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RP. If you have a captain who has scored 6 points (Suarez, Ronaldo, Costa etc) you are only really risking 4 points by changing and chasing a higher score! Every one of you should change, especia…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Penalties are playing a bigger part in World Cup Fantasy than many of us expected – how are you adjusting? With players getting points for a won penalty, …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the deadline for Round 2 now only 8 hours away, what are your transfer plans? Are you switching around your heavy hitters or are you just tweaking your…

I know everyone on here is starting to think that WC before GW3 is a bad idea and you should use it before the QF. Here is my reasoning not to, and to use it before GW3: 1 - Those teams that get t…

To those tearing up their teams, destroying their defenses with wildcards or taking hits, here's something for you to consider. What have we really learnt from one round? Many were already advising…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic How is your World Cup Fantasy side doing so far? With Mexico’s shock win over Germany, Brazil being held by Switzerland, and Argentina being held by Icel…

The last four winners of the World Cup have kept 12 clean sheets in 16 knockout matches, conceding 4 goals. 2002 - Brazil only conceded a Michael Owen goal in the quarter finals. 2006 - Italy onl…

Plenty of questions overnight about whether to stick or twist on Eriksen(6) and Griezmann(8) in particular. Obviously much depends on who you have as captaincy options to twist to, with Brazilian…

Just a reminder for anyone who is new, forgets the rules, or doesn't know what we'd like in terms of conduct from users: LOL@ posts will be removed, as will negative posts with no content. Most im…

Next seasons Premiership rotation pairs looks to be as follows; Arsenal & Spurs Bournemouth & Palace Fulham & Chelsea Huddersfield & Burnley Liverpool & Everton Man City & Man United Newcastl…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic The Premier League fixtures are out: https://www.premierleague.com/news/720651 Manchester City couldn’t have it any better - is Sane a lock for your team?…

Here's a link to this week's Fixtures Scoutcast, where David and I take stock of the Premier League 2018/19 fixture announcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3dRhHfDnyA On the bill: Teams …

World Cup Special Scoutcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fiXETvcTz0 David and myself look at Premium Picks Budget Gems Strategies Chips and more

How many "good" captains are you looking to have over the course of a round for the group stages? I currently have... Cavani, Griezmann, Mueller, Lukaku, Rodriguez Wondering if I might be puttin…

Bench boost in GW 1, in the round of 16 or elsewhere?

***WORLD CUP YES/NO COMPETITION*** 10 questions - just answer yes or no to each. Most correct answers win with tie-breaker deciding any ties. ALL answers submitted before Russia v Saudi Arabia k…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the beginning of the World Cup only days away and the Fantasy game now released, what are your World Cup predictions? Fantasy: 1. Who will be the highe…

Lunchtime World Cup Scoutcast tomorrow with DavidMunday815 and myself Looking at the @FIFAWorldCup and @fantasyiteam games - strategies, key picks and bargains. Join us at 1pm via our Youtube c…

Seeing an increasing number of rotation risk Group H players (Sabily, Mojica etc). Why is this an issue? Group H players can't be subbed out manually as they play last in every GW furthermore, if…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic When the World Cup starts we’ll be able to watch many Premier League players in action surrounded by players they don’t normally play with and with diffe…

I'm going to try and finish the argument of why having an active bench is more important than having Messi/ Neymar. 1) Daily captaincy changes - you can change your captain every day, seriously d…

I know Neymar is expensive and its important to have a decent bench, BUT... Does nobody think he might just be worth the outlay? I think he's going to absolutely smash it. He is looking insane at …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic As the World Cup Fantasy game has now been open for a few days, and with the first games fast approaching, how is your team shaping up? Are there any playe…

Following on from my earlier HT, here are the midfield options. I've gone for the players who are nailed on and have genuine attacking threat, hence why players like Asensio, Casemiro and Carlos Sa…

A comprehensive list of the realistic fantasy football options at every position and every price band. This is just my opinion, feel free to add to it or disagree with my choices. Trying to make al…

These are some key points according to me 1) Playing the BB in the group stages. There will be a larger pool of attacking players in the group stages and weaker oppositions won't be there in the k…

I just found this list of the expected World Cup 2018 set piece takers for all 32 international teams. It might help some of you https://www.fantasybet.com/blog/world-cup-2018-set-piece-takers/

Anyone know how to deactivate a chip on the McDonalds game??

The GW13 preview won't get published in time, so I'll try with a hot topic instead. Who's your captain this week? Who are you bringing in and who are you selling? Do you have any benching headache…

OK the more I think about this the more I think the bench doesn't matter. Why? 2 reasons: 1) I feel a lot of premium players are overpriced and trying to squeeze them into a team is proving very d…

Who are your bargain WC players? For me: Advincula @ 4.5 Tagliafico @ 5.0 De Arrascaeta @ 5.5

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic How would we like Fantasy Premier League to deal with the new Winter Break which comes into effect in the 2019/2020 season? The break is staggered across two…

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With the World Cup Fantasy game officially launched, what has surprised you so far? Who are the players you think are close to essential? Are the premium st…

Share your WC Fantasy RMTs here: Nailed it. Cavani Lukaku Salah Isco James/Muller Carrasco Mendy Sidibe Varela Meunier Muslera Uzoho Cueva Asensio Vestergard

FANTASY FROGBALL WORLD CUP Hi all, After the success of Fantasy Frogball at the Euros two years ago, it is back for this World Cup. This is a community tournament that will work through the McDon…

While a lot of people that will play the WC fantasy are on here, I thought I'd ask - is having two big hitters playing on the same day/ for the same team bad value, because you can't captain both, …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Are you happy with your team’s transfer window so far? Although it’s still early, Liverpool have signed Fabinho and have sold Emre Can to Juventus, whil…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Reposted for the new article https://fantasy.pre.fifa.com/en/faq McDonalds game opens 7th June - official announcement

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…

Marco Silva confirmed as Everton boss

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…