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 J0E | Goals imminent Fantasy Football Scout Fantasy Football Scout daily (anti-knee jerk) hot topic Goals imminent The goals imminent table works best over a four match period but nevertheless we can still garner a… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
 Costa Nostra | Knee-jerking The thing about this so called "knee jerking" is this.....The people calling it knee jerking don't want you to sell players they own for fear they will drop in price. Has nothing to do with it bei… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
J0E | GWK 1 Bonus Magnets Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Bonus magnets Early days, with GWK 1 not even complete, but I thought it was worth having a look at the players that could emerge this season as bonus poin… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
 FlockofSeagulls | Chelsea match report If anyone's interested, I watched the Chelsea match as a neutral, and whilst the negatives can be debated for days, I thought I'd list some of the positives I saw. 1. Despite their defensive shor… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 17 |
J0E | Your early GWK 1 kneejerk Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your Early Kneejerk. What has been your early Gameweek 1 kneejerk? Mark posted up his last night around the potential for Lacazette to prosper after his de… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 67 |
 Diva | The bigger they are, the faster they fall? Can anyone point me to the origin of the theory that high ownership players drop faster in price? Thanks. | 8 years, 7 months ago | 47 |
 The Royal Robin | Lacazette - early thoughts So what were people's thoughts on Lacazette in general? | 8 years, 7 months ago | 22 |
 The Gobstopper | Fantasy Football v real football Kind of an off-topic question. Do any of you worry that FPL adversely affects how you enjoy the game (and the matches)? Each year I put together a squad (at least partially because it gives me some… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 24 |
J0E | Gameweek 1 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 1 and why? | 8 years, 7 months ago | 60 |
 The Butch | Friday pressers Pressers I just found: Stoke City (08:30 BST) Liverpool (11:00 BST), Spurs (12:30 BST), Chelsea (13:15 BST) Man City & Man Utd (13:30 BST) Will add the missing ones once I have them | 8 years, 7 months ago | 7 |
 That Was Easy! | £6m Midfield Men (& Friends) I wanted to post something worthwhile instead of everything that's been buzzing around right now... Budget Midfielder ~6.0M Phillips: while he went on a tear last year racking up assists and look… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 38 |
 Pacer. | Your family's attitude to Fantasy Football So what do other people, your friends, nearest and dearest think about fantasy football, and in particular your addiction to it? My partner is very understanding; she totally gets it, the geekery … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 49 |
J0E | Your one key piece of advice for GWK 1 is.... Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic This was asked on the Scoutcast but would be good to get your views as well. It's Friday afternoon - a panicking group of Fantasy managers approach you and … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 61 |
 Trigg ⭐️ | Defence spend What is your defence structure? I'm currently on: 5.5 4.0 6.0 5.5 4.5 4.5 4.0 | 8 years, 7 months ago | 70 |
 Granville | Willian v Alonso Why do I see Willian in so many sides when Alonso is the same price and comfortably outscored him last season. | 8 years, 7 months ago | 64 |
 Couti & the Below5th | Probable Starters - GWK 1 Probable Starters 2017/18 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B03D_KnVF1fRYTdvakt4c3Q1MmM/view?usp=sharing The aim of Probable Starters is to provide a rough guide to early-season appearances for al… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 33 |
 Ludo | Long live the King I'm starting to think that Josh King might make us all feel a bit silly in the next couple of weeks. People seem to have gotten over their initial aversion to Firmino being re-classified as a Forwa… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
 Sleep Talk | Has pre-season influenced your thinking? I'm curious, with pre-season now over, have people actually learned anything? Or could you just as well have put up the team you have now as the minute the season started? For myself, I've ended u… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 12 |
 Enzo the Baker | The Case for Sacrificial Lambs Sacrificial Lambs : The case for at least one 6 Mil+ defender After listening to the Scoutcast yesterday, I believe it's important to get at least 1 defender worth 6M+, purely from a structure P… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 48 |
 Arteta | Sanchez Situation In Full https://www.arsenal.com/news/reason-why-alexis-could-miss-two-games “He had a little abdominal strain that he caught on Sunday morning in training, before he came to Wembley. He had a scan two d… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 11 |
J0E | What is a Fantasy Island Risk? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What is a Fantasy Island Risk? We are looking for your help to define a Fantasy Island Risk, for this element of the Scoutcast - where we select a player t… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 62 |
 Keno | Why Stephens? Why is everyone about Stephens over Yoshida now? | 8 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 Evs | Remember Boselli Tip of the day... Dont get caught up in pre-season hype with unknown premier leagues quantites. Who remembers Boselli ??? | 8 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 theBoose | Super Cup Verdict - avoid United's attack Thought I'd provide everyone with my thoughts regarding the Super Cup, specifically in relation to United players and how they will fair in our fantasy teams: De Gea - The Spanish shot-stopper can… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
 Mark | Welcome Prokoptas! Big apologies to Prokoptas. Meant to get this up before the Cast and completely forgot as I went on air. Rest assured, I will leave this up to mid-morning. A fine debut. Welcome to the team Pr… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 9 |
 Lyonnais | FFS Template and stats Here're some (updated) stats for you: FF Scout template team / most selected players (sample = 50 RMT's from the last article): Elliot (84%) - Foster (54%) Cedric (44%) - Kolasinac (36%) - Mee (3… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 30 |
 Bøwstring The Carp | Preseason Managerial quotes Just wondering if a mod can make this a HT. So over preseason, I've been following each team, and putting together a preseason "press conference" essentially, taking everything managers have said … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 41 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here First Live Scoutcast of the season - 9:30 tonight. Feel free to leave your questions for the team here. | 8 years, 7 months ago | 203 |
J0E | Time to shun mid-price forwards? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are any of the midprice forwards worth getting? With many failing to impress last season would it be better just to get a cheap non playing 4.5 striker and … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 74 |
 lilmessipran | Are we overlooking T.Carroll because of his price? It is actually intriguing to see that Carroll at 4.5 isn't being considered as a 4th mid option by many, if only fpl had priced him at 5 or 5.5 he would have been a 4th choice mid for lots of teams | 8 years, 7 months ago | 28 |
 andy85wsm | £5.5m midfield wonderland Who are people looking at when it comes to £5.5m mids? This would be for a 4th midfield spot. Have you got your eye on someone to start with a view to being able to change? Is Tom Carroll actual… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 73 |
 Whazza | Dann, Dann, Dann, Daaannnn! Scott Dann anyone? I need someone to share the love with. 5.0M, huge goal threat (9G in last two seasons, missed half a season(!)), presumably nailed on with jersey nr. 6 and Palace moving to 3 cen… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
J0E | Community Writer of the Month Vote - July It's that time again to vote for your favourite community writer of the past month. All you have to do is mention the name of the author who was your favourite for July in the comment section of … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 31 |
J0E | GWK 1 Scout Picks Lottery Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 1 For the first 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 o… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 4 |
J0E | Community Shield Fall Out Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Did the Community Shield alter your thinking, given that both sides look out of sorts with key players missing through injury or summer fatigue? What now fo… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 37 |
 _Greg | Get a Grav Reminder http://www.gravatar.com you fellas with no picture on your name, do yourself a favour, go to this site, spend 4 mins making an account for free and volia! You have a bit of personality, ppl are rep… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 36 |
Costa Nostra | Points per 90 kings I got to thinking about a previous post on points per match and I decided to break it down into points per 90 minutes played. Here are the results of some of the top players from last year and mos… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 15 |
 André94PT | Brighton & Hove Albion Round Up Hello everyone! My final pre-season review is aimed at the newly promoted team Brighton & Hove Albion. Their opponents arrive at Amex Stadium after winning the Audi Cup championship by beating Nap… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 31 |
J0E | All Saints Day Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic All Saints Day Saturday sorted out a few issues for those shopping for Southampton assets ahead of their very kind early run of games (SWA, WHU, hud, WAT,c… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 62 |
 Jamie_GAWA | Play safe and sensible I think we sometimes try to be too clever for our own good around here, last year I played it safe and sensible and improved from top 200k (crap) to top 19k. Here's some things which helped me. 1… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 25 |
André94PT | Crystal Palace Round Up Good afternoon everyone! The match that I bring you today is between Crystal Palace and Schalke 04. Again, feel free to ask any questions you may have or to give your opinion. The point is of this … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 39 |
 Niemi | Eliteserien Picks GW18 Scout Picks GW18 Rossbach Ruud - Hedenstad - Remmer Andersen - Adegbenro - Brochmann - Zahid Ohi - Vilhjalmson - Mortensen (Had to make a decision on fourth mid as only three mids were picked m… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 0 |
 Ryan | Will Leicester outfox us? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Will Leicester out fox us? Last season was dire for Leicester, as they struggled to stay in the Premier League, let alone retain their title. As a re… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 21 |
 A.T | The weekend friendly fixtures The weekend fixtures Saturday Burnley v Hannover 3pm Crystal Palace v Schalke 3pm Southampton v Sevilla 3pm Watford v Real Sociedad 3pm Stoke v Leipzig 4:45pm Liverpool v Athletic Bilbao 5:15pm Sw… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 23 |
 ktk_interista | The case for Kane Its unbelievable how many people are undermining the value of Kane compared to Alli and Eriksen because of the 3m difference in price and only looking at his overall points scored compared to them … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 41 |
André94PT | Huddersfield Round Up Hello everyone! Today I bring you another small analysis of a game that many of you may have missed. I'm talking about Torino - Huddersfield. Once again feel free to ask any questions you may have … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
J0E | Heat map advice Our heatmaps are now live for Members. Some may experience an issue accessing them on pc/mac. We've found that this can be solved by emptying cache. Happy heat mapping! | 8 years, 7 months ago | 9 |
J0E | Will Sanchez be in your GWK 1 side? Will Sanchez be in your GWK 1 squad? The transfer silly season has perhaps reached its peak when it comes to Alexis Sanchez. With just one year left on his contract and rumours that he wants a m… | 8 years, 7 months ago | 55 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | Man United Players Let's get a little debate going: Has pre-season showings so far shown that Manchester United are worth doubling up on in attack? Is one asset enough? Is Lukaku even essential? Are you considering … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 75 |
 Rambo Motin | Why ignore Liverpool's Mane man? Mane is absolutely the pick of the lot in LIV midfield and worth the premium at 9.5 for me. Don't know why he isnt being picked in more teams. He lives for goals and was the guy at the end of most … | 8 years, 7 months ago | 34 |