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Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 12 – Lessons Learned Here’s a couple to get the discussion started Pogba pushes case for 3-5-2 Many managers, including those at the top o…

The "Unofficial" Protection Rule Players changing status from "red flag 0%" to 100% available receive 8 days price protection where transfers don't change their chance of changing price. When the …

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

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 12 GW9 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/16905780 I know I'm two gameweeks behind, will catch up... sorry! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For th…

Aided by London-based and all round Scout star, TopMarx, we’re beginning to put in place provisional details for the (real life) charity football day, which I posted about a fortnight ago and whi…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who do you think will be Gameweek 12's best differential and why?

GW12 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. In the previous GW the Doosra Stats highlighted Spurs (618DS) at home to Crystal Palace. Thankfully as I had handed him his P45, Harry Kane does what h…

Aguero good to go according to himself on Twitter

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Keeping up with the Joneses What to do with Phil Jones given Mourinho's comments that he will miss out this weekend? Are his owners considering letting hi…

For those with Agüero, what are you doing with him?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best way of dealing with Man City Fixtures still look strong for City and their form is excellent. But rotation is still a factor and now Aguero and Jesu…

I've not seen him in any WC teams on here - are we overlooking Eriksen? He's a superb player, nailed on, in a high scoring team with good fixtures, he's on most set pieces, just scored a hat-trick…

Thanks very much to everyone who responded to this. I genuinely didn't expect so many, but then somebody hulked my post. Some of you have made some very valid points about the limitations and ske…

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

Clyne out for 3 months surely makes Gomez a top pick. Liverpool have such a bad reputation defensively that few people, other than those on here, will have realised that actually at home their re…

How do fpl managers convince themselves to go with just one or two premium strikers? How can you not have kane, lukaku, kun and morata ? All of them have great fixtures I'm getting rid of rooney …

I've just read Jonty and Mark's debate about WC strategy this season. I think we could do with some cold hard facts. I'd be interested in seeing when you all WC'd (if at all) and what your current …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In yesterday's Hall of Fame analysis a number of key issues emerged from the top ten's successes and failures. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2017/11…

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 12 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 The Great Lukaku Divide Romelu Lukaku is set to be one of the most decisive figures next weekend when he leads the line for Manchester United at home to New…

Just a thought, the bumper dgw could be the optimum time for the free hit because it means you don't have to save your wildcard for those last few weeks, I know most here will be intending to use t…

Do you think Sane is worth extra 0.7 over Sterling ?

After NEW BHA fixtures, I think I'll sell Phil Jones. Looking at the fixtures and days between them etc. I think he'll play vs Arsenal and Man City but probably be rested vs Watford and Bournemou…

Very interesting list here from Bbc Sport, recovery time over the festive period 1st glance its kind to Arsenal/City & Chelsea https://t.co/2nhR6tOpKQ

Russia 0:1 Argentina FPL report. Two Premier League players who featured in this game were City's Sergio Aguero and Nicolas Otamendi. Kun played 87' and was, in my unbiased opinion (Kun non-owner…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Eye test versus Fantasy football points Loftus Cheek certainly passed the eye test last night, excelling with his work rate and passing. But if FPL scor…

Morning lads, question for Aguero owners, honest answers now, would you captain him going forwards?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best ever individual international performance To mark the occasion of England selecting perhaps their worst ever starting XI I thought I'd look back to hap…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which defenders are on your watchlist? How is your backline going into Gameweek 12 and the congested winter schedule? Why players are you looking to bring …

Seen a bit of talk about taking hits. Just wondering how many hits do people on average take in a season? How many hits is too many? I’ve seen here somewhere that the top players do about 10 per …

West Ham United After the ridicule from the weekend (which I unashamedly entered into) and subsequent lack of support for the appointment of Moyes, I’ve got an hypothesis that may breathe life i…

Finally got around to creating some tables and thought I'd make something complementary to compare players likely to score headed goals against obliging teams over the forthcoming weeks. Behold: …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Our Live Hall of Fame has been updated to take into account Gameweek 11's fixtures. More changes at the top end. Members can see where they are here htt…

"Since the start of September, Manchester United have created less than Stoke City, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth" thats an incredible stat. was pogba really at the heart of everything united di…

What are people thinking about Niasse? Is he a viable 3rd striker? In a 3-5-2 of course. Could be a nifty little player to own over Xmas. Say one of our City attackers gets no minutes, Niasse cou…

Hi guys! Thought it would be nice to find out how everyone is faring in comparison to their target for the season! So, how close are we all to what we set ourselves, and are our targets realistic…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Nailing the Kane Captaincy On the Scoutcast last week Granville was adamant that Crystal Palace at home was a poor fixture for Kane. He was, annoyingly, r…

Early captain thoughts and why? Kun for me, City should put a few past Leicester and expecting him to be involved

I feel there is an argument that can be made for permacaptaining Aguero most gws. He's returned in all but one fixture he's got a fair amount of game time in, this includes his 20 pointer at Watfor…

Newcastle have conceded the 2nd least goal attempts in the box away from home and have only conceded 5 away goals. Brighton have only conceded 6 away goals. Can Lukaku non-owners survive?

Name 3 differentials that you would pick up on a WC.

So, farewell, Slaven. For a while, you did us proud. I was glad of you, after the Allardyce years, when all we did was grind the gears. You brought us Payet, the shooting star, and all too briefl…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 11 Rough with the Smooth Please share your tales or woe and joy here. Particularly keen to hear from any Alli (c) and Salah (vc) or any who missed out…

Thoughts on Eriksen? Wasn't worried about the 2 tougher fixtures recently but not looking great against Palace. Good to keep with the amount of Spurs away games coming up?

Can anyone let me know what the definitive best way is to set up your forward line? I've looked at 3 premiums, 2 up front with bench fodder, 2 premiums and Abraham.... Not even sure which premiu…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are the key lessons you’ve learned from Gameweek 11 so far? Here’s a couple to get the discussion started. Salah is essential Ok, I know the e …

I always go cheap in defence, Alonso was my record investment in a defender last season as he was such a good option what do we think about the defence this year? Alonso at 7.0 is offputing, Arsen…

Some teams have as much as 14 games in 6 weeks after the IB. We're going to need a good squad with 15 starters to stand a chance. Rotation will be terrible unless players are all from rubbish sid…

These Chelsea rejects are doing ok, can form a whole fpl team of them!

Is anyone happy with their third striker? I'm considering switching to 3-5-2 or even 4-4-2, because there's absolutely no one reasonably priced I'd like to play week in week out in this spot atm.