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 Granville | Mark Welcomes A New Addition I know you've all been waiting eagerly for this news Mark is now father to a baby girl called Edith 🙂 Now you can get back to your RMT's | 10 years, 8 months ago | 67 |
 BeachBadger | The FPL achievements checklist Hey guys how goes it? Excitement of kick starting a new season got me thinking, what are your goals for this year, besides the obvious overall winner 😆 I decided to jot down some FPL Achieveme… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 161 |
 Parm | Sanchez Stats Sanchez stats(again).... Starting WITH Giroud: 5.79 PPG Starting WITHOUT Giroud: 6.4 PPG Starting WITH Ramsey: 5.16 PPG Starting WITHOUT Ramsey: 7.2 PPG Starting WITH Özil: 4.71 PPG Starting W… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 26 |
 rattan64 | Fabregas v Hazard Fabregas or Hazard? A common dilemma for fantasy managers at the start of the new season. I pick Fabregas by a distance, and here's why... Price: Last season, Fab came in at 9m, Hazard at 10m (I … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 19 |
 Doosra - â˜DeclanMyGeniusâ… | Will the ManU midfield be an inglorious mess? So. I am the only one who thinks that the Manchester United midfield will be an inglorious mess? OK, then. 🙂 | 10 years, 8 months ago | 61 |
 J0E | Best ManU Option Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best ManU option. With the imminent acquisitions of Schneiderlin and Schweinstieger Manchester United's central midfield is really shaping up. A knock on ef… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 38 |
J0E | New Recruits Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic New recruits Cabaye is the latest new recruit (or returning player) to the Prem League. Which new players for 2015/16 will be the highest scorers in Fantas… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 23 |
 President John F. Keninnsie | Lukakuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu The more I think about it, the more I'm tempted by Lukaku. Bare with me. The main reason people are being out off are his first 10 fixtures: WAT, sot, MCI, tot, CHE, swa, wba, LIV, MUN, ars. Most… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
 Le Saux Solid Crew | Midfield maestros I'm really bored (if you can't tell), so I made a list of all the midfielders who since 2012/13 season, have had over 30 goals + assists combined, might find it interesting: Eden Hazard - 37 Goa… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Chips Ahoy or Annoy? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Chips Ahoy! Or are the chips are down. What do you think of the new 'chips' in FPL. Do you think they will ruin the game? Or do you think they are a neces… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 36 |
J0E | RMT Build My Team Scores Has anyone tried inputting their draft FPL side into RMT yet? Just done mine - got 310.45 over next six and a v good 58.75 for the first gameweek. Pretty happy with that. | 10 years, 8 months ago | 52 |
 andy85wsm | First Half of the Season Wildcard Is planning for the first 4 game weeks only going to be a set up for fail? I see that a lot of people are planning for first 4 weeks and then looking to wildcard because of the way they've been sp… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
J0E | Top 4 Heavy Hitters To Start With in FPL Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Top 4 Heavy hitters to start with in FPL. Depending whether you want a balanced team or not the maximum optimum number of heavy hitters in Gameweek 1 is aro… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 66 |
 Mark | Happy FPL Launch Day Big thanks to all for making this another great day on FFS. My baby is now a week late with the c-section booked in for Monday. So, I make no apologies for retiring early after a hectic one while… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 47 |
 Ziegler1988 | BPS changes Well done FPL Towers for listening to complaints about GK and defender baps and changing accordingly: Save is worth 2 BPS instead of 1 2 CBIs is 1 BPS instead of 3 CBIs Successful tackle is worth 2… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 7 |
J0E | FPL BPS CHANGES - Bad news for slick passers Bonus changes. A quick look at the BPS reveals a couple of key changes. There are less points available for passes. In 2014/15 9 BPS 90% pass completion 6 BPS 80 to 89% pass completion 3 BPS… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 24 |
 teddy. | Cheap GK rotations? Hey kids, Here are my picks of 9.0 keeper combos: Guzan/Ruddy (Villa/Norwich): bou STO SUN BOU WBA whm LEI new WBA tot SWA eve WAT wat EVE new WHM AVL sun CPL LEI wba whm NOR WHM lei EVE swa TOT… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 6 |
 Demí | First impressions - prices First impressions of the FPL prices Arsenal - Sanchez seems a bit expensive compared to his Arsenal rivals. Defence reasonably priced once more. Aston Villa - Bacuna reclassified and could now be … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 8 |
 MAXUN1TED | MaxUn1ted snatches FPL ID #1 Not a usual poster here, guys, but always read this website. http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1/history/ Might even quit now! 😀 | 10 years, 8 months ago | 15 |
andy85wsm | New deadlines Okay I somehow missed this: Deadlines are subject to change and will be 1 hour before the kick-off time in the first match of the Gameweek. | 10 years, 8 months ago | 16 |
J0E | Best Weeks To Use Your Chips Best Weeks To Use Your Chips Aside from Double Gameweeks key weeks to look to make the most of these rule changes look to be weeks where top 4 attacking sides all have favourable fixtures. If any … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 12 |
andy85wsm | BIG FPL changes Chips can be used to potentially enhance your team's performance during the season. Only one chip can be played in a single Gameweek. The chips available are as follows: All Out Attack - Allows y… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Can Bournemouth Beat the Drop? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Bournemouth have a great start, but are we expecting too much of the south coast side? Will they end the season as another Southampton, or delve deeper into … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 9 |
 Jimjam | Defensive Rotation Options (Warning - long post). There has already been some fantastic research and analysis into defensive rotations, and whilst I'm sure people don't want to be saturated with information on the topic, I … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Does Falcao kill off Costa as a Fantasy option? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Does Falcao kill off Costa as a fantasy option? Or will he be back up as Drogba was and the Columbian turned out to be at ManU? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 42 |
 Obi Wan Elokobi | First name on team sheet...who is not Aguero or Hazard? First person in people's teams other than Hazard or Aguero? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 47 |
J0E | Amusing Fantasy Team Names Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Amusing team names. What amusing team names are you looking to use for the forthcoming season's Fantasy games? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 95 |
Doosra - â˜DeclanMyGeniusâ… | 3 way defensive rotation? 34 matches rotation minimum(all Season): ARS/TOT; MCI AVL/WBA; EVE; WAT BOU/WAT; WBA CHE/WHM; LEI; SUN CPL/STO - EVE/LIV; AVL LEI/SWA; CHE; SOU LIV/EVE; WBA MCI/MUN; ARS MUN/MCI; TOT NEW/SUN; NOR;… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 56 |
 Numb | Telegraph Fantasy Bargains OK, while we are waiting, TFF have released their provisional player list - anyone spot any bargains? http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03366/Fantasy_Football_1_3366350a.pdf | 10 years, 8 months ago | 22 |
 Piggs Boson | Best fixtures for clean sheets *** What are the best fixtures? *** WARNING - Long post alert. This post aims to find out which fixtures provided the most CSs last season to help give us a rough idea of what fixtures to look out… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 13 |
Demí | Lukaku Looks A Great Option Lukaku being on permanet pen duty and with the addition of Deulofeu and also with no Europa league worries makes him one of the most interesting forward options this season for me. Will be watching… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 22 |
J0E | Do Penalties Really Matter? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Do penalties really matter in choosing a player? I was just doing some research to answer a comment on Tiggsy's excellent Simple Guide to Fantasy Management… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 25 |
J0E | First player prices you'll look at. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic When the FPL game opens which player prices will you look at first? And what are your genuine hopes for the big hitters' price tags. Is it sensible to look … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 26 |
 Anorak | Ironman ultra What if..... There was a year long fantasy game, let's call it Ironman Ultra for now, in which you took part in a series of fantasy games, throughout the year, across multiple platforms, multiple … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Which Arsenal midfielder/forward? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Arsenal midfielder/forward? I know we don't know the prices yet, but lets ignore that for the moment and let us know who you think will be the best Ar… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
 Bojan Horsemack | What makes us follow a football club? Semi-serious question. Is there any rational reason why as a supporter you should tie yourself to a football club for life? A club from the local area makes some kind of sense (supporting your com… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 65 |
J0E | Is Fantasy Premier League football better than real Premier League football? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Fantasy Premier League Football better than real Premier League football? Given that the top four are most years the same teams, given that the same team… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 43 |
 Ruth_NZ | ...or is a 4 man defence better? This is so misleading. Why does (almost) everyone talk about points scored as if that's the criteria? It isn't. Saying that these players that scored 160+ points were mainly midfielders and forw… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 0 |
 SADIO SANÉ | Is 3-5-2 better than 3-4-3? I personally think it's a good idea. The 'Overall Dream Team' last season was in a 3-4-3 formation (only just, Austin beat Cazorla by 8 points), but the 'Dream Team' for each GW had a 3-5-2 format… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Can Liverpool Break Into the Top 4? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are Liverpool mounting a genuine challenge for a top four place with their busy summer transfer dealings? Or like last season will they just miss out again? | 10 years, 8 months ago | 66 |
 palace ash | FPL Dream Changes If you could wish for any changes this year, what would it be: Mine: 1) Manager substitutions overnight between Sat/Sun/Mon and Tue/Wed including captain change 2) Transparency over price changes… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 51 |
 Pasqualinho | Should FPL Cut the Number of Free Transfers On potential rule changes, particularly the ones that prevent the templates from quickly forming - how about reduce the FTs to something like one every 2 GWs? I've not really thought it through but… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
Mark | Paypal Issues Today Just a heads up, Paypal are currently having issues with their service (as of 12.01am today) which is causing issues for a lot of sites that use their service. On our side, it's just failing to t… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 9 |
 FPL Daniel | FPL launch dates since 2006. Hi lads, Here you go. The history of FPL launch and EPL season opener. Enjoy it. The relaunch date is soon, I can feel it 😛 FPL Launch EPL Season Opener ——————————-----------… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Vote now for your favourite community article of June Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Vote now for your favourite community article of June Each month we honour the endeavours of our community writers by offering a £20 Amazon voucher to the … | 10 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
 Beavis | ManU Transfer Talk Really hope we wrap up Schneiderlin soon because I don't actually believe we will sign Ramos (new contract), Schweinsteiger (will be promised regular football by Bayern), Coleman (not even convince… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 67 |
J0E | Rotation Dos and Don'ts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rotation Dos and Don'ts What are your top tips for getting the most out of a rotation strategy? Has it worked for you in the past? Has it also failed and in… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 19 |
 ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS | 2015's Over and Under Achievers Will Be... Name your teams for the following categories for the upcoming season: - Overachiever - Underachiever I'm going to go for Overachiever - Newcastle (relative to last season) and Southampton being… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 71 |
 OPTA FPL | Will The Hammers Struggle or Step Up in 15/16? Looks like WHU have a plan and they're ready to step up | 10 years, 8 months ago | 30 |
J0E | Navigating the pre season friendlies Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Navigating the pre season friendlies Many players are starting to return to pre season training this week. This means that friendly games are on the horizon… | 10 years, 8 months ago | 19 |