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 In Tommy We Trust | 2 and 3 way rotation options Every 2 way rotation available for every club this season plus a guide to the Rotation Finder for people new to rotations. You can find it in the sidebar of my blog along with my Season Ticker I pu… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 22 |
 Twelve years a slave | Team template Here is the template that I use to begin the season, individual prices will vary slightly but the framework is tried and trusted Goal keepers 4.5 m4.5 Basically no more than 9m spent on keepers … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 11 |
 JK - Cønt โญ | RVP - Is there really an alternative? Just a thought for non-RvPers How many of these alternatives (Higuain etc) do you realstically expect to be set-piece hoggers like RvP is, he takes pens free-kicks and corners from the right. It's… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 10 |
 Sess! | Best budget goalkeeper rotation Possible budget friendly GK rotation options up until Jan WC (updated): Ruddy (Nor) £5m / Begovic (Sto) £5m - Total £10m EVE, CPL, SOU, MCI/tot, AVL, NOR, ful, WBA, CDF, SOU, WHM, SUN, CPL, CD… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
 J0E | Wildcard during international breaks? Fixture breaks are traditionally great times to wildcard to take advantage of price rises and deal with international injuries. Here's the three breaks during the first half of the season. Weeken… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Key players - first six gameweeks So which players are you penciling in for the first six games? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | Home & Away Rotation Home and away 38-game rotating pairs: Man United - Man City Arsenal - Spurs Newcastle - Sunderland Chelsea - Fulham Everton - Liverpool Aston Villa - WBA Cardiff - Swansea Stoke - Norwich Southam… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
 thetinkerman | Teams with favourable opening fixtures The teams with favourable first 6 fixtures: Spurs Liverpool City Newcastle (from GW2) Norwich Everton WBA Southampton West Ham | 12 years, 5 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Prem League Fixtures In Full: Early Thoughts? Premier League fixtures in full. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/fixtures So what are your early thoughts? Welcome to the latest daily topic from the Fantasy Football Scout t… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 16 |
 Granville | Prem League Opening Fixtures PREMIER LEAGUE OPENING DAY FIXTURES: Saturday, 17 August 2013 Barclays Premier League Arsenal v Aston Villa Chelsea v Hull Crystal Palace v Tottenham Liverpool v Stoke Man City v Newcastle … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 10 |
 Thomass | Best and worst capt. choices? In terms of captaincy, what was your success and failures in captain choices? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 3 |
 Derailed Bandwagon | Best transfer last season? What was everyone's most fruitful transfer last season (hits included)? I'll kick us off: I bought in Figueroa the gameweek he played Reading away and he got me a goal, an assist, a clean sheet an… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 8 |
 mathmo | Best time to wildcard revealed. Wildcarding : when to do it? Hello All, Just ran out some analysis on correlation between rank and when someone played their WC. Interesting results. A huge amount of data collected, so here's my… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 18 |
 Jafooli | Most nailed on players Who were the most nailed on players last season? Anyone got the minutes? Gerrard was up there right? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 16 |
 SPorting | Is Bench Fodder Worthwhile? FPL runner-up Kelvin Travers said: "If I could field 11 players, I wouldn’t take a points hit" With that in mind, would any of you pick 4 x 3.8m players as permanent, season long bench fodder? … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 19 |
 Doosra - โญDeclanMyGeniusโ… | Predicting clean sheets - home vs. away Home vs Away. Just like to say, that in four years of doing my own Season Ticker, last year was particularly unusual in terms of Home/Away results, particularly among the lower orders, in which I c… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Goalkeeper Options The Premier League fixture list comes out tomorrow. This gives the perfect chance to start some early planning of goalkeeper rotation. So what are everyone's plans for goalkeepers this season? Rot… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 31 |
 Acquafresca | Overpriced players Players that will be overpriced this year in terms of mid-priced FPL bargains: Basically these are players that were golden last year, but we will have to think twice about even touching them this… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
 Lawrø | MK @ LFC - What's your thoughts ? Observations I've made on Mkhitarian: Positives: He's either footed and seems to be able to strike the ball exceptionally well first time, he appears to like hitting the ball low and hard in the p… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 26 |
 Sheep | Liverpool Target 'Heno' goal record HeMan's last season with Shaktar: 39 appearances, 25 goals. 64% ratio, not too shabby ๐ It's an unfair comparison but RVP scored 26 goals in 38 appearances (68%) ๐ If he comes in at around 7.5m… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 10 |
Jafooli | Biggest Punts for 2013/14? Biggest punt you're seriously considering starting with? I reckon I'm gonna give ๐ฟ Kagawa a run out to start with....... | 12 years, 5 months ago | 11 |
 Ginkapo FPL | Defences: Which team will be the most reliable? Before the fixture lists comes out and our thinking gets all muddled by rotation spreadsheets; Who are you expecting to be solid defensively this year? Mine; United, City, Arsenal, Spurs, Pool an… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 22 |
In Tommy We Trust | Defensive stats For those who like the Attacking Stats posted earlier today, here are the Defensive Stats ๐ http://allthingsfpl.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/clubs-defensive-stats-201213/ | 12 years, 5 months ago | 7 |
 Gimli son of Gloin | Coutinho really the real deal? I see Coutinho is being looked at quite seriously for next season. While I do have quite a high opinion of the player, I do however have a few hesitations. Last season we got him for a very low pr… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 Adam West - Team Serbia for… | Mid price midfielder inflation predictions Looking at the same mid price mids who did well at the end of last of season is surely a waste of time due to price hikes, form does not transfer over from season to season and new underpriced mids… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
J0E | Cult heroes and villains in fantasy football A certain West Ham defender emerged last season as the fantasy football community's latest cult figure. But which other cult heroes and villains of the fantasy game have there been? And which have … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 50 |
In Tommy We Trust | Attacking Stats For anyone interested in stats ๐ http://allthingsfpl.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/clubs-attacking-stats-201213/ | 12 years, 5 months ago | 13 |
 Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus… | Best Spurs and ManU cover apart from Bale and RVP? If you weren't going for RvP or Bale, who do you think would be the next best source of cover for their respective teams? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 15 |
 The3rdTurd | FPL Stats Home/Away Analysis I've been playing around with the FPL stats for last season, breaking it down for each player by home and away performance for goals, assists, PPG, etc. and I thought this might be worth sharing: … | 12 years, 5 months ago | 46 |
 Michael Jordan - call me MJ | Mid Price Mids v Top Defenders Contrasting the value of big hitting defenders and mid price midfielders Average of top 10 Defenders 6.0-6.5: 129.6 Average of top 10 Midfielders 6.5 and below: 138.4 (Not included Michu or Fella… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 20 |
 Joga Bonito® | Best 5 players Who are the 5 players you will build your team around this year? RVP, Sturridge, Oscar, Bale. Walcott for me. Probable value 13, 9.5, 8.5, 11, 10 = 52 on only 5 players ๐ | 12 years, 5 months ago | 33 |
mathmo | Defender selection With the points system as it is, and with defences decling (although Mourinho's Chelsea and Moyes' Manchester Utd may prove to buck the trend - perhaps!) and the money being better invested in atta… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 15 |
 Oldman Unathletic | Out of position prospects Any thoughts on possible oop players for the forthcoming season? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 11 |
mathmo | Luck Analysis "Luck" and do we analyse too much? A paradoxical post by all accounts - but here goes. There are a number of 'ghost teams' which score very highly. In fact, far higher than many teams that are su… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 15 |
In Tommy We Trust | Is balance within your squad vital next year? Only a passing visit but I thought I'll leave you with this question. Has the general rule of balance within your squad changed? Is the Uber defence now the way to go? Is 3-5-2 the new 3-4-3? W… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
 r0nh | Do summer competitions affect FPL performance? What impact does playing a summer competition have on FPL players the following season? Mata playing the Euro's & the GB Games last summer certainly had an effect on him at the start of the season… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
J0E | Fantasy Football Success Stories Yesterday we asked for your worst fantasy football blunders. Today it’s bragging time as we ask you to tell us about your greatest fantasy football success stories. It could be getting a player i… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 70 |
Michael Jordan - call me MJ | Best FPL advice? If you could give one piece of FPL advice what would it be? Mine would be: Watch as many games/ MOTD as possible | 12 years, 5 months ago | 16 |
Sheep | West Brom's assets I've never been certain about West Brom assets. Who do you reckon could be a good option next season? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
 Dr Dream | Max bonus point darlings Does anybody know how often the main big hitters in the game (RVP/Bale/Suarez etc) got the three baps for any given game....or does anybody know where i could find it ?....Where's the bap chap wh… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
Jafooli | Gerrard and Lampard predictions Will Gerrard & Lampard make the top ten scoring midfielders again next season? Wonder how many seasons they managed that now. | 12 years, 5 months ago | 7 |
J0E | Worst blunders? Whether it be too many hits, an irrational love for a maverick player or the occasional captaincy of a defender, we have all made mistakes. In this, our latest daily hot topic from the Fantasy Fo… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 33 |
Jafooli | FPL aspirations Okay one to get people talking - aspirations & goals for the coming season. For me: 1. Win at least one of my two main ML's 2. Top 10K overall finish 3. Top 50 country league - Singapore 4. Decent… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
Jafooli | Fantasy Football Prizes Which FF games have the biggest prizes and how much last year? Metro? Sky? Sun? Any others? I played for nowt last year ๐ This year I'm going for: 1. FPL 2. PlayOn 3. Biggest top prize from… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 26 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Team prospects for 2013/14 What changes might be see next season in the PL? I noticed that clean sheets were somewhat difficult to get aside from Man United's awesome streak. But it seemed going by fixtures wasn't always the… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 10 |
 Dino | Pellegrini Analysis An analysis of Pellegrini's influence on teams attack and rotation Rotation issue: At Malaga last year 7 players started 25 plus games (Monreal would likely have also if he had not moved to arsen… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 30 |
 1966 was a great year for E… | FPL Rules - Better Now or Before? The FPL rules have changed a bit over the years. Which rules do you think are better now, and which should have stayed as they were? I've put the new rules first in each point: 1. Mids getting 1 p… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
Portsmouth Bubblejet | Saints sign defender Croatian international defender Dejan Lovren has signed for Southampton from Olympique Lyonnais for €10 million. http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Lovren-a-southampton/378694 | 12 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
 Camzy | Captain decisions: form or fixture? What's more important, Form or Fixture when picking a captain? I had some time to do some statistical analysis of my own. It's simplified, it isn't perfect, but I think it will tell us something.… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 15 |
 Count of Monte Hristo | £5m defender discussion What do you look for in a £5m defender? Is it as straightforward as good CS potential with attacking returns? | 12 years, 5 months ago | 24 |