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The Community Round-up: Hazard, Mendy and crushing disappointment

The Fantasy Football Scout community have been at their tireless best again this week, producing the usual excellent array of articles and tables to help with our planning for Gameweek 6.

The hot topics, meanwhile, have ranged from Eden Hazard’s hat-trick performance to the biggest Fantasy Premier League let-downs of 2018/19 to date.

We also look over the various tournaments and mini-leagues that involve FFS users.

Our latest Community Round-up feature has it all covered.

The Hottest Topics

Rotation’s Alter Ego, who also brought us a helpful injury news summary, asked the community for their thoughts on Eden Hazard after the Belgian’s monster haul in Chelsea’s win over Cardiff City last weekend.

Our daily hot topic on Monday asked the community for their recommendations for forwards priced at £7.0m or under, with the cases of Aleksandar Mitrovic, Callum Wilson and Wilfried Zaha, among others, championed.

Fantasy managers love a good moan and FatmanAndRobin‘s hot topic that asked for the biggest FPL disappointment of the season so far drew a lot of responses.

stat meanwhile raised the thorny issue of multiple FPL accounts and presented several excellent ideas on how this practice could be clamped down on.

Those who like to skip to their favourite bits on the Scoutcast will find Rotation Alter’s Ego meticulously marked timestamps very useful, while this week also saw the launch of a new video series on our YouTube channel. J0E was joined by Triggerlips for our very first Meet the Manager and subsequently asked for further candidates to make themselves known for future editions of this show.

ItOnlyTook9Years summarised the points needed to reach each milestone overall rank after Gameweek 5, while G-Whizz brought us his weekly triple whammy of “Doosra stats”, clean sheet probabilities and fixture odds ahead of Gameweek 6.

The look ahead to this weekend continued with our speculations on who will be the breakout star of Gameweek 6, while we also analysed the FPL lessons from the UEFA Champions League matches in midweek.

Benjamin Mendy was ruled out of Manchester City’s trip to Cardiff City by Pep Guardiola on Friday, meanwhile: are you keeping or selling?

Away from FPL, we asked what your goals were for the remaining eight weeks of Fantasy Eliteserien.

Community Articles

Three excellent articles to bring you this week.

With the UEFA Champions League getting underway, The Cisco Kid gave us a helpful primer on the UCL Fantasy game.

Hutch_James brought us the weekly Wisdom of the Crowd, while Greyhead returned with our regular The Great and the Good.

Community Tables

Below is a selection of the many fine tables created by our site users in the Members’ area. Remember, to see your table featured here (if that’s what you want!) please ensure you include a description explaining the purpose of it.

Community Tournaments

Cosmin Rotaru still leads our main public FFS League and is now up to 12th overall.

Andrew McKinnon is the new leader of our FFS Members League with 102 points this game-week, his third century of the season, after captaining Hazard and has shot up to 42nd overall. This is his second FPL season and he has not yet used any of his chips.

Chris James has taken the lead in FFS Mods & Cons after playing his wildcard. This is his ninth season, and he should stand a good chance of beating his previous best finish (28,110th in 2014/15).

Ben Harwood is the new leader of RedLightning‘s Top 10k Any Season mini-league after captaining Hazard and is up to 54th overall. This is his sixth season, his highest finish being 374th in 2016/17. He also continues to lead PDM’s Top 1k ANY season mini-league.

The new world number one is Brayden McCullough with a Gameweek score of 118 after captaining Hazard and having Fraser auto-subbed from the bench. This is his 1st season and he has already played his Triple Captain and Wildcard.

In TorresMagic‘s Last Man Standing competition, former winner Nice To Finally Michu top-scored with 112. The safety score was set at 45, which saw 217 eliminated and over 3,200 remain.

A Community Tournament of a different kind… (by Peter Kouwenberg)

February 24th 2018. The big winners were Liverpool and Brighton, who each recorded 4-1 victories in their respective triumphs over West Ham and Championship-bound Swansea. However, in North London, under the banner of Sparta Rotterdam, a team of FFScout luminaries were also celebrating, as they lifted the inaugural Fantasy Football Scout Charity Cup, a real-life football tournament which brought to together over 30 grassroots players from around the country.

The Charity Cup is returning in the afternoon of Saturday 17 November 2018 (during an international break) and promises to be bigger and better than ever. Format will depend on numbers, but with a full 3G 11-aside pitch (which can also be divided) available to us all afternoon between 2pm-7pm we have the capacity and flexibility to structure the day however we wish and play until we drop or succumb to the pub landlord’s call.

We are extremely fortunate to have secured The Thomas Parmiter Sports Centre in north Watford (WD25 0UU), which is a fabulous facility and is perfectly located just minutes away from Junction 6 of the M1 and Junction 21A of the M25. For those travelling up from London by train, Garston Station is just 1.5 miles away. We will have the entire venue to ourselves with ample parking and with a number of pubs barely a mile away.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to take part, whatever the level and whether you are fit enough to play all day or just make a cameo appearance. We’ll be organising players into squads so you don’t need to round up a team yourself, although feel free to bring invite a guest player or two to boost the numbers. All you need to do is email peter.kouwenberg76@gmail.com as soon as possible to confirm your interest and provide your contact details, at which point you’ll be added to the relevant WhatsApp group unless you would prefer to be kept informed by email or text instead.

February’s tournament proved a huge success and raised over £1,000 for Melanoma Research Foundation. This year we hope to raise more even money, involve even more players and do even more post-match drinking…

 

 

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5,160 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Oven Glover
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    https://mobile.twitter.com/BenDinnery/status/1043262656520568832

    Instead of posting questions about how long Mendy will be out for. Watch this video.

    My guess is that he got the injury from repeatedly pressing down on the accelerator too hard...

  2. Ini
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Has choosing Sterling over Hazard been discussed? I’m I crazy for considering that?

    1. Oven Glover
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      His price and the rotation risk puts people off.

    2. Feloh
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      such are the decisions that make you fall behind the pack.

      Haz is on form, rested, nailed on and is the main source of goals for his team.

      Sterling is a rotation risk, hardly plays 90, not 100% on form right now and plays for a team where so many players can score.

  3. Emiliano Sala
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Vert/alder or walker ?
    I think if I chose walker, it will be tough to get mendy back
    Doing a transfer to change a city defender to another one
    And city faces liverpool gw 8
    Thoughts?
    Trippier would be best if there were no rotations

    1. nisag17
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Just choose whoever you think will get the most points as long ad you can afford both.

      1. nisag17
        • 15 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Get Walker imo. He is nailed and nore likely to get cs points. Trippier is slightly better for attacking returns but not enough to compensate.

  4. Nice to Finally Michu
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Good to go?

    Patricio
    Trippier Doherty Wan-Bissaka
    Hazard Salah(C) Maddison Fraser
    Aubameyang Aguero (VC) Arnautovic
    0.3ITB, 1FT

    1st Sub: Bennett
    2nd Sub: Stephens
    3rd Sub: Peltier

    1. seewhyaxe
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      yes very nice!

      1. Nice to Finally Michu
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers!

  5. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    1 week placeholder for Richarlison:

    A) Maddison (HUD H)
    B) Milner (SOU H)
    C) get Richarlison (ARS A) already this week.

    On WC

    1. olidooley
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      A

    2. Whats the Mata?
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      c

    3. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Don't like planning transfers (on a WC), so C.

    4. HurriKane
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      A

    5. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      A

    6. Bialystrzelec
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      C

    7. Djemba12
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Thinking similar. 1 FT and thinking of swapping Richarlison (ARS A) out for Fraser (BUR A). Already it Maddison.
      Thoughts?

    8. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Cheers, still undecided between A and C

  6. seewhyaxe
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Foster
    Alonso, Robbo, Tomkins, AWB
    Hazard (C), Bilva, Maddison, Mane
    Aguero, Mitrovic

    Fab, Stephens, Mendy, Ings. 2.2M ITB

    g2g? Should i take a hit to remove Mendy? Bought at 6.0m

    1. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      U should be fine

  7. Sotamendi84
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Should i start pedro (whu) or cook (bur)?

    1. HurriKane
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      cook

  8. gilean
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Is it a no-brainer to get Ward in the 4.5 mid space on a WC? I have Hojbjerg there at the moment. Will Ward keep his place in the side. I saw that he didn't start the first few matches..

    1. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Worth the risk imo

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Who’s more likely to get more starts, Ward or Højbjerg?

      1. gilean
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Hoj i think. But Ward is currently playing as a striker. Might not last long though

    3. Valar(Keith)
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Cardiff were playing 1 man up front ie zohore and looked horrid and took all the pressure on themselves. Ever since Reid and ward have started they've looked good with those 2 harassing defenders. Little bit of trivia.. ward came in for them last year when zohore was injured and scored 3 goals in October and november. was all set to be their main striker but then he got injured in December and had to undergo surgery n missed the rest of the season. Now he is back and looks good with Reid tbh. Getting him in next week

      1. nisag17
        • 15 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Wow. Thanks.

      2. gilean
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Very nice to know. Cheers.Will prolly bring him in then

  9. HurriKane
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    I really Dont feel the need to get in Hazard this gw. Can i survive without him this gw ?

    Foster(ful)
    Robertson(SOT) Alonso(whu) AWB(NEW)
    Salah(SOT) Mane(SOT) Maddison(HUD) Fraser(bur)
    Mitrovic(WAT) Aguero(car) Zaha(NEW)

    Subs: Fabianski Boly Stephens Mendy

    (0ft, 0.7 itb)

    1. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Very good team

      1. HurriKane
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        cheers mate

    2. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Condolences

      1. HurriKane
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        hiding behind a big sofa on sunday 😉

    3. Lateriser 12
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Team looks great.

    4. Feloh
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      one of salah or mane could be pulled off at the hour mark. But I'd hold on that move toi

      1. HurriKane
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        next week one of them will be gone for hazard 100%.

    5. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      You’ll survive but the price is going up so how long do you leave it for. He scored 20 last week and even if he scores half of that this week then it’s 30 points you’ve missed. I like the rest of your team but I think if you have the money I think you should get him in

      1. HurriKane
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        planning to wc next gw due to tough fixtures for pool and to tap into hazard,spurs,arsenal assets

    6. Djemba12
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Great lookin team! Haz next week for Mane i’d say

  10. Lateriser 12
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Good luck ladies

    Bad Team On Paper GW6

    Pat
    Alonso Shaw WB
    Salah(c) Haz Lingard Schurrle
    Kun(v) Laca Jimenez

    Hamer Yedlin Hjojberg Bennett

    How's she looking?

    1. Feloh
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Jimenez, Laca, schurrle and jlings are all punts which could pay off or spectacularly fail.

      TOO PUNTY FOR MY LIKING

      1. Lateriser 12
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        I only see Lingard as a punt from those. Others are solid picks imo.

        1. Cok3y5murf
          • 8 Years
          6 years, 1 month ago

          Agreed.

    2. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      U think salah will do well?
      I have lingard too and worried no news why he was out of thr swuad midweek. Have you heard anything?

      1. Lateriser 12
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        He was rested.

    3. john25
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      I'm considering Laca as well on a WC, what do you think about how nailed on he is?

      1. Lateriser 12
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Form and fixtures. Play it till you can 🙂

        I rate him.

  11. Legohair
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    I have a tough choice to make!?!?can i have few opinnions please?

    Team A
    Hennessey-Patricio
    Alonso-Mendy-Robbo-W-B-Bennett
    Salah-Hazard-Richarlison-Fraser-Ward
    Aguero-Mitrovic-Wilson

    Team B
    Patricio-Hamer
    Alonso-TAA-Pereira-W-B-Bennett
    Salah-Mane-Hazard-Fraser-Hojberg
    Aguero-Mitrovic-Jimenez

    1. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      I like b but maybe dilva instrad of mane and upgrade jimeneth to king/zaha?

      1. Legohair
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Might be good idea

        1. subhojit123
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 1 month ago

          A

  12. Henning
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Good morning.
    A bit worried that i wont have 11 players playing this gw.

    Anything worth a hit?

    Hennessey

    Robertson Alonso Wan-Bissaka

    Hazard D.Silva Maddison Moura Pogba

    Aguero Mitrovic

    Hamer Cook Ings Mendy

    1. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Cook is good for bench

  13. subhojit123
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hey guys who are going Salah-less, whom would you captaining this week -
    1. Aguero
    2. Hazard
    3. Mane
    4. Moura

    1. HurriKane
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      3

    2. batfink
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Tricky one...I have same dilemma except no Moura. Between Kun and Mane for me. Leaning towards Kun.

  14. LD
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Repost Gtg?

    Begovic
    R A M
    Salah Hazard Walcott Fraser
    Aguero Zaha Wilson

    Foster AWB Bennett Hojbjerg

    0ft 0 itb

    Bench order right? Also, still undecided on who to put the armband on.

    1. TimboSlice
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Mendy's out. put AWB in and bump Bennett up a sub

  15. olidooley
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    This Liverpool game is huge now!....A lot of ppl sold Salah, many others WC’ded and removed Pool assets.

    Then there’s the crowd who still have a triple up of Salah Mane Robbo....

    Make or break week on that game alone

    1. HurriKane
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      yh own salah mane and robbo here too. big concern is if they smash it this gw should we be keeping them for next 2gws

      if they fail its easy decision to wc next gw by removing pool assets and tapping into spurs,arsenal,united assets

  16. Whazza
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Is Mitro really a better option than Wilson?

    1. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Compare them in the Members area 😉

      1. Whazza
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        I will do that. Trying to figure out if he is worth the 0.6M more

      2. Whazza
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        The comparison tool favours Mitro quite heavily... Still when I look at shots, shots in the box, big chances and chances created Wilson wins?

        1. Whazza
          • 12 Years
          6 years, 1 month ago

          Also less minutes for expected goals... hmm is the tool broken?

    2. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      More effective

  17. Cok3y5murf
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Best Pedro replacement:

    A) Schurrle
    B) Richarlison
    C) Pereyra
    D) Maddison

    Can't get Fraser as I already have triple Bournemouth.

    1. Balance
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Maddison

    2. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      B

    3. Axle11
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      B for me.

      This is still a big if but I've seen people toying with idea Richarlison as the new Everton CF, with Bernard (looks tricky to dealt with vs West Ham, and sooner or later he would adapt in the PL) on the left.

      Richarlison played in that position in recent Brazil game too.

      Who knows if we might see Richarlison OOP at some time in the future.

      1. Cok3y5murf
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Yeah he looked very sharp vs Brazil.

        The only reason I'm considering the other options is because they have better fixtures than Richarlison, otherwise this would be an easy choice.

  18. storr84
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Replace Mendy, to get Mitrovic in?

    Mendy - Laporte

    King - Mitrovic.

    -4

    Worth the hit?

    Could easily just bench Mendy (AWB / Robertson / Alonso)

    1. olidooley
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Stick

  19. Lazerball
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    On a WC. Finding this last decision hard!

    Hennesey
    AWB Alonso Robbo
    Salah(c) Hazard Fraser Richarlison Maddison
    Mitro Aguero
    Bench: Begovic Doherty Bennett Ings

    I am happy enough but I have a nagging feeling about having to chose one mid/fwd to bench every week. Should I
    A. Downgrade Rich or Maddison to a 4.4/4.5 and upgrade Bennet to Trippier or another defender in the 6m range?
    B. Stick with this structure. I will probably go Robbo -> Mendy in the coming weeks when Mendy is fit

    1. olidooley
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Good team!....Stick

    2. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Keep

  20. john25
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Repost

    Hey guys, currently on a WC and strongly considering Lacazette. What do you think about him as a pick? How nailed on is he?

    Cheers

    1. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      That’s tricky because emery could bench him or play 2 upfront and when he plays he looks good but it’s a lot of money to bench. I would wait

  21. The Curse of Falcao
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    is Hoijberg nailed? or is someone injured that will come in when they're back?

    1. Sotamendi84
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Nailed for years now

  22. Jokesy87
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Foster (Fabianski)
    Robertson PVA AWB (Mendy, Peltier)
    Bilva Salah Mane walcott (Stephens)
    Aguero Zaha Wilson

    Options:
    A) Bilva and Walcott -> Moura (any other ideas?!) and Richarlison
    B) Wildcard
    C) Walcott and Mendy (had him since the start) -> Richarlison and Trippier

    Open to any suggestions!

  23. Eden Wizard
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Only 1 riser...it appears this year I’m missing all the bandwagons!

  24. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    I have Pedro, with Neves as my only bench cover (Other surprise benchings could hurt me.)

    A) Richarlison (-4)
    B) Maddison (-4)
    C) Hold

    1. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      A

  25. Gabriel Agbonlahor
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Goog to go?

    Patricio
    Alonso Robertson Holebas
    Mane(VC) Hazard Fraser Dilva
    Aguero(C) Wilson Zaha

    Hamer AWB Hojbjerg Mendy

    1. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Goog to go, good luck

    2. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Considered Haz cap?

  26. Bialystrzelec
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone considering Sane? He showed signs ofngood form and he could be favored on the right flank as Mendy is injured. Currently have D Silva though and nit sure if have guts to switch them

    1. Eden Wizard
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Left*

  27. Trovsmash
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Play Jiminez or AWB? have Hennessy

    1. The Pesci challenge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      AWB

  28. casual
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Actually gave myself a headache last night staring at my screen deciding what transfers to make.......can't be healthy!

  29. MGD
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    News on Arni?

    Keep or -> Zaha (-4)? Weak bench