Fantasy Football… Better Haul Salah – How To Shake Up Your FPL Decision Making 17 Aug 202217 Aug 2022 The new season is barely two weeks old and there is already an arm-twisting difference of opinion breaking out in FPL that rivals Conté versus Tuchel as a flare up…
Fantasy Football… FPL Value: The £8m Midfielder Question 4 Aug 20224 Aug 2022 FPL Value: The £8m Midfielder Question The midfield is often described as the engine room of a football team and for FPL managers, too, their selections of the players to…
Fantasy Football… FPL Value: Which Forwards Are Worth Their Weight In Goals? 29 Jul 202230 Jul 2022 The striker position used to be the first place an FPL manager would look to invest in £10m+ assets. And then in 2017 Mohamed Salah (£13.0m) arrived at Anfield, heralding the decline of the…
Fantasy Football… FPL Player Values: The Salah Standard 19 Jul 202219 Jul 2022 The recent re-opening of the Fantasy Premier League doors for the new season immediately sparked a number of debates over pricing. Why was Harry Kane now cheaper than Son Heung-Min?…
Fantasy Football FPL – Who’s Who in BGW30 18 Mar 202218 Mar 2022 With only 8 teams in Premier League action this weekend FPL managers are looking for the chance to make ground as very few of their rivals are likely to be…
Fantasy Football FPL – Big Scores 19 Nov 202119 Nov 2021 As the latest international break draws slowly to a close FPL managers are once again returning to their squads and looking to kick-start a ride up the Christmas charts. As…
Arsenal… The ABC FPL Transfer Guide Goalkeeper Edition 16 Oct 202116 Oct 2021 The ABC FPL Transfer Guide - Wildcard: Goalkeeping Up Appearances 2021/22 At the start of last season I researched what went into elite performance for players in FPL and found…
Announcement… The ABC FPL Transfer Guide Midfield Edition 2 Oct 20212 Oct 2021 The ABC FPL Transfer Guide - Wildcard: Agents of Midfield Edition 2021/22 At the start of last season I researched what went into elite performance for players in FPL and…
Arsenal… The ABC FPL Transfer Guide Strikers Edition 1 Oct 20211 Oct 2021 The ABC FPL Transfer Guide - Strikers on a Wildcard Edition 2021/22 At the start of last season I researched what went into elite performance for players in FPL and…
Arsenal… FPL EARLY WILDCARDS – MANY HAPPY RETURNERS 10 Sep 202110 Sep 2021 We're only three weeks into the new Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season, but already many managers have taken the international break as a cue to use their first Wildcard and…
Euro 2020… Euro 2020 – What can we Expect? 11 Jun 202111 Jun 2021 Recently I put together an article for Fantasy Football Scout detailing some of the facts and figures from EURO 2016. As UEFA EURO 2020 Fantasy managers finalise their squads ahead…
Captain… FPL – How to approach the Man Utd Triple Gameweek? 6 May 20216 May 2021 A TRIPLE gameweek! This last happened when Middlesbrough roamed the Premier League in 2006! Indeed! Fantasy Premier League (FPL) was coming to the end of its fourth season (which would…
Arsenal… FPL – Clean Planned It 2 Apr 20212 Apr 2021 With the final international break in the rearview mirror and wildcards burning a hole in pockets around the world we are now definitely in the final run-in for this FPL…
Arsenal… FPL – Captain Plannering 19 Mar 202119 Mar 2021 In the first article in this series I compiled some tables that showed how often Premier League teams had either scored or conceded 3+ goals in a match this season,…
Arsenal… FPL – The Captain and Ten-Nil 6 Mar 20216 Mar 2021 With the passing of the last Great Big Double Gameweek of the 2020/21 season, the best hope for most of us to make a big leap in the standings between…
Captain… FPL – Captain Bullseye? 9 Feb 20219 Feb 2021 After a few recent, quiet games a bandwagon of "BruNOT!" began to roll with regard to the captaincy in FPL. A similar "NoMo!" bandwagon had already careered out of the…
Arsenal… The ABC FPL Transfer Guide – Everything Counts (In Large Amounts) 29 Jan 202129 Jan 2021 The ABC FPL Transfer Guide The Premier League is lurching into its second half with twists and turns aplenty in recent gameweeks and a lot has changed in the ABC…
Arsenal… The ABC Transfer Guide – Everything Is Average Nowadays 18 Dec 202018 Dec 2020 Regression to the mean is a simple fact of fantasy sport life, whichever sport it may be. Once a player or a team has shown you their general level, they…
Announcement… The ABC Transfer Guide – The Real Things 15 Dec 202015 Dec 2020 You can almost taste the Christmas pudding (and the diesel fumes of the van that delivered it) and hear the carols (over the Zoom hosted Midnight Mass featuing choristers in…
Arsenal… The ABC Transfer Guide – Kane Without A Crown 20 Nov 202020 Nov 2020 As FPL managers emerge blinking into the low, November sunlight after their forced hibernation over the Festival of Nations League, they may look, blinking, at their squad and scarcely believe…
Aston Villa… The ABC Transfer Guide – Tiers are not Enough 30 Oct 20205 Nov 2020 In a previous article we set out the idea behind our Team Strength Tiers (TST) based on recent performances (GWs 3-6 in this case) of Premier League teams. After an…