GW10: FPL Defcon Deep Dive with Tom Hadley | Best Players to Own!

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Joe (1:36)

Hello and welcome to another video and podcast from Fantasy Football Scout as we take a look under the bonnet of Fantasy Premier League's Defcon and Bonus Point Awards. Welcome, everyone. My name is Joe. And today I'm joined by our resident Defcon and Bonus Point expert, Tom Hadley, to get in these extra points and the players we should be targeting in the Fantasy Premier League. Welcome, Tom. How are you?

Tom Hadley (2:05)

All right, Joe. I'm all right. Thank you.

Interesting week last week. Bench. Bench got about 25 points, so that was fun. Yeah. Small red arrow for me. But I think it's interesting, isn't it, how we talked a few weeks back about the idea of bench points being bad, but they're not actually that bad because, you know, I mean, first of all, I mean, two of my players on the bench played city away from Brian.

Joe (2:34)

And, you know, the same here. I mean, for Bruggen and Decaipus, there's 20 points on the bench done. But, you know, I thought it would be a draw, to be honest. I thought Brian would do well because, you know, they showed in the cup that they can.

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But I didn't think they'd keep a clean sheet.

Joe (2:51)

Did not think that. And to be fair, city gave it a good go.

But Bruggen was just had to run those worldies that you get. So I thought, you know, I think Brian could have won two one or something, or it could have been one all. But yeah, yeah. I mean, this there, but I know it's just done a video and podcast with Tom Freeman. He benched a couple of Arsenal assets, you know, when you've got so many good defenders. And that's something we'll talk about here. Something we've talked about, I talked about with FPL General on his show, double digit defenders. These ones are getting just absolute hauls like Van Hek. Cons of the week before, well cons of this week as well. There's so many of them. And I guess before we look at some of those defenders that have done well in the week and midfielders and also the bonus points stars, just so you were talking about potentially playing five at the back. And it makes a lot of sense when you list out the likes of Ruskovich to Kuiper against Brentford.

You've got Van Hek as well and Maremovich. You've got all sorts as well. You've got Jacket as well from Liverpool, got Crystal Palace and then Arsenal got whole. I mean, yeah, you just want to play those 10 at the back or something.

Tom Hadley (4:07)

I think, well, for me, from my team, I've got five really good defenders and I've not actually played five at the back that much because there's been means of rotating, but as we saw this week, Brian can then go and keep a clean sheet away at Man City, and I've got Vuskovich on the bench or you've got Dikaipa on the bench who gets a lucky assist. But it just seems that this season with, I mean, it's not the fact that necessarily this is boring as last season. I think the general play in the league has been a bit better this season. And I don't know if it's always for the better. If it necessarily means the quality is any better, it just means that there's more points everywhere on the pitch. You know what I mean? There's quite a lot of strikers scoring. There's the midfielders that are scoring, but the ones that you don't expect to score. You know what I mean? The lower priced midfielders. But defenders are just still great. I mean, the defenders that you mentioned, the Defcon guys, the Vuskovich, the Maharevich, they're not just great for Defcon.