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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

The Sarjeant
2013/14 sheets really are cleaner

I posted this on the last article, just before this was posted! I'm on holiday and at night there's not much to do apart from drink and analyse football statistics! So here's something to consid…

12 years, 2 months ago5

J0E
Next 6 GWK Dream Team

Here we go.... Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Following on from The Sarjeant’s excellent recent long term planning hot topic (see side bar to the right) I thought I’d have a look at t…

12 years, 2 months ago65

Evs
FPL All Time Select XV

As it's boring international window time, little question.... What would be your fpl ALL TIME dream team ? But you can only pick those players you have selected during your fpl history (e.g. I ca…

12 years, 2 months ago84

Piggs Boson
EPL XI v La Liga XI

La Liga XI Vs EPL XI ..............Courtois Adriano Varane Martinez Marcelo ..........Xavi Koke Iniesta ..Ronaldo...Costa......Messi ....Rooney....RVP.....Suarez ............Ozil.Yaya.Mata Baines…

12 years, 2 months ago37

The3rdTurd
Template team discussion

I’m not sure I entirely buy the premise of this article, or perhaps I’ve not quite understood it. Forming any conclusions from the top 10 teams out of 3 million at such an early stage is alway…

12 years, 2 months ago16

J0E
Best defence and gk line up?

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic What is your ideal five man defence and goalkeeper lineup? Would Baines be there? Is Chelsea defensive cover essential? What about goalkeepers; is Mignolet…

12 years, 2 months ago17

Rossamous
The Chester Return Conundrum

Is Rosenior or Faye likely to drop out once Chester returns?

12 years, 2 months ago32

The Sarjeant
Pre-January Wildcard Planning

Hey guys! I posted this last night in the Dead Zone, I thought I'd re-post in case you missed it, and for the fact it took me 5/6 hours to write, and I wrote it all on my phone! My hands were dead …

12 years, 2 months ago17

Caine & Co.
Coleman's Potential Questioned

How many of you have Coleman? Happy keeping or tempted to get rid? His GW1 score was flukey imo so I wanted to make a defenders chart excluding GW1 score, here it is: 1.Baines 42 2.Fonte 40 3.Lovr…

12 years, 2 months ago47

J0E
Has the BPS altered your player selection?

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic In what ways has the new BPS altered your decisions around which players to transfer in? For me I've gone for Yaya this year as the BPS rewards his all roun…

12 years, 2 months ago43

Kostja
Front 2 or Lone Striker?

Something we already discussed yesterday regarding RVP, Rooney, Sturridge and Suarez. All of them probably essential in fantasy when playing up front on their own unless they are 14 mil like RVP. …

12 years, 2 months ago26

Dr Dream
Falling stars update

Sorry for the repost...managed to get it at the end of the last topic.... Falling stars First the blurb…sandwiched between the knee jerk and the coming GW falling stars is a fictitous squad/te…

12 years, 2 months ago10

J0E
Post international break surprise stars

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic The first match back after an international break always seems to bring unusual results and even more unusual points scorers. The last game back after an int…

12 years, 2 months ago17

d1sable
Most frustrating players

Ok i want to know which 2 players that are widely considered viable options in Fantasy football frustrate you the most, not just this season but over the course of many seasons even. The kind of pl…

12 years, 2 months ago22

wood is good
Is Team Value Really That Important?

here's a question for you all: the guy with the highest value team is ranked at 303,000 with a total of 374 points and a combined team value of 109.4m im ranked at 143,00 with a total of 390 poin…

12 years, 2 months ago33

J0E
FFS Uefa beach soccer article

FFS Uefa beach soccer tournament article now published http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2013/10/09/ffs-uefa-beach-soccer-tournament-2013/ Please use this article from now on for tournament c…

12 years, 2 months ago2

Stats King-@football2space
Moyes's Young Guns Research

Long Post Alert! In light of huge interest in Adnan Januzaj & the related game time risk, i researched a bit on the PL Debuts of wonderkids given by Moyes (at Everton) & their subsequent appearance…

12 years, 2 months ago21

Guy Demel's SH
West Ham Analysis

I'm not sure exactly how much appetite there is for the below information, but I'm bored during the Intl break and thought I would share my thoughts on West Ham's early season developments in respe…

12 years, 2 months ago14

J0E
FFS UEFA Beach Soccer Tournament Chat - Wed

FFS UEFA Beach Soccer Tournament Chat Here's a fresh hot topic for today for this tournament. If you can direct all chat about the tournament here from now on that'll be great. The previous hot …

12 years, 2 months ago40

J0E
Top 3 Strikers Over Next 4 Weeks?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic this is a regular hot topic, but with fixtures changing and players coming back from injury its worth asking again. Which are the top three strikers to own …

12 years, 2 months ago39

thetinkerman
Calling first time posters

@ Lurkers (in other words, people who log onto the site but rarely/never comment): What would encourage you to switch from a passive user of this site to an active member of the community (or at l…

12 years, 2 months ago224

GlasgowFF
Conflict of interest

As someone who doesn't support an EPL team I would be interested to know whether people that do support a team are conflicted when they play teams that you have fantasy players in. Does real life …

12 years, 2 months ago15

FORCA INTER
Captains' points tally

how manny pts your Capitans has scored this season Hazard-16 Sturridge-16 Silva-6 Soldado-4 Soldado-2 Giroud-10 Giroud-4 58pts in total pathetic really

12 years, 2 months ago109

Dr Dream
Price risers and fallers by team

So far this season, despite our best efforts, the FPL game has seen fit to start driving the game ever onwards to the template...or be it a little less template than last year….So An additional b…

12 years, 2 months ago16

J0E
Can we learn from the FPL's overall top 10?

Can we learn anything from those who are currently in the top ten. If so what? If not, why not and which players should we be learning from? This is a joint hot topic from myself and Deme'l' God b…

12 years, 2 months ago20

J0E
FFS UEFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 Chat

FFS UEFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 Daily Hot Topic To help those taking part in this competition easily find out about latest comings and goings we have created a daily hot topic. Please look at…

12 years, 2 months ago244

J0E
Best Player of the Season so far

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who has been the best player of the season so far for you? It could be that they provided you with a welcome captaincy haul? Or perhaps a player that has com…

12 years, 2 months ago18

The one who has a knock
Knowing when to get rid

I have been thinking about the factors that weigh into a decision to dump a player. I kept soldado for 3 blanks before dumping, Rooney and hba kicked to the curb after one blank. A lot still have R…

12 years, 2 months ago11

Scoredelario
Is it wrong to double up on Strikers?

Re people not doubling up on liverpool strikers... Why? I've seen it said time and time again. I do not understand the logic at all. I heard someone say "they won't both score every week"... Indee…

12 years, 2 months ago47

Dr Dream
Falling stars update

Falling stars...update You know the drill...A fictitous squad posted every Thursday made up of fallers and crocs from the red side of TotalFPL...every player valued less than their opening GW valu…

12 years, 2 months ago7

J0E
Bad week? Tempted to give it all up?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Has a string of bad gameweeks ever tempted you to give up playing Fantasy Football? Have you ever deleted an account or deliberately ruined your team through…

12 years, 2 months ago47

Stats King-@football2space
FPL Management Strengths and Weaknesses

State ur Strengths & Weaknesses as a FPL manager ? Mine r: + Spotting & picking players at the right time + Assembling players with proper coverage of most top teams & teams wid good fixtures - P…

12 years, 2 months ago24

J0E
Hall of shame

Fantasy football scout daily hot topic. Who are this season 's worst bandwagons and most disappointing players so far?

12 years, 2 months ago35

Twisted Saltergater
Januzaj nailed on?

It must have taken Moyes a hell of a lot of courage to start Januzaj today. United went into the Sunderland game with just 7 points from 6 games, and with that record you pick the players you trus…

12 years, 2 months ago16

Junior Mint
Suarez bonus analysis

Bonus Points Scandal? After enjoyably watching the match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace I could not believe it when I found out that Sturridge had received 3 bonus points while Suarez receiv…

12 years, 2 months ago25

Mark
The Scout Picks Explained

I’m very happy to Hot Topic this because it gives me the opportunity to put across some reasoning and explanation behind the picks – to hopefully offer clarity to how they are put together and …

12 years, 2 months ago0

The3rdTurd
Scout Picks Analysis

Scout Picks this week: - Cost 105.2m, which is the most expensive so far this season. - Last week's picks earnt 32 points (not counting captain double points), with 18 on the bench. - Includes jus…

12 years, 2 months ago50

Zep
Liverpool's home record against promoted sides

Ok guys, I was curious to gauge how Liverpool fared against relegated teams last year, in an attempt to manage our expectations for this weeks game... You will no doubt be surprised to see the res…

12 years, 2 months ago21

PlayON
Friday's PlayON Q&A

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.

12 years, 2 months ago35

J0E
BPS v EASPORTS Index latest.

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Thought I’d have a look at the old EA bonus system in the FPL index and compare it with the new one. Top players under the old system (I’ve only include…

12 years, 2 months ago16

KillTheWise1
Best 3 Strikers

Having Tekkers out makes it so much easier. With him back in it sets up a whole new conundrum with the forward line. I still believe Giroud will be top scorer come january, a liverpool striker is a…

12 years, 2 months ago26

thetinkerman
Best midfield pick for Spurs

There's a lot of talk about one of the Spurs midfielders being a good pick this week with their fixtures coming up and it seems Eriksen is the favourite, but why is there no love for Paulinho? I g…

12 years, 2 months ago74

Valar(Keith)
Eriksen is Danish for OOP

http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367443/gamecast.html?soccernet=true&cc=4716 http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367428/gamecast.html?soccernet=true&cc=4716 http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367428/gamecast.htm…

12 years, 2 months ago27

J0E
Top 5 Players' Hit Count and Team Value

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Top 5 players team value and hit count I’ve been having a look at the top five overall in the FPL game to see what their team value is and how many hits …

12 years, 2 months ago56

The Sarjeant
Does % Ownership Matter When Picking Players?

At what point does a player become essential, based on 'teams selected by %?' Because if say Frank Lampard was owned by 86.3% of players, then I'd have to have him in my team. But at what point do …

12 years, 2 months ago44

Simon March
Double-Pivot Role

Those who have played this game a while will know that it often works in cycles with not just certain players emerging throughout the season but, often, certain 'new' positions emerging that unexpe…

12 years, 2 months ago17

J0E
To Hit Or Not To Hit

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Can you succeed at FPL by taking lots of hits? Brutus619 and I are having an ongoing discussion about this issue this season. He advocates many hits to get …

12 years, 2 months ago39

Evs
Favourite FFS Gravs

What's your favourite Grav on the site? Which ones do you look out for ?? I like MJs Grav Grav. I also like Uncle Albert (WR) - can beat Only Fools & Horses.... 🙂

12 years, 2 months ago50

Trading Bear
The Sell On Losses - Are they fair?

Does the transfer sell-on policy need changing? The rise of the budget mid-fielders and in particular a free-scoring, Welsh wizard from North London [not Cristiano's new best friend] and their rel…

12 years, 2 months ago36

J0E
Bargain watch

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Bargain watch Quick update on prices of some excellent players, who are currently injured but should be a bargain when they return. Inspired by Valar Morgh…

12 years, 2 months ago22