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 RedLightning | An inspired captain choice. Only one player in the overall top hundred captained Aubameyang. That player is Faisal Idris, and it lifts him from 12th in the world up to 2nd. Faisal is also now 2nd in our main FFS league, as we… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 25 |
 J0E | Gameweek 38 moves Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 38 moves For many Gameweek 37 has been a set of fixtures to forget so far. I thought it may be good to dwell no longer and instead look ahead to … | 7 years, 10 months ago | 57 |
J0E | Lessons learned from 2017/18 so far STARTS Lessons learned from 2017/18 so far… With just one and a half Gameweeks left I thought it would be good to find out what lessons you’ve learned from the season so far. Every campaig… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 118 |
J0E | Best and Worst Premier League boss for Fantasy managers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Favourite Premier League manager From a Fantasy manager’s perspective who do you think is this season’s Premier League manager of the year. And who g… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 60 |
J0E | DGWK 37 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? And with mini leagues finely poised at the end of the season are you now making moves such as the captaincy b… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 94 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge - GWK 37 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 37 Playing major catch up on results but promise they will come! GW33 tomorrow, 34 and 35 Sat, 36 Sun is the plan! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you w… | 7 years, 10 months ago | 23 |
J0E | Community Writer of the month vote – April Community Writer of the month vote – April It’s that time again to vote for your favourite community writer of the past month. All you have to do is email us here community@fantasyfootballs… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 3 |
 Ludo | Hazard Appeal Boosted By Formation Switch Chelsea returned to a 3-5-2 formation in their 1-0 win at Swansea in GW36, making two changes from their FA Cup semi-final – Courtois replaced Caballero, and more significantly for fantasy manage… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Salexit ...again? Fantasy Football Scout Salexit ...again? Is it worth going without Mohamed Salah for Double Gameweek 37, given he only has one fixture - away to Chelsea - and other Manchester City and Spurs mid… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 43 |
 ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$ | Most unlikely prediction wins ***DGW37 Nostradamus Competition*** Predict one thing that will happen in DGW37. The winner will be the most unlikely prediction that comes true. One prediction only per person please! I’ll j… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 152 |
 jia you | The Case for Captaining a City asset Thinking about the captaincy dilemma today: Huddersfield (if they do) will become one of the worst teams to survive in the history of EPL! Brighton are not a million miles behind. City are playing … | 7 years, 11 months ago | 27 |
J0E | If you were top of the world Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic If you were top of the world On last night's Scoutcast we were joined by FPL number one Bharat Dhody who told us what it was like to be top for 18 of the l… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 39 |
 G-Whizz | DS stats GW37 GW37 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Liverpool failed a massive 801DS by drawing 0-0 with Stoke at Anfield. Manchester City (570DS) continue to purr and eased past West Ham 1-4. Tottenham … | 7 years, 11 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Gameweek 36 - Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 36 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to leave your tales or woe and joy here. | 7 years, 11 months ago | 82 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight 9:30pm Leave your questions for the team here. | 7 years, 11 months ago | 133 |
 _Make | Fear of missing out on big hauls (ceilings versus form) Shameless revision and repost of a bottomed post but it would be interesting to get a conversation going about the dangers of making bad transfer and captaincy decisions because we are afraid of wh… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 59 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 37 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 37 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 0 |
J0E | DGWK 37 Early Captaincy Thoughts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Double Gameweek Early Captaincy Thoughts Is Kane the obvious target should he do well tonight? Or is the far more impressive form and fixtures of Mancheste… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 56 |
J0E | Gameweek 36 - Lessons Learned So Far... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Lessons learned from Gameweek 36 so far…. What lessons have you learned so far this Gameweek? Here’s a few to get the discussion started. Leicester … | 7 years, 11 months ago | 54 |
 Phaze 1 | Research brings rewards You guys arguing against chips for reasons of fairness are clearly delusional. First and foremost, FPL is a game. Pretty much any game I know will reward the players who fully understand the ins an… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 42 |
 Diva | Chips - Is it a level playing field? I don't get this "we get a big advantage from chips" argument. The reason FFS managers get a boost from them at this time of the season is because they've held them to this point of the season rath… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 63 |
J0E | Gameweek 36 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 7 years, 11 months ago | 63 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 36 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 36 GW31 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/18087334 GW32 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/18087781 ****** WHAT IS IT? … | 7 years, 11 months ago | 24 |
 Niemi | Eliteserien GW7 transfers and captaincy With the double gameweeks out of the way, what are you looking to do this week? Which transfers are you looking at? Are you taking hits to fix your team? Have you picked a captain? | 7 years, 11 months ago | 46 |
J0E | Who will be Gameweek 36's best differential? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 36's best differential? I wonder if it could be a Manchester United asset. Arsenal look set to field a heavily weakened side at Old Tr… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 76 |
J0E | Your defender watchlist Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What is your strategy for defence for the remaining for few fixtures. Are you looking to bulk up your backline with premium options from top sides? Or ar… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 64 |
 Monkey Hanger | Leaked line ups = feels like cheating Some may appreciate the work of Anfield Express. Personally don't think it is the way the game should be played. We already by using sites such as this one hold a huge advantage over many of our ri… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 125 |
J0E | Navigating Liverpool's Champions League Charge Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are you doing with Salah and co following Liverpool's Champions League win...but concession of two vital away goals for Roma. Is it simply a case of wa… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 70 |
 Rik Waller | Two portions of chips please. Playing all these chips has made the game very fun in recent weeks. I think FPL would be even better if we are given a full set of chips to play before and another after xmas (like the 2 WCs) Wou… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 65 |
G-Whizz | DS stats GW36 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Manchester City (836DS) last week won 5-0 against Swansea, Arsenal (547DS) eased past West Ham 4-1, Liverpool (494DS) drew 2-2 with West Brom at the Ha… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 25 |
 TLF | Spurs over rotating City for the run in? Just posted this as a scout cast question but curious to hear what you lot think too..... There is a lot of focus on getting in City assets which makes sense but with the risk of rotation looming,… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Rate My Team Free Hit Issue Fix Rate My Team Free Hit fix now in place The RMT tool has now been altered to revert back to Gameweek 34 teams when inputting your FPL ID. This is to take into account the large number of people Fr… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight 9:30pm Leave your questions for the team here | 7 years, 11 months ago | 108 |
J0E | Gameweek 35 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 35 Rough with the Smooth Let us know your tales of woe and joy here | 7 years, 11 months ago | 128 |
 Deulofail | Draft waivers Anyone still playing the Draft game? I've just realised, by looking at the relatively new waiver transaction history on the home page, that waivers are done turn by turn, regardless of whether you… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 39 |
 Pirlø's Pen | City defence: most likely starters in DGWK 37? The seemingly impossible question, which City defender is the most likely to play both in the DGW? | 7 years, 11 months ago | 34 |
J0E | Gameweek 31 v Gameweek 35 Free Hit Chip Gameweek 31 v Gameweek 35 Free Hit Chip These Gameweeks have proved popular times to deploy the Free Hit chip due to their limited set of fixtures. But which has proved the most successful time … | 7 years, 11 months ago | 103 |
 rhysybball | Eminem Strikes Again (to be rapped to Eminem's 'Stan' - in response to 'Dear Granville'...) Dear Stan, I meant to reply sooner, but it's been busy here. You said your team was struggling - where did you finish last ye… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 21 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 36 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 36 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Gameweek 36 - early captaincy thoughts Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Early captaincy thoughts or Gameweek 36. Could Harry Kane emerge as the best option with the threat of rotation hampering the chances of others. If Anfi… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 28 |
 RoysCallerAnne | Gwk 32/33 wildcarders should be patient GW32/ 33 WCers. Stop taking hits, wear sunscreen and remember why you picked them in the first place. Save a transfer this week after your probably successful 35FH. The grass ain't always greene… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 44 |
 TorresMagic™ | Price Changes Price Changes - 23rd April 2018 🔻 Stanislas (5.7), Alonso (7.1) | 7 years, 11 months ago | 9 |
G-Whizz | Free Hit ...or Miss? What do you think of this FH chip? Are you glad you played it earlier or unhappy you haven't got it for this week? Should it make an appearance next season or do they need to think of something els… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 89 |
 Pompel | Willian- stick or twist? Willian owners - keeping or selling? If he's not likely to play both GW37, I'm thinking Arnie of Gundo would be better choices. | 7 years, 11 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Gameweek 36 Rate My Wildcard Team Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 36 Rate My Wildcard Team This week is another popular week for wildcarding. Feel free to post your wildcard team here and also to offer advice on… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 55 |
 TopMarx | Top 5 Career Hall of Fame – Gameweek 33-34 Review A bit of light reading to fill the hour between FPL deadline and first kick off. Top Five HoF review for gameweeks 33 and 34 https://bit.ly/2qNpG7j | 7 years, 11 months ago | 2 |
 Mark | No Preamble this week I can't get a preamble done this morning as my partner is working so I'm with the kids. Back next week, of course. My FH currently looks like this - Butland, 3.9, Baines, Bellerin, Milner/VvD, Kl… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 45 |
J0E | Gameweek 35 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 7 years, 11 months ago | 44 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW35 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35 GW30 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/18039479 ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, ever… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 26 |
J0E | Wenger's impact on Fantasy Football Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Wenger will leave Arsenal this summer bringing to a close an illustrious career in English management. But with the Gunners underperforming in recent year… | 7 years, 11 months ago | 51 |