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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

Zep
The Value Of Free Transfers

I was hoping to continue speaking to Isacki about this but he doesn't appear to be around anymore... I would appreciate it if you guys would have a read through this little thread we started a few…

12 years, 1 month ago30

FBA
Bandwagon failures

Beware chasing bandwagons. Here are the top scoring players for each gameweek, followed by their score the next gameweek. Benteke 2 Campbell 2 Davies 1 Sigurdsson 3 Baines 0 Lukaku 6 Reid 1 …

12 years, 1 month ago9

J0E
Gameweek 12's Differential Captains

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With questionable fixtures in Gameweek 12 attacking wise for the main captain choices of Aguero and Suarez, a guilt edged opportunity to raise up the ranking…

12 years, 1 month ago37

Smarty Pants
Top 1k Stats

GW 11 TOP1K STATS Full Stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdG84Q280MjRGclRTR0dBWURZZ1pTRFE&usp=sharing HIGHLIGHTS GW11 transfers made 969 GW11 wildcards playe…

12 years, 1 month ago30

PlayON
Playon Q&A

Killian here from PlayON, Just a quick note to say that you can keep changing your team and entering games on www.playon.co.uk up to 13.00 today. If you have any questions about PlayON just add th…

12 years, 1 month ago3

Evs
GW11: Hits & Transfers

Many of us have been hurt by injuries this GW, especially to the likes Michu and more recently Silva (possibly Williams as well) who were pretty mainstream players for FFS. A lot of FFS users are …

12 years, 1 month ago63

J0E
Your Gameweek 11 Captains

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic. Gameweek 11 captains. So who do you have the armband on this week? And is there anyone who hasn't captained one of Suarez, sturridge or Aguero?

12 years, 1 month ago19

Qubit
Fantasy managers are getting better not more casual

Ill post this here and see what response it gets: I dont think this is the year of the casual at all. I think we are beginning to see something ive suspected for quite some time. The plethora of…

12 years, 1 month ago32

PlayON
PlayON Q&A Session

Killian here from PlayON, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the article above or about PlayON in general. If you add your questions as replies below I'll answer them all. Thanks

12 years, 1 month ago18

J0E
The Michu Replacement Conundrum

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic The Michu replacement conundrum Michu’s injury has presented a revelation to his owners – there really isn’t a viable replacement for him apart from R…

12 years, 1 month ago30

MJ6987
Who will be the next Ramsey?

Warm topic Which much maligned player will be the next one to have a Ramsey-style breakout season?

12 years, 1 month ago26

Granville
Punters 5

Mark lamenting in the podcast about the surety of last seasons power 5. I thought I'd come up with a midfield this week who are getting interest that they would not normally receive if we had some…

12 years, 1 month ago20

Dr Dream
Falling Stars

Falling stars You know the format…Falling stars is a fictitious team/squad made up of players all of whom are cheaper than their opening GW values and collectively on, or less than, the original…

12 years, 1 month ago15

J0E
Hazard - Stick or Twist

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What to do about Hazard, who was punished by Mourinho and sent to the stands last night for missing a training session earlier in the week? Well I just he…

12 years, 1 month ago22

Liastro ⭐️
Ramsey-less and proud

Hands up if you've still not got Ramsey of FPL... o/

12 years, 1 month ago15

Evs
Fantasy Football: How much time do you spend on it?

How much time does everyone spend every day, per week etc looking at your fantasy teams? How often do you... Check the prise rises? Plan & Work out your transfers? Debate your Captain? Keep updat…

12 years, 1 month ago32

Lateriser 12
Season Form: Your Stats Shared

Just want to judge everyone's form this season and history as well. Best previous rank : 189 Previous year rank : 189 GW2 overall rank: 1.45 million GW 5 overall rank: 648,828 GW8 overall rank: 33…

12 years, 1 month ago69

Anorak
Tightrope update: Cabaye now on 4 yellows

In case you've missed it, we have another late addition to the Suspension Tightrope widget today, with Yohan Cabaye the new name to feature. Booked late on in the league cup defeat to Manchester C…

12 years, 1 month ago5

J0E
Surgery to help out new members

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Bit of a joint hot topic members special idea from HeelsOverHead and us here. We are obviously biased when saying that the members area is great and has l…

12 years, 1 month ago26

J0E
Time to refresh our budget options?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic (apologies for the delay - had internet issues this morning) Time to refresh our budget options? With fixtures turning against Southampton's budget options,…

12 years, 1 month ago21

Granville
FFS from Six Years Ago.

Fantasy football scout from 6 years ago 🙂 http://web.archive.org/web/20071013025758/http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/

12 years, 1 month ago28

Valar(Keith)
Winter Fixture Pile Up = Rotation

Cant remember what december is like in fpl.. A huge fixture pileup everywhere. For eg City have 1st December SWA 4th December wba 7th December sot 26th December LIV 28th December CPL 1st January …

12 years, 1 month ago11

You Must Be Jokin Ere
Gwk 10: 6/10 bonus points went to def or gk

75 Baps awarded Gameweek 10: Defenders (39) & Goalkeepers (6) picked up 60% of the haul, greatly helped by 3 defender goals, 1 goalkeeper goal and 10 clean sheets from 10 games. Midfielders agai…

12 years, 1 month ago14

J0E
Lucky Casuals or Shrewd Managers?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is it about time we stopped using ‘casual’ as an excuse for our envy at other fantasy managers doing well and stubbornness for not drafting in good playe…

12 years, 1 month ago44

tm245
Tips for catching up

Has anyone ever employed a specific catch-up strategy before that is beyond the slow but steady of ignoring differentials and simply trying to pick the highest scoring players? Trying to figure …

12 years, 1 month ago16

Spin
Who is the most 'due'?

Who's the player you reckon is most overdue a goal and/or most worth a punt for the next 4-5 wks? Based on performance I mean... I'm considering Henderson, Ramires and Cabaye because of fixtures a…

12 years, 1 month ago11

Mark
The Walcott Factor

Okay...lots of Ramsey talk this morning. Let's switch the focus to the subject of Walcott for the daily hot topic. This is a player who notched 14 goals and 13 assists last term, playing for a plac…

12 years, 1 month ago27

Ryan
The Ramsey Scenario

Ramsey has just created the most extraordinary scenario which strikes the achilles heel of the experienced FPL manager. The casual gets in the player that gets the most points, taking into account …

12 years, 1 month ago52

Smarty Pants
Top 1k stats

GW10 TOP1K STATS 🙂 Full stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdE83M29WT2c1NHlfMC0xVW11OWp5b1E&usp=sharing HIGHLIGHTS: Total number of transfers made: 1102 % of …

12 years, 1 month ago15

J0E
Aguero the gamechanger

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic How much of a gamechanger in our mini leagues will the aguero captaincy be? Are those without him scared or quietly confident?

12 years, 1 month ago27

PlayON
PlayOn Q&A Session

Killian here from PlayON, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the article above or about PlayON in general - if you add questions as replies below I'll answer them all. Thanks

12 years, 1 month ago23

La vida FPL
Unlimited budget best 3 strikers

Who would people have as their front 3 if they had the luxury of unlimited funds for GW10? Would anyone have Torres in there?

12 years, 1 month ago21

J0E
Favourite Fantasy Football Moment

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Sessegnon provided one of the truly great moments in FPL history on 11 December 2012. It was a double gameweek and many of the FFS community had the armband…

12 years, 1 month ago66

isacki: full casual
Keep it simple

Before I sleep just a thought on keeping fantasy thinking simple. I often see people making their mind up to get a player largely because they're a differential. I see people captaining players ba…

12 years, 1 month ago13

J0E
Fixture shift - are you taking advantage?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Fixture shift - are you taking advantage? Who is taking advantage in the fixture shift in favour of the likes of Manchester City, Swansea and Aston Villa …

12 years, 1 month ago35

Dr Dream
Falling Stars

Falling stars Happy Halloween to everyone !!..Back in the groove with my weekly look at the red side of Total FPL and all those players we’ve been too scared, or too smart, to buy, .. Bargains …

12 years, 1 month ago8

TorresMagic™
Uber Defence - A Thing of the Past?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What became of the ubers? Last season was all about having an uber cheap defence to free up funds for the likes of Bale and RVP. With cheaper, credible opt…

12 years, 1 month ago16

Reckoner.
Strikers' Goals and Assists per Game

I have been in two minds for a while now in whether Rooney is worth keeping or not. The reason being is I don't think he is as explosive as he used to be (and as explosive as some other current st…

12 years, 1 month ago21

TorresMagic™
Bad Player, Great Game

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Bad player, great game. When Fabio Borini slammed home the winner in the Newcastle v Sunderland game at the weekend he cemented a small place in the Tyne…

12 years, 1 month ago47

Mark
FPL Site Login Issues

I think they updated the Premier League site last night with a new scrolling panel for forthcoming matches. For some reason, the devs have clearly left some form of authentication on the site. I wo…

12 years, 1 month ago0

The Kolarov Mane ⚔
FPL - Skill v Luck

I would like to know something... In your opinion, what percentage of FPL is down to luck? 80% Skill 20% Luck 50% Skill 50% Luck 20% Skill 80% Luck Etc Etc... Are some people just luckier than …

12 years, 1 month ago29

FortunesAlwaysHiding
Comeback Kings

Comeback Kings... Which of these players if any might you be looking to pick up after their returns from injury? Some are closer than others admittedly... Carroll, Walcott, Podolski.... Can you …

12 years, 1 month ago15

Twelve years a slave
Is Team Value Less Of A Factor?

Is team value of much importance this season? Most weeks this season have had over 3m in the bank , The new bonus system means the cheaper mids are better value than the expensive ones and there …

12 years, 1 month ago11

J0E
Transfer blunders

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic A lot of people are transferring out top players like Giroud and Sturridge. When have you transferred out a player only to watch from the sidelines the foll…

12 years, 1 month ago17

Agbonlahorse
Aguero v Norwich??

Will Segio Aguero start next week days before a Champions League Game? Following from Kromowidjojo's point- Under Pelegrini (2013): Saturday 14th Septmeber - Aguero Plays 27 mins V Stoke Tuesday…

12 years, 1 month ago4

The Missing Link
Sturridge with or without bite?

Sturridge – Is it worth jumping ship? Basically Sturridge has played 23 premier league games for Liverpool since he signed for them. 14 of them he has played with Suarez and 9 of them without Su…

12 years, 1 month ago16

J0E
Is Suarez now essential?

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Is Suarez now essential? And if so what are Sturridge owners doing?

12 years, 1 month ago28

Parm
Line-ups

Full Team News ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aston Villa: Guzan, Bacuna, Vlaar, Baker, Westwood, Weiman…

12 years, 1 month ago4

Smarty Pants
Top 1000 stats

GW9 STATS for the TOP1000 🙂 FULL STATS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdGM5SlNlZ1hMM1BaV0dRMDRqNXh0Q2c&usp=sharing HIGHLIGHTS - 1028 transfers made - 6.4% players took…

12 years, 1 month ago16

J0E
Gwk 9 Captain Decisions

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic So who are you captaining today? Does the plum fixture of Giroud and Ozil tempt you? Or will SAS and Liverpool beat their West Brom hoodoo? How about man Ut…

12 years, 1 month ago19