Season 4 Weekly Update 26 - League B

Hello everyone and welcome to gameweek 26 - our first double gameweek of the season! For those who are new, a double gameweek means that there are teams (in this case, Wolves and Arsenal), who will play twice in the same gameweek! This is usually due to rescheduling for the later cup rounds, such as the Champions League/other international tournaments, FA Cup, or Carabao Cup (in this case). Any player who plays in 2 matches this week will simply have their scores from both games added together! None of that fancy 'highest score of the two games' or whatever that some other fantasy sports use.

Oh and this also means that Wolves and Arsenal will have a blank gameweek in the future, meaning they will not play at all that week. I believe it is set for gameweek 31, but I'm relying on my memory for that number so take it with a grain of salt.

Anyway, waivers this week were due this morning at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST so free agency is open! Another week with some big results across the league, led by my narrow 45-44 victory over Morgs! Elsewhere, Alex found his way to a 51-36 win over Chris, John defeated Mack 61-30, and Andrew picked up a solid 43-25 win against Emma! Full results are as follows:

  • Morgs 44-45 Matthew
  • Travis 31-18 Divya
  • Emma 25-43 Andrew
  • ZachA 45-14 Cara
  • Chris 36-51 Alex
  • John 61-30 Mack

League Table

Weekly Matchups


Taking a look at the league table, I keep my lead at the top of the table over John at 2 points, with Alex keeping pace 4 back of the latter. Zach sees movement up the table over Chris with his win, just 2 points shy of 3rd and a full win over Chris. He still sits 7 ahead of the Mack/Morgs duo. Further down, Travis's head to head win against Divya sees him move into 11th by a couple of points.

Game Changers!

  • Matthew: Morgan Rogers - 10 pts - Finally a goal from the 90 minute man at Aston Villa, it's only been 8 weeks since his last brace. What a finish though despite not being enough to defeat Bournemouth.
  • Travis: Cole Palmer - 20 pts - Ice cold Cole Palmer brings his penalty count up to 17 with 2 against Wolves. And another goal from somewhere near the penalty spot. Maybe this guy should just stand on the spot all game?
  • Andrew: Erling Haaland - 11 pts - Big day for Haaland as he finally scores his 21st goal of the season and takes his shirt off… to reveal the same color blue shirt underneath? Uhhh okay
  • ZachA: Bryan Mbeumo - 8 pts - 9 goals on the season for the bald man as the Carrick-ssance continues as Manchester United beat Spurs 2-0 following Romero doing Romero things and being sent off.
  • Alex: Dango Ouattara - 12 pts - Ya know I wrote this whole bit about how both Alex and Dango had Van Hecke and both of them benched Dango and coincidentally Van Hecke vanished from the matchday squad for Brighton and then I scrolled down a little on Alex's team page and noticed he actually benched Bruno G. So now I've written this whole bit so please pretend Dango was benched and subbed in for both of these guys so we can further the conspiracy. Thanks.
  • John: Crysencio Summerville - 11 pts - A huge week for John led by the Dutchman who found his 7th goal contribution this season against Burnley and 5th consecutive week of 4+ points. West Ham to the Europe spots?

The first week of this 4 week month ends with John at the top of the table! Alex, me, ZachA, and Andrew have all won and scored 40+!

Manager of the Month


Heading over to the form table, we see ZachA take the top spot over Alex on PF! The two of them have an undefeated 15/15 points earned in the last 5! And I am the only manager on 12/15 points.

Form Table


This week will see some great matchups, headlined by a mirror of our League A matchup between #1 and #2 as I take on John! Elsewhere we see the rest of the top 6 battle it out, as the two undefeated teams on form face off in Alex vs ZachA and Mack goes up against Chris! Full matchups are as follows:

  • Matthew (1) vs John (2) (all-time: 1-0-1, 83-109)
  • Mack (6) vs Chris (5) (all-time: 1-0-1, 86-102)
  • Alex (3) vs ZachA (4) (all-time: 1-0-1, 85-88)
  • Cara (9) vs Emma (8) (all-time: 0-0-2, 62-102)
  • Andrew (10) vs Travis (11) (all-time: 1-0-1, 69-85)
  • Divya (12) vs Morgs (7) (all-time: 0-0-2, 44-64)

Shoutouts this week to Alex for his 7 winstreak, ZachA for his 5, and myself for 3 wins in a row! Also to Andrew 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

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!