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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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

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…

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…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Mahrez replacements Lots with Mahrez this week looking to move him out. Who are the best replacements and why? Could a punt on Martial at Manchester Uni…

If you're planning to use FTs (and hits) to prepare for GW31 blanks, remember that you will own these new players before and after GW31 (not after if you WC in 32). If you aren't going to permanent…

What are people’s thoughts on when or if to get in Walcott. He’s obviously made and immediate impact and should get a run of games in the team. We know his problems with injury’s but he can …

Live Scoutcast tonight (9:30pm) Leave your questions here.

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 25 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here. Any early transfers that failed? Any happy Walcott or Wilson owners? Best…

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 26 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…

BREAKING: Mesut Özil has signed a new three-and-a-half year contract to remain at Arsenal until summer 2021. Becomes highest-paid player in club history on around £350,000-a-week before tax. (Sou…

Any one know much about Aubameyang? I heard him described as fast and more of a No. 10 playing of the shoulder of a center forward, or maybe like Vardy off the shoulder of a defender .... how will …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Lessons learned from Gameweek 25 so far. What lessons have you learned. Here's a couple to get the ball rolling Patience is a virtue Once again those w…

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

GW25 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Manchester City (555DS) beat Newcastle 3-1 with an Aguero hattrick. Liverpool (430DS) failed to live up to second place billing by losing…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 25's top differential and why?

3 reasons to buy Choupo Moting; who I just purchased in place of Arnautovic: 1) A 0.6m savings on his teammate Shaqiri; both have delivered ~ 4ppg this season - that 0.6m can be used elsewhere, fo…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Spread the love – or focus on one true love Sanchez has caused quite stir among many Fantasy managers, who are looking to get him in ahead of Huddersfie…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Red Devilish decisions ahead With Huddersfield at home and two nice easy trips to Newcastle and Crystal Palace in their next five, investment in the Manche…

In Aguero's last 8 starts he averaged 6.7 ppg. KDB managed 6.6 ppg in his last 8 starts. KDB is also much more nailed that Kun for future and in 2-3 games many could selling Kun with Jesus back whi…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Cheap at the back Lots of focus on expensive assets at the back but there is still potential value to be found. Which cheap defenders are you considering? …

When looking at the defensive statistics from the past 4 GWs I came across a some interesting data Chances Conceded from the Right Flank Everton - 29 Swansea - 18 Burnley - 17 West Ham - 17 It l…

Here's how West Brom have ranked in various defensive statistics in the 10 games since Pardew took charge. =4th in Goals Conceded =3rd in Clean Sheets =6th in Shots Conceded 5th in Shots in Box Co…

There’s plenty of buzz around Xherdan Shaqiri on here now, and with the new manager effect possibly kicking in, and some strong upcoming fixtures (WAT/bou/BHA), you can see why we might look to S…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic As Chelsea falter in the Cup another blank Gameweek disappears. The Blues Gameweek 28 clash with Manchester United will now go ahead as planned. In addi…