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| Author | Hot Topic | Date | Replies |
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J0E |
Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here
Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday evening. Let us know your questions for us here. Which player, team and talking point should we discuss? |
7 years, 16 days ago | 34 |
Rains of Castamere |
Frisking The Foxes
Michael Cox from The Athletic wrote this about Leicester's attacking play and James Maddison... thought it was relevant to post here: -- But there’s something strange about Leicester’s underl… |
7 years, 16 days ago | 25 |
Meltens |
Allsvenskan - GW26 plans
GW26 in Fantasy Allsvenskan kicks off on Sunday at 13.00 CET. We have quite a few injury doubts as Robin Söder is facing a fight against the clock, while Nabil Bahoui looks very likely to miss out… |
7 years, 18 days ago | 9 |
Gregor |
Gameweek 7 Captaincy
Bit more interesting this week isn’t it. Mohammed Salah leads the Captain Poll and with his surety of minutes, full rest in midweek, likely penalty duties and a favourable fixture, he would see… |
7 years, 19 days ago | 59 |
@ocprodigy |
Scout Picks Challenge GW7
SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 7 Ta-da! Caught up on the other gameweeks and here we are ready for gameweek 7! May all your arrows be green. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who have… |
7 years, 19 days ago | 44 |
Rotation's Alter Ego |
GW 7 News Roundup
What we learnt in the runup to Gameweek 7… (Slightly rushed this week, very, very tight on time!) Liverpool Alisson should resume full training this Sunday, whilst Mane trained normally yester… |
7 years, 19 days ago | 9 |
Geoff |
GW7 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… |
7 years, 20 days ago | 49 |
Valar(Keith) |
The template currently seems very settled.
I'm struggling to see where new options will pop up considering early WCers already have A 4.5 keeper from burnley in pope, the best defender in the game in TAA, an in into the city defense for che… |
7 years, 20 days ago | 68 |
Rotation's Alter Ego |
Scouting for Differentials
For any position, who do you think could be a good (below 10% owned) differential for the next few weeks, and why? |
7 years, 20 days ago | 60 |
Boris Bodega |
The Pundits Playoff Update
Community Tournament: the Pundits Playoff The current value for all the registered players (yes that’s you guys, if you’ve registered to take part) are up on https://docs.google.com/spreadshee… |
7 years, 21 days ago | 14 |
BigManBakar |
The Review - Gameweek 6
The Review: GW 6 Greetings everyone. With a power packed Premier League weekend full of goals just gone by, there is plenty of food for thought for FPL managers to ponder over. So, without holding… |
7 years, 22 days ago | 37 |
Rotation's Alter Ego |
Jump on the bandwagon
With a few fixture swings on the horizons, I'd be highly surprised if we don't get a larger number of bandwagons cropping up in the next few weeks, so a fair chance to earn yourself some bragging r… |
7 years, 22 days ago | 42 |
Rotation's Alter Ego |
Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 7
Morning all! Following a pretty crazy gameweek where many managers fortune went to one extreme or the other, it's no surprise to see a new leader in the Community Champion Scout Picks competition!… |
7 years, 23 days ago | 0 |
DavidMunday815 |
Neale's and Andy's accounts reinstated!
Looks like we have some fantastic news this morning. Official FPL have just tweeted this statement: "Following an investigation, we are satisfied that three accounts were deleted by a malicious th… |
7 years, 23 days ago | 29 |
G-Whizz |
GW7 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds
GW7 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Manchester City (660DS) bounced back from their shock defeat to Norwich with an 8-0 win at home to Watford. Arsenal (455DS) struggled to a 3-2… |
7 years, 23 days ago | 12 |
Rotation's Alter Ego |
Too rash to ditch Rahz?
The top transferred out player so far this gameweek? Sterling. By a long way. Are they being hasty though? Raheem Sterling has proven time and time again that he is a fantastic FPL asset but follo… |
7 years, 23 days ago | 65 |
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… |
7 years, 24 days 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. |
7 years, 24 days 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… |
7 years, 24 days 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… |
7 years, 26 days 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… |
7 years, 26 days 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… |
7 years, 26 days 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… |
7 years, 27 days 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 … |
7 years, 27 days 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… |
7 years, 27 days 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… |
7 years, 27 days 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 / … |
7 years, 27 days 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… |
7 years, 28 days 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… |
7 years, 29 days 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… |
7 years, 29 days 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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 |
7 years, 1 month 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’… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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 … |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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. |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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 … |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month 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… |
7 years, 1 month ago | 18 |

