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 Geoff | GW6 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 6 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW6 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Game… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 72 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday What player, team and talking point would you like us to discuss? Leave your questions for us here. | 6 years, 5 months ago | 46 |
 DavidMunday815 | FFS Advice regarding recent FPL account issues We are very sorry to learn that a handful of #FPL accounts appear to have been hacked overnight. As things stand, this appears to be limited to high profile players and there is no evidence that t… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 27 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 6 Captaincy Is this the first time a seemingly fully fit Captains Poll leader has dropped in price? Raheem Sterling is once again proving to be the people’s choice (though Aguero is now getting pretty clos… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 25 |
Gregor | Time to Dis-Mount? Following the Chelsea press conference, Mason Mount has been given a chance of still making the game on Sunday so it looks as though he will only be missing the one game at most. That being the cas… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 23 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 6 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to Gameweek 6… Liverpool Alisson is making good progress but isn’t ready for squad training however Keita is back in training. https://twitter.com/JamesPearceLFC/s… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW6 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 GW5 results will be posted later today but given today's kick off - I thought I'd open us up here! Look out later for GW5 results, I'll place a link on here late… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 57 |
Geoff | Is Otamendi the best pick for the third City slot? With Laporte and Stones now out, is Otamendi a solid pick? Are there reasons you're avoiding? Where do you stand on Zinchenko and the risk to his spot? After a Liverpool defender and potentially … | 6 years, 5 months ago | 39 |
 Boris Bodega | The Pundits Playoff update Community Tournament : the Pundits Playoff Pre-draft signings are well underway. This is a way for players to be guaranteed a place in a team. As we already have 210 players registered to take par… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | GW6 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, 5 months ago | 25 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Recovering from a slow start It was mentioned on the Scoutcast, but it seems to be a fairly common issue this season - lots of people are struggling with a poor start. With some high GW ranks (including a fair few high 5mil / … | 6 years, 5 months ago | 54 |
 BigManBakar | The Review - Gameweek 5 The Review - GW 5: Greetings all, welcome to the latest edition of The Review. Presented below is an overview of my statistical analysis of the Premier League action in GW 5: 1) No forward has ha… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 23 |
 G-Whizz | GW6 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW6 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Liverpool (642DS) beat Newcastle in the early kick-off , and then next best are Manchester City (420DS) as they face Norwich away. https://ww… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 18 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | A change of formation With a lack of clean sheets and some recent big performances from front-men, is it time that we angle our team structure to a 343? Defenders seemingly been under-performing with clean sheets comin… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 34 |
Geoff | Gameweek 5 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 5 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW5 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Game… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 56 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 6 Morning all! Another gameweek means we need a new Community Champion to represent us against the Scout Picks. The Scouts struggled last week with each defender and keeper scoring 2 each and the wh… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | P-P-Pick up a Premium! Aguero. Aubameyang. Salah. Sterling. Son. KDB. Mane. We’re certainly not short for premium players who have found themselves a bit of form of late and efforts to pick the correct one has felt a b… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 40 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday. Let us know your key player, team and talking point questions ahead of GW6 | 6 years, 5 months ago | 28 |
Gregor | Gameweek 5 Captaincy It would be mad not to captain a Manchester City player this weekend. Wouldn’t it? Norwich seemingly don’t know how to defend, they have no interest in defending and now look like they don’… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 47 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW5 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 Once again sorry... let's go with GW5 SPC! GW3 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/20765605 ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 5 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to gameweek 5… Liverpool Alisson is targeting a return after the next IB, Keita could be back in training later in the week. https://twitter.com/neiljonesgoal/status… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
Geoff | Man United injuries: what are your plans? With Martial and Pogba essentially ruled out of GW5, and Wan-Bissaka and Lingard strong doubts, what are you doing with United assets? Are you holding for when they're back or selling them now? Wh… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 53 |
Geoff | GW5 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 months ago | 49 |
 Differential C (Mark) | What's the purpose of a wildcard? https://twitter.com/JDSuker/status/1171751857447997441?s=20 Interesting question, here,.by Jaime Dodd. "What's the purpose of a WC? Is it to get all the players in the current template? KDB, Bar… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
G-Whizz | GW5 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW5 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds GW4 saw Manchester City (762DS) ease past Brighton 4-0 at home and Liverpool (456DS) beat Burnley 3-0 away. Chelsea (390DS) could only manage a 2-2 draw… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
 GreenWindmill | This Day in FFS Just been spending some time browsing through articles and comments from this day in years gone by. Thought I'd share a few highlights from 'this day in FFS' just in case there are any other histo… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 5 Gameweek 5 finally arrives after a slow international break, so yet again we need a Community Champion to go up against the Scout Picks team for this week. Something tells me that there might be a … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 RedLightning | When is an early transfer to avoid losing value justified? I was waiting till after this evening's England match before making my intended transfer of Laporte to TAA, and have lost 0.2m in the last two days as a result. That doesn't make this week's trans… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 49 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Rotation Roulette GW 5 FPL returns after an International Break with numerous FPL assets racking up 180 minutes and hundreds of air miles - but for many the air travel doesn’t stop there. After this gameweek we welcome… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 45 |
J0E | Scoutcast Tues 8pm - Feel free to leave your questions for us here. Scoutcast tomorrow at 8pm. Feel free to leave your questions for us here. | 6 years, 6 months ago | 29 |
 Camzy | It's a trap! Which player do you think is a trap this season? Last year I fell head first into a bunch of them: Mitrovic and Knockaert being two of the worst. And luckily managed to avoid the Walcott one altho… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 66 |
Gregor | Golden Boot Prediction Here are some selected odds to be the Premier League top goalscorer this season for all players with at least 3 goals in their tally so far, but who do you fancy to come out on top in the race for … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 27 |
Boris Bodega | Pundits Play-off Recruitment Pundits Playoff is underway, and the following managers are recruiting for some pre-draft players - NARCOS - https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2019/09/07/community-tournament-the-pundits-play… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 1 |
BigManBakar | GW 4 Review Hello everyone, welcome to the latest edition of The Review. With Premier League football coming to a standstill over the international break, it’s time to reflect on the key numbers of the first… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Surprises and Disappointments As things quieten down over the first international break of the year, it's a good time to scrutinise what has happened so far. We often like to talk about the things we’ve got right, but what ab… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 50 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | FFS H2H Leagues are live! It's official! Fantasy Football Scout's head to head leagues are now live. Big thank you to Mir, Geoff, Mat and Will for setting this up. Looking forward to this challenge! | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 LangerznMash | Best value Liverpool attacker - Who’s your money on? Salah 36 points for £12.5m = 2.88 pp£m Mane 25 points for £11.5m - 2.17 pp£m Firmino 27 points for £9.5m = 2.84 pp£m The most basic formula shows Salah and Firmino basically the same value, … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Members Only - Members area questions Hey everyone, Over this IB we're looking to put together a members area FAQ (as well as updating the main site's one) or, more specifically, making a "How to" page for members. I appreciate that t… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 52 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Pick of a mid-priced bunch Who, in your opinion, are the current 2 or so best forwards in the 6-7.5m bracket? Would like to know your reasoning too. | 6 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | August Community Writer of the Month Hello everyone, It’s that time of the month where we ask you to vote for the Community writer that you believe has made the biggest/most important contribution in August. The winner will receive… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 7 |
Boris Bodega | Pundits Playoff Player Registration Open! Community Tournament, the Pundits Playoff : player registration now open! Great news, we already have enough team managers for the competition to kick off, so anyone who wishes to take part can reg… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 10 |
Geoff | GW4 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 4 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW4 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gam… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 59 |
Gregor | Gameweek 4 Captaincy Nice and easy this week isn’t it? Raheem Sterling goes into GW4 with an ownership and a Captains Poll backing both just shy of the 50% mark and on the back of 5 goals in the first 3 games as Manc… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW4 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Apologies, completely lost my mind and forgot to open GW4 so I know its late UK time. Still a good 11 hours at least to register though! GW3 results: https://ww… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 55 |
 Az | GET INVOLVED IN THE FFSCOUT COMMUNITY TOURNAMENT A shout out to the new Community Tournament ("The Pundits Playoff"). I've been lucky enough to manage a team in the last 2 Community Tournaments and just want to call attention to the newest one t… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 10 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 4 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to gameweek 4… Liverpool Klopp will not rest players until after the IB, so expect a full strength team. Alisson’s recovery will still take time because after the … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 17 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Allsvenskan - GW22 plans First and foremost, thank you Meltens for the weekly articles, you do a superb job! Good luck to Henrik Mäkitalo, Daniel Sebestyen and Simon Eriksson for the rest of the season too. On to the key… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 2 |
Geoff | GW4 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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 54 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Martial Replacement Plans As you might have noticed (if you read pretty much any comment on the last page) Martial is out of the Southampton game. https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/20755043 Is he worth sellin… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
 MINUS FOUR | Proactive hits can be profitable Absolutely no way you should play the WC if a -8 gets you close to your preferred team. 8 points is nothing in the grand scheme of things, you can make up those points immediately or at least over … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 |