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 J0E | Sanch-yes or no? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With Sanchez looking like staying and ready for action in GWK 3 who is considering getting him in? This weekend may be too soon for a start, but GWK 4 look… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 46 |
 A.T | Thursday's pressers Thursday pressers. 8:45am Arsenal 12:30pm Huddersfield 1pm Leicester 1:30pm Watford 1:45 Brighton | 8 years, 7 months ago | 3 |
 FlockofSeagulls | False 9 Explained I don't know if this is a stupid question but I am a seagull after all. I could be way off, but does the whole point of the 'False 9' formation and strategy revolve around the concept that a midf… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 19 |
 Rödallegabomb ᴿᴮ | 4.5m Midfield Rotation 4.5m Midfield Rotation Something which I've been pondering for a while, and decided to now opt for, is a pair of rotating 4.5m midfielders. Simply put, the money saved by spending a megre 9.0m on … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 67 |
J0E | Steady Eddies v Flash Harrys Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Steady Eddies v Flash Harrys On last night's Scoutcast we discussed how Pogba could be an Alli like player this season - prone to exciting goals, while Mkh… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
 Markus | Are early points hits for team value worth it? Are early points hits for team value worth it? There seems to be lots of conjecture about this, but as with anything in fantasy football any ounce of quantifiable rationale can help to make decisi… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 27 |
 andy85wsm | What to do with daniels? What are people doing with Daniels? If getting rid who are you thinking of bringing in? Took a look at some options: Suttner - (already own him - just play him and keep Daniels?) - wat, WBA, bou,… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
 FPL Virgin | Liverpool rotation worries Hot topic! What will Liverpool's teamsheet tonight tell us about who plays against Arsenal on Sunday. If Firmino, Mane and Salah ... A) Play the full 90. B) Taken off as a sub C) Brought on as … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
 Bibelnissen | GWK 4 Captaincy - advanced planning I've noticed there seems to be a consensus that Kane and Lukaku are the best captaincy options and that we just slap the armband on one of them each week and it'll be fine - and I agree; they are t… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 19 |
 Karan_G14 | Hold fire on your wildcard Can see a lot of people playing their wildcards or planning to do so for the 1st International Break. Some of the reason why I think wildcarding during 2nd IT break between GW7-8 is better: 1. W… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 23 |
 Mark | This Much We Know Format Posted this elsewhere but may get missed so making an HT of it. Would like feedback on the change of format for this article. I wanted to give Peter a bit more freedom rather than use the same … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
 Too Mane Men | Too Soon to bail on KDB I think we need to remember how little competitive football we've seen premier league sides play this season. FPL demand will always revolve around recent form but to ignore the quality of certain… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 34 |
 _Make | Goals imminent explained A question about the goals imminent table. Is the ranking: a.) simply a prediction of expected next game scoring performance based on recent performance or is it b.) inflated by the fact that a pl… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 7 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast Tonight - leave your questions for the team here. Disable will be joining Mark, Andy and I on tonight's show - 9:30pm kick off via our Youtube channel. | 8 years, 7 months ago | 194 |
J0E | GWK 2 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic GWK 2 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales or woe and joy here. Best will be read out on tonight's scoutcast. Remember its not what you didn't do -… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 101 |
 FantasyFootballSprout | Is Alonso a no no? If you somehow see yourself scrambling to try and fit Alonso into your teams then wait just for a second. I was unfortunate enough to get rid of Alonso to fund my Zaha to Mkhi move and yet I wasn't… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 3 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 3 For the second time this season we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 2 |
J0E | Can Kane be trusted with the armband? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Can Kane be trusted with the armband? If you own him are you captaining him? If you don't who are you captaining? Could Eriksen be a better option - 100% … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 54 |
 Heavy Data | Perils of an early transfer Yesterday i transferred out Alonso in order to get in Pogba. I would have liked to have waited until after todays games to make the transfers but had to them yesterday to avoid the price changes. … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
 Jøssy ⭐ | Pricing algorithm change? What's going on with our price movement system? Clearly there has been a fundamental shift in the algorithm. That players such as Xhaka and Hegazi have been transferred in my 408k and 350k of pla… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 64 |
J0E | Ones to Watch from GWK 2 so far Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Ones to Watch from Gameweek 2 so far Pogba is the main attraction in the transfer market – unsurprisingly after his sensational score in Gameweek 2. But … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 66 |
FantasyFootballSprout | Keep calm and don't kneejerk The carnage on the site tonight is actually comical to read. Let's take a breath for a moment. I've seen people getting rid of KDB before he's even played and he also has Bournemouth next week. I… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
 eoan | Mkhitaryan or Pogba? Can we have a Mkhi vs Pogba hot topic? Here's some combined stats over the last two games: Pogba: xG = 1.03 and xA = 0.43 Mkhitaryan: xG = 0.2 and xA = 2.10 Note: xG = expected goals, xA = expec… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
 AA33 | Community Watch tournament update COMMUNITY WATCH TOURNAMENT UPDATE : All the selected managers have been sent emails and are asked to select their team name and reply to us by 19:30 UK time on 20th August The next article will b… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
J0E | GWK 2 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in gwk 2 and why? | 8 years, 7 months ago | 62 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 2 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 2 It's the return of the famed Scout Picks Challenge!! This is the first gameweek for all those worried, so this is just the beginning! Let's see who will conquer… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 109 |
J0E | Gameweek 2's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 2's best differential and why? | 8 years, 7 months ago | 123 |
 Arteta | Friday's Press Conferences Today's press conferences 8:30 - Stoke 9:00 - WBA, Bournemouth 11:00 - Huddersfield 12:00 - Crystal Palace 12:30 - Spurs 13:00 - Man Utd, Leicester 13:15 - Chelsea 13:30 - Newcastle 13:30 - Man C… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 7 |
 Couti & the Below5th | Probable starters update Probable Starters updated https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03D_KnVF1fRYTdvakt4c3Q1MmM/view?usp=sharing | 8 years, 7 months ago | 9 |
 Four Letter Wirtz | Beat the kneejerkers Beat the KneeJerkers XI, final squad for GW2 As promised on Monday, here’s the final squad for GW2 of my “Beat The Kneejerkers XI” competition. Not too many surprises, apart from Kolasinac d… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 6 |
FPL Virgin | Baggies Set For Gwk 2 Glory Clarification. Mark said on the scoutcast and in the pre scoutpicks article that Burnley will be able to deal with West Brom's set piece threat. Not true. Burnley conceded the most set piece att… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
Arteta | Thursday's Press Conferences Today's press conferences 13:00 - Liverpool, Swansea 13:15 - Burnley 13:30 - Watford 13:45 - Brighton 14:00 - Southampton, West Ham | 8 years, 7 months ago | 9 |
 Essrick | Zaha exit options Little bit of info for those of you unsure what to do with Zaha and looking at either Mooy to free up cash, Ramsey as a straight swap or hold the FT; Just re-watched Palace v Huddersfield highligh… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
 The Rumour Mill | 3-4-3 is too inflexible Formatting fail above! 2nd attempt lol. Bench flexibility in formation selection This was something which occurred to me in pre season as a consideration, but has now come to the forefront of my … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 45 |
J0E | Will Sigurdsson be a good Fantasy option at Everton? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Sigurdsson a viable Fantasy option when Everton's fixture schedule eases? Or is he still overpriced - even taking into account a possible fall this week … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 64 |
Arteta | Wenger press conference http://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/wenger-press-conference-sanchez-wilshere-13483508 - On team news for Stoke Mertesacker will be available again. For Sanchez it looks a bit earl… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
J0E | How much is too much? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic At what point is a player over priced. On last night's Scoutcast there was an interesting discussion on whether certain players are over priced. Kane was … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 94 |
 Bauerhaus 24 | Spurs and Home Advantage Theory Having heard a lot of rubbish being spouted by every man and his dog about Spurs’ move to Wembley, I thought I’d share my (relatively educated) knowledge about home advantage (HA) - and inevita… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 44 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Zaha Owners - Take Price Drop On The Chin Imo those with Zaha should be patient and suffer the price drop. Your 4th/ 5th defender or 5th midfielder should be enough to cover the injury for this week. There are plenty of option at 6.5 or l… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 55 |
 TheBusDriver | Mkhi is Nailed - get used to it. Why do people on here keep saying Mkhitaryan is not nailed? What nonsense is that? He's the 2nd most nailed United attack after Lukaku. | 8 years, 7 months ago | 44 |
J0E | Zaha replacements With the Guardian reporting that Zaha could be out for four weeks what are his owners doing? Has the magnificent 7 lost its shine? Have you money in the bank for a more expensive replacement, or … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 155 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight - 9:30pm Feel free to leave your questions for the team here | 8 years, 7 months ago | 115 |
J0E | Gameweek 1 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scour daily hot topic Gameweek 1 rough with the smooth Let's hear about your tales of woe and joy here - best will be read out on tonight's Scoutcast. Any Hegazi captainers out … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 79 |
 theBoose | Lukaku's poor swans form Lukaku has garnered nearly half the votes for the captain poll this weekend, yet his record against Swansea is less than admirable, especially at the Liberty.. Games - 11 (5 Home, 6 Away) Goals - … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
 Lawrø | FFS FIFA Team For anyone who plays Fifa time to time on PS4. We currently have an FFS Team (FFScout FC) in the game mode Pro Clubs on FIFA 17. Fairly large squad too, around 20 of us - but we'd like to grow eve… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
Mark | Welcome Peter K A second debut of the day. Peter K or "Special K" as I predictably like to call him, arrives with his weekly views on the Gameweek. Lovely stuff. Welcome to the team, Peter. | 8 years, 7 months ago | 29 |
Mark | Welcome Nick & Tom to FFS Yep, a big welcome to Nick and Tom to the site. We've never really focused on the market with a dedicated article and, given the work that these guys were doing on their own site and podcast, thi… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
Mark | Captain Poll Reset Massive apologies. I omitted Sergio Aguero from our Captain Poll this morning and therefore have added him now. However, I feel that we need to reset the vote given the advantage that Jesus was s… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 6 |
 AceKn1ght | Should've Done Better - GWK 1 Results Hi guys, for anyone interested, I've had a look at the players over the weekend who 'Should have done better'- they were well involved in their team's attacking play, but didn't register any attack… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 14 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 For the second time this season we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 |