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Rainer
FA Cup QF draw perfect for GWK 35 FH Chip

PERFECT!!! draw for GW35 Free Hit!

8 years, 6 months ago 26

TorresMagic™
Free hit chip - best week to use

For those with the Free Hit chip, when are you currently thinking of using it? a) BGW31 b) DGW34 c) BGW35 d) DGW37 e) GW38 f) another GW

8 years, 6 months ago 39

agueroooooney
The Free Hit Chip Double Gameweek Strategy

How come there's been no mention of a strategy involving using the FH chip in a double gameweek? People are covering every eventuality with the fixtures but I haven't even seen this mentioned. Her…

8 years, 6 months ago 29

J0E
Time to bail on Chelsea?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Time to bail on Chelsea? Given their tough fixtures and blank Gameweek 31 is it time to start ditching Chelsea assets. Are you Alongo or Alonstay? What o…

8 years, 6 months ago 44

J0E
Wildcard GWK 32 v 33

I was thinking of playing my wildcard in Gameweek 33 as it is closer to Gameweek 34 when I can use a bench boost. Using it in GWK 33 rather than GWK 32 would in theory give me extra information re …

8 years, 6 months ago 97

matzi11a
Server and Backend Upgrades

Hi all, we are performing some upgrades to the site over the next hour. Everything *should* continue working as normal during this period but you may need to do an occasional reload.

8 years, 6 months ago 11

J0E
Targeting the Gunners

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Arsenal assets? Given a Gameweek 31 fixture for Arsenal looks unlikely many will be shunning their players. But with bags of creativity in midfield, …

8 years, 6 months ago 23

J0E
Best Liverpool Assets

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Liverpool Assets With strong form, excellent fixtures and a guaranteed match in Gameweek 31, investing in Livepool assets looks key over the coming w…

8 years, 6 months ago 51

IRBOX ⚽
Top 10K Chip Use

Top 10k. Anyone got the stats on % used FH and WC?

8 years, 6 months ago 17

J0E
FA Cup results wish list

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FA Cup Wish List What outcomes are you looking for this weekend and Monday’s FA Cup games, given that those that progress will miss Gameweek 31? A lot …

8 years, 6 months ago 62

Individual
Quality v Quantity in planning for blanks

Hi all I've written a short piece on quality v quantity in our planning for the blanks, based on my experience last year http://whogottheassist.com/quality-v-quantity-for-the-bgw-a-cautionary-tale…

8 years, 6 months ago 37

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

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

8 years, 6 months ago 151

J0E
Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here. Particularly keen to hear from anyone with Alonso (c) and an incredible vic…

8 years, 6 months ago 115

J0E
Holding out for a hero

Who have been your heroes this season? And what heroes would you recommend for the coming Gameweeks? This is something Mark got in touch with earlier after realizing that he’s still holding out…

8 years, 6 months ago 97

J0E
Targeting the relegation scrappers

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With most of the relegation embattled teams doing well over the weekend should we perhaps be targeting some of their assets, particularly as cheap options i…

8 years, 6 months ago 31

FPL Virgin
Free hit chip: gwk 31 v gwk 35

14 teams are projected to play in GW35. Are you telling me that a Wildcard team for GW34 won't be able to get a decent team out for GW35? Are we assuming all 15 players will be from those 3 fixtu…

8 years, 6 months ago 119

Deus
Time for a top heavy front three?

Shall we consider heavy top3 with Kane Kun and Firmino now?

8 years, 6 months ago 38

Numb
Scoutcast feedback

Feedback on the ScoutCast (seeing as Mark is around 😉 ) Things I like: Banter between them especially when Granville is involved Talking about their teams and plans When they have guests to mix …

8 years, 6 months ago 126

J0E
Gwk 27 lessons learned so far

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 27 lessons learned so far Kanexit 2 a success This was the final round in the second Kanexit move, before spurs fixtures ease and City’s get m…

8 years, 6 months ago 31

Granville
‘Unedifying’ scoutcast criticism

It's really unedifying to see the FFS community having a good old pile-on Mark and the scoutcast team for criticising Aguero at a time when he was struggling a little. I just wonder how they would …

8 years, 6 months ago 175

diesel001
Kanexit 2 - Rough with the Smooth

Kanexit. Share your tales of joy or woe. Mine: GW24 did Kane and Gross to KDB and Firmino. Kane and Gross since GW24 = 39pts. KDB and Firmino = 47pts with Firmino having a game to play. What that …

8 years, 6 months ago 20

J0E
Gameweek 27 Captaincy

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

8 years, 6 months ago 107

Twisted Saltergater
DGWK planning for the wildcardless

For those who’ve played their second WC already but still have the FHC for blank GW31, is the best tactic now to load up on potential DGW’ers? So, in other words, get in players who don’t pla…

8 years, 6 months ago 20

How I met your Mata
The Kane (c) early kick off conundrum

Really want to captain Kane but due to his 12:30 kick off it's putting me off

8 years, 6 months ago 14

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge - GW27

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 27 Gameweek results will be tomorrow sorry I’m really behind! On holiday next week. Been working 50+ hour weeks.. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you wh…

8 years, 6 months ago 27

J0E
Gameweek 27's best differential

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be this Gameweek's best differential? Mahrez? 😉 Or another?

8 years, 6 months ago 112

fusen
What if I stopped playing?

Deadzone Post "What if I stopped playing?" I made a page that'll show you your FPL score if you had stopped playing the game in any given gameweek. So if you stopped in gameweek 14 and made no fu…

8 years, 6 months ago 56

J0E
Player blinkers

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Player blinkers There have been a number of players this season that look great captains and transfer targets, but are being ignored by many. Take Mohame…

8 years, 6 months ago 47

ktk_interista
Captain fantastic Salah

More reasons to just keep the captaincy on Salah until GW31. If being the most consistent and explosive fantasy asset all season, the highest owned in an ultra-attacking team is not good enough for…

8 years, 6 months ago 33

G-Whizz
GW27 Odds/Stats

GW27 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester United (590DS) beat Huddersfield 2-0 and for the second week in a row Chelsea (385DS) failed their rating (last week 479DS) an…

8 years, 6 months ago 26

Team Cruel
Eliteserien: Prices being revealed

Not many days to go until the launch! They have started revealing some prices: 11.5 FWD - Alexander Søderlund (RBK) 5.0 DEF - Tom Høgli (TIL) Thoughts? Søderlund's price is an interesting one,…

8 years, 6 months ago 15

Boris Bodega
Does FPL's growing popularity make it harder to do well?

I started playing FPL in the 2013/14 season and there were about 3/3.5m players. Now we are up to almost 6m!!! Surely with this amount of players along with the addition of chips that can potential…

8 years, 6 months ago 36

Hotdogs for Tea
Chip strategy for the coming game weeks.

Alternative BGW31 and beyond strategy, if you have your chips … - ignore GW31 🙂 .... load up on players now that do NOT have a game in GW31, use your transfers for players you actually want in y…

8 years, 6 months ago 91

Ludo
The case to captain Kane

Harry Kane is currently sitting third in the FFS Captain Poll, with 11.54% of the vote, behind Agüero on 20.67%, and Salah on 37.2%. As someone who has captained Salah for both the last two gamew…

8 years, 6 months ago 40

J0E
Targeting the whipping boys

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Whipping boys Among the issues discussed last night was targeting whipping boys – clubs that are in an abyss where they are shipping goals for fun and a…

8 years, 6 months ago 40

Individual
The merits of saving a transfer this week

Think TL;DR for a lot of questions this week... If you have 1FT and can field a decent xi, roll your transfer. This is because FPL is off for a weekend after the upcoming gameweek. After this, we…

8 years, 6 months ago 67

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

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

8 years, 6 months ago 119

J0E
Gameweek 26 Rough with the Smooth

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 26 Rough with the smooth Let’s hear your tales of woe and joy. Particularly interested in hearing from any alonso captainers who had salah vi…

8 years, 6 months ago 116

Ragabolly
Rank predictor test

Hey guys, testing an updated version of a software I wrote that calculates and predicts OR. Please comment with your FPL ID if you are inside the top 20k, and I will give you your new rank. I hop…

8 years, 6 months ago 90

⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
Man City stars take a break

Kevin De Bruyne says he is playing in a state of exhaustion at the moment as Manchester City’s players have been given a four-day break by Pep Guardiola. The prospect of a refreshed and revitalis…

8 years, 6 months ago 15

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 27

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 27 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, 6 months ago 0

J0E
Community Writer of the month vote – January

Community Writer of the month vote – January 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@fantasyfootbal…

8 years, 6 months ago 10

J0E
Ownership and the season run in

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Ownership and the run in With just 11 Gameweeks to go ownership becomes a bigger issue. Sticking with the most owned players can cause stagnation with lit…

8 years, 6 months ago 49

Sideways Backwards
Wat v Che - top 10k player ownership

Some info for tomorrow's game in regards top 10k ownership: Players remaining: 1.33 Top owned: Alonso: 4732 Azpilicueta: 2566 Doucoure: 1000 Hazard: 982 Richarlison: 701 Courtois: 601 Mariappa: 5…

8 years, 6 months ago 23

Collie01
Invest or avoid - team by team analysis

Shameless repost from this morning. Think this week is a crucial point in the season in terms of how we set our teams up for the future. With BGWs, new signings over transfer window, CL and Cups …

8 years, 6 months ago 17

J0E
Gameweek 26 Lessons Learned So Far….

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 25 Lessons Learned So Far…. Here’s a couple to get the discussion started. Feel free to comment on these as well as flag up any other lessons …

8 years, 6 months ago 59

Bun Rab
Alonso rotation

Alonso: I saw some people asking about possible rotation so i wondered what will happen with the arrival of Emerson and what should Alonso owners do? Surely part of his 7m+ price means that he nee…

8 years, 6 months ago 11

J0E
Gameweek 26 Captaincy

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

8 years, 7 months ago 94

G-Whizz
GW26 Stats/Odds

GW26 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester City (673DS) beat West Brom 3-0. Chelsea failed a DS of 479DS by losing to Bournemouth 0-3, Liverpool (298DS) beat Huddersfiel…

8 years, 7 months ago 18

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge - GW26

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 26 Apologies again guys! GW25 was skipped by accident... Also GW22 results are wrong - loaded the wrong gameweek stats into it! It will be corrected tomorrow. Alo…

8 years, 7 months ago 23