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Fellow Walcott owners, what are you doing? I'd have no problem at all holding for another week if it wasn't for the possibility of him dropping. That will ruin my plans.

Should we re-think Sakho as an option? As this is being discussed a lot on the site today, let's discuss the affect it might have on the player. Here's what we're talking about - http://www.thegu…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic A couple of discussions have arisen in our latest Scout Picks discussion. Thought it would be good to open these up to the community to discuss as well. Sk…

@ Beavis: As a Marseille fan, here's my two cents on the Andre Ayew vs. Payet debate. Ayew is a strong bodied midfielder well suited to the Premier League. He is quick, a strong finisher and reve…

Gotta mention this because this could trip up quite a few people... I've seen A LOT of people concluding that since Alexis was subbed into the match against West Ham, he will start against Crysta…

Right lads. As this weeks community champion, I will be looking for your advice on how we can take down the "experts" scouts picks. I have compiled a list of players I am considering. GK-Pants, F…

Team attacking stats GW1 http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/4249/ Team Defensive stats GW1 http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/4248/ Indiv…

Not many people seemed to consider Yaya Toure as an option this season. After what many considered a disappointing 2014/15 after his heroics the year before he was ignored as the Man City midfielde…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How do you plan to make sure Gameweek 2 is far better than Gameweek 1? Wildcard? Hits? Leave it alone and hope your players do better? Who is in and who co…

What is the general view on Chelski? Anybody want to bite?

Questions for the Scoutcast team. Tonight's Scoutcast will take place from 9pm to 10pm in which live on air Mark and Granville will be hoping their Man City players save them from a disastrous Ga…

Here are some crumbs of comfort: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/22442/event-history/1/ 27 1 to play http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/4231/event-history/1/ 26 1 to play http://fantasy…

The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 1 tales of joy and woe. We are looking for your input for our regular community article and Scoutcast feature. Called The Rough with the Smo…

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 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 the…

How to survive a gw1 disaster : a free guide to life in million plus rank 1 - don't panic. It gw1. Seasons are never won or lost in gw1 2 - unless your player is injured (Baines) or clearly out of…

Things I've learnt/concluded from the weekend: (Haven't watched any footage from New-Sou yet). 1.) Payet looks class (and West Ham look good to invest in right now). 2.) Chelsea are not firing on …

Morning all. Just a quick reminder to get your UFPL changes in. Are you sticking or twisting on the captain? I had Rooney but moving my armband to Walcott to day, in line with my FPL captaincy. …

To the new joiners, this is what you ought to know as a general rule. 15 things you need to know about FPL (just some random thoughts that might help mostly new players): 1 - taking hits is like…

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…

Killian here from PlayON - Daily Fantasy Football, As a partner of Fantasy Football Scout, we have over £2,000 in Free-Entry Games and Guaranteed Pots on offer for Gameweek 1 - you can read Tom F…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 1 and why?

Re-post for the DZ lads 🙂 Gw1 Paddy Power Clean Sheet Odds: Chelsea: 1.83 Arsenal: 1.83 Everton: 2.29 Man City: 2.29 Man Utd: 2.29 Leicester: 2.37 Bournemouth: 2.50 Liverpool: 2.80 Southampton:…

I’ve posted a couple of times regarding a study I have been carrying out on RMT posts to see who are the most selected players, and On the eve on the FPL season kicking off here is my final insta…

This is going to get missed so I'll hot topic it, for anyone doubting Rooney or considering Mata. According to Alan Shearer - Rooney will be back on penalties. This was said during an interview on…

Great to chat to both Tom Fenley and Simon March this evening. The Hangout broadcast is now added to the article for those who missed it. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/08/07/the-fan…

I know that there's a RMT surgery tonight but as that's for the FPL game I wanted to remind people that we have 2 articles for Sky and UFPL RMTs/surgeries but they might have been lost as they're n…

Remember that we have a RMT surgery planned tonight from 9-11pm. A community article will be published at 8pm for you to submit your teams and from 9-11 a panel of our experts will be available to…

Killian here from PlayON, We have today have launched our Referrals section, where you can earn 50% of the commissions generated by people you refer to PlayON. Your unique referral code is now …

Ok, in my mind this is the kind of thing Hot Topics were built for. Aguero - arguments for and against having him in your GW 1 team. Go!

Coates nailed http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/sunderland-defence-can-adapt-whether-it-s-younes-kaboul-or-john-o-shea-at-leicester-1-7397601

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Draft Day Tales For those taking part in last night's draft how did it go? What targets did you get? Which players are you less confident about?

Today's BPL Press conferences: 08:45: Norwich 09:00: Arsenal 09:30: Villa 10:00: Manchester United 10:00: Spurs 12:00: Sunderland 12:30: West Ham 12:45: City 13:15: West Brom 13:30: Stoke 14:00: L…

Swansea 2015/16 I'm aware this may not be interesting some people but hopefully it ends up being useful! ---DISCLAIMER--- I take no responsibility for any decisions you make. These are my thoughts…

Killian here from PlayON, We have a new site now live at www.playon.co and today have launched our Referrals section, where you can earn 50% of the commissions generated by people you refer to Pl…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Differentials XI Yesterday I took a look at the template XI and bench, featuring FPL’s most owned players. What emerged was that very few of these pla…

When I came on here last week after the summer break and had a look at the RMT's, I was extremely surprised by the fact that a player who I expected to feature heavily in the RMT's had been overloo…

Herd Behaviour Ruth_NZ often challenges groupthink in FFS debate and that is healthy for the community. In that spirit, I set out to challenge Ruth_NZ's popular (+38) assertion that "The reason fo…

Essential should be changed to Safe. The ultimate safe pick, safety in numbers, safety in points, safe as a captain. And its the captain part that matters really Hazard + 4.5 or Milner/Chadli…

According to the bookies, the best Gw1 team is something like this (Odds are for CS for defenders and To score anytime for attackers): Hart (5/4) Ruddy (7/4) Azpili (4/5) Mertesacker (4/5) Franci…

Just to stress... We are carrying out all FFS league auctions on Thursday 9pm UK time. If your Division shows otherwise (e.g.: 6pm tonight) it will be changed. Apologies for this - we've no id…

Worried that your team simply follows the FFS 'template', and that you're going to struggle to catch a break from the start? Fear no more, with this selection of popular picks, that actually have l…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Template XI Each season our carefully laid plans so often backfire as newbies to FPL and so-called casuals steal a march by opting for familiar names ov…

Well, community This is the starting point in the challenge... Schmeichel Koscielny, Azpilicueta, Huth Hazard, Walcott, Ozil, Ritchie Rooney, Lukaku, Pelle 82.5m spent TALK TO ME!

So, Weekly/Daily Games. Do you play them? If not, why not? Does the ruleset put you off? Is it a time/mind space issue? Are they not available in your territory? Would bigger prizes help? We'd…

I managed to post this in an old thread, silly me. I'll try again. Yesterday someone was lamenting the lack of variation in RMTs, saying that "we are picking from a pool of 30 or 40 players" and …

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

Afternoon all. Apologies for not been on much. Had holidays and now a scheduling change this month means I wont me on much til Fridays. I put together some of those PFL achievements into a spreads…

Portsmouth's Fratton Park will be in FIFA 16 in honour of Simon Humber, [aka absinthe] a creative director on the game who sadly passed away. Great touch

*UPDATE* Here is the link to the update of my "New Players Analysis" Spreadsheet. Sorry it is a bit later than expected! http://bit.ly/1I2WWcf New players have been added to the transfers page a…

Have people a wildcard strategy that decides the make up of their team? I cant decide which option to take and have a bout 5 draft teams. I need to nail my colours to the mast soon. In previous sea…