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 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW29 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 29 Greetings from Vietnam! For those concerned it’s actually a lot safer than the U.K. for Coronavirus at present.. I’m actually more worried about returning h… | 6 years, 5 days ago | 22 |
 HollyShand | Time to drop double Liverpool defence? Is it time to jump off Double Liverpool defence now that Alisson is injured? Ten of the twelve clean sheets kept this season have been in games Alisson has played, conceding 12 goals in 19 games. … | 6 years, 5 days ago | 21 |
 G-Whizz | GW29 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW29 fixtures and clean sheet odds GW29 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/rcnue0 (Provided by Betbrain) GW28 clean sheets LIV: 43% ❌ BHA: 39% ❌ CHE: 37% ❌ LEI: 34% ❌ TOT:… | 6 years, 5 days ago | 2 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 29 News Roundup What we learnt in the run-up to Gameweek 29… Liverpool Alisson has suffered a muscular problem which will rule him out of the Bournemouth game. Henderson is out but could return for Atletico. h… | 6 years, 6 days ago | 5 |
 avfc82 | DGW29 discussion How many DGW players are you going into GW29 with, and will you captain one of them over the likes of Salah and Mane? ... and for those like me, who are still undecided, who are you considering… | 6 years, 6 days ago | 76 |
 Geoff | GW29 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 6 years, 6 days ago | 22 |
Geoff | Man City DGW29 plans How many Manchester City players are you going into DGW29 with? Are you keeping KDB if we hear nothing conclusive from Pep's presser? Who are you bringing in or are you happy to avoid? Are you con… | 6 years, 7 days ago | 47 |
 NOMONEY | Chip strategies for everyone That's it.... I think I have worked out a chip strategy for everybody.... This may help those who are overthinking or having a panic over how to use your chips during the blanks and doubles. (1) T… | 6 years, 7 days ago | 53 |
 BigManBakar | The Review - Gameweek 28 The Review - GW 28 Greetings all! Having a tough time deciding what transfers to make? The Review is back as I discuss FPL events, past and future, with a particular eye on the double gameweek: (… | 6 years, 7 days ago | 14 |
 Lateriser 12 | Chip strategy discussion Lots of discussion on chip strategies last night on the Scoutcast. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=she21xkHei4&t=1748s Where are you at currently with Chip Strategy and how… | 6 years, 8 days ago | 48 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | February Writer of the Month vote As February flew by, our eyes began turning to the Blank and Double period and this was echoed in our Community articles! A smaller crowd to pick from for this month, each of whom wrote multiple to… | 6 years, 8 days ago | 3 |
 DavidMunday815 | Captaincy poll reset Hi guys, with this DGW29 announcement, we have now reset the results of the GW29 captaincy poll, allowing you all to recast your vote with the latest information to hand. I've screenshotted the res… | 6 years, 8 days ago | 9 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | City and Arsenal Double Dilemma As expected then, GW 29 is confirmed as a double gameweek. Who will you be buying from City and Arsenal then? Is it worth risking the rotation or should we keep it simple with 1 or 2 nailed player… | 6 years, 8 days ago | 37 |
 Sam FPLFamily | Form vs Fixtures With just 10 gameweeks left what takes priority in your FPL transfer plans. Is it players who are in a great run of form - the likes of Calvert-Lewin or Fernandes, or do you prioritise those with t… | 6 years, 10 days ago | 29 |
Geoff | GW28 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW go? Which of your players were benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 28, here: | 6 years, 10 days ago | 62 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday Lateriser already confirmed. Just waiting on the third scoutcaster, will know later today. Feel free to leave your questions for us here. | 6 years, 10 days ago | 31 |
 Gregor | A Sarr is Born? Ismaïla Sarr then - After a slow start to life at Watford he came alive under the stewardship of Nigel Pearson, an injury then stunted his progress for a bit but now he’s back with a bang with a… | 6 years, 11 days ago | 28 |
 d1sable | Transfer paralysis? Anyone else feeling a little paralysed transfer wise with so much still left unknown. Has all this Blank and DGW stuff got to you? Anyone burying their heads in the sand and playing for the mome… | 6 years, 12 days ago | 34 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 28 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to Gameweek 28… Liverpool Henderson and Milner are running again but they won’t be ready to make a return - though Milner is close. https://twitter.com/LynchStanda… | 6 years, 13 days ago | 8 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW28 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 28 GW25, 26, 27 overdue. Sorry....! My weekend of nothing turned into a weekend of work. In better news, now in Vietnam! So I'll try to get GW25 done shortly befo… | 6 years, 13 days ago | 29 |
avfc82 | GW28 differentials With just 11 Gameweeks to go till the end of the season, are there any FPL differentials flying under the radar you're looking at for Gameweek 28 and beyond, who have an ownership of 5% or less? | 6 years, 13 days ago | 40 |
Geoff | GW28 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 6 years, 13 days ago | 22 |
G-Whizz | GW28 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW28 fixtures and clean sheet odds GW28 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/r8rjo7 (Provided by Betbrain) GW27 clean sheets LIV: 55% ❌ CRY: 48% ✅ MUN: 48% ✅ WOL: 48% ✅ CHE:… | 6 years, 13 days ago | 4 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | FFS Cup Entry now open This feels a good place as any to add this little reminder for those that might not have seen the article yesterday: Entry for the 2nd FFS Cup of the season is now open! Entry closes 10:30am on M… | 6 years, 14 days ago | 0 |
HollyShand | We need to talk about Kevin Is anyone thinking of selling KDB short-term? My current chip strategy thinking is to use free transfers to build a side for BGW31 and then Wildcard for GW32. De Bruyne only has two fixtures in … | 6 years, 14 days ago | 52 |
BigManBakar | The Review - Gameweek 27 The Review - GW 27 Greetings everyone! Here I pen my thoughts on the climate of the FPL stratosphere as I once again run the scanner over the happenings of the Premier League weekend: (Raw data t… | 6 years, 15 days ago | 34 |
Geoff | Memorable FPL Hauls As we're heading into Chip season, with multiple DGWs and BGWs, which FPL hauls from the past are the most memorable for you? Aguero's 5 against Newcastle maybe? Arshavin's big return against Li… | 6 years, 15 days ago | 88 |
Geoff | GW27 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW go? Which of your players were benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 27, here: | 6 years, 16 days ago | 51 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tonight (Tues) - leave your questions here SCOUTCAST 8pm Tonight! Feel free to leave your questions for us here. | 6 years, 16 days ago | 44 |
Sam FPLFamily | Aubameyang dilemma With back to back returns Aubameyang is now the premium forward in form in the league. Couple this with no returns for Vardy or Aguero this weekend (although still with Firmino to play) means that … | 6 years, 17 days ago | 43 |
 Hulk Smash | Martial or Fernandes? Martial or Bruno? | 6 years, 17 days ago | 20 |
 Champ | Grealish vs Harvey Barnes J.Grealish vs H.Barnes (Nevada State Court) tldr - Barnes won Due to the blank plus swing in fixtures, I thought it would be worth comparing both players recent performances Gameweeks 23-26 (B… | 6 years, 18 days ago | 12 |
 FPL Virgin | Stick or twist on Grealish? What are people doing with Grealish? Incredible players and easily the best midfielder option in his price bracket, but a blank and tough fixtures loom. Is switching to a Leicester midfielder a n… | 6 years, 18 days ago | 22 |
G-Whizz | GW27 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW27 fixtures and clean sheet odds GW27 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/r61ujo (Provided by Betbrain) GW26 clean sheets MCY: 52% ✅ LIV: 47% ✅ EVE: 46% ❌ SHU: 46% ❌ ARS:… | 6 years, 19 days ago | 6 |
Gregor | Captaincy - Gameweek 27 Mohammed Salah is once again the peoples and obvious choice this gameweek and with a home tie against lowly West Ham, 6 goals in his last 5 home games and probable penalty duties, it’s easy to se… | 6 years, 19 days ago | 41 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW27 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 27 Results are coming on the way, I promise. We'll be caught up tomorrow (nothing planned for the weekend - wooo!) GW23 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.… | 6 years, 19 days ago | 20 |
BigManBakar | GW26 - The Review Part 2 The Review: GW 26 Part 2 Greetings everyone! Here I dissect the remainder of GW 26’s action along with looking ahead to the round of fixtures in GW 27 to follow: (Raw data taken from FFScout w… | 6 years, 19 days ago | 4 |
HollyShand | Which of the Wonderous Wolves? Wolves players are starting to build momentum once more, despite their involvement in the Europa League. They are likely to make it to the next round of the knockout stages, following their convinc… | 6 years, 19 days ago | 14 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 27 News Roundup What we learnt in the run-up to Gameweek 27... Liverpool Henderson will be out for “three weeks or so”. Shaqiri isn’t close to team training yet and Liverpool won’t put a time pressure on… | 6 years, 20 days ago | 20 |
Geoff | GW27 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 6 years, 20 days ago | 27 |
Geoff | Congratulations Philman and Pep Pig! Congratulations to the winners of both the FFS Members Cup and the FFS Cup! If the winners could please send me an email I can sort out your prizes. | 6 years, 21 days ago | 0 |
Lateriser 12 | Plans for a possible DGW29 With reference to my article here: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/02/19/the-fpl-state-of-play-blanks-doubles-european-football-and-son-replacements/ What is your plan in case City and… | 6 years, 21 days ago | 31 |
Geoff | GW26 Rough with the Smooth We've done it! GW26 is over. How did your GW go? Which of your players were benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and w… | 6 years, 21 days ago | 40 |
 ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$ | Countdown to GW29 Conundrum Just my tuppence on a potential DGW 29 after comments yesterday from the Twitterazzi that the DGW in 29 is more likely than unlikely: In contrast to those who are looking at City's fixtures, seein… | 6 years, 22 days ago | 38 |
 @persecuted_by_mods | Is BGW31 the best time to play your Free Hit? Surely the optimal strategy for free hit IS when there's only a few fixtures on, everybody that doesn't have a free hit and most likely doesn't own those players as they'll be from poorer teams wil… | 6 years, 22 days ago | 54 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Midfield options with Son out With the shock news regarding Son Heung-Min what are owners planning on doing? There seems to be a real lack of midfield options at present. Salah and KDB are the obvious template, however, is a Li… | 6 years, 23 days ago | 36 |
 Az | That third liverpool slot Will be touching on this in an article I've written (coming out today I think) But am wondering what your take on the third Liverpool slot is? We've pretty much all got Salah and Trent, but the t… | 6 years, 23 days ago | 30 |
Geoff | What are your BGW28 plans? What are your plans to deal with GW28 blanks? I have XI players but will likely do Grealish, Lundstram, or KDB out to help my starting XI and have a bench option. I'm also hoping to roll a transfe… | 6 years, 24 days ago | 76 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday. Joining me are Az and Holly Looking forward to it. Ahead of tomorrow feel free to leave your questions for us here | 6 years, 24 days ago | 65 |
 NorwichCityLad | What is playing ‘price points’? Is a having a price point a good idea or not never bothered myself but am thinking of doing something different as never finished inside 100k | 6 years, 24 days ago | 20 |