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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

Party time
Will Super League affect FPL?

European super league will surely affect fpl next season. As if Champions league wasn’t enough

5 years, 6 days ago15

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here

***Scoutcast Tuesday 8pm!*** Joining @SebWassell and I is @TheFPLPrince Everton, Leeds and Brighton all represented....the Big three! Feel free to let us know your questions here

5 years, 6 days ago3

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, 9 days ago98

Geoff
GW32 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, 9 days ago21

BigManBakar
GW31 Review

The Review: GW 31 Greetings everyone, welcome to my latest article where I discuss the upcoming double gameweek with particular focus on triple captaincy: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) …

5 years, 10 days ago13

andy85wsm
SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 32

We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 32. 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 ago0

G-Whizz
GW32 Fixtures and clean sheet odds

GW32 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/11aubf9 (Provided by Betbrain) GW31 clean sheet results: CHE: 49% ❌ ARS: 47% ✅ MCI: 46% ❌ LIV: 40% ❌ BUR: 38% ❌ FUL: 38% ❌ BHA: …

5 years, 13 days ago17

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here

Scoutcast Feel free to leave your questions for us here. Plus one of the topics we will discuss is "unfairly unfashionable players"...players FPL managers may be unfairly dismissing despite prom…

5 years, 13 days ago10

Geoff
Allsvenskan Fantasy GW1 deadline

Allsvenskan Fantasy GW1 deadline is at 13:00! How's your team looking? Any last minute decisions still to make?

5 years, 15 days ago7

Geoff
GW31 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, 16 days ago14

BigManBakar
GW30 Review

The Review: GW 30 Greetings everyone, welcome to my latest piece where I discuss the happenings in the FPL stratosphere with particular focus on wildcards: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) …

5 years, 17 days ago6

Geoff
Premium vs Budget dilemmas

It seems quite a few are looking at some premium vs budget dilemmas right now, similar to Az (above article) when considering Liverpool and Leicester. Salah v Jota Vardy v Iheanacho TAA v Phillips…

5 years, 18 days ago9

Moxon
Best GK to finish the season

Who is your GK for the rest of the season and why?

5 years, 18 days ago17

Sam FPLFamily
Submit Q&A questions for Seb

FFS_Community Twitter Q&A Tomorrow at 6:30 GMT we will be running another Q&A over on our community Twitter account. This week Pro Pundit Seb Wassell will be answering your Gameweek 31 #FPL ques…

5 years, 18 days ago10

andy85wsm
SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 31

We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 31. 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, 18 days ago0

G-Whizz
GW31 Fixtures and clean sheet odds

GW31 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/115uz3q (Provided by Betbrain) GW30 clean sheet results: CHE: 58% ❌ EVE: 45% ❌ LEE: 45% ❌ MCI: 43% ✅ MNU: 41% ❌ TOT: 41% ❌ SOU: …

5 years, 19 days ago4

Geoff
Gameweek 30 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…

5 years, 19 days ago14

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here

**Scoutcast Tues 8pm ** Joining me to discuss #gw31 #fpl is @SebWassell and @KaramTayser Will be discussing #wildcards and more! Feel free to leave your questions here

5 years, 19 days ago9

G-Whizz
Pre-GW30 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, 22 days ago58

Geoff
GW30 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, 23 days ago35

BigManBakar
GW29 Review

The Review: GW 29 Hi everyone, welcome to “The Review” where I look back on some recent numbers with a look ahead to the football to be played after the international break: (Data taken from …

5 years, 25 days ago18

Sam FPLFamily
SUBMIT QUESTIONS TED TALKS FPL Q&A

Twitter Q&A with Ted Talks FPL Over on the FFS_Community twitter account at 6:00pm tonight we will be running a Q&A with Ted Talks FPL. Post your questions for Ted in a reply to this Hot Topic, …

5 years, 25 days ago3

Rotation's Alter Ego
Double Gameweek 32 Confirmed

April TV times dropped today and with them it looks like a double Gameweek announcement? Tottenham vs Southampton is now in 32 Along with: Aston Villa vs Man City Chelsea vs Brighton Leicester v…

5 years, 26 days ago7

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tues 8pm - leave your questions here

LIVE SCOUTCAST TUES 8pm Feel free to leave your questions for us here!

5 years, 27 days ago11

Deulofail
How valid is the 'something to play for' hypothesis in practice?

Has anyone ever demonstrated the 'something to play for' hypothesis or is it just a widely accepted assumption at this point?

5 years, 1 month ago26

Sam FPLFamily
Submit questions for Current World Number 1

At 5pm over on the new @FFS_Community Twitter account we will be doing a LIVE Q&A with the current FPL world number 1. If you have any questions you'd like answered on strategy, players, teams etc…

5 years, 1 month ago7

FPL Froggies
City cameos

City cameos Hi all, While, generally at this time of the year, the FPL manager with his second Wildcard still available struggles to find the budget to squeeze all the premium in for the run-in, …

5 years, 1 month ago9

TheDragon
Differential captains

Twitter appears to be filled with talk of the need for ‘differential’ captain picks and that you are ‘never going to win’ and are ‘dull’ if you go with highly favoured high EO captain p…

5 years, 1 month ago27

Andy_Social
Is the Bonus Point System fair?

Sorry, I really don't like the baps system as it is. What I dislike is the way players are rewarded or penalised twice over for the same thing. You win points for goals and assists, penalty saves a…

5 years, 1 month ago26

Camzy
Best midfielders for the run-in

Anyone want to discuss run-in midfielders? I'd like to start narrowing down who I want on WC in 31. Must-have: Gundogan, Fernandes -- I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna go without these 2. Elite tier:…

5 years, 1 month ago56

Rotation's Alter Ego
Make or Break Punts

Big thanks to Greyhead for writing the Community Article above, excellent as always. Reading through it, he makes an interesting point in it - is it now time to be brave? As we come into the final…

5 years, 1 month ago22

G-Whizz
GW30 Fixtures and clean sheet odds

GW30fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/10rwhvp (Provided by Betbrain) BGW29 clean sheet results: BHA: 48% ✅ ARS: 30% ❌ FUL: 30% ❌ TOT: 30% ✅ LEE: 27% ❌ WHU: 27% ❌ AVL: …

5 years, 1 month ago9

Hazz
Team Preview tool - Chrome extension...

Hey, my friend has built a Chrome Extension for FPL that allows you to preview your team for future GWs, inside the 'My Team' page on the FPL website. Full credit to him; I've only helped test it…

5 years, 1 month ago7

Legomané
PRE-BGW29 DEADLINE A OR B QUESTIONS

Time for a Pre-Blank-Gameweek deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on your Free Hit chip deployment/ captaincy/ transfers/ hits/ anything else? Please post as an A or B que…

5 years, 1 month ago62

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…

5 years, 1 month ago24

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 …

5 years, 1 month ago10

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…

5 years, 1 month ago21

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…

5 years, 1 month ago20

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:…

5 years, 1 month ago2

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…

5 years, 1 month ago0

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 …

5 years, 1 month ago12

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…

5 years, 1 month ago18

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

5 years, 1 month ago12

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…

5 years, 1 month ago154

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. 

…

5 years, 1 month ago22

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%…

5 years, 1 month ago6

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 …

5 years, 1 month ago15

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. …

5 years, 1 month ago6

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…

5 years, 1 month ago13

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…

5 years, 1 month ago38