GW11: FPL Defcon Deep Dive | 5 Must-Own Defenders!

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Hello, and welcome to another video and podcast from Fantasy Football Scout as we look ahead to the five must have defenders to own in FPL.

Hello, welcome everyone. My name is Joe, and today I'm joined by our resident Defcon and Bonus Point expert Tom Hadley. We usually take a look under the bonnet of FPL's Defcon and Bonus Point awards to see who's getting these extra points and the players we should be targeting. And next week we will do that. We'll look back on the previous game. We can see what's happening there with those stats. But this time around, we're just going to focus purely on just defenders, and we're going to find out who the five must own defenders in FPL are. Welcome, Tom. How are you?

Tom Hadley (2:10)

I'm great. Thanks, Joe. A green arrow for me this week, so I'm always happier off the back of one of those. Even if it feels like the teams have sold template at the minute, all you need is one differential return, and thankfully, some of the guys that we're going to mention today saved me this week.

Joe (2:28)

Yes. Yeah, I mean, I got a red arrow, but not a major one, but I'm wild carding this week, so hopefully I can break the template.

Tom Hadley (2:38)

Hopefully some of these guys in your wild card team as well.

Joe (2:41)

Hopefully, and I'll break the template, my own team, just to, cause yeah, cause yeah, unless you've got your one to three players that are under sort of 30, 20% owned, don't do well, then you're pretty much not going to do okay. Cause I've got seven, eight players that are around my rank are about 80, 90% owned. So they've got to absolutely smash it to get any sort of rank rise really. So which is quite sad. I think I noticed with Harland, when Harland blanked, I didn't care. Cause I noted that even if he's got a goal, I think I've only gone up a few thousand. Where, whereas 10 points for Marimovic, who we will mention, but spoiler there, from Leeds was somewhere around 30,000 places up for me. There. So fantastic stuff. And similarly having a bit more investment in Brighton defense helped out as well. Certainly mitigated a lack of Arsenal defense there. So we'll see who's going to be mentioned there. Just before we go on, just a reminder, do press that like button, does help us out. Do leave us a five star review if you're enjoying our content, whether you listen to your podcast. Also do remember to subscribe, keep updated with our latest videos and podcast content. Do check out latest membership offers, fantasyfootballscout.co.uk, because there's lots of really good gadgets there that are well worth signing up for membership for. And a lot of the stats that we'll be showing today about the Defenders. They're from that members area there. So, okay, let's just crack in. Let's just start with one.

I couldn't be bothered to write down on my, the system that we use, the names of the Defenders. So I've literally got Defender one, two, three, four, five.