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| Author | Hot Topic | Date | Replies |
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 Geoff | Site update The Injuries and Bans tab, labelled Injuries at the top of the site, now can be sorted by whichever column you choose. If that isn't working for anyone please let me know | 7 years, 6 months ago | 9 |
 Jafooli | Captain choices and heavy hitters For those on WC’s, here’s an idea to help build your team. Excluding punty captains (Alonso, Mendy, Mane, Eriksen etc), how many genuine grade A week in week out captain choices are there in t… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 43 |
Geoff | Gameweek 4 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 4 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 4 here: | 7 years, 6 months ago | 59 |
 Legomané | Can you carry a cameo-Kamara? It is becoming very clear this season that we have now entered into a post-security era in relation to secured starting berths for players in the 'top' teams. Even promoted sides like Wolves and F… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 42 |
Geoff | International Break Transfer Plans Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the first International Break now underway what's your transfer strategy, and why? Will you make transfers early, trying to catch price rises and knowi… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 68 |
 Rhinos | Mo Salah or No Salah? Gonna wade in on the Salah debate; The pros of keeping: 1) There is nothing to suggest Salah will significantly regress from last season's superhuman efforts, stats are all in his favour 2) No p… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 55 |
 J0E | Breakfast Club launches 11:15am - link now live Live Breakfast Club - 11:15 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxYKQ8pgJ7V8wwh4hLsSXQ/live @FFScout_Joe @DavidMunday815 and @FFScout_Granny discuss: Our GWK 4 sides Granville's wildcard Reaction t… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 5 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW 4 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 4 Lets bring it on! Onside 9 - if you see this, please feel free to get in touch somehow! I'd love to learn about automating the process. GW3 results: https://www… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 30 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 4 press conference round up New Video - Gameweek 4 Conference Call I'm joined by Skonta Rigga to look over the key points from GWK 4's press conferences Klopp rotation tease Man Utd defensive worries Ings' blistering for… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 9 |
 Reckoner. | Best 4.5m midfielders 4.5m Midfielders, who we all going for? Stephens - Guarentees starts, not going to get any attacking points but maybe the odd CS point Westwood - As above but maybe at risk when Defour returns M… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 51 |
Geoff | GW4 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW4 and be a popular transfer in for GW5, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 47 |
Geoff | What to do with Ings For those with Danny Ings, what are you doing this week? 'Mark Hughes reveals that Danny Ings has a "bad blister" on his foot, but has trained today and will be monitored ahead of the weekend.' I… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 49 |
 Rainer | Tough Liverpool Fixtures Liverpool's fixtures between the two international breaks, GW5-8: Sat: Spurs (A) - Prem Tue: PSG (H) - UCL Sat: Southampton (H) - Prem Tue: Chelsea (H) - EFL Sat: Chelsea (a) - Prem Wed: Napoli (a… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 52 |
Geoff | Members Only - Live HOF update The Live HOF has been updated for the first time this season! Where do you rank? Surprised to see some of the names at the top? | 7 years, 6 months ago | 33 |
 Benster | Scoutcast Feedback Sorry to say this but the Scoutcast is not nearly as good as it used to be. It used to be the FPL highlight of my week but now other pods have easily overtaken. Jonty is a great asset but he's not… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 247 |
 G-Whizz | GW4 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW4 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week the top DS Liverpool (645DS) only beat Brighton 1-0 while Arsenal (537DS) beat fellow Londoners West Ham 3-1. Man City (435DS) could only draw 1-1 wi… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
 Jekori | Fulham and West Ham rotation Just noticed fulham and west ham rotation-heaven, never against a top6 side: (WOL, EVE, WAT, eve, bri, car, BOU, BUR, hud, STH, new, CAR, CPA, W-H, WAT, WOL, HUD, BRI, bur, bou, BRI, cpa, cpa, FUL,… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
 tambourineman | GW4 Referees Confirmed Referee appointments for GW4, figures in brackets are penalties per match for last season plus GW1-3. Leicester City v Liverpool - Paul Tierney (0.11) Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham - Lee Probert… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
 RedLightning | Early Chips Tony Coppen, the new world #1, has already used three of his chips (Bench Boost, Wildcard and Free Hit). I wouldn't be surprised if he plays his Triple Captain chip in GW4. His chips have turned o… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 32 |
Geoff | A goodbye, an addition, and a Hot Topic update Updates 1. Niemi let me know last week that he hasn't had the time online and onsite that he thought he would, as other things are taking up more time than he expected. He is stepping down as a mo… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 21 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 4 Captaincy New Video David and I discuss the best captaincy picks for GWK 4 Aguero's record v New Hazards's v Bou J-Lingz bombshell dropped Watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU65X5tIbW4 | 7 years, 6 months ago | 12 |
Legomané | Time to reduce the impact of price falls? If FPL changed the impact of price falls occurring below a players Purchase Price, to match the algorithm for value gained – so that for every 0.2 that a players value dropped below the original … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
Geoff | Liverpool fixtures and transfer plans Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Salah, Mane, Robertson, and TAA have all performed well so far, as have some other Liverpool assets, and many of us have tripled up for the opening fixtures.… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 50 |
 COYS Down Under | Past Stats Predict Waning Fortunes for Defence-Heavy Teams Does anybody else think that a back heavy team is only going to be viable short term? Having 3 6m+ and a 5+ is almost the norm and it probably won't be long until we have all of Trip, Alonso, Mendy… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight at 9pm - Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight (9pm) Joining me on tonight's show will be David, Andy and FPL General Leave your questions for us here Also make sure you subscribe to our Youtube channel to ensure you … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 114 |
Geoff | Gameweek 3 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 3 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 3 here: | 7 years, 6 months ago | 58 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 4 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 4 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 |
 flaming_iles | RMT performance I've posted a few times about my approach this year - I've written a program that selects the best possible team & transfers from the RMT tool. So far, I've got 237 pts (79, 78, 80) with no chips … | 7 years, 6 months ago | 31 |
 Gregor | Short term absences, keep or sell? Credit to Licious Lizard for this one; Do you think there is any merit in holding players with short term bans/injuries or do they need shipping straight away? Does anyone plan on keeping Richa… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 56 |
Gregor | The New Suspension Rules New suspension rules; ‘This season, any cautions players receive will be specific to the competition they were playing in at the time. So, a yellow card in an FA Cup game, for instance, wouldn'… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 16 |
 Celt Abroad | Richarlison Replacements So the question on many manager’s minds today: who to replace richarlison with? Here’s 5 possibilities: 1. Mkhitaryan- need to find a bit of money to upgrade, but excellent fixtures, in an a… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 96 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW3 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 3 Sorry, on holiday with my family but GW2 results will be available tomorrow! For this week, let's go...! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven'… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 39 |
 Ghost Ship | How to work out if a story in the media is reliable Scout cast had a great idea about a guide to reliable journaslism in the wake of the Guardian’s Aguero nonsense. I was a jouro (not football) for 10 years so thought I’d offer my ten cents on w… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 28 |
Geoff | Eliteserien GW20 plans What are you looking to do with your FTs this week? Who is your captain? Now in the final third of the season, how have your goals changed? Are you now looking for differentials? How does your te… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 30 |
J0E | Breakfast Club launches Sat am Breakfast Club 11:15am tomorrow. @FPLGeneral , @DavidMunday815 and @FFScout_Joe reveal their GWK 3 line ups and react to the Man City team sheet. Watch the stream via our Youtube channel - https:… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
 RMT's Professor | RMT model upgrade and HOF We've spent a bit of time this week working behind the scenes on the code behind the RMT numbers. There are 3 components to the RMT model: the team numbers, the playing probabilities and the play… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Mark's Wildcard Team Revealed New Video Mark reveals his Wildcard team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JP3gKAVxA | 7 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
 Pierce34 | The early template, part 3 A few more thoughts on the idea of templates: of course it was covered a lot more extensively on the earlier hot topic, but another reason people say (complain?) that we already have a small pool o… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 41 |
 Bedknobs and Boomsticks | Is Mkhitaryan a safe bet? I bought Mkhitargaryen this week on the basis of his performance against Chelsea, excellent fixtures, and ability to ride a dragon. After learning how to spell his name properly, I was disappointe… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
Geoff | GW3 breakout player Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW3 and be a popular transfer in for GW4, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 87 |
 FPLzebub | The Early Template, Part 2 I've only been playing FPL 4 seasons so a question for the veterans - can you remember such a strong template forming so early before? Everyone seems to be bringing in the same players and every R… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 48 |
 vartshk | The early template I've noticed that a lot of teams are looking more and more similar this year. Obviously managers who are newer to the game ("Casual Managers") tend to select teams based on their real life performa… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 64 |
 Kered | Make your own final decision So I just finished watching the Scout Cast and I wanted to express my belief in what David touched on at the start about listening to your gut instincts as opposed to what others are telling you, u… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 102 |
Geoff | Bundesliga Fantasy Looking for another game to play? https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/08/23/a-guide-to-bundesliga-fantasy-football/ | 7 years, 6 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | Managing heavy hitters Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With Aguero defining our GW2 fortunes those who captained him saw huge benefit. Going forward however there is, arguably, the lingering doubt over his starts… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 96 |
G-Whizz | GW3 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW3 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week saw Man City (863) thrash Huddersfield 6-1, Tottenham (456) beat Fulham 2-1 and just under the radar Man Utd (330) lost 1-3 at Brighton! Last week's… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 24 |
 Scratch | Private FPL Cups Was discussing this with my mates a couple weeks ago... it would be great if FPL, along with letting you setup private Minileages also introduced private Cups where it could consist of 8, 16, 32, 6… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 8 |
 Rupert The Horse | Liverpool against the big sides For those wondering whether to keep hold of all 3 Liverpool assets for the upcoming run, I’ve looked back on last seasons results against the rival 5. Arsenal: H 4-0. A 3-3 Chelsea: H 1-1. A 1-0… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 44 |
Geoff | Price changes and transfer strategy Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic How are price changes affecting your season so far? Once again, early this season there are many more fallers than risers, with nearly 4 pages of fallers an… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 104 |
 FPL ZB | Unfavourables What are people's thoughts on players from the currently 'unpickable' teams? Any bargains for the rest of the season there? Cardiff - seemed relatively tight, shame that Peltier lost his spot Hu… | 7 years, 6 months ago | 30 |