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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…

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 / …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Live Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday. Let us know your key player, team and talking point questions ahead of GW6

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Scoutcast tomorrow at 8pm. Feel free to leave your questions for us here.

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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!

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, …

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …