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 HVT | Suarez and Lukaku To Influence RVP Price Surely with the Re-emergence of Lukaka as a cheap 3rd striker this creates a good foil for Rvp owners to keep him . Also now that Suarez has started scoring surely this will impact on Rvps price a… | 12 years, 6 months ago | 6 |
 nedfoo | Goalkeeper assists Goalkeeper Assists With 2 assists for goalkeepers this weekend, I've decided to do a bit of statistical research into how often they've occurred this season and how likely they are to occur again.… | 12 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
 Tim Canterbury | Top Attacking Coverage - Your Thoughts... Tell me what the best attacking cover is for the following teams. You can have 2 players from 1 team if you like. Gold star to the first correct answer Arsenal Spurs Everton Liverpool | 12 years, 6 months ago | 29 |
 Valar(Keith) | Best Spurs defensive cover Vertonghen vs Walker? Admittedly i have not watched many tottenham games but why does everyone have a boner for vertonghen over walker? Both have got the almost the same amount of bonus and point… | 12 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
 J0E | Top tips to climb up the rankings Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic This season has seen many a seasoned pro (including many of the FFS mods and contribs) struggle to replicate their previous glories. What key advice would … | 12 years, 6 months ago | 45 |
 Scoredelario | New FPL rules suggestions If you were the rules writer of FPL what new, possibly quirky rules would you put in? Me: 1 point for hitting the woodwork 5 bonus pts if a goalkeeper comes forward and scores a goal (not direct… | 12 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
 The Sarjeant | Highest ownership analysis Here is a league table that consists of data which looks at what teams would be good to invest in for differentials, if they kept a clean sheet, and what teams you'd want to concede if you don't ha… | 12 years, 6 months ago | 14 |
 Piggs Boson | Suarez or Sturridge? Sturridge or Suarez? | 12 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
 A Defender's Nightmare | Is Ramsey essential? I bet just like me most of you would've laughed at the beginning of season if some guy told you that Ramsey would score overall 8 goals this SEASON. Surely we can't call him as new Michu as the Sp… | 12 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Can Ramsey and YToure's form continue Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Can Aaron Ramsey and Yaya Toure continue their surprising and incredible form? What are non owners doing? Is it too late to get them due to price rises? | 12 years, 6 months ago | 16 |
J0E | Gameweek 6's top scorer? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Which player will be Gameweek 6's top FPL points scorer? Feel free to give reasons. | 12 years, 7 months ago | 38 |
 isacki: full casual | Arnautović analysis Just did a quick scout of Arnautovic from the Match of the Day highlights of Arsenal v Stoke. Couple of other observations from that game but will focus on Arnie. If you want to spot him, Arnie is … | 12 years, 7 months ago | 11 |
 PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON, I’m happy to answer any questions you have about PlayON or about the Gameweek 6 article above. If you post your questions / feedback as replies below, I’ll answer th… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Hits, benches and injuries Fantasy football scout daily hot topic What's your policy for taking a hit to ensure you have at least one player on your bench? With so many injuries at the moment many managers' benches are f… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 12 |
 Dr Dream | Pick of Gwk 6's Falling Stars Falling stars Getting into my stride now...Another look at those Crocs and random fallers who are currently costing less their opening GW values arranged into a squad whose total is at or less tha… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Where are the quality budget defenders this year? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic There seems to be a real lack of quality budget defenders this year. Any reason why so few options exist? Or maybe you don't agree, if so feel free to list t… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
 GreenWindmill | Best Premium Defenders Which of these premium defenders would you rather have in your team from these options? Reasons appreciated if possible 🙂 Walker (6.0) Dawson (5.1) Ferdinand (5.5) Vidic (6.0) Rafael (6.0) Nasta… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
 ViperStripes | Is Baines now a credible captain option? Discussion topic: Baines as Captain this week? Discuss (he's not in the Captain poll options, hence worth discussing) | 12 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 Lord Flashheart | Strikers' key attributes What do we look for in a striker? I would like to suggest a semi scientific method to evaluate strikers. Basically, we look for 9 elements with different weighting: A - quality - most important -… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
GreenWindmill | The value of a hit Lots of folks taking hits at the moment - how do people judge whether they think a hit is worthwhile or not? Do you look at the next game and decide whether Player A will outscore Player B by at l… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 46 |
J0E | Gameweek 1 survivors Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With some of fantasy games most popular players falling to injury over the last week many managers' teams are already looking like a shadow of the one they … | 12 years, 7 months ago | 45 |
J0E | Top Six Walcott Replacements If money is no option here are my top walcott replacements in order Ozil Michu Oscar Ramsey Yaya Toure Eriksen | 12 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
 Forget Special, I am the ON… | Best formation What is the best formation moving ahead ? I usually prefer 3-4-3 but ready to listen suggestions with reason. Thanks in advance | 12 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
J0E | What To Do With Walcott? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Walcott owners...what are you doing with him should he be confirmed out until mid October? I'm assuming wildcarders will be ditching. But if he's only out f… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
Dr Dream | Falling Stars Falling Stars----Update An update for those who have been following my falling stars posts every Thursday....and for those who are unfamiliar...It's a fictitous squad made up of fifteen random fal… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 4 |
J0E | Is this the oddest FPL season ever? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic This season seems very different to all the others I've known. Defenders are mopping up the points, familiar, previously reliable players are misfiring and e… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | Looking Ahead - Best Rotation For anyone who is operating with rotating pairs in defence or midfield, GW6 constitutes the end of a fixture block in which teams are either home or away on a regular basis. The ten blocks create… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 19 |
J0E | Suarez or Sturridge? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Suarez or sturridge and why? Is Suarez worth his price? Or will the cheaper Sturridge match or even better his points tally over the coming weeks? What do … | 12 years, 7 months ago | 26 |
 Bielsa's Bucket | Arsenal v Stoke stats Just a quick fact finder for those Arsenal captainers. I could go into more detail but its gone past the deadline now, meh. Since 2008/9 when Stoke came back to the top flight Arsenal have scored … | 12 years, 7 months ago | 6 |
J0E | Last minute panic Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Last minute panics - what is the best and worst 11:29 Sat am transfer or captain change you have made? | 12 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
PlayON | PlayOn Q&A Session Killian here from PlayON. I’m happy to answer any questions you have about PlayON or about the article above. One point to note is that we have changed the deadline for finalising your team f… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 21 |
 r0nh | Manchester Derby Key Stats Wayne Rooney has now either scored or assisted 40 goals in his last 44 Premier League games. Since the start of 2012-13, no side has kept more clean sheets in the Premier League than Manchester Ci… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 5 |
J0E | Gameweek 5's ultimate differential Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will be Gameweek 5's ultimate differential? There were some great punts last week from some of you (eg Giggs Boson's Rooney (c) and Moses p… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 35 |
 Ryan | Defenders being the Highest Scorers Could this be the season where defenders become the highest scorers in their respective teams? I decided to compile a brief list of the top scoring defender vs the top scoring attacker 9 teams ha… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 21 |
 Heels_Over_Head | Hattrick kings and brace princes. Hat tricks last season Van Persie 2 (and 1 brace) Suarez 2 (and 3 braces) Gomez Cazorla (and 1 brace) Bale Walcott Kagawa Bentenke (and 2 braces) Sturridge (and 1 brace) Nolan Lukaku (and 2 brac… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 4 |
 Blue Lion | The Case For Lukaku Why Lukaku? Warning this is a long post and people who are not even thinking of Lukaku in their plans can skip right past. This article will give you a better view of Lukaku based on the statistic… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
 Jönny | Has RVP Been Priced Perfectly at 14m? Do you think it's possible that RVP will remain at exactly 14m for the whole season? So many players already own him who will likely eventually become dead teams, and so far he's never really got c… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 Granville | FPL Market Crash So many players are dropping in price each day. Miralles and Kim both fallen for me. You can't keep hold of any player waiting for their points this season. Mata has fallen from 10.5m to 9.8m !!! | 12 years, 7 months ago | 26 |
J0E | Arsenal's Attacking Assets Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Arsenal look irresistible right now as an attacking force with great fixtures. How many and which Arsenal players do you plan to get? Feel free to put forwar… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
 Demel | The case against triple Arsenal attack This might sound madness but stick with me. Arsenal attacking players may be ones to avoid. Lots of people are trying to shoehorn in 3 Arsenal attacking players and yes their attack looks great. T… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 5 |
 Mark | Sorry, we couldn't bring you a Scoutcast this week Just a heads up...regrettably we've just tried to record a ScoutCast but the Skype call kept dropping due to problems, I think on my connection. We just had to abandon it I'm afraid. I'm on holida… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 22 |
J0E | Champions League Surgery Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Be good to compile any Champions League game advice in one handy hot topic for those looking to make changes. Feel free to leave your CL game questions her… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 2 |
 GreennRed | Striker and Assister Relationships Lamela, Eriksen, Chadli and Lennon would be better options if they were assisting Van Persie,Sturridge, Giroud, Rooney,Suarez or Benteke. Soldado reminds me of Giroud this time last year, needing … | 12 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
 Somalion | Arsenal's Top Trio Here's my reasoning for owning Ozil as well as Wally and Giroud currently. 1: Goal scoring: A lot has been said about Ozil being "just" an assister. Now the evidence is there to suggest he of co… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
 Eboue | The case for a premium defence The case for the premium defenders and just, defenders This is not a gloat post, the next line is important. Ok, so I just wildcarded and am pleased with the points result : 74. However, I can't h… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
 Dino | Summer Dreams Ripped At The Seams Afternoon all just a quick post calling for honesty: Which of you were bigging up these fpl failures pre-season - Cornelius, Van Wolfswinkel, Altidore, Bony (to an extent), Kone, Mannone, Kim, Ko… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
J0E | Your Tales of Extreme Valour Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Those that drafted Victor Moses in ahead of last night's game took a risk, which duly paid off? If anyone played Shelvey last night they were also in for a s… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 thetinkerman | STICK or TWIST? Here are some players with great potential, who were popular, solid picks at the start of the season but who are not in good FPL form. For each player, say whether you think it's better to stick an… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 47 |
J0E | Rooney v RVP Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic David Moyes has said he plans to field Wayne Rooney up front with Robin Van Persie and expects him to score around 30 goals this season. http://www.theguar… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
Valar(Keith) | Baines and Pienaar analysis Effect of Pienaar on Baines: Everton vs Chelsea http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367446/gamecast.html?soccernet=true&cc=4716 Cardiff Vs Everton http://espnfc.com/en/gamecast/367446/gamecast.html?socc… | 12 years, 7 months ago | 9 |