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 Evs | Southampton keepers are double red. Which way do we turn? Well, as are many I struck by the DOUBLE Southampton keeper curse. Just to keep me on the edge, I'm getting Pantomime as a replacement. It's that time of the year after all 😉 | 12 years, 4 months ago | 30 |
 J0E | Gameweek 14 rotation fears Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will be rested during Gameweek 14? And who will be the key differentials that may seize the opportunity to fill their place? | 12 years, 4 months ago | 13 |
 Konig Luther | Ranking targets RANKING TARGET...to see how much you need: 1st: 917 1000th: 845 5000th: 821 10,000th: 810 20,000th: 797 30,000th: 789 40,000th: 783 50,000th: 778 80,000th: 767 100,000th: 761 150,000th:… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 10 |
J0E | The Dawn of the Cheap Striker Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Is the dawn of the cheap striker upon us? With Deulofeu and Gouffran getting on the score sheet yesterday and heavyweight midfielders still proving their … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 18 |
 Smarty Pants | TOP 1K STATS: GAMEWEEK 13 Top 1K Stats this week for those interested Full stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdFVzZ283Y3dqWUFfTVBGWWNWaFNkS0E&usp=sharing TRANSFERS AND TEAM VALUE Numbe… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Aguero(c)-less managers unite Fantasy football scout daily hot topic So is anyone not captaining Aguero this week? If not who have you gone for and why? | 12 years, 4 months ago | 24 |
 PlayON | The PlayON Q&A Killian here from PlayON, This week we have a £500 guaranteed pot on offer at www.playon.co.uk. If you have any friends / work colleagues that might be interested in PlayON, we would really appr… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 7 |
 GreenWindmill | GWK 13 Captain Stats My weekly look at the captaincy choices and their form against this week's opposition. For those struggling to pick a captain and who believe in bogey teams, etc. here are the popular captain choi… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Guess Mark's Transfers Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic It's competition time. Mark is being cagey about his three transfers that he has already made this week. No prize, apart from the kudos of being right, but… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 51 |
J0E | Don't Shoot The Messenger Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today's is from D1sable again....he's on a roll. He asks: "What's the worst piece of advice you have given a fellow Fantasy manager?" And was it deliberate… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 16 |
 HurriKane | Failed Bandwagons: Which Did You Fall For Or Avoid? Bandwagons this year I gladly stayed away from HBA - everyone was crazy about him a month or so ago but seems to be out of favor now Barkley - looks promising but 4 blanks in a row Lallana- faded … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 13 |
 Gargamel | Introducing the Gargatron Good evening everybody. Some of you will remember that I last year made a little program that presented some stats for your FPL team. I ran it from my own computer by entering an ID and thereby pr… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 35 |
 Dogba | Jagielka v Distin Everton CBs! Jagielka versus Distin: It looks cut and dry looking at the points, but I decided to look at the data before making up my mind. * Both have played every single minute this season, so… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 28 |
J0E | Benteke 2nd Season Syndrome Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today’s is brought to you by D1sable. He asks: “Has Benteke firmly been smacked with second season syndrome or will the return of his lieutenants Gabby… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
 Mr Smith | Lukaku Keeping Pace With Rooney I keep reading how Rooney is in great form and a must have etc etc but then comparing the stats to Lukaku, someone who has generally been out of form recently, the stats are quite surprising (beari… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 Agbonlahorse | Benteke stats - Benteke owners - Since joining Villa last year, he has scored 34 goals in all competitions for us. I looked at the common factors in all of his goals and was pretty amazed to see just how relian… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 15 |
J0E | Balancing the tightrope Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Balancing the tightrope The suspension tightrope is bulging, especially with Rooney now placed on it. Mark asks: “With the Suspension Tightrope growing … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 The Sarjeant | Further Aguero vs Suarez investigation Aguero Vs Suarez - Captaincy Conundrum - GW 13 Aguero and Suarez are both undoubtedly in amazing form, and both of these players have favourable fixtures for game week 13. Some people have said it… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Keep calm and capt Aguero (or Suarez when ManC are away) Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Today's is from D1sable. He asks: "Has the issue of who to captain simply come down to captain Aguero at home and Suarez at all other times." | 12 years, 5 months ago | 52 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | GW13-20 Rotation Just a reminder for those considering defensive or midfield rotation that gameweeks 13-20 constitute the longest fixture block of the season. So from now until New Year's Day, teams in Group 1 wil… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Clean sheet Christmas options Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Today's hot topic is from D1sable. He asks:"Who will be the 'key' defensive players over the xmas period. I have seen a lot of focus on the attacking side … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
Smarty Pants | TOP 1K STATS: GAMEWEEK 12 Here we go 🙂 GW 12 Statistics for the Top 1000 FPL players Full stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvWn-PT-iYTHdGpZZUF5NDVneW16M3hGOEhhYXBkMkE&usp=sharing HIGHLIGHTS TRA… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Captain decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this week and why? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 31 |
 beric | beRate My Team who's got a dodgy line-up this week? share your team if its shit! | 12 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, This week we are asking the FFS community to critique our newly designed site ahead of it being launched - http://playon-ui.herokuapp.com/ In addition to the new design… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Take the 5th Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Take the 5th. Today’s FFS hot topic is brought to you by Evs. He asks – “The 5th midfielder.... is having a good one such as Ravel or Januzaj availa… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 21 |
The Sarjeant | Christmas fixture schedule There's been some talk recently about the congestion of upcoming fixtures, between now and January. I wanted to take a look into this and see what teams have the most matches to play, and how many … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
GreenWindmill | Gameweek 12 Captaincy Form My weekly look at the captaincy choices and their form against this week's opposition. For those struggling to pick a captain and who believe in bogey teams, etc. here are the popular captain choi… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Fantasy Football Addiction Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Today's daily hot topic was brought to you by community member Templatastic. He asks: "At what moment did you know you were 'addicted' to fantasy football?" | 12 years, 5 months ago | 37 |
 Nice to Finally Michu | Early Game Review In recent years it has been seen as an unwise move to captain a player in the first game of the weekend, the best players seem to falter and it is a crapshoot most owners want to stay away from. Bu… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 TorresMagic™ | Fantasy Ashes For those interested in Fantasy Ashes. Code : 409872 http://cricketdreamteam.sportal.com.au A dozen of us in it atm. | 12 years, 5 months ago | 8 |
J0E | Cheap bench options - stick or upgrade? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Cheap bench options - stick or upgrade? We have been pooling our brain cells up at FFS towers to come up with some more daily hot topics ideas. Today’s i… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 27 |
 Just A Hat | Will Mark Beat Granville This Season? Daily Hot Topic Who will be the dominant manager come the end of the Season? Gran "Injury Prone" Ville or Mark "Wrong decisions at every turn" Sutherns | 12 years, 5 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Rate My Team (RMT) Etiquette Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic RMT Etiquette Already this week we've had an influx of new users register with the site. This means there will be lots of first time RMT posters. Let's h… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 47 |
 Christina. | January wildcard strategy DOING THE JANUARY "WILDTHING" A couple of posters have asked when is the best time to use January Wild card. I'm looking at you David999… In short - there is no correct time. Injuries, pos… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 18 |
 applebonkers | Nasri v Spurs = goals there was a myth last week about rooney always doing well against arsenal. how about nasri v spurs: 12/13: home - not in the squad away - goal 11/12: home - goal away - 3 assists 10/11: home - … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 5 |
Christina. | Bottom of the Prem League barrel options Since Jonty is scraping the barrel with daily topics... TM, hulk this post... I have looked at three of the bottom 4 teams(I have ignored Crystal palace) and identified a attacker and defender … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
GreenWindmill | Festive rotation risk analysed Apologies in advance for the length of this post but the pages are hardly flying by! Last week, to widespread indifference, I posted the fixture schedules including cup games for all teams between… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Top heavy strike force? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Is having a top heavy strike force the recipe for success? Or does it undermine the rest of your squad? Having Suarez Ageuro and Rooney/RVP arguably covers … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 19 |
J0E | Teams you avoid Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Which teams are you avoiding this year when making transfers? Any teams where their players have let you down too many times ? Or any teams that you are a… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Most memorable captain fail Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Most memorable captain fail We've all had 2pt captains, but some disastrous armband picks really stand out. For many one of the most memorable was the Mil… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 51 |
 Peggi | Post Xmas rotation options A bit of January WC prep for DZ I decided to look at the best clean sheet potential rotation between 2. I also put down what i think is the best 2 players to rotate from those teams. This is for G… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 7 |
 Mark | A Paddy Power FFS Cup Update Just to confirm, 55 looks to be the qualifying score for the FFS Cup. Entry is, of course, closed now. If you scored 55 you may or may not have qualified due to rank. A first round draw has been … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Worst ever gameweek? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Sometimes the gods conspire against us and deliver an attrocious week even if our teams are great on paper. A 2pt captain, a sudden sickness bug affecting yo… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 41 |
 Dr Dream | RVP and Rooney Hokey Cokey Just a heads up for anybody who may not have noticed...RVP's avg position is moving further and futher backwards as Rooney's appears to be moving further forward...A quick check on the comparison t… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 13 |
 The Missing Link | Most spectacular Brunt post ever For all those that don't know what all the fuss has been. I'll give you the reason why the Chris Brunt bandwagon is the real deal. Actually I'll give you 10 reasons why Chris Brunt is essential: 1… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
 RocketMan | Best Midfield Mix The Ideal midfield... IMO... I believe having 2 high priced midfielders, 2 middle of the road guys and 1 Cheopo is the best option this year (Not that I have solved my midfield crisis just yet, nee… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 18 |
 Granville | Mourinho is killing Chelsea's season. Mourinho seems determined to kill Chelsea's season dead. How is Azpilicueta a better left back than Cashley? How is Ivanovic a better right back than Azpilicueta? How is Oscar a better no 10 th… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 33 |
J0E | Christmas Shopping Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Christmas Shopping Just take a look at the December schedule. Gameweek 13 starts Sat Nov 30 Gameweek 14 starts Tues Dec 4 Gameweek 15 starts Sat Dec 7 Ga… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 56 |
 MJ6987 | Transfer intent Here's a little discussion point. I always think that in FPL, you've gotta know when to "go for it" and when to consolidate. I am mainly talking about transfers here, although it also applies to ca… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 35 |