Fantasy Football IQ vs Fantasy Football Scout

1. Pick Scout if you want articles, community and a podcast alongside data tools, and a lower paid price.
2. Pick FFIQ if you want a decision for your own team: captain, transfers, chips and line-up.
3. Try the free parts of both first; Scout's Assistant Scout tier and FFIQ's free pages need no paid plan.
4. Check the FFIQ first-month offer needs a card, and you can cancel any time.
5. A Scout member can run FFIQ alongside their Scout membership, so it needn't be either/or.

If you typed "fantasy football scout vs", you are probably weighing Fantasy Football Scout against something else, and we are one of the options. We are FFIQ, so take our view with that in mind. We have tried to be straight about what each does.

Fantasy Football Scout describes itself as articles, community, podcast and data tools. FFIQ is built around projections for every player and the move for your own team before every deadline: captain, transfers, chips and line-up, plus Ask IQ, an AI you can ask anything about your team.

So the real question is less "which is better" and more "do you want reading and community, or a decision for your squad?" Plenty of managers want a bit of both.

Scout is a long-established kind of FPL site, built around content and community. Its free tier is called Assistant Scout, and it includes key articles, news, community, basic fixture data and a team rating.

The paid tier is Chief Scout, from £3.25 a month, billed annually. That is a lower monthly price than FFIQ's, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Two things Scout does not list: an AI chat about your own team, and a published accuracy record. We are not saying they do not exist, only that they are not listed or published. If either matters to you, ask before paying.

FFIQ is built for the question "what should I do with my team this week?" Premium includes:

• Your move before every deadline: captain, transfers, chips and line-up, in the War Room
• IQ, for any question about your own team
• Projected points for every player, six gameweeks ahead
• Your mini-leagues: who's beating you and how to catch them
• Price-rise alerts for your players, the night before

The numbers behind it work like this: every call combines 34 calculations with an algorithm that keeps updating as the scenario changes.

Some of it is free with no account: a projection for every player six gameweeks ahead, predicted line-ups, the weekly captain and transfer calls, and a free team rater called FPL Rate My Team.

Prices below are as listed on 25 October 2026.

• Fantasy Football Scout: free Assistant Scout; Chief Scout £3.25 a month, billed annually
• FFIQ: £5.99 a month (the Founding Season price, 60% off the standard £14.99), or £59.99 a year

FFIQ is not the cheapest option here. Its first month is free, but a card is needed and you can cancel any time. If you are watching every pound, start with the free parts of each and only pay for what you actually use.

FPL itself is free to play, so none of these tools is required. They are there to save you time or sharpen your decisions.

If Scout is on your shortlist, these might be too. Each suits someone slightly different.

• Fantasy Football Hub: an AI and expert platform with AI transfers, a team rating, a planner and podcasts. The free AI team rating needs an email. Paid starts from Starter at £2.49 a month, billed yearly, a 50%-off sale price.
• FPL Review: projections, a planner and a transfer solver. The free projection model sits in the planner, and paid access is through Patreon. It says no to AI chat about your team.
• LiveFPL: live rank, leagues, price predictor, planner and ticker, all free. An optional subscription removes ads. No AI chat about your team.
• Fantasy Football Fix: data tools, AI transfers, ChatFPL and articles. A free account is available, and Premium is £3.48 a month, billed yearly, a limited-time price. It lists ChatFPL, an AI chat about your team.

None of these five tools, Scout included, publishes an accuracy figure that we can point to, apart from FFIQ's record described below.

You do not have to choose. A Scout member can run FFIQ alongside their Scout membership. That suits people who enjoy the articles, the community and the podcast, and also want a specific recommendation for their own squad.

One practical point: FPL publishes every manager's picks only after the deadline passes. Between deadlines, any tool reads the squad FPL last locked. That applies to all of them, us included.

On access, no tool needs your FPL password to read your team. FFIQ never asks for it; your team ID is enough. That is the number in the web address of your Points page on the official FPL site.

FFIQ fits if you want help deciding rather than more to read: who to captain, which transfer to make, when to play a chip, and how to set your line-up. It also suits you if you like asking questions about your own team in plain English.

We publish our record: picks made before each deadline and scored on FPL's results, misses included. You can judge it on the page rather than taking our word for it.

If you want to try it, the first month is free. A card is needed, and you can cancel any time. Our Scout offer page has the details.

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