Season 4 Weekly Update 26 - League A

Hello everyone and welcome to double gameweek 26! Waivers this week were due this morning at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST so free agency is open! Another week of drama, led by Kevin's high scoring 67-52 win over Dylan! Elsewhere, MatthewR enjoyed a narrow 38-37 win against Matt and Darryan defeated Coop in a competitive 51-42 match! Full results are as follows:

  • Gavin 24-40 Matthew
  • Darryan 51-42 Coop
  • Jesse 27-41 Zach
  • Dylan 52-67 Kevin
  • Luke 43-24 Scott
  • Matt 37-38 MatthewR

League Table

Weekly Matchups


Taking a look at the league table, Darryan keeps his 4 point lead at the top over Zach and MatthewR, with me keeping pace 6 points behind the duo. However, the group 3 points behind me grows to 4 managers, as Kevin jumps over Dylan and Jesse on PF and Luke's win sees him move onto 39 points as well. Matt now sits 5 points back, 4 ahead of Coop and Scott, of whom the former moves up to 10th on PF.

Game Changers!

  • Matthew: Mateus Fernandes - 8 pts - A West Ham guy turning into a solid pickup? Hell yeah that's 8 points this week from an assist, clean sheet point, and 17 defensive contributions as the Hammers strolled to a 2-0 win against Burnley.
  • Darryan: Crysencio Summerville - 11 pts - The West Ham renaissance continues with one of the goalscorers in the aforementioned match as he has now scored in the past 4 matches, wildly, and earning himself all 3 bonus this week.
  • Zach: Morgan Rogers - 10 pts - Rogers scored for only the 2nd time as not part of a brace to secure his 4th double digit week this season and 8th goal with a really nice near post finish against Bournemough. Too bad Digne doesn't know how to defend so Bournemouth was able to end the game at 1-1.
  • Kevin: Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall - 13 pts - A huge week from Kevin's team as a whole as KDH matches Morgan Rogers' number of double digit weeks with an assist and a quite odd goal that was originally ruled an own goal as Everton defeated Fulham 2-1.
  • Luke: Cole Palmer - 20 pts - Palmer is back?? Apparently Joao Pedro got kitted up with bacon shinpads as Wolves players could not stop going for his ankles and Palmer was rewarded with 2 of his 3 goals coming from penalties.
  • MatthewR: Maxence Lacroix - 11 pts - A huge performance in a game that I totally did not watch where Crystal Palace somehow kept a clean sheet for the first time in what feels like forever. The sparkling Frenchman did pick up 15 defcon and all 3 bonus though.

The first week of this 4 week month ends with Kevin on top of the Manager of the Month table! Darryan, Luke, Zach, and I all sit with 40+ points as well. Yes I did exclude only MatthewR from this list because he only scored 38.

Manager of the Month


The form table changes up a bit with Darryan taking the top spot on PF over Matt and myself! We all sit on 12/15 points earned!

Form Table


This week will see some great matchups, headlined by what could be a very consequential match in the run-in between Zach and Darryan! Elsewhere, two in form teams face off in me vs Matt, MatthewR takes on Luke, and Kevin faces off against Jesse. Full matchups are as follows:

  • Matthew (4) vs Matt (9) (all-time: 3-0-1, 171-158)
  • MatthewR (3) vs Luke (8) (all-time: 5-0-3, 386-326)
  • Scott (11) vs Dylan (6) (all-time: 4-0-6, 297-386)
  • Kevin (5) vs Jesse (7) (all-time: 7-1-2, 382-351)
  • Zach (2) vs Darryan (1) (all-time: 4-0-5, 373-361)
  • Coop (10) vs Gavin (12) (all-time: 3-0-1, 155-150)

Shoutout this week to Darryan and Zach for picking up 3 winstreaks! And also to Kevin and Luke for back to back wins!

Stats

Copium Tables

Performance Table

Luck Table

xP Table (manager vs average)

All Manager Table

Statistical Breakdowns

Gameweek Breakdown

Manager Breakdown

Timelines

Position Timeline

Points Timeline

Points For Timeline

The League

Welcome to gameweek 7 of the knockout rounds of The League (tm)! Not much to say here, with our second week of the semi-finals on the way! Current scores are as follows:

  • Darryan 51-45 Matthew2
  • Andrew 43-52 Dylan

Some close matchups in the first leg, so really anything can happen in the second!

Knockout Stage


Power Rankings

On the bubble (in no order): Coop, Matt, Alex, Andrew, Morgs Fell off: None

11 - ZachA (NEW) - League B - Last 5: 27 (W), 55 (W), 54 (W), 53 (W), 45 (W) - So I realized something today, I make the damn list which means I can make it however long I'd like. So welcome to the list ZachA! I genuinely could not fathom dropping Dylan off the list after scoring 52 points so here we are. And Zach sure deserves it, with 45+ in each of the last four weeks, this week from a really interesting point distribution coming from a trio of 4 pointers and a trio of 8 pointers. Mbeumo has been huge since coming back from his injury, JP has resorted to winning penalties like a madman, and Sarr looks to have returned from his time away winning the Africa Cup of Nations with back to back goals (after a quick warmup game). Plus, Chelsea didn't even keep a clean sheet and 2/3 of the Chelsea clean sheet point getters ended up with 4s so that's pretty nice. The only rough patch is the out-for-the-season duo sitting on the bench (I think Dorgu is not actually out for the season but I'm also not going to fact check myself or re-phrase this sentence).

10 - Dylan (-) - League A - Last 5: 29 (L), 49 (W), 48 (L), 40 (L), 52 (L) - Um… not much to say here other than condolences to Dylan for 3 back to back to back losses while scoring 40+. Still, this is a game of luck at times and there's definitely some bad luck (or regressing to the mean) going on here. Actually, let's just sidebar this and tally up how many times everyone else in League A has lost when scoring 40+ because why not. If you want any player analysis or whatever just watch the Szoboszlai goal and then red card and laugh at the absurdity because that kinda sums up Dylan's week tbh.

  • Coop: 4
  • Darryan: 1 (and a draw)
  • Dylan: 4
  • Gavin: 8
  • Jesse: 2
  • Kevin: 0
  • Luke: 2
  • Matt: 2 (and a draw)
  • Matthew: 3
  • MatthewR: 2
  • Scott: 2
  • Zach: 3

That means 2.75 is the average (and I didn't count the draws), which means Dylan has approximately surpassed the average this week. Congrats! Still not as unlucky as Gavin though, so no complaining.

9 - Zach (-2) - League A - Last 5: 40(L), 21 (L), 35 (W), 40 (W), 41 (W) - Just a heads up, the next like everyone until the top 2 is so close that I kinda grouped and moved. The first set I put together starts with Zach. Though, his team is starting to look a little tattered with Saka injured, Trossard potentially injured, and Tavernier playing cheerleader until maybe the end of the month. That said, his double City defense has been pretty good and Rogers has been scoring enough just about every other week to make up for the Sesko and Tammy and Burn 1 pointers. A wins a win and he's got 3 in a row now so we'll see if he can keep that going.

8 - Matthew (-2) - League A - Last 5: 40 (W), 28 (W), 38 (W), 34 (L), 40 (W) - My score this week did get a little bailed out by Murillo being suddenly injured in training and Foden not touching the field against Liverpool, meaning I got the Hill 7 pointer off the bench, but also Madueke got subbed off at like 59:30 so FPL owed me at least 2 extra points. Guess 7 was the best they could do. Anyway, got carried by my West Ham star duo of Mateus Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka this week, hoping they can put in a repeat performance against Manchester United so they can prevent a very public haircut. (I'm slightly joking, it would actually really hurt if AWB did anything because I dropped him for a Wolves defender) Anyway, Wissa, Solanke, and Foden have all made themselves useless. Guess Spurs can't play Manchester City every week huh.

7 - MatthewR (-2) - League A - Last 5: 30 (L), 37 (W), 49 (W), 27 (L), 38 (W) - The third head of the 'are they washed' hydra is MatthewR, who had a miraculous 15 points in automatic substitutions this week to bring him to the fated 38-41 score range that myself and Zach hit, to make us the 3 lowest scoring winners this week. Yippee! His team configured itself into a very fun 5-2-3 after the subs, and really the only guys who did anything were Diouf (originally benched, 9 points), Havertz (originally benched, 5 points), and Lacroix (yeah he started this dude, 11 points). And not only that, but Tarkowski got only 3 defensive contributions. It's so over?

6 - Kevin (+3) - League A - Last 5: 39 (L), 36 (L), 27 (L), 47 (W), 67 (W) - I guess the next set of managers on the list really ate their Wheaties this week because I totally kneejerked them above the 3 stooges from earlier. Kevin's team straight up went off this week, with only Kadioglu (2 points), MGW (2 points), and Verbruggen (3 points) not returning. The other scores include a 13 pointer from KDH (I'm now realizing that I may have wrongfully spoken about KDH in one of the Game Changers from earlier (probably Kevin's). I am not going to change it so it is probably factually incorrect. My b guys it will happen again), a 12 pointer from Gyokeres in his 30 minute appearance, and the goat DCL getting a 7 pointer and reaching 10 goals in the Premier League for the first time in his career.

5 - John (+3) - League B - Last 5: 42 (W), 32 (W), 43 (L), 43 (L), 61 (W) - The 2nd half of the duology of managers who popped off and got yanked up the list is John, who rode the backs of Mateus Fernandes and Crysencio Summerville to a 61 pointer this week because why not get almost 1/3 of your points from two West Ham players (hey wait). Anyway, his trio of disappointing fellows was Konsa, O'Reilly, and Mykolenko, who all got 2 points. But one of those is not like the others, as the Everton man found 2 points via minutes played (+2), assist (+3), own goal (-2), and a yellow card (-1). That's one way to make an impact, I guess. Oh wait he also had Enzo Le Fee get only 2 points. My b guys.

4 - Chris (-) - League B - Last 5: 36 (W), 35 (L), 52 (W), 39 (L), 36 (L) - Chris is the first of the next set of managers who kinda didn't do great this week, but have been doing pretty well for long enough that I think they should probably stay in the power rankings and they probably go ahead of the two guys who scored 60+ this week. Really rolls off the tongue. Anyway, Chris lost to Alex in suspicious circumstances (see where I wrote about this in the League B game changers) yet did pretty okay score wise so we aren't going to hold it against him. Unless he does it again, then he might fall to ~9th. That said, he saw a lot of 2 pointers this week, with Saliba, Lammens, Rice, and Caicedo being the only players to hold up their end of the bargain. And what's fun is that all those guys got clean sheets, and all the outfield guys got defensive contributions. We love symmetry.

3 - Mack (-) - League B - Last 5: 53 (W), 28 (L), 45 (L), 41 (W), 30 (L) - What did I say last week again? Oh right (incoming jinx) that one's on me. Anyway, her team is the same as last time I talked about it (other than Gyokeres scoring 2 goals off the bench), so here's the corresponding League B count of managers who scored 40+ and lost:

  • Alex: 1
  • Andrew: 1
  • Cara: 1 (and 1 draw)
  • Chris: 2 (and 1 draw)
  • Divya: 1
  • Emma: 1
  • John: 2
  • Mack: 3
  • Matthew2: 1
  • Morgs: 1
  • Travis: 3
  • ZachA: 2

I'm going to not open my calculator and say the average here is somewhere around 1. Everyone give it up for Mack and Travis?

2 - Darryan (-) - League A - Last 5: 58 (W), 36 (L), 31 (W), 61 (W), 51 (W) - If not for Romero being Romero this Darryan guy could've had his 5th 60+ point week this season. Sure, it would've probably meant that Romero needed to score or assist or keep a clean sheet or get bonus or something, but he could've done that. Anyway, good luck to Zach this week since he's going to be going up against the mammoth of a player that is Crysencio Summerville. And also supporting cast of 3 Arsenal defenders who get to play twice this week and Erling Haaland. But I think the West Ham guy's got this.

1 - Matthew2 (-) - League B - Last 5: 60 (W), 31 (L), 44 (W), 49 (W), 45 (W) - Hey, maybe sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. Replaced Hill (7 points this week) with Wan-Bissaka (8 points this week), Murillo gets injured in training and missed the game without being flagged, his team concedes 3, and he gets auto-subbed for a Joao Gomes 2 pointer so that I win by 1 point. Shoutout to Morgan Rogers for showing up for me week in week out, scoring 8 goals on 4.7xG, keeping me from pulling my hair out considering I spent the first half of the season watching Mateta underperform his xG by honestly about the same amount that Rogers overperforms his (maybe even a little more). Anyway huge Wolves fan this week let's gooooo.

Good luck all!