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Having held a draft during September’s international break, last weekend brought the first set of fixtures in the Fantasy Football Scout staff mini-league.
It’s part of our association with Sleeper, a popular app now branching into Premier League football after several years of hosting US sports contests.
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SCOUT SLEEPER DRAFT UPDATE
First, here are the 10 competitors:
- Sam Bonfield – General Manager, half of FPL Family and a regular on Sky Sports News
- Chris James – CEO of Scout, ‘El Fozzie’ hosts our Spaces on X
- Neale Rigg – Editor who does a bit of line-up predicting on the side
- Tom Freeman – Deputy Editor, a differential specialist and five-time top 1k finisher
- Marc Jobling – Staff Writer who is now the Goals Imminent podcast co-host
- Ian (FPL Partridge) – Social Media Manager, formerly of the FPL Partridge ‘X’ account
- Tom Johnson – Multimedia Manager, began with Ian but recently expanded into video
- Ed Gray – Strategic Advisor, UCL podcast co-host and creator of Fantasy Football Fest
- Louis Roberts – Fantasy Football Community Staff Writer and master of many formats
- Scott Worrall – Social Media Executive, the newest recruit and an EFL Fantasy contributor
And this is how Matchday 4 played out:
Goal-scoring defenders Matthijs de Ligt and Fabian Schar gave Ed an incredibly tight 93.75 – 93.00 win over Sam, whilst the heroic hauls of Ollie Watkins, Gabriel, Diogo Dalot and David Raya accumulated a huge 140.00 score for Scott.
Yet the biggest win belonged to Marc. A brace from Erling Haaland allowed him to thrash Tom J, the unlucky owner of goalless Dominic Solanke and the surprisingly absent Joao Pedro.
MATCHDAY 5
Preparing for the next round of games, four managers have adjusted their roster with transfers.
All have a Brentford theme, as Fabio Carvalho, Mikkel Damsgaard and Kristoffer Ajer are captured by Sam, Marc and Neale respectively. The latter also brings in Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey. Meanwhile, Tom F takes a punt on Kevin Schade, believing he’ll be the starting centre-forward during Yoane Wissa‘s injury.
“I was delighted with the winning start against Tom Freeman – I say ‘winning’, more of a thrashing at 99.75 to 53.00 – that sees the Fielding Foxes into second place.
“It was a somewhat ironic outcome for an Everton fan versus an Aston Villa fan, even more so as a Villa player was my second top scorer – Lucas Digne’s 15.5 points were only behind Mateta’s 22.5. Meanwhile, my four much-mocked Everton assets (including the 28.5 of Dwight McNeil) were stuck on the bench!
“Looking forward to the match-up against last-placed Tom Johnson this week. I have high hopes for Mateta, Calvert-Lewin and Gordon but am a little concerned about Dominic Solanke.” – Chris James, manager of Fielding Foxes
As Chris alludes to, he experienced neither the joy of Dwight McNeil and Dominic Calvert-Lewin points nor an actual real-life win for his beloved Everton. But he’s confident of compounding Tom J’s misery from last week.
JOIN OUR SCOUT PICK’EM LEAGUE
Alongside Fantasy FC drafts, there’s Pick’em – a Premier League prediction league. You can join Scout’s for free by clicking here.
In Pick’em, all you do is predict wins and draws for the upcoming matches, earning a point for every correct guess.
Not only is there a football shirt of choice to win each month but the overall season-long winner gets £7,500 worth of prizes!
