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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 |
JØ |
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 |
