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 The Missing Link | Most Spectacular Post Fail Ever The Erik Lamela Conundrum Basically we all know Lamela isn’t getting the game time he deserves. People are saying the French league is completely different and can’t be compared to the premier… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 60 |
 Mark | PP Cup Update We're waiting on Ed to roll the cup system live and process the results - I'm hoping to get this sorted today. | 12 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
 J0E | Manchester United Options Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Manchester United's form in the past has often picked up over Christmas and the second part of the season. Trouble is they haven't been keeping clean sheets … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 30 |
 The3rdTurd | Price Risers and Fallers A bit of FPL trivia: Teams listed in order of how many player price rises they have had so far this season: Southampton.....39 Arsenal.............37 CIty..................36 Everton.............… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 23 |
 Ouch 8 point hit | Are You A Semi-Casual? Anyone else on here consider themselves to be a 'semi-casual'? I don't post on here often apart from the odd questions for advice on transfers or captain choice but the 'lurkers' thread from a few… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 51 |
 Granville | Submit your scoutcast questions here. Mark and myself are considering new ways to involve the community in the scoutcast whilst the Full Jonty is off air. So what we're looking for are a couple of fantasy football related questions wh… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 83 |
J0E | Time to switch funds to midfield? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Is it time to shift funds to midfield? With Walcott returning soon and good fixtures for Chelsea and Liverpool's heavy hitting mids is it now time to switc… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
 The Sarjeant | Most attacking sides Goals Scored per Team by Position & The Highest Scoring Player in each Position: *Please note that the percentages have been rounded up/down. Man City - Total - 26 Goalkeepers: 0% Defenders: 3.8%… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 5 |
 ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS | Gameweek 12 Captain analysis As I like looking at the past, and I have nothing better to do with my life, I figured i'd do a little analysis of the next few fixtures (relating to potential captaincy choices), The following fi… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 10 |
 Dr Dream | Falling Stars - Update Falling stars update Another BOOM for the patient pickers as the knee jerk Ramsey transfers continued unabated…For those who read the “falling stars” post for GW11(7/11), I based a team of f… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 3 |
J0E | Time To Give Our Defence Some TLC Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Well my defence is in tatters, upgrading to the likes of Suarez and Aguero up top has meant my backline needs some tender loving care. I'm sure many others … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 21 |
 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, 5 months ago | 30 |
 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, 5 months ago | 9 |
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, 5 months ago | 37 |
 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, 5 months ago | 30 |
 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, 5 months ago | 3 |
 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, 5 months ago | 63 |
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, 5 months ago | 19 |
 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, 5 months ago | 32 |
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, 5 months ago | 18 |
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, 5 months ago | 30 |
 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, 5 months ago | 26 |
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, 5 months ago | 20 |
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, 5 months ago | 15 |
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, 5 months ago | 22 |
 Liastro ⭐️ | Ramsey-less and proud Hands up if you've still not got Ramsey of FPL... o/ | 12 years, 5 months ago | 15 |
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, 5 months ago | 32 |
 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, 5 months ago | 69 |
 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, 5 months ago | 5 |
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, 5 months ago | 26 |
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, 5 months ago | 21 |
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, 5 months ago | 28 |
 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, 5 months ago | 11 |
 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, 5 months ago | 14 |
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, 5 months ago | 44 |
 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, 5 months ago | 16 |
 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, 5 months ago | 11 |
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, 5 months ago | 27 |
 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, 5 months ago | 52 |
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, 5 months ago | 15 |
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, 5 months ago | 27 |
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, 5 months ago | 23 |
 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, 5 months ago | 21 |
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, 5 months ago | 66 |
 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, 5 months ago | 13 |
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, 5 months ago | 35 |
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, 5 months ago | 8 |
 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, 5 months ago | 16 |
 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, 5 months ago | 21 |
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, 5 months ago | 47 |