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 J0E | Who will be this season's Gwk 1 surprise package? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic The first gameweek of a season can produce some surprising high scorers. Mladen Petric and Nathan Dyer shocked many of us during Gameweek 1 last season with… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 51 |
 Damo. | Solving the redundant midfielder problem. Redundant Midfield Problem I think FPL are facing a real problem here. That position is the only one where bar a group of 10ish players the rest were completely redundant due to such a massive swi… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 14 |
 Lanley Staurel | Top managers' cash allocation revealed Further to my previous post a few days ago on the Top 10 overall in last seasons FPL and how the cost of their teams at GW2 divided up across Goalie, Defence, Midfield and Attack here is an overvie… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 5 |
 teddy. | Attacking Defenders Ok, so in conjunction with fixtures and rotation, which defenders have the best attacking potential? Firstly, these are the defenders who scored 3 or more goals last season: Big Hitters Baines I… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
 Get up ya bum | Chelsea back four? Thoughts on how Chelsea will line up in defence under mourinho? Personally I think their best is Cole Ivan Terry Azpi Unlikely though. Anyone think Luis or Cahill can claim a spot? | 12 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
 Twelve years a slave | Expensive may not mean best Expensive not always best There is a natural tendancy to assume that more expensive equals better, we all have this bias, and it can be detrimental to our fantasy prospects. Hands up if yo… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 12 |
 Evs | Witty FPL Team Names - 2013/14 Right then lads, anyone thought of any witty FPL Team Names for next season 🙂 ? I'm normally rubbish at these type of things... Lets hear your best / worse ! | 12 years, 10 months ago | 51 |
 tw | 4 or 3 Way Defender Rotation: Which Is Best? in terms of defenders do you prefer one constant player (expensive or mid priced) with two rotating pairs (or a 4 way rotation) or do you prefer two constant players with a three way rotation? | 12 years, 10 months ago | 37 |
 Demí | Top Clubs' Post CL Fixtures In Prem League Arsenal: Stoke (H), WBA (A), Palace (A), Man Utd (A), Cardiff (A), Man City (A). - Away in 5 out of 6 matches after CL weeks Chelsea: Fulham (H), Norwich (A), Man City (H), WBA (H), Southampton (H… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 0 |
 stilicho | Fantasy football addiction stories What is the worst thing you've done as a result of your fantasy football addiction? | 12 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
J0E | No RVP and Bale Experiment. We are asking in our poll (see middle column on the home page) which of you will be going without one of RVP and Bale when the new season gets underway. We have also asked which of you will be loo… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 28 |
 Acquafresca | Best ever FPL bargain? Who was the BEST fpl bargain over the past 4-5 years? A) Charlie Adam (Blackpool) B) Geovanni (Hull City) C) Miguel Perez Cuesta (Swansea) | 12 years, 10 months ago | 8 |
Lanley Staurel | Where the top fantasy managers spend their cash. Splitting the £100m between goalie, defence, midfield and attack has always interested me and I never seem to get it right. I always intend on getting a balance and stacking a bit in defence but … | 12 years, 10 months ago | 5 |
Twelve years a slave | Keeping money in the bank TRIGGERLIP:S GUIDE PART 2 PLUG AND PLAY How to cut down on hits and avoid problems Yesterday I posted my template for budget allocation. (see below). Many people cant understand why I would l… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 28 |
 The3rdTurd | Higuain Statistics I'm looking forward to seeing Higuain in the Premier League. Whilst we wait for Paul's Moving Target article, I thought I would take a quick glance at his league stats for the last few seasons: ht… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 24 |
 Sheep | Is It Worth Having Playing Subs? Lesson from last season: Get nailed on bench fodder, or rotate the last two attacking spots. Nothing is worse than having an team injury and your back up doesn't even play. | 12 years, 10 months ago | 46 |
teddy. | More Keeper Combinations Morning all, Here's my contribution to the keeper rotation combos. These are worked out based on strength of oppostion, designed to avoid Utd, City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool and Everton … | 12 years, 10 months ago | 7 |
 Billy Gilmore | Navigating the potential Chelsea double gameweek and blank Wait, HUL/AVL for Chelski to start with in GW1 😯 That'll be points galore! | 12 years, 10 months ago | 31 |
 Wingate | Top 3 Predictions SO then Chaps, with new managers all over the top of the table, who do you think is going to finish 123 this season? My friend bet me 100 CHF that Arsenal and Liverpool would be in top 3.... i qui… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 15 |
J0E | First Six Gameweeks Strategy So with the fixture list now out, spread sheets compiled, rotation options weighed up and heavy hitters earmarked, which are the teams and players people are looking to focus on for the first six w… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
tw | Mid Table Team Defences would appreciate your input. please rate the following fixtures from a defensive standpoint on a scale of 1-3 with 1 being easy and 3 being hard. this is your predictions for this upcoming season a… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 32 |
Demí | Opening fixture analysis A very comprehensive read here analysing the opening fixtures for each club.with stats included.. http://www.whoscored.com/Blog/dxvha0memeintqots07qba/Show/League-Focus-The-Premier-League-Opening-… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 1 |
 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, 10 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, 10 months ago | 11 |
 JK - Cønt â | 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Key players - first six gameweeks So which players are you penciling in for the first six games? | 12 years, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago | 10 |
 Thomass | Best and worst capt. choices? In terms of captaincy, what was your success and failures in captain choices? | 12 years, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago | 19 |
 Doosra - â˜DeclanMyGeniusâ… | 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago | 26 |
Sheep | Liverpool Target 'Heno' goal record HeMan's last season with Shaktar: 39 appearances, 25 goals. 64% ratio, not too shabby 😀 It's an unfair comparison but RVP scored 26 goals in 38 appearances (68%) 😉 If he comes in at around 7.5m… | 12 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
Jafooli | Biggest Punts for 2013/14? Biggest punt you're seriously considering starting with? I reckon I'm gonna give 👿 Kagawa a run out to start with....... | 12 years, 10 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, 10 months ago | 22 |
In Tommy We Trust | Defensive stats For those who like the Attacking Stats posted earlier today, here are the Defensive Stats 🙂 http://allthingsfpl.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/clubs-defensive-stats-201213/ | 12 years, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago | 50 |
In Tommy We Trust | Attacking Stats For anyone interested in stats 🙂 http://allthingsfpl.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/clubs-attacking-stats-201213/ | 12 years, 10 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, 10 months ago | 15 |