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 Tim Canterbury | Guide to FPL success The rules of FPL Choose your initial squad and your WC teams very carefully Start with the obvious and work to the fringes. Don't drop Suarez so that you can afford Clyne over Burner Players wh… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 18 |
 J0E | Rule Change To Help Mavericks Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FPL rule changes to reward mavericks The Casual’s post (see hot topic widget) on the danger of differentials has inspired me to think of a possible rule c… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 28 |
 Give The Todd Some Love | Choosing a username How did you guys think of your usernames? (This might have been asked before) Mine's pretty obvious for anyone that watches Scrubs. Some on here seem really obscure though, I think it would be coo… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 55 |
 Will - Fantasy Football Hub | The danger of differentials Dear Mark, Firstly can I say that you are clearly a better FPL manager than me. BUT this year you keep making one major error that I think a lot of us a susceptible to - you are trying to be to cl… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
J0E | Who is getting Mata straight away? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Mata So when the inevitable official confirmation of Mata's move to ManU is made who is going to put him straight into their side? And where do we think h… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 14 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | Wildcard Punts Okay so a lot of people are playing their wildcard next week and have a FT which they might as well use up so I thought I'd write a post about punts for this week only, good time to potentially cat… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Gameweek 28 planning Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 28 planning How are you planning for Gameweek 28 when Manchester City and United both miss a game. Are you prepared to bench your assets from tho… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
J0E | What to do with Coleman? | 12 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
 Koflok | Casual or Inspired? @Jonty When you say there's always gonna be player like last season RVP and this season's Suarez, I agree. Every season there's always gonna be a season keeper. Almost similar to Bale's essential … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Is this season anti-flair? Or have the mavericks lost their touch? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is this season anti-flair, or have the flair players lost their touch? There is a lot of talk of this season being great for casual players and less so for … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 34 |
 Evs | The Supporting Cast: Part I Whilst everyone is having their half time cuppa I thought I would follow up on my Essentials post (see hot topics) from this morning. This time looking at. . . 'The Supporting Cast: Part I' Keepe… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 49 |
Evs | The Essentials Morning Gents. I think it's coming to the point this season where many players are getting pretty much essential in teams to keep the pace with the l points. The remaining half of or so of your s… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 64 |
J0E | Playing the market Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Playing the market This is a crucial week for wildcarding. With the next premier league games more than a week away there's plenty of scope for double, even… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
J0E | Last minute wildcard changes Fantastic Football Scout daily hot topic Last minute wildcard changes With a few hours to go there's not much time for Gwk 22 wildcarders to make a change. Let's have a look at your wildcard team… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
 PlayON | PLAYON Q&A Killian here from www.playon.co.uk, This week we are running a special game for new users – Free Entry, £100 Guaranteed pot. If you haven’t tried PlayON yet, it’s worth a look this week.… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 1 |
J0E | Complex fantasy games Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic More complex fantasy games This one's from Mark. He asks: "Do you like games that allow fantasy managers to change captains or their lineups within the gam… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
J0E | Saints Upheaval Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Saints upheaval With worrying news reports about Southampton emerging this week can we rely on their players to help us for the second half of the season? … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
J0E | Scoutcast Questions for Mark and Granville Scoutcast Questions Mark and Granville will be recording their latest podcast tomorrow and will be featuring a new item where they answer some of your questions. Feel free to leave your question… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 74 |
J0E | The mid price, midfield goldmine Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Today’s is from Stilicho. He wonders if now is the time to stock up with the sudden array of good mid price midfield options. Suddenly there are quite a… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
 Deadeye367 | Key Wildcard Decisions Long Post Alert!! Hit the Wildcard button this GW and most people seem to be facing the same decisions even if we each end up with different teams. Here is how I think most people will be picking … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 18 |
 maxi - REAL ENGLISH FAN | Should FPL only let you pick two strikers? One very VERY easy and OBVIOUS thing fpl can do to stop template teams: When it began they thought everyone played 4-4-2 so they made it so that you had one backup plus your starting11 based on a … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 16 |
J0E | The case against Januzaj Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The case against Januzaj Oddly I’m looking to get rid of Januzaj the week 28,730 managers have got him in. Here are my reasons. I’ve made a tidy pro… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
 Simon March | Second Half of the Season Theories 2nd Half of the Season Shifts: It's consistently demonstrated that the 'big' teams start winning more clean sheets in the second half of the season (arguably more due to 'smaller' teams becoming l… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Is the SAS attack back on? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is the SAS attacking formation back on? With Suarez essential, Aguero looking ready to start against Cardiff and Sturridge proving he's still a great prospe… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Key wildcard decisions - the story so far. Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Gwk 22 key wildcarding decisions Each week new wildcard conundrums emerge. Here's the latest. Be good to get your thoughts in any of these and add your own… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
 Trigg ⭐️ | First 5 names in your Wildcard team Here's one ... first 5 names on your WC teamsheet. Not including Suarez as he is too obvious! | 12 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
 Heydudes13 | Lukaku: ditch or keep? What are Lukaku owners doing? | 12 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
 Mary | FFS Top 200 league stats Stats for top 200 in FFScout league: http://docs.google.com/document/d/1okjvRR9dOmpHOZ0AfzfsnPkgqj5sY1PDcorphVNsdLE/edit?usp=sharing Summary: Percentage still in cup: 53.50% Average Team Value… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
Evs | Why do you Love Ade? Adebayor lovers, please explain to me rationale of getting him over others in similar bracket? eg Soldado, Lukaka or Giroud. | 12 years, 3 months ago | 30 |
J0E | Wildcard surgery Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Last minute wildcard surgery With many of you wildcarding this week I thought I'd start a handy thread to discuss your last minute changes. Key questions w… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 57 |
PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, If you have any questions about PlayON or about the article above, just add them as replies below and I will answer them all. Two questions we would like the opinion o… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Unlikely season saviours Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Unlikely season saviours In the 2011/12 season all looked lost for me after the first few weeks. I’d missed the bandwagons at the time. But about five w… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Community leagues news Community Leagues news Just starting compiling this weekend's Community Round Up article. With no Premier League games last weekend the Community Leagues section is looking a little bare. If anyon… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 32 |
 Spencer | Mini-League Competitions Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Mini-League Competitions Does competing in the mini leagues influence which players you start or captain? For example, do you pick a differential captain t… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 31 |
Koflok | Another ticker value alternative SEASON TICKER UPDATE! Okay well it's not the official one. Jonty mentioned earlier FFS team is working on an updated Ticker as the current one is a bit 'outdated' and all that. (Away to MU a 'very… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 24 |
 Slikk | The skinny on Solskjær Since I'm a Norwegian I thought I might as well try to give you my opinions about what to expect from OGS and Cardiff in the future, since I've been following his work at Molde for a couple of seas… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 12 |
 Alberto Tomba | Budget Midfielders Budget Midfielders Hello chaps, I'm currently on WC and wondering who to pick as a fifth mid. I went through players under 5.4 and without considering fixtures or rotations here's what I reckon.. … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 29 |
Mary | FPL League Stats Hey, just thought I would post to let users on here know about a Chrome Extension I have developed to give insightful statistics on FPL Mini-Leagues. The stats calculated will be based on the curr… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 26 |
 r0nh | Does rotating cheap defenders actually work? Does the cheap rotating defenders system actually work? You obviously play the defender with the easiest fixture any given week... But how often do they return a clean sheet? | 12 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
J0E | Wildcard differentials Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Wildcard Differentials As you'd expect the same names are coming up in wildcard rate my teams. But what names should we perhaps be considering as key differ… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 36 |
Koflok | Fixture Difficulties and Sexy Potatoes Long post ahead. The few paragraphs between the lines is the 'journey' I took and how I get to the conclusion.. I know for most of you, you just want the good stuff. So if it's TLDR feel free to sk… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
J0E | Wildcard goalkeepers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Wildcard goalkeepers With the wildcard deadline approaching at the end of the month how we line up our goalkeepers will be key. It’s a sport you will rar… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 25 |
 Phaze 1 | Will Yaya Keep It Up? Posting again for Sinik and for the zone in general. The case against Yaya 'LUCKBOX' Toure. I wanna start off by saying that I know players can go on streeks/purple patches and when they do you ju… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 12 |
 matskm | Assessing the Arsenal midfield options New to FPL comment posting, but been reading for a long time. My 2cents on Walcott replacements. I am a Gooner and follow the whole team closely (though not at most of the matches). However, I was … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
 Beavis | Walcott replacement options Walcott Replacements Right, I'm sure this is the question that is on everyone's mind so let's look at the options available to replace Theo. 1. OBVIOUS a) Ozil - 9.9m - 17.5% ownership - 6.33 P… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 22 |
 The Sarjeant | Wildcard defensive decisions The January Wildcard - Defensive Decisions. Fantasy football managers are now armed with the January wildcard, and whilst most of us know the attacking targets that we want, I thought I'd take a … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 3 |
Koflok | Baines as a 4th midfielder option? Had quite a bit of lengthy discussion over at DZ http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/01/05/the-community-round-up-22/?hc_page=9#hc_comment_6458463 Thought I would bring up the topic to a di… | 12 years, 3 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Is Wayne Rooney now a spent force? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is Wayne Rooney at Manchester United now a spent force in fantasy terms? No longer nailed on due to injury, plays deeper in a position he said on record he … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 15 |
 SPorting | Anyone for a Diet-Wildcard? Anyone going for a "WC light" or a "Diet WC"? In other words, only changing 4, 5 or 6 players instead of the whole lot? | 12 years, 3 months ago | 21 |
 Dogba | Should we consider turning our backs on Coleman? Am I the only one who is considering going with Terry instead of Coleman for Jan WC? I think they'll score about the same amount of goals (2-3 more with some luck) until the end of the season, but … | 12 years, 3 months ago | 31 |