

Birdman77
How do you increase team value?

Last year was my first FPL year, did ok, top 1000. However, lack of team value hurt towards the back end of the year. Do you guys focus on making coin early in the season or just get guns in and ot…

10 years, 8 months ago39

NOMONEY
Promoted attackers

For those interested as to how key attacking players performed in promoted teams before and after getting promotion, here are some stats: -------------------------------------------------- Leiceste…

10 years, 8 months ago15

andy85wsm
Flags Are Also For The Good Things In Life

Just a quick heads up in case y'all didn't know - please feel free to use the flag button under posts to highlight both good and bad posts - it's not just there to report things that shouldn't be p…

10 years, 8 months ago24

Dr Dream
A Silva lining

Disagree with all those saying Silva won't keep it up this season. He was one of only four mids who managed over 200 touches in the box last season and that always means pts...and lots of them. One…

10 years, 8 months ago24

J0E
RMT Etiquette

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic RMT Etiquette RMTs are coming in thick and fast and the community is here to help. Most of us first starting using the site by posting a RMT and asking for …

10 years, 8 months ago32

The Bandit
Can ManU Win The Title?

Neutrals... ie not fans of Chelsea, both Mancs, Arsenal and Liverpool (included for the hate of Man U) 😉 Can Man Utd win the league this year? It's a big yes from me

10 years, 8 months ago43

Get up ya bum
Promotion Flops

Gary mcsheffrey 14 goals 21 assists in championship followed by 3 goals 8 assists in the prem Graham dorrans 13 goals 19 assists in the championship followed by 1 goal 2 assists in the prem Just a…

10 years, 8 months ago19

Bøwstring The Carp
Sacramento v Sunderland Match Report

Report: Sacramento Republic 1v0 Sunderland Sunderland 1st half team: http://i.imgur.com/MF2Gihu.png - Sunderland don't look very threatening up front. - Only chances came from Defoe striking narr…

10 years, 8 months ago2

Bøwstring The Carp
Club Atlas v Newcastle Match Report

Report: Club Atlas 2-1 Newcastle Newcastle team until 72nd minute: http://i.imgur.com/o7gjHso.png - Janmaat got forward plenty of times - Lascelles and Williamson didn't look great at the back, p…

10 years, 8 months ago9

Davido989
Liverpool v Thai All Stars Match Report

Liverpool vs Thai All Stars (4-0) Goals: Markovic, Sakho, Lallana, Origi Assists: Teixeira(2), Henderson(2) First Half XI: -----------------Bogdan------------- -Gomez---Toure—Sakho---Wisdom ----…

10 years, 8 months ago12

Beavis
Sanchez to miss opener

Expanded comments on Alexis Sanchez by Wenger: "He'll be back with us on Aug. 3 and it takes about three weeks to competitive," Wenger told a news conference in Singapore, where Arsenal are compet…

10 years, 8 months ago9

J0E
UFPL Discussion

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL discussion The Ultimate Fantasy Premier League is now open. I for one am signed up again, after finally getting to grips with the game during the secon…

10 years, 8 months ago12