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 RedLightning | GW1 Rough with the Smooth Rough with the Smooth, Gameweek 1. How did your Gameweek go? Did you score your first century of the season? Did you use any chips? Did you have a differential captain failure? Did you leave big … | 4 years, 6 months ago | 56 |
RedLightning | GW1 Mini-league leaders Mini-League Leaders, Gameweek 1: This is a report on the leaders of various Fantasy Football Scout FPL mini-leagues and community competitions after a high-scoring Gameweek 1 (if you owned Salah a… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 2 |
 The Train Driver | New Players added... New players added to FPL Thomas (DEF) BUR £4.0m Richardson (FWD) BUR £4.5m Karbownik (DEF) BHA £4.0m Caicedo (MID) BHA £4.5m Richards (MID) BHA £4.5m Zeqiri (FWD) BHA £4.5m Hannam (DEF… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 6 |
 potatoace | Thoughts on Toney? I thought he had a good game. Skysports man of the match. Some lovely weighted through balls, got space and should have been picked out on at least 2 occasions. Could have had 2 assists also. All … | 4 years, 6 months ago | 16 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy GW15 - Scout picks and players to watch Scout Picks for GW15: https://allsvenskan.se/fantasy/scout-picks-gw15 Thanks Gerardo for your continued contributions, always a good read and very appreciated! How are you looking ahead of GW15? … | 4 years, 6 months ago | 4 |
 Freshy | Membership Renewal questions... Any management onboard? Is there a link for members to renew at today's discount? Or is it not available for existing members? | 4 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
 Zimo | LMS League code... 6dcode | 4 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 G-Whizz | Pre-Deadline A or B questions! Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy, transfers, bench or even anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 85 |
 ffs casual | Buendia states he's fit... Looks promising https://twitter.com/EM10Buendia/status/1425938696814186503 | 4 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 Collie01 | Whipping boys! Who's yours to target? Early doors, there seems to be many potential whipping boys. By this, I mean teams that could potentially concede multiple times a game on a pretty regular basis. In no particular order: - Norwic… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 15 |
 diesel001 | Lukaku price revealed, you going for him? Lukaku!!!!! £11.5m - yay or nay for your FPL team? | 4 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
G-Whizz | GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds (updated) GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds (updated) https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/23925066 | 4 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 jia you | The Case for BB GW1 7 reasons why an early BB could work out well for the non-expert FPL manager: 1. It gets it out of the way and allows you to focus your transfers on your first XI after your first WC and for the m… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 45 |
 DAZZ | Jota vs Greenwood A huge talking point and one the more popular decisions people seem to be making, is Jota v Greenwood. Both the same price. Who are you going with if any, and why? | 4 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
 Stormbringer22 | Is Tsimikas worth it? The more I think about it, the more I lean towards Tsimikas not being worth it. While I appreciate that over the course of GW1 and GW2 Tsimikas + Raphina + Ings likely score more points than Ayling… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 42 |
The Train Driver | 28 new players added 28 New Players added to FPL: Cutrone FOR Wolves £5.0m Coventry MID West Ham £4.5m Alves DEF West Ham £4.0m Scarlett FOR Spurs £4.5m Long FOR Southampton £5.5m Broja FOR Southampton £5.0… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 7 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery - Gameweek 1 It's a new season and after AA33 stormed to the title last year, Scout Picks Community Champion is back for another year. For the uninitiated among you, each week the Scouts pick a team of pl… | 4 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 Too Many Tacos | Fellowship of the 4.0 One 4.0 to rule them all... My internal debate around Tsimikas is reaching Council of Elrond proportions: "It is a gift. Why not use this 4.0?" "You cannot field him. None of us can. Not without l… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 Rainer | Robertson update Andy Robertson update from Jurgen Klopp. Seems it will 2/3 games absence “I think we got lucky,” said Klopp. “It could have been much worse. It will not be too long. I’m not sure if it wil… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 19 |
 MYNAMEISBigtopmark.sman | Potential Liverpool Targets Liverpool fpl review: Attackers: Salah should be in everyone's team regardless of a slow pre season. He had one last year and belted in a hat trick in gw 1. Talk of decline is grossly exaggerated … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
 Witty Pun: Not good at this… | Iheanacho warning PSA to anyone still holding on to Iheanacho: Rodgers seems to be happily returning to four at the back. This change unfortunately means Iheanacho is very unlikely to start much, at least to begin … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 Az | Don’t miss Mark Sutherns’ (Members only) video If you're a Premium Member of FFS, don't forget to check out Mark Sutherns and Andy as they talk how real like transfers could impact on their sections and the sharing of their current drafts ahead… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
 Avery | Will you own Lukaku? Will you be fitting Lukaku into your team? | 4 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy GW14 - Scout Picks & Captains GW14 is just around the corner with a kickoff time of 15.30 CET! If we are lucky we might get some team news ahead of the deadline. A tricky week for captaincy, who are you placing the armband on? | 4 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
Az | FFS TRANSFER PLANNER Hey guys, Just dropping a note to say I am absolutely PSYCHED about the new FFS Transfer Planner. I've been working on it for the last few months with the brains behind the Championship Manager F… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
G-Whizz | GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds (updated) GW1 fixture odds can be found here: https://www.betbrain.com/football/england/premier-league/ GW1 clean sheet odds: CHE: 56% (+4) LEI: 44% (-1) LIV: 43% MCI: 39% BHA: 38% (+1) MNU: 36% (+1) ARS: … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 16 |
 Geoff | Fofana injury - budget defenders Following Fofana's injury, who is your pick for the best budget defender? Why? Looks to be a difficult choice now with no one standout option. Who is on your watchlist? | 4 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
 ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐ | Danny Ings to Aston Villa Ings to villa done | 4 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
 Rasping Drive | Are Community Shield line-ups a good guide for GW1? Are Community Shield lineups a reliable guide for GW1? A common assumption is that the lineups in the CS are a good guide as to which players will feature in GW1. I spent a bit of time to find out… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 9 |
 Ginkapo FPL | Impact of refereeing changes Hot Topic - What do we anticipate to be the impact of refereeing changes? Penalties: "Referees will look for contact and establish clear contact, then ask themselves the question: does that conta… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
Rasping Drive | Is Jota worth the risk? Is Diogo Jota worth the risk? Using last season as a guide we can see that: Jota was available for selection for 19 gameweeks over the whole season. Starts: 12 (63% of total) Featured as sub: 7 (3… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
 Athletic Nasherbo | Is double Liverpool defence justifiable? Surprised more of the FPL community have not mobilised to explain why Liverpool defensive assets aren’t as good as we might think! Negatives: - TAA + Robbo priced at 7.5 + 7.0 respectively. T… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy - Scout Picks BGW13 https://allsvenskan.se/fantasy/scout-picks-gw13 Scout Picks for Blank GW13! Will you be able to fit a full 11 without taking a hit? Who are you looking to captain this tricky week with Hammarby … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 8 |
 Hairy Potter | Fans' return: The downsides I wonder if the return of fans with have a positive or negative impact on teams this season. Still not a lot of love in Newcastle for Bruce and some of the performances last season rank up there w… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 11 |
 Nate(U)dog(ie) | Would Grealish be nailed at City? I have Grealish and Foden in my current draft and have been pondering who I'd prefer to keep (if either) if Grealish goes to City. Was thinking for the price he'd end up being you'd imagine Grealis… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
 Greyhead | Calling all Community Captains The Community Tournament has been supersized this year - some questions answered in the latest article. We have already doubled the number of captains from last year but want to triple up (mainly b… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 1 |
 Baps Hunter | How to fit in 3 heavy hitters No matter what I do, having 3 very big hitters is overkill if Kane goes to Manchester. One strategy might be trying to play fixtures with them and have 2/3 of them all the time. If starting with Sa… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
Az | guinea pigs needed Am looking for a few FFS users to try out a new tool that's in the works. If you're interested, can you email me at az@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk Cheers! | 4 years, 7 months ago | 8 |
Avery | Everton friendly report Half time It’s a good run out for the Everton players. Temperatures are roasting there.They are definitely playing like it’s an exhibition match. - Digne took a high boot to the face at 43mi… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 12 |
 Ruth_NZ | Toney reservations Seems like there's a fair old bandwagon about Ivan Toney [Brentford, 6.5m] with many talking as if he's a good thing. So thought I'd take a look at his prospects. First things first: you can't equ… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan GW12 - Scout Picks Scout picks GW12: https://allsvenskan.se/fantasy/scout-picks-gw12 How are you dealing with a tricky captain week with some potential rotation on the cards for the clubs involved in European qualif… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 5 |
 Kloppage Time | Fitting Kane in Not sure I wanted Kane to go to Man City as I will have to rip my team apart now to fit in him, just cannot see going without him now. | 4 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
 mixology | Early or late WC? How many fixtures are you looking at when selecting your GW1 team? I always get off to a slow start by selecting mostly players who I want to keep long term, combined with the fact I'm a rubbish F… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
 Boris Bodega | New FPL Community Tournament for 21/22 Managers required for the best Fantasy Football Community tournament there is! https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2021/07/20/community-tournament-2021-22-strikers-keepers-losers-weepers/ | 4 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
Athletic Nasherbo | Leicester players overlooked? Are we sleeping on Leicester assets? 20/21 after 7 games - 2nd place (1 point off Liverpool) 19/20 after 7 games - 3rd place (7 points off top - Liverpool had won all) 21/22 - Leicester have … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 47 |
G-Whizz | GW1 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW1 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/1btpvg4 (Provided by Betbrain) GW1 clean sheet odds: CHE: 52% LEI: 45% LIV: 41% MCI: 39% BHA: 37% EVE: 35% MNU: 35% WHU: 33% ARS: 32% … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Would old-fashioned pricing be more fun? A couple weeks ago, I spent a bit of time looking through how FPL have changed their pricing strategy over the years. One year that caught the eye was 04/05. As a general summary: Premiums were… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
 HurriKane | The Case for Buendia Case for Emi Buendia !! Villa record signing at 38m is going straight into my team and here's why. - Buendia scored 15 goals and registered 16 assists claiming Sky Bet Championship Player of the … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
DAZZ | Too much Raphinha love? Why all the Raph love? 3/4 tough opening fixtures. GW5 on yes, great option. | 4 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
 Camzy | Mane and Salah in GW1? Thoughts on starting with Mane + Salah? They have gotten really long summer breaks. VvD will also be back. I think Pool could be the strongest starters of the new season. Going Salah + Mane + TAA … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 34 |