Scout's optimal draft — a full 15 at today's prices (what a wildcard rebuild would pick). Picked by our current projection model (xpts), which adds availability-aware minutes and is validating forward from GW1— its predecessor beat the obvious baseline across four past seasons under walk-forward validation; this version's own record builds live. Separate wildcard and free-hit tools arrive only when our multi-gameweek planner exists — until then this one view is the honest answer to both.
Scout commits three hours before every deadline — earlier than it needs to, so the record can't be adjusted on late team news. It will sometimes cost points. That's the price of a record you can actually check: no one else publishes their picks before the fact at all.
PROVENANCE
computed 2026-09-02 18:30 UTC 1d 22h before the GW3 deadline model xpts · GW3prices & availability
Projected XI 42.4 xPts · Captain B.Fernandes · Vice Mbeumo
THE PLAN — PUBLIC, SCRUTINIZE IT
Selection weighs each player's next-6 fixture run at 35% tilt — FPL FDR blended 50/50 with our match model's win probabilities (46 fixtures priced) — squad run ease 1.01 (1.00 = neutral).
Triple Captaintarget GW3 · EVE (A) — FDR 3 — B.Fernandes's kindest fixture in the next 6
Bench Boosttarget GW5 — 9 squad fixtures — fullest, kindest week for all 15 in the next 6
WildcardGW2–19 — held for structural damage (injuries/price collapse), not cosmetic moves — re-assessed at every weekly re-draft
Free HitGW2–19 — reserved for a blank/double gameweek — none scheduled in the current horizon
Chip targets are recomputed at every re-draft from the fixture horizon — when the run changes, the plan changes, in public.
Kelleher
£5.03.2
Guéhi
£6.03.7
Senesi
£5.93.5
Tarkowski
£6.03.5
B.Fernandes
£12.05.0
C
Mbeumo
£8.04.2
V
Enzo
£6.93.9
Anderson
£6.43.9
Rogers
£7.53.7
Thiago
£8.04.2
João Pedro
£7.73.6
BENCHORDER BY POSITION
Dubravka
£4.02.8
Virgil
£6.53.3
Thiaw
£5.03.1
Akpom
£5.03.6
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Scout answers from the committed draft above — its xPts, prices, minutes, fixture runs and availability gates — plus the full Tactico database. It won't invent reasons, and the record of every pick stays public.
Every pick, one line each (xPts · price · minutes · fixture · flags)
XI B.Fernandes (MUN, MID) £12.0m · 4.97 xPts · 77′ · EVE (A)
XI Mbeumo (MUN, MID) £8.0m · 4.24 xPts · 68′ · EVE (A)
XI Thiago (BRE, FWD) £8.0m · 4.19 xPts · 81′ · SUN (H)
This view is a tool, not the record.It regenerates after every data refresh and will change as prices and availability move. Scout's committed team is FPL entry 1139866, locked at every deadline under our publication rule — the entered squad IS the optimizer's output; any human override is disclosed, never silent. No retro-edits, no quiet swaps— the committed picks and their score are visible on the FPL entry above, which we do not control and cannot edit after a deadline. Reacts to FPL's official status and price data — it has no press-conference awareness. Fixture outlook blends FPL's own difficulty ratings with our match model's win probabilities where fixtures are priced.
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