GW8: FPL Defcon Deep Dive with Tom Hadley

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Mark Sutherns (1:39)

Hello, 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. Hello everyone, my name is Joe and today I'm joined by our resident Defcon and Bonus Point expert Tom Hadley to see who's getting these extra points and the players we should be targeting in the Fantasy Premier League game in the weeks ahead. Welcome, Tom, how are you?

Tom Hadley (2:08)

I'm good, thanks Joe. Always better off a green arrow, so.

Mark Sutherns (2:12)

Yeah, we're both on green arrows. We're not putting our ranks up on the screen because I don't think I've ever had such a high rank at this stage of season for about a decade, which is quite nice. But I'm relying on Brighton players as many other people in the game are doing. And you're relying on your Defcon knowledge as well, which is one of the reasons we're here.

So what we'll do here is we're going to focus on the Defcon 1s, those during Game Week 7 that did particularly well in that metric. The bonus points stars as well. And seeing if we can establish who will get the those extra points in the weeks ahead as well. Do mind to do press that like button, it does help us out. And do remember to subscribe, keep up to date with our latest videos and podcasts wherever you get them from. Do check out latest membership offers at fantasyfootballscout.co.uk to access our latest tools and gadgets to help you climb up your mini leagues as well. Okay, so we're going to start with defensive contributions. Gameweek 7 for defenders. There were so many of them, I haven't listed them all. So I've listed some of them.

But I think I've I think I stopped about how many I can get on the page, about 15 or 16 or so. But there was well over 20 maybe maybe maybe more than 30 got Defcon. So it seemed to be a good week for Defcon for defenders.

Tom Hadley (3:29)

Yeah, I think I think it's been quite consistent every single week. I know there's there's there's seems to be more goals this season as well. But you've still got some clean sheets in there as well. I think we've got a nice mix of the two.

And obviously the Defcon numbers just don't seem to have dropped from last season. We were wondering if maybe it will go back to the normality of the five or six seasons before that were the Defcon numbers below. But now they're just they're just remaining high. And it's obviously good now that we've got a little bit of a choice as well with the options that we'll look through.

Mark Sutherns (4:00)

Definitely. So I've listed some of those who have got a notable, really. And Sunderland, not many people interested in their defence. But McKaylee, he got a price bump because he has got these routes to points. And there he goes again. He gets Defcon again.