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 RedLightning | Light touch VAR? The officials at the Euros showed a much lighter touch as regards VAR, with the result that far fewer decisions were reversed after VAR reviews. None of the dodgy penalties and red cards for compar… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
 Skonto Rigga | Scout Notes Poll Trying to gauge opinion on the normal Scout Notes (not the pre-season variety) so set up a poll on the sidebar. Feedback seems to be mixed; some like the lengthier write-ups, some others find it a … | 4 years, 7 months ago | 5 |
 ritzyd | Is Toney all that? Is Toney all that? He was one of the first names of my draft one but i have since taken him out. Why? I watched the highlights on youtube of all his goals and assist from last season and looked at… | 4 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
RedLightning | FPL Editorial Content Suggestions Nine dormant article strands from the past are described in the article and survey above, but if there are any others that we’ve unfairly overlooked then please mention them here. And also pleas… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
 FPL Virgin | Picking settled/proven players in GW1 For me, I like certainty in my gameweek 1 side. I like players who have a good track record in the premier league. Not only that ... but they need a settled manager in charge of team. So I don't… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 19 |
 Steve The Spud | FPL Forward Line Plans What’s everyone’s front 2/3 atm I’m on Watkins dcl Toney atm but subject to change depending on transfers and Pre season form Feel like with the these 3 you play the stats and also get 3 … | 4 years, 8 months ago | 27 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | Nuno New Numero Uno Manager merry-go-round in full swing now, Nuno to Spurs confirmed. https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/1410316079105122304?s=19 Any interest here for FPL? My first thoughts are obviously Do… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 9 |
 Elfozzie 42 | Benitez to Everton - Does that change your picks? Benitez became the blues 5th manager in 5 seasons when he was unveiled at Goodison Park today https://twitter.com/Everton/status/1410240527988051968 It's fair to say the fan reaction has been 'mixe… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 9 |
 Holmes | Bench Boosting in Gameweek 1 Am I alone in BB1 camp? | 4 years, 8 months ago | 39 |
Skonto Rigga | New FFS editor and deputy Afternoon all, I'm chuffed to bits to be stepping up as Editor and humbled to be asked to do so. I'm even more delighted to welcome aboard Tom, a bona fide FPL great and a manager whose season hi… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 39 |
 schlupptheweek | Wolves bargains under Lage I know the season is a long way a way but Wolves could provide a few bargains given Bruno Lage's trust in youth and attacking 4-4-2 formation. We will very likely buy a striker but given we're unli… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 10 |
RedLightning | FPL Mini-leagues to enter The Opening Day League (league code 4bfkn8) is for teams that enter it within 24 hours of FPL going live for the new season. It will be closed to new entrants at about 12.15pm on Wednesday 23rd Jun… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 18 |
 Maximus Bonimus Pointimus | Is a strong template forming? With those prices & fixtures - is anyone *not* starting with Watkins, Raphinia, Salah, Bruno, Sanchez and a Liverpool defender? That’s two thirds of most teams sorted already 😆 | 4 years, 8 months ago | 32 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | FPL Pricing First Impressions Lots of FPL price releases today - who are you liking the look of and who has been overpriced? Full list of the prices revealed so far (bar Liverpool, Norwich and West Ham, only included a select … | 4 years, 8 months ago | 34 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Could Palace offer value? Next on the list is Palace Zaha - MID - 7m Guaita - GK - 4.5m Mitchell - DEF - 4.5m Benteke - FWD - 6.5m https://twitter.com/CPFC/status/1406572536586964992?s=20 | 4 years, 8 months ago | 15 |
 SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE | Sanchez at 4.5m - easy pick? Sanchez (4.5m) that’s the GK sorted | 4 years, 8 months ago | 7 |
Skonto Rigga | FPL player price reaction Any stand-out players from these early prices? Smith-Rowe generous at £5.5m? The Pepe of GW35-38 would be a steal at £7.5m but... Arteta. | 4 years, 8 months ago | 11 |
 Az | FIXTURE LIST 21/22 - EARLY THOUGHTS VIDEO Don't forget to check out my video with David on the new fixture list for the 21/22 season! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4aA3J60yDQ | 4 years, 8 months ago | 0 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | First look at rotation pairings As always, there are 10 pairs of teams that have perfect home / away rotations - if you target that kind of thing. Seem a lot less geographical this season, which is bizarre. Arsenal and Tottenham… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 10 |
Skonto Rigga | FPL players for the start of 2021/22 Obviously without having seen the new season player prices, any names leaping out for the start of 2021/22? Could see a mid-price (and no doubt frustrating) template front three of Watkins, DCL and… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 19 |
 Geoff | PL Fixtures - FFS Ticker is Live Fixture Ticker is LIVE 🙂 | 4 years, 8 months ago | 2 |
RedLightning | FPL Updating FPL has been updating for most of today, getting ready for 2021/22. Do we expect them to make any big changes to the game? What changes would we like them to make? And when do we expect it to relau… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 28 |
 Deulofail | MD1 Stick or Twist thread - Sunday MD1 Stick or twist thread - Sunday Goal of this thread: - Concetrate captain questions in one place for efficiency - Increase the value of answers by forming a template with the minumum required … | 4 years, 8 months ago | 21 |
Deulofail | How to decide whether to stick or twist? I think the qustion you should be asking about captaincy, is: Am I likely to get more or less points at the end of the MD from switching? If "more", then switch. However, based on what I've been… | 4 years, 8 months ago | 26 |
Az | FANTEAM TOP PICKS VIDEO If anyone's playing FanTeam I've just finished a video where I go through all 24 teams in the tournament and pick our my best picks Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9dbEA_yOvE | 4 years, 8 months ago | 2 |
 Silecro | Euro Captaincy - Stick or Twist? If any of the captains haul early, what is the approximate captain return in your opinion that would make you stay with this player for the rest of MD? example, Berardi has 1G 1A right of the bat, … | 4 years, 8 months ago | 14 |
Az | FFS with Just Eat Minileague: Make sure you've joined! Just a note that with the new partnership with Just Eat comes some prizes for our UEFA Euro 2020 Mini league. They'll be vouchers for highest scoring teams of the 7 Matchdays + overall winner. Si… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 3 |
 _Make | Euro Qualifying Data Spreadsheet I have kept a spreadsheet since Euro 2016 to help me plan for tournament fantasy football. I use it as an at-a-glance indicator of which teams performed well in qualifying ONLY.* It's very basic b… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 6 |
Az | Chat with the Fanteam PL Champion: Josh Wooldridge If anyone is playing Fanteam for EURO 2020 check out the video I did earlier with the WINNER of the PL 20/21 season! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4w8ZcvOT_M | 4 years, 9 months ago | 0 |
 Sam FPLFamily | Euro goalscorer challenge Euro GoalScorer Challenge GoalScorer Challenge is one of the easiest fantasy games around. No captains, no transfers, just pick one player to score in each game. That’s it! It’s also free, s… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 1 |
Az | New Pro Pundit signing: Andy North Delighted to welcome Andy North (@fplmode) to the Pro Pundits team. Andy will be helping me with the EURO 2020 content and will be staying on for the 2021/22 FPL season. If you're not familiar wi… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 3 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Hall of Fame updated As a heads up for anyone that may not have noticed - HOF updated this morning with the latest numbers, with the career tab (that anyone can view, unlike the live tab) also updating. Feel free to ch… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 36 |
RedLightning | No home advantage to the average team in 2020/21. As we suspected, playing at home offered no advantage whatsoever to the average Premier League team this season. In 2019/20, the average team scored 28.8 goals and conceded 22.85 in their 19 Premi… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 3 |
RedLightning | Optimal Dead Team Squad The Optimal Dead Team Squad is a theoretical 15-man FPL squad costing no more than 100.0m in GW1 that, with no transfers, wildcards, chips, captain changes or bench changes, would have scored the m… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 44 |
Az | how will your national team do in EURO 2020? Would love to hear from fans of national teams playing in the EUROS. Am putting a little something together and want to get as many opinions as possible. If you're interested, and will be cheering… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 53 |
 gooberman | Your personal player of the season So who has been peoples player of the season in terms of their own FPL teams? Mine goes to Aaron Cresswell. Picked him up for 5.1m. Owned him for a significant chunk of the season (18 gameweeks)… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 43 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here *FINAL SCOUTCAST OF 2020/21 - 8pm TUES* What lessons have you learned? How will you improve next year? The Scoutcast is back for the last time this campaign to help make sense of this tricky yea… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 58 |
 Legomané | GW38 End of season rough with the smooth The 2020/21 season is complete — tell us, how was your Gameweek 38? Did you manage to field 11 players? Did you use any chips? Were any of your players benched, or injured? Did your transfers pa… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 65 |
Legomané | Pre GW38 deadline — A or B Thread 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, 9 months ago | 146 |
 Ragabolly | Price Changes The very last set of price changes for 20/21: Risers: Robertson (7.3) Wood (6.6) Fallers: Fernandes (11.3) Sterling (10.9) Bowen (5.8) Martínez (5.3) Maja (5.0) Konsa (4.6) Turning off my scr… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 28 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy - Scout Picks GW8 https://allsvenskan.se/fantasy/scout-picks-gw8 Scout Picks for GW8 are in! How are things ahead of the long break? Any last punts? Are you activating the WC after deadline? | 4 years, 9 months ago | 6 |
 BigManBakar | The Preview: GW 38 The Preview: GW 38 Hi everyone, welcome to The Preview. Chasing a mini league lead or looking to gain ground on your rival? I present to you the final article of the season: (Data taken from FFSc… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 15 |
 G-Whizz | GW38 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW38 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/13898ku (Provided by Betbrain) GW37 clean sheet results: MNU: 48% ❌ CHE: 45% ❌ MCI: 45% ❌ LIV: 43% ✅ ARS: 42% ❌ EVE: 40% ✅ NEW: … | 4 years, 9 months ago | 15 |
Legomané | Friday press conference times Friday Press conference times ARS - Arteta - 8.30am LEE - Bielsa - 9am NEW - Bruce - 9.30am AVL - Smith - 9.30am LIV- Klopp - 12.15pm TOT - Mason - 1pm WOL - Nuno - 1pm FUL - Parker - 1pm BHA - P… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 1 |
 andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GW38 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 38 - the final time!. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champ… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast THURS 5:30pm - leave your questions here **EARLY EVENING SCOUTCAST TONIGHT(THURS)** **LIVE STREAM STARTS 5:30pm** Join @SebWassell @KaramTayser and I on the @FFScout Youtube channel when we will be answering all your questions about #G… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
Legomané | GW37 — Rough with the Smooth The penultimate Gameweek closes and before turning toward plans for the finale, tell us — how was your Gameweek 37? Did you manage to field 11 players? Did you use any chips? Were any of y… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 18 |
 TorresMagic™ | The Hsuper One wins the Last Man Standing Comp! Last Man Standing Grand Final Results Congratulations to The HSuper One ranked 19242nd overall on winning LMS scoring 52 this GW mainly due to differentials Bamford and Robertson. Covid-Casual ran… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
Ragabolly | Price Changes Risers: Firmino (9.1) Harrison (5.6) Fallers: Richarlison (7.7) Dias (5.9) | 4 years, 9 months ago | 4 |
 Champ | The advantage of a good start A good start to the season can be so helpful really can't it? Just looking at my main mini league, and the guy that's going to win had both Son and Kane for 5 goals and 4 assists between them. Th… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 25 |