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Author Hot Topic Date Replies

J0E
End of season ambitions

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With three Gwks left what do you think you can realistiy achieve this season? Is the top 100, 1000 or 20000 within your grasp? Or is mini league glory ach…

11 years, 4 months ago 91

J0E
Gwk 35 Captaincy

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

11 years, 4 months ago 53

@ocprodigy
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35 Admittedly, I'm behind on GW34 results as it only finished Wednesday night but I will have it up later tonight (hopefully) so bear with me please! In the meanti…

11 years, 4 months ago 28

Doosra - ☭BowenOfRice☭
Hello again, FFScout

WARNING: LONG POST ALERT First, I would like to express my deep sympathy and personal sorrow to Absinthe's, Simon Humber's family and friends. What a positive man, and inspiration he was - an exam…

11 years, 4 months ago 227

J0E
GWK 35's Best Differential

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 35's best differential/punt?

11 years, 4 months ago 28

AK ⭐
Rest In Peace Absinthe

I am not sure if everyone's or anyone's aware about Absinthe here. This is what Triggerlips has on his blog. Simon Humber, one of the original members of Transfer Hub passed away today. He had b…

11 years, 4 months ago 141

Ruth_NZ
Assessing the GW 34 wildcard

Assessing the GW34 Wildcard Building on an earlier post that showed GW34 wildcarders to have averaged a 24-point gain in the top 10k (84 points wildcard average vs 60 points non-wildcard average p…

11 years, 4 months ago 23

A.T
Current rank milestones

1st: 2208 100th: 2102 1k: 2044 5k: 1988 10k: 1960 50k: 1884 100k: 1846 Thanks to Christina for the numbers 😉

11 years, 4 months ago 14

J0E
The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gwk 34 tales of joy and woe.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 34 tales of joy and woe. We are looking for your input for our new regular community article. Called…

11 years, 4 months ago 37

J0E
DGWK Surprise Stars

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Double gameweek surprises Dawson, Harper and N'Doye are the surprise stars of Gameweek 34's double fixtures. Will Gameweek 37 be the same with Wickham, Welb…

11 years, 4 months ago 56

Sunny 😎
Remembering your casual past

I'd like to know about how people on here used to play fpl in their casual days. I was a casual for many years as I started playing fpl at a very young age. I used to captain Terry every game bec…

11 years, 4 months ago 47

Kings of Lyon ★
Arsenal Unlikely To Rotate For DGWK 37

I am seeing a lot of chat of potential rotation for the Arsenal DGW, but I think this just paranoia. I am by no means an Arsenal fan but from my understanding Arsene Wenger doesnt make wholesale ch…

11 years, 4 months ago 9

Ryan
Liverpool's Next Striker Should Be...

Who will be Liverpools new striker next season? They certainly need one if they want to challenge for the title as Rodgers suggests.

11 years, 4 months ago 73

J0E
Watford and Bournemouth Prospects

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Watford and Bournemouth prospects. Who are the players from these two promoted sides we ought to be considering. Who from them can cut it in the Premier Lea…

11 years, 4 months ago 49

Brian (Not the Messiah)
Can Bournemouth Stay In the Premier League?

I live in Bournemouth and love the idea of watching premier league games locally. They also play nice attacking football. Thoughts on whether they'll stay up next year?

11 years, 4 months ago 29

thetinkerman
Arsenal DGW Rotation fears

Anyone else reckon the Arsenal DGW will turn into a single gameweek for most players as Wenger rotates? They have the FA cup final to prepare for and won't want to risk any injuries. There's also …

11 years, 4 months ago 30

Az
FFS FIFA XBOX TOURNAMENT

Seen a few posts lately about people asking about games of FIFA and a comment suggesting that a FFS Fifa tournament would be a good idea. Happy to set up a FFS FIFA tournament, have just emailed J…

11 years, 4 months ago 45

theoldgit
Reviewing the Bonus Points system in FPL

Time for a review. How can John Terry play the best game of his life, yet get 0 bonus points? The obvious answer is, the bonus system is flawed. Don't get me wrong, the existing system is far bet…

11 years, 4 months ago 44

Spencer
LEAVE YOUR SCOUTCAST QUESTIONS HERE

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Scoutcast questions All being well we should have a live scoutcast tonight at 10pm. Could you leave your questions here. Also we are particularly interest…

11 years, 4 months ago 102

foley_fd
Today's Press Conferences

Today's pressers: Brendan Rodgers (10:00) Jose Mourinho (12:00) Steve Bruce (12:30) Nigel Pearson (14:00)

11 years, 4 months ago 2

Mark
Error Message When Posting Comments?

We've had a few users experience issues posting comments following tonight's upgrade of Wordpress. Users can view the site fine but receive an error message on posting comments. If this is affe…

11 years, 4 months ago 14

Billy Gilmore
Dead Team Challenge Update

Long time, I know, but finally got around to an update of the Dead Team Challenge. First one in 14 GWs 😳 Here's the leaderboard with Kroos Control building a bit of a lead over Athletico Timb…

11 years, 4 months ago 16

Demí
PL Team of the Year discussion

TOTY announced: De Gea, Bertrand, Terry, Cahill, Ivanovic, Matic, Coutinho, Hazard, Sanchez, Kane, Costa http://i.imgur.com/clbR6Ob.png

11 years, 4 months ago 22

J0E
Points Hits (And Misses)

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Has Gwk 34 made you more or less keen on points hits? How have this week's hits worked out for you so far? Thought it'd be a good timing to ask as so many…

11 years, 4 months ago 51

Jairzinho
N'Doye Punathon

DAME PUNS ROUN'DOYE-UP Demi (+17) N'doye will always love you Jairzinho (+1) N'Doye would walk 500 miles. 42 Epic Fails (+1) N'Doye would walk 500 more. Fuzzy (+2) N'Doye need you duh duh duh d…

11 years, 4 months ago 12

Zasa
Gwk 34 Ownership stats

GW 34's top 1000 template XI: (most highly owned players per position according to FPL rules) Schmeichel (28.6%) Terry (54.7%), Skrtel (47.9%), Schlupp (35.4%) Hazard (99.9%), Sterling (82.1%), S…

11 years, 4 months ago 6

J0E
Gwk 34 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gwk and why?

11 years, 4 months ago 40

Zasa
DGW odds

Paddy Power clean sheet bookies odds - (decimal and fractional odds) ManCity: 2.00..............................................(evens) Chelsea (vs Lei): 2.20...................................(6/…

11 years, 4 months ago 3

Ryan
Is Costa the ultimate DGW differential?

The biggest differential anyone can have this week is Costa. No player has more potential to do serious damage in your mini-leagues/OR than him. If you're chasing it could be massive.

11 years, 4 months ago 39

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 34 Turned around for a few mins and missed 8pm! What can you do eh?! Either way, Scouts Pick Challenge timeeeeee! GW33 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co…

11 years, 4 months ago 32

J0E
Injury Transfer Conundrum

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Injury transfer conundrum Should Remy still be a doubt this weekend he would represent one of my worst transfers this season, managing not a single minute i…

11 years, 4 months ago 38

Ruth_NZ
Wildcarders vs Non Wildcarders

A lot has been said about wildcards. Non-wildcarders are singing the praises of SGW players like Kane, Aguero, Silva, Clyne/Bertrand, Giroud etc and saying wildcarders would be mad to get rid. Th…

11 years, 4 months ago 88

@ocprodigy
Scout picks challenge gw33 results

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 33 RESULTS Should have been posted earlier - admittedly been a bit lazy, apologies! Now, for the results, and a bit of bad news comes with them... 1st - FFS Scou…

11 years, 4 months ago 0

J0E
Hall of Fame updated

Our live Hall of Fame (available for members to view) has now been updated to take into account Gwk 33's scores. See where you are in our hall of fame here.... http://members.fantasyfootballscout…

11 years, 4 months ago 39

J0E
Who will be Gameweek 34's best differential/punt?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 34's best differential/punt?

11 years, 4 months ago 64

Ruth_NZ
Captaincy options

DGW Captains I wanted to take a look at DGW captain options from a more considered angle than just "who has scored most points in the past". I'm attempting to use interpretation and judgement con…

11 years, 4 months ago 55

Piggs Boson
Dgw form

*** DGW Form - Updated *** . Midfielder/Forward form (last 6) ......................Goals.......Assists........Bonus.........PPG Hazard..............4...............2................11...........…

11 years, 4 months ago 14

Ruth_NZ
The Case for N'Doye (c) in Gwk 34

So, here's a quiz question: If Giroud averages 2.73 SiB's and 3.68 Total Shots per 90 with 55% accuracy, does a DGW striker with 2.26 SiBs, 3.46 Total Shots and 52% accuracy strike you as a realis…

11 years, 4 months ago 61

SPorting
Weaknesses of a late WC

Having patience and saving your WC for later in the season always seems like the Holy Grail but, in reality, late WC's can be a pain in the arse. They usually result in mediocre returns vs your pr…

11 years, 4 months ago 29

J0E
Don't forget Gameweek 35

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Don't forget Gameweek 35. Are we getting so caught up in Gameweek 34 double gameweek fever that we are forgetting about the next Gameweek and beyond. Wha…

11 years, 4 months ago 33

Enzo the Baker
The Silva Out For A Hit Conundrum

Following up on an earlier post - http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/04/21/the-watchlist-updated-gameweek-34-the-defence/?hc_page=7#hc_comment_10140372 I thought I'll do a quick and dirty …

11 years, 4 months ago 34

Enzo the Baker
Damage limitation for the wildcardless

Definitely a dullard way to look at it, but for those of us without a WC, this dgw is all about damage limitation. So who do you think are the most damaging players that you've got to own for DGW34…

11 years, 4 months ago 32

Nabs Kebabs
Your favourite five so far

Who have been your top 5 EPL players of the season thus far? I'll start us off 1. Eden Hazard 2. Harry Kane 3. Alexis Sanchez 4. Kun Aguero 5. David Silva

11 years, 4 months ago 46

J0E
Is There A Lucas/Gerrard Effect On Henderson?

Lucas not necessarily bad news for Henderson. I've seen some talk about Lucas back being bad news for Henderson in terms of points potential. Just had a look into the stats and there is no evide…

11 years, 4 months ago 33

J0E
Which Song Sums Up Your Season?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic This was a question posed by Stilicho that we discussed on last night's Scoutcast Which song sums up your Fantasy Football season this year?

11 years, 4 months ago 46

J0E
Live Scoutcast link -10pm Monday kick off.

Live Scoutcast gets underway about 10pm ish. Tune in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGl2JipKmxY

11 years, 4 months ago 5

A.T
Questions for tonight's live scoutcast

The Live Scoutcast will be taking place tonight at 10pm. Feel free to leave your questions for Mark, Granville and the team here. The Scoutcast can be accessed via our Youtube Channel https://www…

11 years, 4 months ago 69

A.T
The rough with the smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic courtesy of Jonty. The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 33 tales of joy and woe. We are looking for your input for our new regular commun…

11 years, 4 months ago 26

Bod
5 reasons to keep your wildcard another week

5 reasons to keep your wildcard another week 1. Fixtures There's quite a few teams that have a dramatic shift in the ease of their fixtures from GW34 onwards. Crystal Palaces and Swanseas fixtures…

11 years, 4 months ago 29

Cheeseoid
How to beat the Wildcarders?

This next gameweek is doing my head in already. Scared of getting Liverpool players because they are a bunch of underachievers. Scared not to get them because everyone will be filling up. Chelsea d…

11 years, 4 months ago 27