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 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW6 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 Dumm dumm dummmmm! GW5 results incoming soon. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the st… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 30 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 RESULTS SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 RESULTS GW5 results before the end of GW6, I promise..! Onside 9 - Emailed is still saved I will get back to you! ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS ***** 1st - Minges (5… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 3 |
 J0E | New Video - Gameweek 6 press conference round up New Video Press Conferences Round Up Neale joins me to discuss Mendy's injury Salah's 'defensive form' Chelsea's flight problems and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzSULV_rdt0 | 7 years, 5 months ago | 5 |
 Geoff | Mendy injury As many have reported Mendy is out, as confirmed by Pep. What are you doing with Mendy? Are you keeping him or transferring him out? If on WC, is your decision different? Who are you looking to b… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 126 |
Geoff | Eliteserien GW23 With only 8 Gameweeks left in Fantasy Eliteserien, what are your goals? What is your rank now and where would you like to end up? Will you play aggressively or play it safe? How will you achieve t… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 16 |
Geoff | Champions League lessons Part 2 Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What did you learn from the second set of Champions League games? With Aguero rested at the start against Lyon, does he now look a better captaincy option … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 3 |
Geoff | GW6 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW6 and be a popular transfer in for GW7, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 54 |
J0E | Meet the Manager Call out Meet the Manager Call Out Thanks for all the comments about yesterday's first Meet the Manager video with Triggerlips. Aiming to make this a regular series throughout the season. If you think you… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 100 |
Geoff | Champions League lessons Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What did you learn from the first set of Champions League games? Are you more or less confident holding Liverpool assets? What is wrong with Tottenham, and… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 19 |
 G-Whizz | GW6 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW6 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Manchester City (664DS) duly came through last week 3-0 with their home fixture against Fulham and Chelsea (339DS) came from 1-0 down to run out 4-1 winners at… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 30 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | Scoutcast Ep 268 Timestamps Last week, it was mentioned that there is a portion of the community that want to watch the scoutcast but can only watch parts due to time contraints. Therefore, here are some timestamps for Scout… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
 Sideways Backwards | Points per rank Whilst everyone is busy watching Champs league, here are the latest points-per-rank, enjoy 😉 1: 434 10: 420 100: 405 1,000: 388 2,000: 382 3,000: 378 4,000: 375 5,000: 373 15,000: 362 10,000: 366… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
Geoff | Champions League Fantasy picks Thanks for this! Nice overview. What is your team looking like so far? Who is a lock for your team? | 7 years, 6 months ago | 5 |
 stat | How should FPL stop multi-accounts? I'd like to know what everyone thinks about how FPL can stop multi-accounters. Here are some methods they can potentially use: 1. CAPTCHA at the registration screen - This would at least make… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 114 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 6 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 6 Once again this year, we will have a champion representing the community to take on the Scout Picks every week with a chance to win a prize at … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 1 |
 FatmanAndRobin | Biggest FPL disappointment Who has been the biggest disappointment so far in this years FPL for you... Has to be Mkhi for me. | 7 years, 6 months ago | 68 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 6 Captaincy New Video Gameweek 6 Captaincy Options David and I discuss the best armband candidates for Gameweek 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I26Rr2d-Bo Little bit longer than usual this week as lo… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 9 |
Geoff | Forwards: 7.0m and below Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who is the best forward at 7.0m or less, and why? Do you fancy King or Wilson? Which do you prefer? What are your thoughts on Mitrovic, Arnautovic, and Zaha… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 66 |
Geoff | Champions League Fantasy Champions League Fantasy Are you playing Champions League Fantasy? Have you played in the past? What is your strategy? What formation do you go with? How do you balance big hitters? For those w… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 28 |
Geoff | Gameweek 5 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 5 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 5 here: | 7 years, 6 months ago | 81 |
J0E | Scoutcast community questions Scoutcast community questions Live Scoutcast 9pm Tuesday. Each week on the Scoutcast we look at the key player, team and talking point. Which player (s) should we discuss and why? Which team … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 106 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Latest Injury News Latest injury news: Aguero - https://twitter.com/10JoseAlvarez/status/1041308443913670656?s=19 Man City ITK suggests Aguero's injury is not severe, but will have to be monitored for midweek. Gue… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 22 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | All eyes on Eden Let's be having you. What's your Hazard situation looking like? Are you going to bring him in? Who goes for him? Is it worth losing a Liverpool mid perhaps, despite their plum home fixture? Suspec… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 73 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW5 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 GW4 results later next week, apologies! Wedding in Poland. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening pr… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 5 press conference round up New Video Press Conference Round Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJqNwsyRJF4&t=1s SkontoRigga joins me to look at the key team news ahead of Gameweek 5 | 7 years, 6 months ago | 13 |
Geoff | RMT reminder Hi all, A reminder that RMTs won't get as many answers on the main pages as in this collection that we designed for RMTs in the International Break: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/09… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 8 |
G-Whizz | GW5 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW5 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week Man City (712DS) came away with a 2-1 victory over Newcastle. Everton (351DS) disappointingly drew 1-1 with Huddersfield and Chelsea (326DS) got past… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 33 |
 Whats the Mata? | Can Maddison live up to the hype? Intersting read about James Maddison on Reddit: I've been seeing this guy in lots of wildcard teams and his name keeps cropping up in conversations about mid-priced midfielders and I can't underst… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 29 |
Geoff | GW5 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW5 and be a popular transfer in for GW6, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 57 |
Geoff | HOF and alternative views After reading the above article, what are your thoughts on the ranking systems? Which do you prefer? Do any of the names in these tables, or out of them, surprise you? The main takeaway for me i… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 41 |
Geoff | RMT WC Collection - Gregor There is a new RMT Collection Community Article up from Gregor! It is in a similar format to the Community Articles we had pre-season and is a good place to share your team. With lots of users on … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 Reckoner. | Unwritten FPL Rules for Success What do you do in FPL that goes against one of the unwritten rules of FPL? | 7 years, 6 months ago | 81 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 5 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 5 Once again this year, we will have a champion representing the community to take on the Scout Picks every week with a chance to win a prize at … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
 FPLzebub | Keeping hold of the Wildcard I lot has been discussed about reasons to hit the wildcard button but what about the reasons not to? Here's a few of my thoughts. 1/ Everybody is doing it so why the hell should I? - This is a ver… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 22 |
 TopMarx | Members Only - Salah stats analysis Interested to hear thoughts on this: I'm on a WC and just looked at some Salah stats, comparing last year first 5 matches to this year's first 5: (last year's stat first) Shots: 19 v 19 SiB: 16 v… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 81 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 5 Captaincy New video David and I look over the best captaincy options for Gameweek 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAV-tB5ZUkE | 7 years, 6 months ago | 5 |
Geoff | Tough Wildcard decisions Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Let's collect some of our biggest Wildcard questions together here - non-wildcarders are obviously welcome to contribute what they think the biggest decision… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 45 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday 9:30pm - community questions Live Scoutcast Tuesday 9:30pm Especially looking for questions on - Mo or No Salah - Teams with good upcoming fixtures And a question for you. If you were to run an FPL luck league what wou… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 85 |
 Krionos | Budget defender options I've been looking at defenders and especially trying to pick out a few good cheap options. I've mainly picked out some stats from the distribution and goal threat tables to see which defenders r… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 15 |
 Whattheheck! | Improved statistics vs the eye test I've been thinking about the "eye test". Is it a meaningful tool for analysing FPL players? I would say yes and no. Why can't they just be replaced with hard statistics? For me the reason why th… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 48 |
 Ramboros | LIverpool & the big six league There's one myth that's being perpetuated on here about Liverpool that's getting rather annoying, and is a classic example of FPL managers carrying on conclusions from seasons past. Last season'… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
 Rossi3254 | Premium midfielder analysis Was just thinking about how many of the premium mids (8M plus) are actually worth getting right now with upcoming fixtures in mind so here is my analysis on them starting off with a look at all the… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
Geoff | Arsenal assets Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What are you looking at doing with Arsenal assets, and why? With quite a few options to choose from across the side, Emery has already surprised us by rest… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 45 |
 Shawcus | Form over Fixtures? Haven’t commented much on here lately but having seen people talking about fixtures and teams having a run of great matches, I thought I would add my thoughts. Firstly I decided in the summer th… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
Geoff | Members Area improvement suggestions I'm going to be putting some time into getting fixes/tweaks done to the Members Area tools and tables started next week, or at the very least planned. What would you like to see? Feel free to be … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 167 |
 Ëð | Will Son get Moura fewer games? I posted this a few pages back but it bottomed out... could be useful and would like to hear some thoughts. 'Will Son replace Moura following the IB?' Seen this question floating around a lot ove… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 106 |
 Smurf | No way, Jose? Holebas - No Way Jose I like many, have looked at getting in Jose Holebas. I’m on my wildcard so it’s pretty easy to fit him in. However looking more into the fixtures I think he’s a lot les… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 40 |
Geoff | Feedback on Scout Notes articles Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic After speaking with David yesterday today’s Hot Topic is about some articles the writers would like feedback on, specifically the Scout Notes and the Lineu… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 103 |
 IRBOX âš½ | All or Nothing Just finished watching the 8 part mini series, Man City: All or Nothing. For those of you who haven’t seen it I would highly recommend. Even if you aren’t a city fan (as most of us here would n… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 51 |
Geoff | Interest in Internationals Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic What is your interest level in the international games? Will you be watching some? Which games are you interested in? Will you watch for the games themsel… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 28 |