Hot Topics

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	A
No Change	Lammens	MUN	C, Vs
No Change	Verbruggen	BHA	A
No Change	Pickford	EVE	A
No Change	Kinsky	TOT	C

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	B
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Calafiori	ARS	A
No Change	Maguire	MUN	C, Vs
No Change	Gvardiol	MCI	A
Up	Thiaw	NEW	C, Vs
No Change	Tarkowski	EVE	A
No Change	Canvot	CRY	C
No Change	Muharemovic	LEE	A
No Change	Williams	NFO	C
No Change	Ajer	BRE	A

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	C, Vs
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	A
No Change	Mbeumo	MUN	C, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	C
No Change	Palmer	CHE	A
Up	Saka	ARS	A
Down	Wirtz	LIV	C
No Change	Groß	BHA	C
No Change	Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	A
No Change	Gibbs-White	NFO	C
Up	Sangaré	BRE	A
No Change	Le Fée	SUN	C

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	C
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	A
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	C
No Change	Isak	LIV	C
No Change	Thiago	BRE	C
Up	Wissa	NEW	B, Vs
No Change	McBurnie	HUL	B
Down	Brobbey	SUN	C
Down	Igor Jesus	NFO	C

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Author	Hot Topic	Date	Replies
Punty	Coverage: how does it work? Why do people say getting "cover" or having "enough cover" from a team is a myth? It's perfectly logical. Let's say you have Fabregas and Costa and no City-players, and let's assume you predict Ch…	11 years, 8 months ago	64
J0E	Is RVP a genuine contender to replace Aguero? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is RVP a genuine contender to replace Aguero?	11 years, 8 months ago	34
President John F. Keninnsie	Man City defender bonus kings Just worked out the Baseline BPS/min for City defenders... Zabaleta = 0.141 Kompany = 0.160 Clichy = 0.189 Demichelis = 0.165 Mangala = 0.139 Kolarov = 0.174 Clichy wins by a distance 😯 Now…	11 years, 8 months ago	34
ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS	The case for Sakho Imagine if I was called Costa, Imagine if I actually got 6.2ppg, Imagine if I'd scored in every game I started (+1 off the bench), Imagine if I'd only just returned from injury, Imagine if I sco…	11 years, 8 months ago	18
thetinkerman	Rewind to 2013 - Ramsey and Yaya It's interesting that, in the week where the best fantasy option (Aguero) gets injured, arguably the two best fantasy players from last season (Yaya and Ramsey) are slowly showing signs of regainin…	11 years, 8 months ago	52
J0E	Time to ditch Baines and Ivanovic? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it time to ditch the top priced defenders? Baines and Ivanovic have proved poor investments for their hefty price tags in recent Gameweeks. Ivanovic is …	11 years, 8 months ago	33
rickardinho	Aguero replacements The Aguero Replacement Sweepstakes! This seems to be the question on everyone's lips tonight, so I thought I'd take a more objective look at the top 5 replacements for Aguero, with particular focu…	11 years, 8 months ago	34
J0E	Aguero - potential exit strategies Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic If, as feared, Aguero is facing a number of weeks out with injury what are your exit strategies? Is Costa a viable alternative, even though he is failing to…	11 years, 8 months ago	38
Azathoth	Africa Cup of Nations players If they are selected AFRICA CUP Yaya - Bony - Bolasie - Cisse - Sakho - Bentaleb - Mane - Mahrez - Mulumbu - Elmohamady - Salah - Schlupp - Demel - Sagbo - Tiote - Traoré (Eve) - Eto'o - Song - …	11 years, 8 months ago	23
Zep	Dead Team Challenge Update ::::: Dead Team Challenge - GW14 Leaderboard Updated ::::: Meant to get this out last night after work and before the game's started, but then I started drinking... but anyway... Well well well, …	11 years, 8 months ago	3
facer	Our resident physio's early thoughts on Aguero Sergio Aguero, mechanism of injury update Receiving the ball on the edge of the area, Aguero gets tackled, falls, then immediately gets back up and attempts to retrieve the ball again, at this poi…	11 years, 8 months ago	60
J0E	Gwk 15 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this gameweek and why? Any non Aguero captainers out there?	11 years, 8 months ago	34
	Best man city options? How are people planning to capitalise on Man City's fixtures? After this GW, it's... lei/CPL/wba/BUR/SUN I havent seen much chat about it, so would appreciate a good discussion. Is there any po…	11 years, 9 months ago	33
@ocprodigy	Scout Picks Challenge SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 15 Gameweek 12 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/8960664 Gameweek 13 & 14 will both be updated during the weekend/next week as I'm working fro…	11 years, 9 months ago	47
J0E	Cup Qualification Queries Cup Qualification Queries Hi, we've been getting a number of queries from people to do with the cup. Some wondering why they haven't qualified. Here's a round up of some of the key reasons. 1. Qu…	11 years, 9 months ago	14
PlayON	PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, This week we have £350 in Freerolls and over £2,000 in Guaranteed Pots on offer on www.playon.co - we have changed the game entry deadline to being the kick-off time o…	11 years, 9 months ago	2
J0E	Gameweek 15's best differential will be Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be the best differential/punt in Gameweek 15? I think Lampard is in with a good shout.	11 years, 9 months ago	35
Ludo	Risk and reward There are some interesting attitudes to risk-taking on this site. Benching a player with a high price or ownership and a tough fixture generally sees the poster criticised for their foolishness. O…	11 years, 9 months ago	51
Mark	No ScoutCast? Here's Why... A heads up, there won't be a ScoutCast tonight I'm afraid for the following reasons: 1) it was birthday on wednesday and, due to the Gameweek being midweek, I had to work through and move my cards…	11 years, 9 months ago	26
J0E	Aguero - the lone essential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Aguero safe for the armband every week? Is he the only essential player in the game?	11 years, 9 months ago	27
Badgevilla	Three Reasons To Be A Member Just out of curiosity.. What are the 3 main reasons you sign up to be a member. What are your 3 favourite things about this. I signed up at start of season and I am struggling to see what the benef…	11 years, 9 months ago	86
J0E	UFPL stick or twist? UFPL stick or twist What are your plans for this current gameweek? Anyone happy with their captain? How many players are you bringing in? I'm switching Siggy (c) to Hazard (c) and bringing in a f…	11 years, 9 months ago	13
J0E	Best Striker Combo Fantasy football Scout daily hot topic What is the template frontline? Who are your three strikers? Any others like me who have now ditched Costa? Getting nervous or happy in the knowledge that …	11 years, 9 months ago	59
Rödallegabomb ᴿᴮ	The Top 10k Template I was interested in how the template has evolved over previous game weeks, so I decided to take a look at it this week. According to top 10k stats, the template team based on ownership is: Foster…	11 years, 9 months ago	42
PlayON	PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from www.playon.co, We are today announcing that we are extending our team picking deadline from being 2 hours before the first kick-off to being right up to the kick-off time so you…	11 years, 9 months ago	3
Every Dog Has Its Day	Fun Facts Fun Fact - Sterling scored 13 goals against me 😆 (This was during school matches whilst he was at Copland)	11 years, 9 months ago	19
J0E	Vote for November's best Community Article Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Community Article in November Each month we honour the endeavours of our community writers by offering a £25 Amazon voucher to the community’s favou…	11 years, 9 months ago	27
	Today's Press Conference Times Premier League news conferences today include: Hull (08:30) Arsenal (09:00) Everton (12:00) Chelsea (12:30) Man City (12:45) (may be others, but these are the ones the BBC is promoting, so I guess…	11 years, 9 months ago	3
@ocprodigy	Scout picks challenge SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 14 Gameweek 13 results will be posted on Thursday - working away from home in the mighty Bracknell (Reading)! Gameweek 12 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.…	11 years, 9 months ago	52
Granville	Costa gets granny miffed! There's so much reluctance to sell Costa yet he's no where near essential and is being outperformed by many other forwards. He had 2 double pointers in GW2 and GW3 and non since. Yes he's ticking a…	11 years, 9 months ago	45
Zep	Dead team challenge updated ::::: Dead Team Challenge - GW13 Leaderboard Updated ::::: Quick turn around this week, lads... Continuing with his relentless pursuit of all things dead, our current leader "The Casual" sits ato…	11 years, 9 months ago	22
J0E	One week punts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic One week punts With ADM and Costa out there is plenty of scope for those keen on one week punts. I'm sure we'll all be keeping an eye on The Puntmaster and …	11 years, 9 months ago	20
Dino	The perils of the fifth midfielder The perils of the fifth "boyd" defender. I was just wondering why do people insist on having a "boyd" in their team leaving them no option but to knee jerk when one of their front 7 go down throu…	11 years, 9 months ago	85
J0E	How do you solve a problem like Di Maria? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic ADM owners - are you benching or ditching, even if its just for one gameweek? And if getting rid who for? Plus how will his absence effect other ManU players…	11 years, 9 months ago	52
Punty	The Costa Replacement Options Who do you think the highest scoring striker will be untill January? Wondering if I should get rid of Costa.. and for who? Rooney: £10.3m, on a streak, could be moved back into midfield with AD…	11 years, 9 months ago	19
UnitednationsXI	Costa vs Aguero vs ADM Given all the indecision on captaincy (along with mine), here are the pros/cons to each. feel free to add/argue A: Costa pros: - plays for the best league in the team hands down - is the focal poi…	11 years, 9 months ago	20
PlayON	PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, A quick note to say that there's only 30 minutes left to enter the £300 in FREEROLLS and £2,000 in Guaranteed Pot on offer this week - you can enter any of the below g…	11 years, 9 months ago	0
J0E	Gwk 13 Captain? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be your Gwk 13 captain and why?	11 years, 9 months ago	27
@ocprodigy	Scout picks challenge SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 13 Gameweek 12 results will be posted tomorrow - work commitments this week have prevented me! **** WHAT IS IT? **** For those of you who haven't been around…	11 years, 9 months ago	51
PlayON	PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from www.playon.co, This week we have £300 in FREEROLLS on offer on the site, as well as £2,000 in Guaranteed Pots. Weekly Game = £1,000 GTD + £200 Freerolls Daily Game Sat 29th…	11 years, 9 months ago	14
J0E	Saints: Dump or Keep? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Southampton players Who is ditching based on fixtures, and who is resolutely sticking with them based on form?	11 years, 9 months ago	37
Wingate	Costa v Hazard v Sanchez for captain Costa v Hazard v Sanchez captaincy (for those with no Man U) FORM COSTA v Sunderland (a) - Has scored 7 at home and 4 away. FORM is 5.0 - Owned by 59% SANCHEZ v WBA (a) - Has scored 4 at …	11 years, 9 months ago	13
John t penguin	Rotating Defenders Article - Help Needed I am working on a potential article around the return for rotating cheap defenders. I have looked at the rotation for 9.0 article from start of season and selected the best looking options and the …	11 years, 9 months ago	28
J0E	Gameweek 13 Punts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 13 punts Who will be Gameweek 13's surprise differential/punt and follow in the footsteps of Jonathan Walters last week?	11 years, 9 months ago	31
Cars and Mané	Assessing The Ox Should we be considering the ox as a chadli or downing (and in my case, Moses) replacement? Here's the for case... In arsenal's last ten games in all competitions the ox has played an average of 7…	11 years, 9 months ago	39
Carrick Doesn't Deserv…	Is Wayne Rooney Boring? this perfectly sums up my thoughts on rooney, words by the guardian's daniel harris "Aggressive, instinctive, unique and absurd, his was a transcendental talent able to commandeer a game featuring…	11 years, 9 months ago	39
SouthCoastSaint	Hits - short term pain or long term gain? Would like to see an article on the pros/cons of taking hits. People seem to judge transfers on a week by week basis. I try and look back at the last 4 weeks to see if a transfer I made for a hit w…	11 years, 9 months ago	24
J0E	5th midfielder - genuine prospect or bench fodder? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Fifth midfielder - genuine prospect or bench fodder With Gameweeks coming thick and fast and festive rotation on the horizon what are you planning to do wit…	11 years, 9 months ago	43
GreenWindmill	UFPL winners and losers If anyone is interested I've just undertaken an exercise to compare the total points for all players in FPL vs UFPL to see who the major winners and losers are under the alternative scoring systems…	11 years, 9 months ago	15
J0E	Chelsea Options Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Chelsea options For this hot topic I thought I’d take a look at the last six weeks and overall to see how the three main Chelsea midfielders Fabregas, Haz…	11 years, 9 months ago	54

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