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 Geoff | BGW29 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form this GW, stepping up with a big score, and why? Maybe someone who hasn’t scored well lately, has very low ownership, or is being broadly overlooked in the c… | 4 years, 11 months ago | 24 |
 BigManBakar | The Review: GW 28 The Review: GW 28 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I look at Free Hit and the upcoming blank GW29 at length: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) Before I … | 4 years, 11 months ago | 10 |
 RedLightning | Ideas for improving Mini-Leagues and Community Competitions articles. We would welcome any ideas for improving our Mini-Leagues & Community Competitions articles. Do you think that any of the sections should be expanded, reduced or otherwise changed, or are there any… | 4 years, 11 months ago | 21 |
Geoff | Best BGW29 midfield picks Following on from Sterling Archer's quoted line about Son from Mourinho above, who is the best Son replacement for those who want to sell him? It looks to me like a tough GW to find strong options… | 4 years, 11 months ago | 20 |
 G-Whizz | BGW29 Fixtures and clean sheet odds BGW29 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/10nf5nc (Provided by Betbrain) GW28 clean sheet results: MCI: 51% ✅ LEI: 48% ✅ LIV: 41% ✅ EVE: 40% ❌ AVL: 39% ❌ CRY: 39% ✅ MNU:… | 4 years, 11 months ago | 2 |
 andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 29 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 29. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 4 years, 11 months ago | 0 |
 fusen | Selling Salah: Recent vs Historical form I wonder if this season will be one when lots of FPL managers look back and just wonder at why they kept Salah for so long. I've owned him for 28 gameweeks, why oh why I've listened to nostalgia … | 4 years, 11 months ago | 12 |
 Moderately content penguin | Should we look at Arsenal defence for BGW29? The Arsenal clean sheet record is absolute tosh this season isn't it? Just 6 and if you factor in United approach to "big" matches it's close to as low as it could rationally be Fulham United Lee… | 4 years, 11 months ago | 18 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST - looking ahead to #GW29 #fpl TUES 8pm Joining me is @DavidMunday815 and an internetted @SebWassell Feel free to leave your questions here | 4 years, 11 months ago | 12 |
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/anything else? Please post as ONLY an A or B question, and please answer a few other peop… | 4 years, 12 months ago | 154 |
Geoff | GW28 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form this GW to score big, and why? Maybe someone who hasn’t scored well lately, has very low ownership, or is being broadly overlooked in the community. … | 4 years, 12 months ago | 22 |
G-Whizz | GW28 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW28 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/10ja0nl (Provided by Betbrain) GW27 clean sheet results: CHE: 46% ✅ LIV: 46% ❌ TOT: 46% ❌ ARS: 43% ❌ MCI: 43% ❌ & 50% ❌ SOU: 39%… | 4 years, 12 months ago | 6 |
 Deulofail | Do Free Hits have to be differential? The guys on BlackBox think that FHers (in 29) will be looking specifically for differentials to make the most of the chip. For example, you'd get Lingard over Antonio because Antonio will be owned … | 4 years, 12 months ago | 15 |
Geoff | Allsvenskan Fantasy is live Welcome back, Allsvenskan! Our mini-league code is above, along with the new rules. Check out the link to our opening article on the official Fantasy Allsvenskan site, found in the article above. … | 4 years, 12 months ago | 6 |
BigManBakar | The Review: GW 27 The Review: GW 27 Greetings everyone, welcome aboard as I present “The Review” where I reflect on the happenings of GW27 with a look ahead to GW28: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) Bef… | 4 years, 12 months ago | 13 |
Geoff | Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did your transfers pay off? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Share your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek… | 4 years, 12 months ago | 38 |
 Andy_Social | Teams with motivation I've a hunch that with the PL sewn up and 3 cup comps to win, City will ease off in the PL and rotate even more than usual. I'm gonna gradually divest myself of my 3 City assets, losing one for GW2… | 4 years, 12 months ago | 41 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | February Community Writer of the month vote Hey all, Later than billed (apologies for that, very much my fault) but another new month means we ask for your favourite Community writer from February. As always, the winner will walk away with … | 4 years, 12 months ago | 0 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 28 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 28. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 4 years, 12 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST Tues 8pm! David and Seb will be joining me to look ahead to GWK 28. Feel free to let us know your questions. | 4 years, 12 months ago | 16 |
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/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other people af… | 5 years, 2 days ago | 104 |
RedLightning | FFS Mini-League and Community Tournaments round-up, GW26 Welcome to the Fantasy Football Scout mini-leagues and community competitions round-up after Gameweek 26, an eventful record Double Gameweek. As well as the two main FFScout Leagues, we also report… | 5 years, 2 days ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW27 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW27 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/10dt7si (Provided by Betbrain) DGW26 clean sheet results: Part One: MCI: 52% ❌ LIV: 45% ✅ TOT: 44% ✅ BHA: 39% ❌ WOL: 39% ❌ FUL: 38… | 5 years, 2 days ago | 4 |
BigManBakar | GW26 Review The Review: GW 26 Greetings everyone, welcome aboard to the latest edition of “The Review” where I cast my eyes on FPL events, past and future, heading into GW27: (Data taken from FFScout wit… | 5 years, 2 days ago | 14 |
Geoff | GW27 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form this GW, stepping up with a big score, and why? Maybe someone who hasn’t scored well lately, has very low ownership, or is being broadly overlooked in the c… | 5 years, 3 days ago | 29 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 27 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 27. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 3 days ago | 0 |
 tbos83 | Worst decision of the season What's your worst decision of the season? Mine = not getting Martinez | 5 years, 5 days ago | 77 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues - leave your questions here Live SCOUTCAST TUES (Time TBC) Ahead of tomorrow's Scoutcast feel free to let us know your questions. Will let you know tomorrow re time as may be an early evening meet up. | 5 years, 6 days ago | 12 |
G-Whizz | Pre-deadline A or B questions! Time for a pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy/transfers/bench/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other people afte… | 5 years, 9 days ago | 146 |
 Legomané | Notional DGW Captaincy matrix Any last minute captaincy or triple captaincy doubts? This matrix might help you 🙂 IMAGINE if every consecutive pair of gameweeks had formed a Double Gameweek so far this season — how would ea… | 5 years, 9 days ago | 10 |
G-Whizz | DGW26 Fixtures and clean sheet odds DGW26 fixture odds can be found here: Part One: http://prntscr.com/10610ak Part Two: http://prntscr.com/106111l (Provided by Betbrain) GW25 clean sheet results: MNU: 48% ❌ BHA: 46% ❌ MCI: 43% … | 5 years, 11 days ago | 15 |
BigManBakar | GW25 Review The Review: GW 25 Greetings everyone, welcome aboard as I present the latest edition of “The Review” ahead of the biggest double GW in FPL history: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) Bef… | 5 years, 11 days ago | 19 |
 Collie01 | Ranking the DGW Captains I think captaincy will be a huge factor this week. There will be plenty of TC chips in play with lots of good DGW options. I'm looking primarily at 3 things: fixtures, form and stats. Stats taken p… | 5 years, 12 days ago | 57 |
Geoff | Gameweek 25 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? How did your bench perform? Did your transfers pay off? Did your captain return? Share your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek… | 5 years, 12 days ago | 37 |
 Camzy | Is Gundogan (C) for DGW26 being overlooked? Are people not considering Gundogan for (c) this week? He's the highest scoring player in the game since he started his little scoring run by a distance. The underlying stats support this. He's fa… | 5 years, 12 days ago | 20 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 26 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 26. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 12 days ago | 0 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST 8pm Tuesday night Join @DavidMunday815 @KaramTayser and I as we look ahead to #DGWK26 #FPL Let us know your questions here on chips, strategy, teams and players to target | 5 years, 14 days ago | 21 |
Geoff | The Ticker, RateMyTeam, and Projections are updated Just in case you haven't heard, we have fixtures 😉 The new fixtures that were announced (see the previous Hot Topic) are now updated in RateMyTeam, Projections, and in the Ticker. If they aren't … | 5 years, 16 days ago | 7 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Double Gameweek 26/27 Confirmed A bit later than expected, but DGW 26 and DGW 27 have been announced... right as the deadline bell dings! Oh they're so definitely doing this deliberately to mess with us 😉 Games moved to Gamewee… | 5 years, 16 days ago | 53 |
Geoff | DGW25 A/B Thread Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy? Transfers? Your bench? Chips? Lineups? Etc? Please post as an A or B question: [Question] A. [option] B… | 5 years, 16 days ago | 148 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Is WC 25 in order to BB 26 a bad plan? I see a lot of people wasting their wildcard just to BB in 26. More than likely you already own 7-10 of the players you are wildcarding into. Hard to justify deploying the most important chip in th… | 5 years, 17 days ago | 55 |
Camzy | DGW BBing: best strategy or problematic? All this WC talk is making me think that BB'ing GW1 is the best way to do it. You get a free wildcard to construct your team to just explode out the gates. Then you can do an early WC and setup you… | 5 years, 16 days ago | 32 |
BigManBakar | GW24 Review The Review: GW 24 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I answer all your pertinent questions ahead of the upcoming double GWs: (Data taken from FFScout with conse… | 5 years, 17 days ago | 20 |
Geoff | FFS Cup entry reminder Friendly reminder that the Open Cup entry deadline is the same as this Gameweek deadline, so signup now if you haven't and you want to! https://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/cup/24/entry/ | 5 years, 17 days ago | 3 |
Geoff | Pep hints at DGW26 and DGW27 fixtures Pep seems to have given away the DGW situation for City: "Next one is Arsenal. Three days after, Champions League, three days later against West Ham, three days later we have Wolves, three/four da… | 5 years, 18 days ago | 24 |
Legomané | Thursday pressers (GW25) Thursday Press Conference times: Bielsa - 12.30pm Hodgson - 1pm Nuno - 1pm Dyche - 1.15pm Hasenhuttl - 1.30pm Porter - 3pm Allardyce - 3pm https://twitter.com/ffscout/status/1362314660423233536?… | 5 years, 18 days ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW25 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW25 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/zyut0i (Provided by Betbrain) GW24 clean sheet results: CHE: 52% ✅ MCI: 47% ✅ & 41% ❌ MNU: 47% ❌ WHU: 43% ✅ EVE: 38% ❌ & 15% ❌… | 5 years, 18 days ago | 22 |
Geoff | Gameweek 24 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Share your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 2… | 5 years, 18 days ago | 43 |
Deulofail | Requested changes to comment forum Please can we have the ability to follow posts and be notified of replies? If this has to be via email for now, then so be it. I know we can do this for our own posts, but I always forget, and woul… | 5 years, 18 days ago | 119 |
 FPL_Crisis | Targeting doublers with captaincy? The psychology of captain choice in dgw is interesting. Fernandes is always a popular option each and every week whilst Gundogan formed a huge bandwagon in recent weeks and was a popular choice in… | 5 years, 19 days ago | 33 |