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 Geoff | World Cup GoalScorer Challenge How many of you are playing World Cup GSC? http://goalscorerchallenge.co.uk What's your strategy? Are you saving big players from big teams until after the group stage, or are you using them to … | 7 years, 9 months ago | 25 |
Geoff | Fred's potential impact on Manchester United Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With Fred expected to sign today for Manchester United, they look to have significantly improved their midfield depth. If, as expected, United play a midfiel… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 37 |
Geoff | Community Writer of the Month vote – May It’s time to vote for your favourite community writer of the past month! Send in your vote to the Community inbox with the name of the author you think had the best contributions: community@fant… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 0 |
 McNulty | Odds on remaining unbeaten in World Cup group stage Just doing a bit of World Cup number crunching and thought I would share as a lot of the teams I have pretty limited knowledge and that might be the case for a few other people as well. I have c… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 12 |
Geoff | Implications of World Cup squad announcements Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the deadline for World Cup squad announcements today, how closely are you watching them? Sane has missed out on the Germany squad and is part of a Manc… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 22 |
 G-Whizz | WC Group Stage Clean Sheet Odds World Cup 2018 Clean Sheet Odds Group stage Thursday 14th June Russia 60% Saudi Arabia 17% Friday 15th June Egypt 22% Uruguay 58% Morocco 45% Iran 36% Portugal 27% Spain 44% Saturday 16th Ju… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 32 |
 Lone Wolf FPL | FANTASY WORLD CUP FRIENDLIES GW2 FANTASY WC FRIENDLIES TOURNAMET - GW 2 (02.06) 5 games (all times are CET) 18:00 Austria vs Germany 18:15 England vs Nigeria 19:45 Sweden vs Denmark 20:45 Belgium vs Portugal 22:00 Iceland vs No… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 31 |
 Tommytour | Transfer Plan (Rounds 1 & 2): FIFA WC Fantasy Football With the key part of Maccy Ds being you are able to sub players and change captains each day, I thought I'd have a look at key players to target for your starting squad. I have only focussed on G… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 5 |
Geoff | World Cup Fantasy - elite player choices Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the World Cup beginning in two weeks, who are you most looking forward to having in your Fantasy squad? Will you be hoping to load up on the elite playe… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 11 |
 FFFrog | McDonalds FIFA World Cup Fantasy opens 7th of June Reposted for the new article https://fantasy.pre.fifa.com/en/faq McDonalds game opens 7th June - official announcement | 7 years, 9 months ago | 7 |
Lone Wolf FPL | Fantasy World Cup Friendlies GW1 FANTASY WORLD CUP FRIENDLIES Community Tournament - GameWeek 1 (01.06) 5 games (all times are CET-an hour later than in UK) 13:00 Australia vs Czech Republic 13:00 South Korea vs Bosnia & Herzeg… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 30 |
FFFrog | Marco Silva and Everton's transfer needs Marco Silva confirmed as Everton boss | 7 years, 9 months ago | 10 |
Geoff | Manchester City attacking options Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic If Manchester City strengthen as we think they will, with Mahrez and Jorginho coming in, what are you thinking you’ll do for Man City attack? Is Kevin De B… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 28 |
Lone Wolf FPL | World Cup Friendlies Community Tournament I would like to write few things as supplement the information contained in the article. First of all it would be nice if could reply here are you like this idea and are you going to play? Thanks … | 7 years, 9 months ago | 8 |
Geoff | World Cup fatigue - impact on FPL Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With many top Premier League players going to the World Cup, how are you looking to adapt for the start of the FPL season? If a World Cup team makes a deep … | 7 years, 9 months ago | 13 |
 bitm2007 | Early thoughts on Chip Strategy for FIFA Fantasy WC Chips strategy for Fifa McDonald's game. This looks tempting, if you can navigate the group stage with only 2 FT's. Bench Boost round 4 (last 16). When you've got an unlimited amount of transfer… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 38 |
Geoff | 2018/2019 value predictions Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic While new signings can shake up our FPL seasons, we often also see existing players step up and perform at a new level. This is particularly useful when the … | 7 years, 9 months ago | 34 |
 Twelve years a slave | New player positions in FPL? Does Fpl needd more categories? Attacking and defensive mids, Full backs and centrebacks | 7 years, 9 months ago | 123 |
Geoff | The transfer window and players to watch Fantasy Football Scout daily Hot Topic With Liverpool finishing off their season on Saturday, all the PL teams can now fully focus on the beginning of next season and their transfer plans. Every s… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 68 |
FFFrog | Liverpool in the GW1 Template? Last night Liverpool were beaten by the better team, and whatever your opinion on Ramos' behaviour, they would have lost anyway. However, they've got to be up there as one of the only teams that ca… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 39 |
Lone Wolf FPL | The Fantasy WC Friendlies Tournament Fantasy Friendlies (Pre-WC) 2018 Before last season we had here a fantasy game about European Cup qualifications made by one of our members. I really enjoyed that so how about a fantasy game with … | 7 years, 9 months ago | 15 |
 Epic Fail | Aston Villa V Fulham predictions Only an hour before the biggest game of the day. Predictions - Fulham or Villa? | 7 years, 9 months ago | 26 |
 Davido989 | John Terry won't play v Chelsea if promoted Jim White: If Villa get promoted to the PL, John Terry will sign a contract extension with one of the potential clauses being him missing out on the 2 games against ex club Chelsea. | 7 years, 9 months ago | 10 |
 PvA | Next season's top scorer will be... Predictions for the top FPL scorer next season? I'm going with Son | 7 years, 9 months ago | 44 |
 Niemi | Eliteserien GW12 captaincy and transfers The gameweek 12 deadline is slightly earlier than usual due to the CL final. Make sure you have your team set before Saturday 3:00 P.M. Last week there were few standout captaincy options, this we… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 16 |
 Emiliano Sala | Early plans for your GKs - cheap rotation or premium? Which gk you will have next season you think? De gea (6.0) Ederson (5.5) Pope (5.0) Other cheap options Personally monitoring arsenal gk choice and it's price | 7 years, 9 months ago | 53 |
Geoff | Welcome Legomané and Rainy Continuing to take advantage of the quiet off season to give the mod team a refresh before next season, I’m happy to announce two more signings to the FFS mod team with Legomané and Rainy joinin… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 39 |
Geoff | Where do Arsenal need to improve? Where do Arsenal need to improve next season? Arsenal clearly need a lot to be challenging for the title, but the top 4 might not be too far away. Now that Emery is in place, what should his prior… | 7 years, 9 months ago | 50 |
 Big P | Pellegrini's impact on West Ham potential What do people make of Pellegrini to West ham? Good appointment? Always liked him at City, seems a decent bloke. Not sure how tactically astute he is though? | 7 years, 10 months ago | 15 |
Twelve years a slave | Hit Value How much is a hit worth? I am trying to find out how much an average hit costs in terms of points loss for the following gameweek. I have finally analysed all my transfers in and out and calcula… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 20 |
 Deulofail | Alonso vs Willian a Value comparison So who *was* the best value, Alonso or Willian? Who *will be* the best value, Alonso or Willian? Before the season, there was a debate about the value of Willian and Alonso. Those who sided with W… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 27 |
 The Rumour Mill | How do championship outputs translate to the PL? Barry Douglas is the key asset here. He's listed on many footballing websites as a left sided mid, but if wolves are playing 3-4-3 with wing backs then he is basically playing the same role as Alon… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 12 |
Geoff | Welcome G-Whizz and Gregor Following two additions from last week, I’m happy to announce two more signings to the FFS mod team with G-Whizz and Gregor joining. G-Whizz is a regular poster who has quickly built a good repu… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 35 |
Niemi | Eliteserien GW11 captaincy, transfers and benching headaches A quick reminder that deadline is at 4pm today. The lineups will be out for all games ahead of the deadline, except for Lillestrøm - Brann. In a week with no standout captaincy options, who are … | 7 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
 J0E | Is 3-4-3 doomed? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is 3-4-3 doomed? According to recent analysis from community writer Wesmantooth, strikers offer poor value in FPL. Instead there is far greater bang for yo… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 44 |
J0E | Looking beyond FPL Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Looking beyond FPL Fantasy Premier League is without doubt the most popular Fantasy football game, with almost 6m teams registered by the season close. … | 7 years, 10 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Favourite FA Cup memories FA Cup final memories Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What has been your favourite FA Cup final? Is it far in the mists of time? Or have there been any good recent finals? Has the compet… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 38 |
J0E | Career Hall of Fame Top Ten Successes and Failures Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Career Hall of Fame Top Ten Successes and Failures I’ve just been sifting through the new top ten in our Career Hall of Fame. https://members.fantasyf… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 7 |
Davido989 | Managerial merry-go-round 2 managerial changes seemingly set to be confirmed soon. Manuel Pellegrini -> West Ham Mikel Arteta -> Arsenal What affect does this have on FPL? I would like to see how Cresswell is priced, I… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 25 |
 The Mighty Hippo | Your most successful formation Which formation proved to be most fruitful for you this season? For me it was a dead heat between 4-4-2 and 3-5-2, which initially surprised me, since in previous years I've always usually defaul… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 17 |
 fusen | Your season - stage by stage Due to a bad overall finish I've been trying to look for something to blame so added another stat box to https://www.anewpla.net/fpl/report/ I've known that I've had a bad start to the season but … | 7 years, 10 months ago | 24 |
Twelve years a slave | The 4 x top 1,000 Hall of Fame Seeing as how everyone starting their own versions of haul of fame, thought I would stick my beak in and have a go. Saw One where I was below people who had never even had a top 1k finish so desi… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
 Freddo | Further HoF thoughts Nothing wrong with the current HoF way of measuring players. Around 15 years ago Arsenal were Champions, one of the top two teams in England and Invincible while Man City were a nothing club, yoyo… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 27 |
FFFrog | World Cup Stat Crunching Having not played any Fantasy Football for 2 years it’s most definitely time to get back in the game, and I love a World Cup as much as anyone. As a result, I’ve been crunching some numbers, lo… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 11 |
 Legomane | The importance of a fast start How important is a fast start?! During the course of this season, I've often thought about the impact of getting off to a bad start can have on your overall rank. Personally, I found it felt very … | 7 years, 10 months ago | 19 |
 asquishypotato | Where do Liverpool need to improve? I love the transfer window around international tournaments - so many big ins and outs (Suarez leaving, Sanchez joining etc). As an Liverpool fan, I’m looking forward to it even more. Consecutiv… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 40 |
J0E | Membership tools discussion Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Being a FFS member clearly helped Paul Gee this season. What about other members? What tools did you use most often? What do you like the most? What too… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 38 |
 Aarono23 | Predicting reclassifications for midfielders and forwards Reclassification Is it likely that Arnautovic will be reclassified as a forward next season, or does Moyes leaving and the subsequent uncertainty help the cause for him to remain a Midfielder for … | 7 years, 10 months ago | 22 |
 Amateur Pundit Zan | Hall of Fame and measuring success Alternative fantasy manager all time list, looking at all managers last 6 years (not just FFS league members) https://premierfantasytools.com/fantasy-premier-league-manager-ranking-table/ Grant B… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 35 |
Twelve years a slave | Worst Best Gameweek ranks Who had the worst, best week ? Ie what was your GW rank in your best GW of the season? Mine was only 202,169 in GW 20 So never really nailed it once during the entire season. | 7 years, 10 months ago | 91 |