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So people who have an active wild card and all the other chips yet to play...What's the plan?

My view for those who have live wildcard. Bb in 34 still possible - just Free hit 35 Kane tc in 37 with a load of dgw players

Think the doubles are this in GW34... Spurs v Man City (h), Brighton (a) Man United v West Brom (h), Bournemouth (a) Chelsea v Southampton (a), Burnley (a) Leicester v Burnley (a), Southampton (a…

I’ve seen a lot of comments about various teams having ‘nothing to play for’. So I took a look at the facts and the league table, and it’s not as clear cut as some would suggest. (Sorry for…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who have been the chip winner and losers so far? Everyone will have their own bar for success but I think for many a very good return on a chip would be 20 …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are the best defenders for the season run in? Is it best to go cheap at the back and spend money elsewhere in attack? Or does this limit the power of t…

Anyone else think the double game weeks make the run in to the season extremely boring? Its so clearly the best strategy to save all chips for the end that everybody ends up doing more or less the …

Dare I say it... Eriksen instead of Salah anyone? Especially those that will WC in 33 and FH in 35?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best midfield for the season run in. We know the teams that have double gameweeks, although are still waiting to find out when they will be. This means t…

Apologies for the long 6am post - my baby was up early so time to kill! The FFS masses have been working on the general assumption that the postponed GW31 matches are going to be rearranged for GW…

Try again to get a discussion going: Which 3rd striker? Murray, Barnes, JAyew - discuss The latter 2 are 0.6m cheaper, but Barnes although he's just scored 3 games in a row, we've seen time and t…

Firmino only one double digit return in the last 11, are people overstating his ability to haul when making the decision on whether to keep or not?

Should we avoid premium defenders on WC ? With the exception of Chelsea (and DdG), I don't really see any standout DGW premium options. Arsenal : Monreal/Mustafi are tempting, but Europa is the p…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Season run in strikeforce Whether wildcarding or not what is your ideal frontline over the coming weeks. Alot will depend on your chips. So for example t…

When people are being patient and waiting until GW 33 to wildcard, what is the biggest benefit of this? As we'll know the doubles to come this week anyway won't we? Does it make much of a differenc…

Firmino - cpl, eve, BOU Vardy - bha, NEW, bur, ARS The last two years I've made the same mistakes in prioritising dgwk assets over genuine good options. I know the threat of rotation hangs over F…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 31 Rough with the smooth Feel free to let us know your Gameweek highs and lows here. Any Salah Triple captainers? Any non- Salah captainers?

so the template midfield (and mine atm) looks to be: salah mahrez willian son sterling/silva Now salah and mahrez should be in everyone’s teams (nailed/form/fixtures) but i’ve got some reser…

Welcome to Ragabolly who becomes a new addition to the FFS team. He brings his brilliant metrics, data tools and regular articles like this.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Blank Gameweek 31 Have you used your free hit chip? If so would be great to see your XI. If not, how many do you have playing? How many hits have you …

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 31 Due to the enormous amount of blanks - the rule is A MAXIMUM OF 2 PLAYERS PER TEAM. Please list the teams. GW27: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment…

GK 31 players with more than 10% overall ownership Basically if you don't own some of this lot you will want them to have a quiet day. Salah - 61% Firmino - 46% Hegazi - 21% - likely to be mainly…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Season Run In: Man Utd v Arsenal Players A key issue those wildcarding/preparing for future doubles have encountered is Man Utd v Arsenal assets. Many …

Which players do you think are flying under the radar for this BGW?

GW31 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester City (571DS) beat Stoke 2-0, Chelsea (517DS) beat Crystal Palace 2-1 and finally Arsenal who stole onto the radar with their D…

Getting closer to WC, how much is your SV? 103.5 here

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Chelsea players will be in your team for the season run in and why? Are the likes of Hazard and Alonso overpriced? Or worth their high price tags? Ca…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Whether wildcarding or not - who are your top transfer targets for Gameweek 32 onwards? This was discussed on last night's Scoutcast with Arsenal, Leiceste…

Looking at the expected value of Butland's score this week: - 2 expected points for playing. - 35% chance of a clean sheet based on betting odds and 4 points for a clean sheet, so 1.4 expected poi…

Gameweek 30 Rough with the Rough Feel free to leave your tales of woe and woe here. 😉 Also keen to hear from the handful of people who actually had a good Gameweek.

Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm Feel free to leave your questions for us here.

Just been alerted to the news that FFScout regular, admin and all-round good guy Spencer and his partner have just had a baby boy. Baby Oliver weights 7 lbs 6 and will be forever known as the BGW31…

Just went through the fixtures in details and here are some thoughts. Note that i have already used my TC. - United, Chelsea, Spurs and Lei are the main teams that should be on your wildcard. They…

Free Hit: Make unlimited free transfers for a single Gameweek. At the next deadline your squad is returned to how it was at the start of the Gameweek The Free Hit chip can be used once a season, …

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 31 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…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 31 Dream Team What would be your dream XI for Gameweek 31.....and please give reasons. This is especially applicable to those with a Free Hit c…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 30 - Lessons learned so far. Here’s a few to get the discussion started. Feel free to comment on these or suggest your own. Patience proves a…

Is anyone taking out Kane for GW31? I fancy a punt on a striker and it also means if I keep my wildcard until GW33 I can take another punt on a different striker in GW32. Lukaku v Swansea (h) Aub…

I have created a new mini-league (Last 8 Game-Weeks, 757-1280283) which will start scoring in GW31. It should be interesting to see which chip strategy proves most effective over the final 8 game-…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why?

Community Scout Picks GW1 Linde Kitolano - Teniste - Parr Ulland Andersen - Haugen - Koomson - Sigurdarson Bendtner - Lehne Olsen - Stokke Community Captain Ulland Andersen with 45% of the vot…

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 30 GW26 results:https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/17722196 I'm flat bound this weekend (somehow, even with the MMR vaccine, I've contracted MUMPS) so…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 30's biggest differential? I actually think it could well be an Arsenal asset - who we are all avoiding due to GWK 31 fever and that B…

GW30 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Tottenham (579DS) beat Huddersfield at home 2-0, Liverpool (488DS) faced Newcastle at Anfield and beat them 2-0 and finally Manchester United…

What FPL changes would we like to see for next season? I would suggest the following changes to chips and to BPS: Chips: Keep the Wildcards. Get rid of Bench Boost. Keep Free Hit but change its na…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Manchester City issues With tough fixtures and inevitable rotation due to Champions League commitments is it time to ditch Manchester City options. Or ar…

Some quick statistics for you, these are implied odd of these events occurring in GW31 according to betting sites: Liverpool CS: 55.6% Watford CS: 7.1% Huddersfield CS: 34.8% Palace CS: 34.8% B'…

FFS Cup qualification latest Article and first round draw will be published tomorrow. But we can reveal now that the cut off from the qualification round was 60 points with a rank of 211070 or …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which players is it worth using a Free Hit Chip on or taking a hit for in Gameweek 31? This follows on from Ragabolly's research into GWK 31 player ownershi…

Have just watched the Scoutcast back and found myself shouting at the screen regarding the GW31 situation 🙂 A free hit in GW31 is almost a perfect storm, imo. - There are brilliant non-GW31 play…