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 Rotation's Alter Ego | The big VAR-guement Whilst it’s not directly FPL related, one of the big talking points at the weekend was the impact of VAR. There were a number of contentious decisions made already this season where VAR have eit… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 63 |
 Tsparkes10 | Forwards v Mids New article, quick repost. Interested to hear people's views. Quick forward vs mid argument. Low value Mids are never consistent imo and their respective players e.g. Pukki over Cantwell, Barnes … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 67 |
 Clouseau | Reum for All in Clouseau's Fantasy League Clinic! Calling all players of Fantasy League: my next piece will be out next week and in addition to an update on the Scout league (like Greyhead's excellent 'Learning from the Great and the Good' article… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 2 |
 G-Whizz | GW4 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW4 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Liverpool (505DS) beat Arsenal 3-1 at Anfield, Manchester City (430DS) beat Bournemouth 3-1 away and Tottenham (368DS) lost 1-0 at home to New… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 4 Think you can beat the scout picks? Prove it! Gameweek 4 is on it's way but we need a Community Champion to represent us against the Scouts! Last week FPL Mike The Knight commendably beat the sco… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 Geoff | GW3 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 3 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW3 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 | 75 |
 BigManBakar | Fantasy Freæk's Flying Circus Greetings everyone, welcome to the latest edition of The Review. Here I am penning my thoughts on how the Premier League drama in GW 3 unfolded: 1)Salah and Sterling sit top of the charts for big … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 82 |
 RubeRx | What's happening Harry? Spurs loss to Newcastle is no fluke. Lets not forget they also fell behind to Villa and struggled to break them down for 89 minutes. While most will point to Eriksen benching as the culprit, I thi… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Stat attack GW3 was a case of non-existent clean sheets with only 3 teams defying bookies odds and recording a shut out: Southampton (28%), Villa (21%) and Newcastle (10%). These low percentages show just how … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday Feel free to leave your questions here - as usual we will look at the key players, teams and talking points. | 6 years, 6 months ago | 54 |
 GinjaWhinja | Are we overlooking Aguero? Aguero at 15.7% ownership, with those fixtures. It would be so fitting of him to explode when no one has him. Fingers crossed it's not today, as I'm hoping to find a way to accommodate him. People… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 3 Captaincy It’s a much closer battle at the top of the Captaincy Poll this week as Mohammed Salah is knocked off his perch by both Tottenham’s Harry Kane and Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling but who wi… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 26 |
Geoff | GW3 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 | 72 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW3 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 3 Friday night game?! We're not getting caught out on those this year! Ladies and gentlemen, let's begin SPC GW3. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you wh… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 57 |
 Miguel Sanchez | Is the Everton defence worth doubling up on? Everton have kept 10 clean sheets in their last 13 Premier League games, another against Villa and I will strongly consider the double up. | 6 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
 FP Elephant | Midweek Commitments Community Article? They Might Be Tired (Gameweek 3) Trying out a new update… if useful to the FFS community I’m happy to do this regularly to note which teams have midweek competitions, whether home or away, and… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 7 |
 The Bandit | Taking a swing at a wildcard People slating wildcarders as knee jerkers, noobs or sheep are way off the mark, many have planned for it and many have done it successfully for years. #crappingyourselvesatbeingleftbehind | 6 years, 6 months ago | 65 |
 Eze Really? | Who has looked good and isn't talked about enough? Who has really passed the eye test in your opinion but getting missed out on the site? in the same breath, who is getting coverage but does not pass? My main choice is Firmino. He could have had 4… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 64 |
G-Whizz | GW3 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW3 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Arsenal (493DS) beat Burnley 2-1 with Liverpool (481DS) beating Southampton 2-1 away and Manchester City (408DS) surprisingly drew 2-2 with To… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
BigManBakar | GW2 Review The Review - GW 2 Having written a piece on how the action unfolded in GW 1, I once again cast my eyes on the Premier League action played this weekend. Here are 8 important takeaways for FPL mana… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 80 |
 Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK … | Team Value & Transfers Made to be reintroduced. Thanks for the email. You're correct that this feature isn't yet available, but team value and transfers made will be reintroduced in the coming weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience caused i… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 44 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 3 Gameweek 3 and another Friday deadline approaches, but as always we need a Community Champion to represent us against the Scouts! The Community Champion picks a team to go up against the Scout Pic… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | GW2 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 2 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW2 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 | 58 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxYKQ8pgJ7V8wwh4hLsSXQ Feel free to leave your questions for us here. | 6 years, 6 months ago | 80 |
Geoff | What are your WC thoughts? While there are merits to holding transfers and staying calm, there can also be a case made for an early GW3 WC. Which are you choosing and why? Keep in mind that, since we have different teams, … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 58 |
 FPL Virgin | Time to ditch double Liverpool defence? In 2 games against poor opposition Liverpool have conceded 27 goal attempts. To put this in context, Man City have conceded just 8. Are the warning signs there to ditch double Liverpool defence? … | 6 years, 6 months ago | 34 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW2 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 2 The stage is set... the FFS Scouts are licking their lips at the thought of showing their wise minds off again... the sky is clearing... and the challenge is ope… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 55 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - 2018/19 results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - 2018/19 SEASON RESULTS Apologies! So, so terribly sorry! Someone from my real life just informed me I never posted the final results... even though they were ready. So forg… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 2 |
Gregor | Gameweek 2 Captaincy So, it’s another landslide for Mohammed Salah in the Captains Poll, but given the majority of managers went with the Egyptian last week only to lose out narrowly to Harry Kane captainers and more… | 6 years, 6 months ago | 73 |
Geoff | GW2 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, 7 months ago | 55 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan Discussion GW20 GW20 in Fantasy Allsvenskan approaches and many managers are scrambling to get rid of Jeremejeff who’s now left Häcken for Dynamo Dresden. The fixtures looks interesting for a chip play, is this… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 8 |
 Mince n Tatties | Friday pressers Press Conferences today... 08:45 – Newcastle’s Steve Bruce 09:00 – Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe 09:30 – Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 10:00 – Sheffield United’s Chris Wil… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 2 |
 Ógie | Tinker Trade-them Sold-them Spy Big thumbs up to the guys and girls in fpl towers for not showing team value and amount of transfers made by other managers. This move has made the game a lot fairer and is a step in the right dir… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 46 |
BigManBakar | 8 important takeaways after GW1 8 important takeaways for FPL managers after GW1 Having rolled the scanner on the happenings of the football played over the weekend, here are some interesting points I came across in my findings … | 6 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Upvote Reminder As we start to get back into the swing of things, just need to remind people to upvote posts that you think are valuable to the community! For those of you that would rather not spend every second… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
G-Whizz | GW2 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW2 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Liverpool (583DS) beat Norwich 4-1 Tottenham (388DS) beat Aston Villa 3-1 and Manchester City (370DS) beat West Ham 5-0 at the London Stadium… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Super Cup Scouting Targets Later tonight we have a nice chance to see Liverpool and Chelsea in action again, with the teams facing off in the Super Cup Final. What are you looking out for, from an FPL point of view? Will i… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
Geoff | RMT and Projections updated RMT and projections are now updated! RMT has some new code and updates to xG, goal/assist/bonus rates, fixture difficulties, and a few other areas. Fullbacks look to be more accurate as well. Thes… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 The excitement of a brand new season is behind us but we're back again looking for a Community Champion for the week 🙂 The Community Champion picks a team to go up against our Scout Picks, within… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday evening. Leave your questions for the team here. #FPL | 6 years, 7 months ago | 66 |
Geoff | Temporary members fix - adblocker A few users have recently reported some tech issues. While we're working on most of them (updating RMT, getting players added to members, etc) some of them can be fixed temporarily by whitelisting… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Kneejerk - Unexpected Performers It’s the same story every season – something in gameweek 1 doesn’t go to plan and people start jumping on whoever had a good week. However, even for those not making a transfer this week, it … | 6 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
Geoff | GW1 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 1 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW1 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, 7 months ago | 55 |
 asquishypotato | 6 things from Liverpool Vs Norwich 6 extra things that the stats won’t necessarily tell you about last night game (written whilst waiting for a cancelled Northern Rail train!): 1. Robbo needs Mane to be effective down the wing. H… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
 Bartowski | Biggest punt Who's the biggest punt in your team? | 6 years, 7 months ago | 84 |
Gregor | Mid-priced Midfielders So what mid-priced mids have you guys settled on? Ryan Fraser and one of Ayoze Perez/Youri Tielemans/James Maddison look like the stand-out choices to me with Lucas Moura maybe more of a short te… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 1 News Roundup What we learnt from the pressers before gameweek 1… Arsenal Lacazette, Pepe and Elmeny will face late tests to see if they can play. Bellerin, Holding and Mavropanos are out. Tierney will be ou… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 18 |
Geoff | GW1 Breakout Players With the first GW of the season starting tonight, who do you think will hit the ground running stepping up to score big and why? Maybe someone who is under the radar, who has no history of big sco… | 6 years, 7 months ago | 41 |
Geoff | Liverpool defence Who is the best Liverpool defender to own? Who is second? Who is third? How many will you own? | 6 years, 7 months ago | 16 |
 FPL ZB | 4.5 defenders - who has got your vote? For those not trusting the 4.0s, or not going with solely big hitters, who are your 4.5 defs? Dunk and Montoya, Balbuena and Diop, and the newly promoted sides all stand out here. Who have you … | 6 years, 7 months ago | 40 |