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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 …

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…

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…

@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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

*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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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 …

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

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…

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…

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…

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 ----…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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 …

So. I am the only one who thinks that the Manchester United midfield will be an inglorious mess? OK, then. 🙂

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…