Season 4 Weekly Update 27 - League B

Hello everyone and welcome to gameweek 27! Waivers this week are due tomorrow morning at 5:30am PST / 8:30am EST! Some great matchups across the board this week, led by a single point victory by Travis over Andrew! Elsewhere, close victories by Emma with her 33-28 match against Cara and Alex with his 37-32 win over ZachA. Plus, John picked up a huge win this week 46-39 against my League B team! Full results are as follows:

  • Matthew 39-46 John
  • Mack 52-42 Chris
  • Alex 37-32 ZachA
  • Cara 28-33 Emma
  • Andrew 38-39 Travis
  • Divya 41-28 Morgs

League Table

Weekly Matchups


Some hugely consequential results across the table, where starting at the top we have our 5th change at the top of the table as John now holds a 1 point lead over me! Alex's win sees him close the gap on 2nd to 3 points, now 5 points ahead of ZachA! Chris sits 3 behind him, with Mack pulling a bit closer, now just 4 points off the top 5. Emma's win also sees her move up the board, passing Morgs by a point, now just 2 behind Mack. Further down, Travis moves to 4 points behind Andrew, with Divya keeping pace 2 points behind him.

Game Changers!

  • John: Nico O'Reilly - 13 pts - Huge week for the homegrown Cityzen as his solid finish and clean sheet resulted in 13 whole points for John.
  • Mack: Antoine Semenyo - 14 pts - The assister for the previous scorer on this list netted one himself as Marco Silva just cannot escape Pep's grasp. (He has now won all 17 matches he has managed against him)
  • Alex: Malick Thiaw - 11 pts - Just a 3 week break for Thiaw this time as he hauled off the back of 1 of the 2 goals Newcastle scored in their win against Spurs and a suite of 10 defensive contributions (and a bonus point).
  • Emma: Andy Robertson - 8 pts - Surprise Robbo appearance as he played a whole 90 minutes against Sunderland and apparently only performed worse than VVD? Old man's still got it.
  • Travis: Virgil van Dijk - 17 pts - VVD doing his best Thiaw impression, scoring a goal, vanishing for a game (I'm pretending the Newcastle game didn't happen), then scoring another goal. Time to go back to mediocrity for a few weeks buddy.
  • Divya: Bukayo Saka - 13 pts - A big week for Saka as he realized his dreams to play #10 and get 18 defensive contributions and score a goal. Maybe he should sign a new contract every week.

Halfway through February and John sits at the top of the Manager of the Month table! He currently has the lead on PF over Alex and Travis!

Manager of the Month


Taking a look at the form table, Alex keeps his undefeated streak alive as he is now the only manager with 15/15 points earned in the last 5 weeks! ZachA and Travis are the only 2 on 12/15!

Form Table


This week will see some great matchups, headlined by what should be a great matchup between Mack and Alex! Elsewhere, I take on Travis's in-form team and Emma goes up against Morgs! Full matchups are as follows:

  • Travis (11) vs Matthew (2) (all-time: 1-0-1, 92-88)
  • Emma (7) vs Morgs (8) (all-time: 1-0-1, 67-75)
  • ZachA (4) vs Divya (12) (all-time: 1-1-0, 60-52)
  • Chris (5) vs Andrew (10) (all-time: 2-0-0, 78-63)
  • John (1) vs Cara (9) (all-time: 2-0-0, 91-70)
  • Mack (6) vs Alex (3) (all-time: 0-0-2, 67-114)

Shoutout this week to Alex for extending his winstreak to 8! Also to John and Travis 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 8 of the knockout rounds of The League (tm) and the first gameweek of the two-legged finals! But first, how did our second week of semi finals go?

It's been a little while, so a quick reminder of the scores going into this week:

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

And following this week's results, I'd like to congratulate Matthew2 and Dylan for reaching the final round!

My come from behind win by 39-24 in the second leg was enough to defeat Darryan 84-75, and Dylan's sweep of Andrew totaled to a 93-81 victory!

Good luck to our finalists!

Knockout Stage


Power Rankings

On the bubble (in no order): Matt, Alex, Andrew, ZachA Fell off: ZachA (kinda)

10 - Dylan (-) - League A - Last 5: 49 (W), 48 (L), 40 (L), 52 (L), 41 (W) - Just a heads up, probably a pretty quick set of power rankings blurbs because it's already… midnight and I really need to send this out before… 5:30am. And also I need to go to sleep. But great work by Dylan getting to 5 straight 40+ weeks and 2 wins in those weeks. This week brought to you by a Jose Sa 13 pointer and not a lot else. I guess a Gabriel assist in a double gameweek, Salah assist, and Van Hecke clean sheet is alright, but still a lot of 2s and 1s and 0s.

9 - MatthewR (-2) - League A - Last 5: 37 (W), 49 (W), 27 (L), 38 (W), 29 (L) - Uh oh, MatthewR's back in the spin cycle with another rough week where his high scorer was Diouf, who was saved by getting subbed off before Manchester United happened to score. But hey, Gordon scored 4 in the Champions League this week so surely he will pop off against Manchester City away?

8 - Kevin (-2) - League A - Last 5: 36 (L), 27 (L), 47 (W), 67 (W), 45 (L) - An unfortunate week going against Jesse's 58 pointer, but still solid performances from Thiaw, Joao Pedro, and his Liverpool duo of Konate and Gravenberch to put up 45. That's 5 returns from Joao Pedro in a row, by the way.

7 - Zach (+2) - League A - Last 5: 21 (L), 35 (W), 40 (W), 41 (W), 54 (W) - Zach is back on track with 4 wins in a row and 3 40+ weeks, including this week's win against Darryan. Adli turned out to be a huge pickup, Guehi on City is looking solid, and Saka did something for the first time in quite a while. Plus, maybe Sesko will get a start eventually? Although he does seem to be maybe the best player in the Premier League when he's coming off the bench.

6 - Chris (-2) - League B - Last 5: 35 (L), 52 (W), 39 (L), 36 (L), 42 (L) - A decent score for Chris heavily weighted toward the 14 pointer from Rice's double gameweek and an 8 point return for Neco Williams. However, he pulled a Dylan (a Gavin?) and found a loss at 40+. Maybe the key is Caicedo defensive contributions - how did he only get 8? Did he even play?

5 - Matthew (+3) - League A - Last 5: 28 (W), 38 (W), 34 (L), 40 (W), 70 (W) - Hell yeah time to overreact to my 70 pointer woooo. 14 from Semenyo, 13 from Madueke (I never doubted him), 8 from Emi, 8 from Hugo Bueno (who btw should have had +2 from bonus after the Opta recalculations today (and also was subbed less than ~30 seconds before getting +5 in the first match)), 9 from new defcon beast Hill, and woah no way Foden got an assist. Now to just repeat that like 11 more times.

4 - John (+1) - League B - Last 5: 32 (W), 43 (L), 43 (L), 61 (W), 46 (W) - A huge win and week for John as he moves into 1st in League B off the back of returns from Emi Martinez, Gabriel, Konsa, and O'Reilly. Sadly the Summerville goalscoring streak has ended :'(

3 - Mack (-) - League B - Last 5: 28 (L), 45 (L), 41 (W), 30 (L), 52 (W) - Highest score in League B and a huge week from Semenyo and Strand Larsen, combining for 27 points from 3 goals and an assist between them. Apparently JSL is good? Or Burnley is bad? The jury is out I guess until he scores against a team not formally coached by Vincent Kompany.

2 - Darryan (-) - League A - Last 5: 36 (L), 31 (W), 61 (W), 51 (W), 24 (L) - Darryan's teetering scarily close to MatthewR territory with a couple of 50+ weeks sandwiched by a 24 and 31. Fairly unfortunate though, with his 4 Arsenal players playing 2 matches this week and coming home with a whole 9 points total. That's the same amount of points as Haaland + Rodri + Cherki.

1 - Matthew2 (-) - League B - Last 5: 31 (L), 44 (W), 49 (W), 45 (W), 39 (L) - Not a bad week but also the team decided they didn't want to clutch up for the match against John. Hill I guess did something, but 3 5/6 pointers in midfield and a 4 pointer from a DGW 180' just wasn't enough. Good attempt Wolves lads o7.

Good luck all!