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 J0E | Live Scoutcast link Scoutcast getting underway at 10pm. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSVxvh9Mucw Feel free to leave your comments here. | 11 years, 13 days ago | 12 |
 d1sable | lessons learned? What have we all learned for next season then? Obviously each season is different (not just in scoring with the BPS etc) with seasons past having the power 5 in midfield and this season being argu… | 11 years, 13 days ago | 59 |
 andy85wsm | Captain Kane reporting for duty GW28 – Captain stat attack! So after the matches at the weekend, coupled with not including Austin/Eriksen last time I thought I’d update my captain stats a little. For me the choice is Kane … | 11 years, 13 days ago | 42 |
 Demí | FOND DGW MEMORIES Ahead of tomorrow's deadline, i thought i'd reminisce and ask what your favourite DGW memories are from your time playing FPL? Here's one of mine, Step forward BAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v… | 11 years, 13 days ago | 20 |
 Daniel Exeter | Is Ozil killing Sanchez as an option? The ramblings of a man with limited time to write this up.. Has Ozil impacted on Sanchez? Noticeably Sanchez has dropped off the points per game radar – with many on here considering it is time… | 11 years, 13 days ago | 15 |
J0E | Comparison: Eriksen v Austin - double digit and double fixture hauls A good way of assessing the liklihood of a reasonable dgwk score from a player is how often they have blanked over a two game block of games. Austin and Eriksen provide a good example of this as … | 11 years, 13 days ago | 44 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast (10pm) - Leave Your Questions for the team here Tonight we are planning on another live video scoutcast, which if all goes to plan will be a foursome of Fantasy Scouts Feel free to leave any questions for Mark, Granville and the team here. Sh… | 11 years, 13 days ago | 25 |
J0E | Vote for your favourite Community Article in February here. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Vote now for your favourite community article of February. Each month we honour the endevours of our community writers by offering a £20 Amazon voucher to… | 11 years, 13 days ago | 12 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE RESULTS SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 25 FINAL RESULTS I know I'm rpetty far behind but I'm catching up! GW25 is here for you ladies & gents! 1st - James One (63pts) 2nd - Kalmoffit (62pts) 3rd - Inns… | 11 years, 14 days ago | 0 |
andy85wsm | Your Highest 2014/15 Rank So Far Best rank this season lads? 6,954 here (7,983 currently) | 11 years, 14 days ago | 72 |
 Mull | SHORTEST FOOTBALL BOOKS Shortest football books ever written. I'll start The Art of Tackling by Paul Scholes Monogamy by Ryan Giggs. Effective Public Speaking by Paul Merson | 11 years, 14 days ago | 59 |
J0E | UFPL Stick or Twist? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL Stick or Twist You is coming in for your today. Anyone have yesterday's stars like Puncheon. For me I'm taking the armband off Downing and putting it … | 11 years, 14 days ago | 5 |
 HVT | Spurs Defender Stats Previous to my conversation with Demi on Spurs defenders I've decided to put it all together to make it a little easier for those considering; P. Pts. £. G. A. CS Ppg. B… | 11 years, 15 days ago | 18 |
 Zasa | Top 1K and Top 10K stats Gw27's Top 1000 template (highly owned players), according to FFFix Krul (37.1%) Clyne (48.0%) | Bellerín (37.4%)| Wollscheid (25.4%)| PvA (61.3%) Boyd (38.6%) | Cazorla (51.2%) | Di María (46.9… | 11 years, 15 days ago | 8 |
J0E | Gwk 27 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining and why? | 11 years, 15 days ago | 33 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 27 I promise GW25 and 26 will be up by Monday evening! Had a lot to get done lately! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't… | 11 years, 16 days ago | 29 |
 Game of Stones | Eriksen's Dgw prospects *LONG POST* As Tottenham's DGW is approaching I have had a look at how Eriksen and Tottenham have coped with two games within a few days. Hopefully some of you find this helpful. EUROPA LEAGUE: … | 11 years, 16 days ago | 23 |
J0E | Gwk 27's best punt Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gwk 27's best differential/punt? | 11 years, 16 days ago | 43 |
 La Roja | PVA Owners' Sticky Situation Pva owners Keeping, selling ? | 11 years, 16 days ago | 27 |
J0E | Cheap defensive Replacements Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Cheap defensive replacements Who are your defensive deadwood players and who do you plan to replace them with? Anyone fancy upgrading the likes of Wisdom t… | 11 years, 17 days ago | 31 |
J0E | Luckiest and Unluckiest FPL moment Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic We've got a good community article on luck coming up later today from andy85wsm. Ahead of that I thought I'd ask what has been your luckiest and unluckiest … | 11 years, 18 days ago | 49 |
andy85wsm | considering captains - kane or kun I know we should be concentrating on GW27 but I can't help but think about the double gameweek that’s about to come. I'd like to discuss captain options. For me there's only really 2 (3 if you a… | 11 years, 18 days ago | 37 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast feedback Thanks for those that joined in the live Scoutcast. That'll get edited and released in usual audio form later this week. | 11 years, 20 days ago | 53 |
 President John F. Keninnsie | GW28 - What's Your Thoughts ? My views on GW28: Spurs: First things first - Tottenham have 4 matches in 9 days (away at Fiorentina, cup final against Chelsea, then the DGW games against Swansea and QPR). You'd expect the 'sta… | 11 years, 18 days ago | 87 |
J0E | Gwk 27's Differential Captaincy Opportunity Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Among the issues discussed in last night's scout cast was Gameweek 27's potential for punting on a differential captain. With Aguero facing a tough Liverpo… | 11 years, 19 days ago | 62 |
andy85wsm | Dgw? Try it you might like it! Double gameweek - how much do you really have to lose? A lot of people (maybe rightly so) aren't seeing much value from the double game week ahead. Spurs fixtures are congested and QPR aren't exac… | 11 years, 19 days ago | 19 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast link Fantasy Football Scout Live Scoutcast Should be live in ten minutes or so at this link (10:10pm ish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIyMJLC03FU Feel free to leave comments via the youtube link … | 11 years, 20 days ago | 7 |
J0E | Live Video Scoutcast Scheduled for 10PM. We are going to attempt a live video Scoutcast tonight, where I'll be joining Mark and Granville. Hoping to get this underway at about 10pm. We'll provide a videolink and hot topic it nearer that t… | 11 years, 20 days ago | 39 |
 Ludo | Charlie Austin as a DGW option? ‘QPR are good at home’. Yet here are their last five results at Loftus Road: QPR 0-1 Southampton QPR 0-2 Manchester United QPR 0-3 Sheffield United QPR 1-1 Swansea QPR 0-0 Crystal Palace Char… | 11 years, 20 days ago | 22 |
J0E | GWK 27's Imperfect Ten Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The imperfect ten. Is it worth taking a hit or even using both transfers if you have two, to field 11 players in Gameweek 27? Will a cheap defender really… | 11 years, 20 days ago | 15 |
 Ruth_NZ | Don't forget about GW27 It's very easy to overlook that FPL points will actually be scored in GW 27. Most will have high value players benched, many will be struggling to put 11 worthwhile players out. The more I think … | 11 years, 21 days ago | 29 |
J0E | UFPL stick or twist? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL stick or twist What are your plans today? Switching captaincy? Who's coming in? | 11 years, 21 days ago | 15 |
 Sánchez | The case for Dgwk Austin Noticed theres been a few times on here where people saying Austin not worth getting in DGW due to playing tough sides. 1. His home record is excellent 2. He has scored goals this season vs curren… | 11 years, 22 days ago | 14 |
andy85wsm | 11th Hour Captaincy Stat Attack New post, so re-post 🙂 Last minute captain stat attack!! Minutes: Aguero - 1409 Kane - 1433 Sanchez - 1827 Hazard - 2206 Double figure hauls: Aguero - 4 Kane - 5 Sanchez - 6 Hazard - 6 Doubl… | 11 years, 22 days ago | 17 |
J0E | Gwk 26 Captaincy Decisions. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 11 years, 22 days ago | 22 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 26 It's that time of day (evening!), Scout Picks Challenge time! Gameweek 24 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/9744777 GW25 will be up tomor… | 11 years, 23 days ago | 37 |
 Mondogoal | Mondogoal Q&A Our First ever contest where EVERYONE wins. A little thank you to the FFScout fans for supporting us so quickly and we've got some other special things lined up in the coming weeks. Exciting that… | 11 years, 23 days ago | 0 |
J0E | DGWK Memories Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Double gameweek memories With the dgwk fast approaching I thought I'd start a thread on favourite double gameweek memories. Here are two of mine to get the… | 11 years, 23 days ago | 46 |
J0E | Mondogoal exclusive offer We've got some exciting news from Mondogoal for you - offering the chance to win a sizable cash prize. Mondogoal have lined up a £30,000 prize pot for the season climax – with the winner of the… | 11 years, 24 days ago | 10 |
 Mark | No ScoutCast This Week I'm afraid there's no ScoutCast coming tonight. The day job interfered with a morning meeting overrunning into our lunchtime studio time so, despite doing the prep, we've had to abandon it. It wa… | 11 years, 24 days ago | 13 |
Ludo | GW1 Revisited This week sees the reverse of the GW1 fixtures - how many of the same players (if any) do you have in your team? I've just got John Terry, with Clyne on the bench as he was on the opening weekend … | 11 years, 24 days ago | 30 |
J0E | Gameweek 26's best differential will be? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 26's best differential/punt? I'd take Costa here as an option as while well owned, he is not that well owned in the top 10K or among th… | 11 years, 24 days ago | 21 |
Demí | GAMEWEEK 26 CAPTAINCY DEBATE The Captaincy debate. 1) Hazard + Penalties + Almost always a 90 minute man + Burnley have conceded 2+ in 9 of their last 10 away games - No goals in his last 4 home games - 6 attempts at goal in… | 11 years, 25 days ago | 71 |
 The 12th Man | Do you dabble in other Fantasy Sports games? FANTASY SPORTS. With so many fantasy sports games going, I wondered what is everyone's favourite and how many do we get involved in every year? For me I play Football - FPL, ESPN Cricket Golf - yah… | 11 years, 25 days ago | 40 |
J0E | Save or not to save? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Save or not to save Who is saving a transfer this week in anticipation of the blank and double over gwk 27-28? Who is throwing caution to the wind and is … | 11 years, 25 days ago | 20 |
 sinik | How important are stats? I thought I would take this DZ opportunity to ask you fine folk about STATS. Obviously as FPLers, we take a lot of stats into consideration, but how heavily do you weight them when casually discus… | 11 years, 26 days ago | 59 |
J0E | The Cost of Costa Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Cost of Costa Will Costa prove to be the key Gameweek 26 differential? Or will those that draft him in regret their decision, as he faces a blank and is… | 11 years, 26 days ago | 21 |
 JK - Cønt ⭐ | Potential Defoe replacements Defoe owners, if he's out this week who's on your radar? Ings would be ok but fixtures are dreadful Ideye has form (which probably means a blank incoming) Cisse very tempting | 11 years, 27 days ago | 18 |
 Perchinho | Future blanks and Dgw updated That draw means the GW33 blanks and GW34 DGW teams are as follows: Arsenal and Sunderland or Chelsea and Man United Liverpool and Hull (or just 4 teams with blank/DGW if Liverpool lose) Palace and… | 11 years, 27 days ago | 13 |
@ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge gw24 results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 24 FINAL RESULTS I'm catching up promise...As I sit here in Glasgow enjoying a few casual drinks... GW24 results ladies & gents; 1st - FFS Scout (50pts) 2nd - Pun… | 11 years, 27 days ago | 2 |