Season 4 Weekly Update 36 - League B

Hello everyone and welcome to double gameweek 36! Waivers this week are due Friday at 3am PDT / 6am EDT! And just an fyi, the next couple of weekly updates may be written on bullet trains and/or in hotel rooms so we'll see how in-depth they are. Some really close matchups and upsets this week, led by ZachA's huge 40-36 win over John! I also took a big 3 points in defeating Chris 40-37, Morgs won a tough one against Cara 40-31, and Mack kept the winning ways going as well 46-29 against Emma. Full results are as follows:

  • Matthew 40-37 Chris
  • John 36-40 ZachA
  • Mack 46-29 Emma
  • Alex 58-10 Travis
  • Cara 31-40 Morgs
  • Andrew 39-17 Divya

League Table

Weekly Matchups


Just 3 weeks left! And unlike League A, the race for the title and for the promotion spots is alive and well! Starting at the top, we have a new leader as John dropping points puts me ahead by 2! And John technically isn't immune from a 3rd place finish as Alex sits 7 back, still just 3 ahead of Mack as she finds herself in a promotion spot. Chris's loss puts him 2 points behind her, now just 1 over Morgs and 3 ahead of ZachA.

Game Changers! I also did not watch this week's matches so forgive any lack of details.

  • Matthew: Marcos Senesi - 14 pts - This can just be copied from League A, since Senesi beat my League A team this week -_-: A huge week for the free-agent-to-be center back for Bournemouth as he won a penalty (I think?), kept a clean sheet, got 14 defcon, and scored all 3 bonus against Crystal Palace's 15 year olds.
  • ZachA: Joao Pedro - 8 pts - ~~Chris Paul~~Joao Pedro hits a huge ~~3~~bicycle kick to cut the lead down to ~~42~~2 as Chelsea got absolutely demolished by Nottingham Forest's 15 year olds.
  • Mack: Viktor Gyokeres - 16 pts - What a waste of money this guy's been. Only 14 league goals when half of Arsenal's attack has been injured the entire season? Pssh just score more Vik.
  • Alex: Dominik Szoboszlai - 13 pts - I guess this was probably a nice consolation as Alex's team looked like they sent out the 15 year olds against Manchester United this weekend.
  • Morgs: Nordi Mukiele - 11 pts - This guy's got the weirdest knack of either returning double digits or doing absolutely nothing. This week, he scored his 3rd goal of the season, which surely makes up for his -1 against Aston Villa a couple weeks back.
  • Andrew: Jeremy Doku - 15 pts - The Belgian winger did his best to keep City in the title race as he scored 2 screamers against Everton. Too bad for him, the 2 dogwater goals scored by Thierry Barry counted the same.

One week into this 4 gameweek month and Alex has the lead on PF! Mack, myself, Morgs, and ZachA are all sitting at 40+ as well!

Manager of the Month


Over on the form table, I sit on top with 15/15 points earned across the last 5 weeks! Mack, Chris, and Morgs all sit on 12/15 points!

Form Table


This week will see some great matchups, headlined by a huge match between John and Mack! Elsewhere, Chris looks to bounce back with a game in hand against fellow promotion contender Alex, and Morgs looks to upset me! Full matchups are as follows:

  • Morgs (6) vs Matthew (1) (all-time: 0-0-3, 109-139)
  • Travis (11) vs Divya (12) (all-time: 2-0-1, 90-66)
  • Emma (8) vs Andrew (10) (all-time: 1-0-2, 97-105)
  • ZachA (7) vs Cara (9) (all-time: 4-0-2, 195-133)
  • Chris (5) vs Alex (3) (all-time: 0-0-3, 109-129)
  • John (2) vs Mack (4) (all-time: 2-0-1, 147-121)

Shoutout this week to me for my 5 winstreak! And also to Mack for 4 in a row and Morgs for 3 wins in a row!

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

Champions Cup

Hello everyone and welcome to the semi finals of the Champions Cup! Some nailbiters and some not-so-nailbiters in the quarter finals this week, with the former headlined by Zach's narrow 43-40 win against Morgs! Elsewhere, Mack picked up a big win over League B rival Chris 46-37 to punch her ticket to the semis. And here are the full matchups:

Top Half:

  • Zach 43-40 Morgs
  • Matt 38-21 MatthewR

Bottom Half:

  • Jesse 28-45 Luke
  • Chris 37-46 Mack

And with that, we are in our penultimate round! The matchups are:

  • Zach vs Matt
  • Luke vs Mack

Some really fun matchups, which should set up for an interesting final! Good luck to the semi finalists!

Knockout Stage


The Run In

League A

Not really anything happened this week as the (current) top 6 all won. That said, Zach vs Jesse will be a huge match, along with Kevin vs Dylan. Could be a very interesting week leading considering next week the (current) top 4 all play one another :eyes:

League A - Top 8


Matt and Coop continue on with the 4 point gap, and a win for Matt vs MatthewR (and a Coop loss) would secure him his spot in League A next season and send Coop to the playoff!

League A - Relegation Race


League B

And we see some movement this week at the top as ZachA's win vs John means I take 1st going into the final 3 weeks! John has a tough match this week vs Mack and I face off against Morgs to look to keep my place!

League B - Title Race


And we see movement into the promotion spots as Mack's win and Chris's loss means the former goes up to 4th! It's still dicey though with 3 weeks left and just 6 points separating Alex in 3rd and Morgs in 6th. And, with Alex vs Chris this week, Mack vs Chris next week, and Alex vs Mack in the final week, who even knows how this will shake out.

League B - Promotion Playoff Race


Power Rankings

On the bubble (in no order): Dylan, Chris, Morgs Fell off: None

10 - Matt (-) - League A - Last 5: 35 (W), 47 (W), 46 (L), 49 (W), 38 (L) - Sorry Matt, the power ranking curse got you. Pretty decent score though with Cunha scoring in his last game of the season, Murphy and Bruno Guimaraes and Matty Cash all getting assists, and Igor Jesus scoring his 4th goal in 5 games? He's a beast? Plus Reece James is back and surely will get the new manager + World Cup boost?

9 - Jesse (-3) - League A - Last 5: 49 (W), 43 (L), 66 (W), 31 (W), 28 (W) - That's back to back wins yet Jesse did score 31 or less both of those weeks, so not really sure what to make of that one. This week, Truffert (7), Garner (5), Cherki (5), Casemiro (4) contributed a solid 75% of his points and with Sarr/JSL focusing on the Conference League he's gonna need some Liam Delap magic in these last few weeks.

8 - Alex (+1) - League B - Last 5: 28 (W), 61 (W), 51 (L), 31 (L), 58 (W) - Alex snaps his losing streak with a real hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby moment as he added +48 to his PD. Just 4 players of his scored 3 or less, with 4 6 pointers, a Truffert 7, and a Szoboszlai 13 leading the charge. A solid performance from the squad giving the goat Jarrod Bowen a well-needed rest from carrying this team on his back. Plus, Dango is back to his penalty winning ways, so that's pretty huge. Thought he lost it for a bit there.

7 - Darryan (-2) - League A - Last 5: 28 (L), 32 (L), 73 (W), 24 (L), 36 (W) - Another limping toward the finish line sort of team that won this week from not a lot going on. Sure, Ballard took one for the team and got a red card vs Wolves (why??), but it wasn't enough when Saliba got a cs, Xhaka picked up 9 from his assist, Haaland scored his 25th of the season, and Evanilson has somehow gotten 4 assists in the last 5 weeks. Not a super convincing week from Ferdi/Justin/Summerville/Raul, however. Oh, and Darryan did leave Kelleher's 8 pointer on the bench. A classic.

6 - John (-2) - League B - Last 5: 32 (L), 51 (W), 73 (W), 31 (L), 36 (L) - That's 3 30-pointers in the last 5 for John as he joins Darryan and Jesse in this weird post-double lull. Okafor was a solid pickup this week with his 10 pointer, but Gabriel 6, Bruno 5, DCL 6, and Le Fee 4 pointers was not quite enough to pick up the win this week. And especially with rotation from Manchester United and Crystal Palace who knows how Bruno Fernandes/Canvot/Mateta will finish the season.

5 - Luke (+3) - League A - Last 5: 36 (L), 58 (W), 63 (W), 48 (L), 45 (W) - On the other hand, Luke has kept up his momentum post-double, with a classic 3-point victory for him over me (which seems to be the norm this season) and a solid week from most Senesi's 14 pointer. And I gues Mainoo and Thiago both scored, and Bijol got an assist, and famously-defensive fullback Pedro Porro hit defcon. But hey my man Cole Palmer missed a penalty to keep it close for me.

4 - Kevin (+3) - League A - Last 5: 24 (L), 51 (W), 66 (W), 34 (W), 60 (W) - So, Kevin scored 60 and over half of his points did come from 2 players. And actually, he somehow did only have 4 players this week with more than 4 points (and one guy with a split open face on 4 exactly). DCL had 6, JP had 8 because somehow a bicycle kick in the 94th minute while down 3-0 is worth 2 bonus points, Doku had 15 because he scored 2 screamers, and Gyokeres had 16 because he scored twice and assisted once and that is worth barely more than a midfielder who plays just as far up the pitch scoring 2. Anyway, if MGW can somehow play in the last few games and the rest of his 2 and 1 pointers from this week lock tf in, Doku/Gyokeres are in the form of their lives, so. yeah. +3

3 - Zach (-) - League A - Last 5: 33 (W), 51 (W), 80 (W), 37 (W), 43 (W) - Zach's just gotta weather the storm for a couple more weeks, but until then a solid 43 pointer as Saka and Osula combine for 20 points to make up for the myriad of 1s across his team. Oh, and Guehi, Bogle, and Sesko all got 4-5 points so that's pretty good. If only he could get Rogers to do… something… maybe just 2 more defensive contributions at least?

2 - Matthew2 (-) - League B - Last 5: 37 (W), 55 (W), 74 (W), 40 (W), 40 (W) - Why score more than 40 when 40 does the trick? And that's with the -2 from Ballard. I always knew the neighborhood I live in would let me down eventually smh. Anyway, my goat ~~Dubravka~~Stach ~~dove really late~~scored a worldie in his first week back from injury to pick up 10 points so that was nice. And Senesi's 14 pointer + Evanilson's assist + Thiago's goal was nice. Made leaving Hill's 10 pointer on the bench hurt a little bit less. Especially with Munoz/Rodon/Rogers/Anderson picking up a total of 3 points between them. But hey Salah will be back for a goodbye goal in GW38 so that's hype

1 - Mack (-) - League B - Last 5: 39 (L), 51 (W), 50 (W), 62 (W), 46 (W) - Another solid week from Mack led by Gyokeres (see: Kevin), while also featuring a number of Jesse's midfielders, and the cherry on top that is the Dan Burn 7 pointer. And that's with the Sels 8 pointer from saving Warm Palmer's penalty sitting the bench alongside Guehi's beautiful assist. Anyway, this is her worst score in 4 weeks at 46, so obviously the whole team needs to be replaced. If only Woltemade wasn't banished to the shadow realm for Ballon d'Or candidate William Osula.

Good luck all!