Season 4 Weekly Update 28 - League A

Hello everyone and welcome to gameweek 28! Waivers this week are due Thursday morning at 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST! Some interesting results this week led by Kevin taking a high scoring 63-50 win over Matt! Elsewhere, Scott pulled off the upset over MatthewR 51-30 and Darryan beat me 46-38! Full results are as follows:

  • Darryan 46-38 Matthew
  • Jesse 36-27 Gavin
  • Dylan 32-22 Coop
  • Luke 39-52 Zach
  • Matt 50-63 Kevin
  • MatthewR 30-51 Scott

League Table

Weekly Matchups


And looking over at the league table, Darryan and Zach's wins keeps equilibrium at the top with the former just a single point ahead, but the duo extended their lead over MatthewR in 3rd to 6 points. I remain 3 behind the other Matthew, now tied on points with Dylan and Jesse. Kevin's win sees him move above Luke on PF, just 3 points behind our group. Further down, Scott sees himself move level on points with Coop, and the two are just 1 point off Matt.

Game Changers!

  • Darryan: Raul Jimenez - 11 pts - Huge week for Darryan to see his first double digit Raul haul of the season off the back of Fulham somehow putting 3 past the stalwart Sunderland defense.
  • Jesse: Virgil van Dijk - 11 pts - Back to back double digits for the Dutchman as this time it is from an assist in Mac Allister's late winning goal against Nottingham Forest.
  • Dylan: Jan Paul van Hecke - 9 pts - 9 was enough this week for Dylan as the other Dutchman kept a clean sheet and hit defcon against high flying Brentford.
  • Zach: Dean Henderson - 16 pts - The rare 16 pointer goalie haul arrived at the hands of a penalty save, clean sheet, and 7 saves against Wolves as somehow Crystal Palace defeated them 1-0.
  • Kevin: Viktor Gyokeres - 13 pts - Kevin's first round pick finding his 3rd brace of the season, this time against Spurs. Easily man of the match as Arsenal strolled to a 4-1 win.
  • Scott: Eberechi Eze - 14 pts - The other two goals were scored by the Spurs hater himself, who took his total goals scored against all teams to 6 this season… and his total goals scored against Tottenham to 5.

With just 1 week left in February, Zach remains the only undefeated manager! He is ahead of a whole slew of managers with 2 wins out of 3.

Manager of the Month


Looking over at the form table, Zach sits at the top with a perfect 15/15 points earned over the last 5 games! Darryan is the only manager on 12!

Form Table


This week will see some great matchups, headlined by what should be an exciting Matthew derby between myself and MatthewR! Elsewhere, Kevin takes on Luke in an interesting matchup, Scott faces off against Matt, and Dylan looks to break Zach's winstreak! Full matchups are as follows:

  • Matthew (4) vs MatthewR (3) (all-time: 6-2-4, 552-483)
  • Scott (11) vs Matt (9) (all-time: 1-0-4, 176-216)
  • Kevin (7) vs Luke (8) (all-time: 4-0-5, 350-368)
  • Zach (2) vs Dylan (5) (all-time: 4-0-5, 351-329)
  • Coop (10) vs Jesse (6) (all-time: 1-0-4, 127-148)
  • Gavin (12) vs Darryan (1) (all-time: 4-0-4, 316-339)

Shoutout this week to Zach for his 5 winstreak! And also to Jesse and Dylan for picking up 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

Hello and welcome to the final week of The League (tm). This week we will crown our champion between Matthew2 and Dylan! Without further ado, the first leg of the finals!

  • Matthew2 43-32 Dylan

Good luck in the second leg!

Knockout Stage


Power Rankings

On the bubble (in no order): Alex, Dylan, Morgs, ZachA Fell off: MatthewR

10 - Dylan (-) - League A - Last 5: 48 (L), 40 (L), 52 (L), 41 (W), 32 (W) - Some Patrick Mahomes reverting to the mean going on here as Dylan won with 32 points this week after losing with 48, 40, and 52 as he hangs onto this list by a thread. This week Van Hecke and Richards were the only players above 3 points, which is rough when the players who should be scoring points regularly are Gabriel who is in a poor run of defensive form from Arsenal and Salah who is in a poor season of form.

9 - Matt (NEW) - League A - Last 5: 65 (W), 41 (W), 37 (L), 46 (L), 50 (L) - Objectively some pretty good scores across the past 5 but my god has Matt been unlucky in his matchups, losing 3 in a row with 96 combined points between the last two weeks. Still, he's got a solid team especially with O'Reilly turning into Man City's main goalscorer. And somehow the Villa + City double ups on defense are working out. Plus, Lewis Hall is back, Bowen is defending again, and sometimes his midfielders get more than 4 points.

8 - Chris (-2) - League B - Last 5: 52 (W), 39 (L), 36 (L), 42 (L), 38 (W) - Decent week from Chris as he put a stop to his losing streak with a 38 point victory off the back of the goat Harry Wilson assisting and hitting defcon, Petrovic earning himself 9 points from the clean sheet against West Ham, and a couple of other defcons sprinkled in from Rice and Scott. Although the scariest feature of Chris's team may be the fact that Caicedo hasn't hit defcon in back to back weeks for the 2nd time this season. Is he washed?? At least he's got Xhaka back to pick up the slack.

7 - Kevin (+1) - League A - Last 5: 27 (L), 47 (W), 67 (W), 45 (L), 63 (W) - Kevin did unto others this week what was done to himself last, with his 63 pointer defeating Matt's 50. Lots of points coming from all over the place, including a clean sheet from Bart, Konate, and Mitchell (who also had an assist), a goal from Joao Pedro (6 returns in a row for those who are counting), and a brace from Gyokeres. How many goals since you said you didn't want to admit your 1st rounder was a bust?

6 - Matthew (-1) - League A - Last 5: 38 (W), 34 (L), 40 (W), 70 (W), 38 (L) - I mean, it's not 70 points and I couldn't beat Darryan but I guess it isn't so bad, considering my defcon punt got moved to fullback due to an injury, my other longer term defcon pickup apparent just plays fullback now, Foden is a 1 point merchant, Rayan hit the post, and I once again have no starting FWDs. But yeah at least my two wingers Semenyo and Munoz hit defcon.

5 - Zach (+2) - League A - Last 5: 35 (W), 40 (W), 41 (W), 54 (W), 52 (W) - Don't be fooled by his score, 16 of those points were because Henderson saved a penalty and also 6 other shots during the game. He did also have a Maguire clean sheet (and no red card or own goal), Saka assist, and Sesko goal. Because why ever start the guy if he's gonna score everytime he's subbed in anyway.

4 - Mack (-1) - League B - Last 5: 45 (L), 41 (W), 30 (L), 52 (W), 46 (W) - A big win to end Alex's winstreak this week as she didn't even need the 14 points from Eze on her bench with Gyokeres' 2 goals, the Dalot clean sheet, and four 4/5 pointers coming from defensive contributions. Strand Larsen's obviously just waiting for when the rest of her team is slacking off to get back on track, surely.

3 - John (+1) - League B - Last 5: 43 (L), 43 (L), 61 (W), 46 (W), 64 (W) - Another huge week from the O'Reilly owner of League B as he now hasn't scored under 43 in the last 5 weeks, including 2 weeks at 60+. Le Fee was a solid punt this week for his 10 pointer, Konsa picked up an assist, Raul has been consistently pretty solid for a FWD, and as the resident League A Mateus Fernandes owner this guy is looking like the real deal. Really just a solid team all the way through and it's going to be an interesting battle for that 1st place in League B badge.

2 - Darryan (-) - League A - Last 5: 31 (W), 61 (W), 51 (W), 24 (L), 46 (W) - Maybe the key to success is owning Raul Jiminez? After all his first brace of the season spurred both League #1s to win this week. Behind him for Darryan was a trio of 6 pointers from a Haaland assist, Rodri defcon and 2 bonus, and the other Jimenez earning a clean sheet. Oh and somehow Ballard got an assist because he's destined to score 4 points.

1 - Matthew2 (-) - League B - Last 5: 44 (W), 49 (W), 45 (W), 39 (L), 43 (W) - Another pretty solid week from my League B team despite leaving a Bart 7 pointer and Ampadu 8 on the bench. It was a rare week where only 1 player from my MIDs or FWDs scored 4 points or more, with my backline totalling 24 points including 3 clean sheets, an assist, and a couple defcon points. Maybe one day I'll see bums such as Salah, Rogers, Evanilson, and Thiago earn me more than 3 points again.

Good luck all!