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Author Hot Topic Date Replies

Az
FPL changes wishlist - assists, bonus and chips

Question asked every year, but what would you like to see implemented/tweaked in FPL next year? I'd like: The 'assists' to be a bit clearer, just go with OPTA? BPS to be tweaked so you don't get …

8 years, 3 months ago 151

Niemi
FPL withdrawal league - Eliteserien GW10-GW30

Suffering from Fantasy Premier League withdrawal? I'm setting up a new league for Fantasy Eliteserien (Norwegian league) to shorten the waiting time until the next FPL season. The code for the FPL …

8 years, 3 months ago 17

Piggs Boson
Where do Spurs need to improve?

In what area of their team do Tottenham need to improve in? GK: Lloris, Vorm CB: Vertonghen, Sanchez, Alderweireld, Dier WB: Tripper, Aurier, Rose, Davies, Walker-Peters CM: Dier, Dembele, Sissoko…

8 years, 3 months ago 52

J0E
Gameweek 38 - Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 38 rough with the smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here.

8 years, 3 months ago 105

grooveymatt65
Next season’s potential bargains

What players do people think will get the biggest price drops next season? I reckon Sanchez and Hazard will be up there, Morata as well.

8 years, 3 months ago 27

stat
Rank milestone comparison

A comparison of how much an achievement each milestone rank was this season compared to last: Last season: Total players by GW 38 = 4,503,345 Top 100 = 0.0022% Top 1K = 0.022% Top 10K = 0.222% To…

8 years, 3 months ago 22

J0E
Gameweek 38 Captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic For the final time this season - who are you captaining this Gameweek and why?

8 years, 3 months ago 48

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge - GW37

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 38 The final gameweek! GW37 results will be out tomorrow prior to games being played (guaranteed). Hopefully GW38 results will also be tomorrow, if not definitely …

8 years, 3 months ago 20

G-Whizz
GWK 38 fixture and clean sheet stats

GW38 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester City (943DS) only draw Huddersfield 0-0 and then with a DS of 851 go on to beat Brighton 3-1. Tottenham with 518DS and 429DS r…

8 years, 3 months ago 39

J0E
Most important moment of your season

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What has been the most important moment of your season? This can be important in a positive or negative way? It could be a particular transfer that saw yo…

8 years, 3 months ago 88

Geoff
Eliteserien GW9 captaincy and transfers

Captaincy looks wide open this week in FES. Who are you going for? Are you convinced by the performances of defenders enough to captain one this week? What transfers are you looking at?

8 years, 3 months ago 25

J0E
Gameweek 37 - Rough with the Smooth

Gameweek 37 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here.

8 years, 3 months ago 73

TorresMagic™
Jam0sh wins Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing Grand Final Results https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/leagues/standings/13340/classic Jam0sh 87 Bruno Grilo 84 Kenneth Tang 74 Ben Goodwin 57 Jam0sh - https://fantasy.premier…

8 years, 3 months ago 21

Mark
My Double Gameweek Hit Horror

Every single one of my transfers out scored or assisted. Every single one of my transfers in blanked. Can I get a rewind?

8 years, 3 months ago 51

J0E
This season's most disappointing players

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which player has been the biggest let down this season for you? Has it been one of the magnificant 7m priced players, who promised so much in pre season bu…

8 years, 3 months ago 88

MTPockets
Time to replace FPL's 3-2-1 bonus awards?

FPL proposition: Replace 3-2-1 bonuses with broader in-game bonuses. Still [opta] stats based but something that may lead to more variety in picks, bring defensive mids and no-flair defs into the …

8 years, 3 months ago 21

J0E
Nail biting conclusion to GWK 37's Scout Picks Community Challenge

Red Arrows is within a whisker of overturning Gregor's incredible 33 point margin of victory over the Scout Picks in the Community Picks Challenge. He is currently 35 points ahead of the Scout pi…

8 years, 3 months ago 6

Granville
Bowled over by gwk 37 top scorer

Has anyone seen the top ranked score this week? Stuart Broad, the Stuart Broad. https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/team/1387552/event/37

8 years, 3 months ago 24

BIGREDDOG
Your Hit Count

How many hits have you guys taken this season? I'm on 58 and it has cost me

8 years, 3 months ago 68

Rupert The Horse
Donations requested for Ugandan school and orphanage

Hey guys. I’m just going to leave this here. If any of you have a little bit of cash to spare, I’m going to Uganda in two weeks to set up a school and orphanage and any donations would be seri…

8 years, 3 months ago 19

Mark
Austin's assist explained

Just on the Austin assist. I wasn't on the match last night so not involved but I agree it's an assist. Rule says... If an opponent makes a significant touch after the first initial block and be…

8 years, 3 months ago 47

J0E
Your budget gem of the season is...

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your budget gem of the season is... Last night Cedric brought his GWK 37 tally to 11, much to the delight of his 4.1% ownership. Who has been your low own…

8 years, 3 months ago 63

GW38 transfer plans - Can we trust Palace?

Can we trust Palace? Or most importantly, is it fair to assume (WBA) is actually an easy fixture? West Brom are now officially relegated, but they have been practically relegated for a long time no…

8 years, 3 months ago 17

FPL ZB
Most boring FPL season yet?

Has this been the most boring season of FPL yet? With few options up top over the season due to various injuries (Kane, Aguero, Morata at certain times), and a distinct lack of budget options lea…

8 years, 3 months ago 73

Arteta
Tuesday Pressers

8:45 - Wenger 12:30 - Pochettino 13:00 - Wagner 13:15 - Conte 13:30 - Guardiola & Benitez

8 years, 3 months ago 0

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 38

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 38 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…

8 years, 3 months ago 0

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Live Scoutcast tonight - 9:30pm. Feel free to leave your questions here.

8 years, 3 months ago 49

DaveBensonPhilips
2017/18 - What went right....and what went wrong

**Wall of Text Alert** With the season drawing to a close, I think it’s time for a little reflection. How do you feel about your fantasy performance this season? Are you happy with your overall …

8 years, 3 months ago 20

Niemi
Eliteserien underlying stat attack

If anyone missed these, @kroneball at Twitter posted some interesting charts. This is from GW1-GW7. xG https://twitter.com/KroneBall/status/992128316218970113 xA https://twitter.com/KroneBall/sta…

8 years, 3 months ago 5

Numb
Next season's potential strong picks

Which players do you think might emerge as popular (I.e. Much more so than this year) in FPL? I think maybe Lindelof

8 years, 3 months ago 91

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…

8 years, 3 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 …

8 years, 3 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…

8 years, 3 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…

8 years, 3 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…

8 years, 3 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…

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 months ago 43

Rogue Todd
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…

8 years, 4 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 …

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 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 …

8 years, 4 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.

8 years, 4 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.

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 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 …

8 years, 4 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…

8 years, 4 months ago 42