Gameweek 29 results

1	ICanBeYourCasemiro Richard Clarke	148	1973
2	Cotton & Guns Patrick Martin	139	1970
3	Egg Fried Reus Ryan Garoghan	136	1938
4	The Craggy Islanders Adrian Roche	130	1937
5	MurderOnZidaneFloor shamil gillani	135	1923
6	Blakes11 Steven Darling	100	1921
7	HHB All-stars Simon Barker	138	1909
8	Look No Haalands FC Stephen Jones	143	1906
9	Atlético Chappers Richard Chapman	113	1896
10	Your Ad Here Matthew Hopkins	128	1893

11	Finn Harps FPL Trevor Gordon	125	1892
12	Mission Impossible Roy Staines	134	1891
13	Marsch on Together Michael Williams	93	1888
14	Garnerdonium Paul Hawkins	114	1886
15	Yellow Submarine Ben Lawson	120	1884
16	Stranger Mings Harrison Smith	92	1884
17	Dave’s Dreamers David Phillips	144	1884
18	Leddersford Town Tim Dodd	130	1884
19	Thunderstruck FC Robert Frost	134	1883
20	Unusual Suspects Harry Birks	112	1879

The most populated gameweek of the season, inevitably, has given us the biggest scoring gmeweek of the season. Nearly two thirds of the league scored over 100 points as we all tried to maximise on the 12 teams playing twice. ICanBeYourCasemiro return to the top of the league with the new highest weekly score of the season, 148 points. It’ll be tough to beat, although there is another big-ish double remaining and there are some of us left to bench boost.

The bench boost was played by 28 teams this week. ICanBeYourCasemiro had 13 of their 15 playing twice with Kaoru Mitoma as captain. Points came from nearly everywhere, including Harry Kane and Gabriel Martinelli, who both only played once. A special mention to Ronnie Riskit, who notched 129 points from a none bench-boosting team. Every player returned, every defender kept a clean sheet and all but one picked up some bonus points.

One of the Brighton boys or Marcus Rashford were the popular captain choices, although arguably Newcastle were the team of the week, finishing with a 7-1 aggregate score. Curiously, the West Ham defence, despite conceding five to Newcastle, returned three double figure hauls.

Posting the two highest Last Man Standing exit scores of the season are Red Five (86) and Stranger Mings (92). Neither were able to bench boost, although both did try to capitalise on the double gameweek players. But up against the bench-boosters, they didn’t have much a of a chance.

Manager of the week	Richard Clarke	ICanBeYourCasemiro	148 pts
Player of the week	Callum Wilson	Newcastle United	19 pts
Bargain of the week	Nayef Aguerd	West Ham United	15 pts
Twat of the week	Lucas Moura	Tottenham Hotspur	-2 pts

Goal of the week

Marcus Tavernier on 38s in a gameweek full of super strikes

Gameweek 23

1	The Craggy Islanders Adrian Roche	77	1497
2	Change Name Richard Clarke	77	1494
3	Cotton & Guns Patrick Martin	89	1470
4	MurderOnZidaneFloor shamil gillani	99	1466
5	Flavian five stars FLAVIAN LITORO	68	1458
6	Your Ad Here Matthew Hopkins	83	1448
7	Finn Harps FPL Trevor Gordon	88	1446
8	Chumbawumba Glenn Kitchener	80	1445
9	Mission Impossible Roy Staines	69	1445
10	Egg Fried Reus Ryan Garoghan	78	1443

11	Blakes11 Steven Darling	88	1441
12	Marsch on Together Michael Williams	75	1438
13	The Ark of Kaark Mark Swift	96	1437
14	Unusual Suspects Harry Birks	91	1436
15	Stranger Mings Harrison Smith	87	1436
16	Red Five mark frankland	81	1435
17	Garnerdonium Paul Hawkins	80	1433
18	Real Cliffe James mulrooney	71	1433
19	Rip Roaring Reds Sean Whyton	79	1432
20	Thunderstruck FC Robert Frost	55	1426

Another double to get our teeth into. A one to go all-out in, perhaps? Three of each of the top two. Won by City – in both real and fantasy terms. Are Arsenal wavering slightly? Bukayo Saka did emerge form the other side as the highest scoring player but he was the only Gunner in double figures. Six City players posted 10 and above.

Another double gives us another week-winning score in and around the century mark, with MurderOnZidaneFloor climbing into the top 5 off the back of a 99 point haul – 74 of which came from their Arsenal/City combination.

Thunderstruck FC and Who Ate All Depays? both scored 55 points and both exit Last Man Standing. Thunderstruck went with not enough City and left 22 points on the bench. Depays, other than Haaland, had no double figure contributions forthcoming from their doublers – and slim pickings elsewhere.

We’ve had the first round of the cup. Most of those that progressed scored in the 80’s and 90’s. There wasn’t much to choose between the majority of scores this week, resulting in some close ties, although no draws (thankfully). Sneaking through with the lowest winning score of 58 points are Yellow Submarine, pipping The Singing Butchers by 5 points. Unlucky losers falling at the first hurdle include Neil Madrid (86), Cotton & Guns (89) and Stranger Mings (87). All could have progressed with a kinder draw. The second round has thrown up one noticable big game – leaders, The Craggy Islanders will face this week’s top scorers, MurderOnZidaneFloor. ShakeItUpAndDown! are our lowest placed surviving team. How much longer can they last? Current holders, It’s A Penal-D, are oot. They will not retain their title, or claim a record third trophy.

Manager of the week	Shamil Gillani	MurderOnZidaneFloor	99 pts
Player of the week	Bukayo Saka	Arsenal	15 pts
Bargain of the week	Kelechi Iheanacho	Leicester City	12 pts
Twat of the week	Mario Lemina	Wolverhampton Wanderers	-2 pts

Goal of the week

Who? Nampalys Mendy at 23s

Gameweek 35+ results

1	FC Caligula Ajay Supeda	61	2178
2	Edgbaston Micheal Dinneen	65	2090
3	Nashton Villa Jaime Nash	55	2087
4	Game of Stones Ryan Garoghan	46	2079
5	Locky Bauer Bowyer Paul Hawkins	57	2075
6	BASHAM’S ARRIVING! Tim Dodd	45	2071
7	GingerFizz Noel Driver	51	2060
8	Sterling Silva DEAN CRIPPS	76	2045
9	Neil Madrid Neil Strong	71	2039
10	Kebab Eaters Utd Paul Howard	50	2020

 

We had two managers with Michail Antonio. Unsurprisingly, they notched the two highest scores of the week. Neither captained him, or had Raheem Sterling in their ranks. He was the player that arguably made the most difference this gameweek. His hat trick earned him 21 points, five shy of Antonio’s total, yet it was his higher ownership that determined whether you went up or down the table. Only 3.5% of teams worldwide had the West Ham forward in their teams compared to nearly 20% picking Sterling. The inclusion of Antonio saw Mister D and Buffoon United surpass the 80 point mark. Mister D won the week with a total of 89, aided and abetted by captaining Anthony Martial and having Gabriel Jesus up front. Other than those four players and Son Heung-Min, the other highest scoring players in a week full of high scoring players were misfits like Oli McBurnie, Dominic Solanke, David McGoldrick, Ryan Fredericks and Junior Stanislas, all of whom are owned by less that 1% of all players. Nobody at all owns Stansilas. NOBODY!

With almost a century on their closest rival FC Caligula look good for the title, although we may have a few more teams in the tussle for sixth. Both Sterling Silva and Neil Madrid were among those making moves this gameweek, gaining double figure swings on most of those teams directly above them. Both of those teams have also survived the next cull in Last Man Standing. Our latest two victims are Stranger Mings and Rip Roaring Reds. Both suffered at the hands of poor weeks for Chelsea, Leicester and Liverpool and the fact that, despite another 5-0 win, Kevin De Bruyne had absolutely nothing to do with any of the Manchester City goals. If only they’d taken a punt on Stanislas.

Manager of the week – Mister D – Mr D Boy – 89 points

Player of the week – Michail Antonio – West Ham United – 26 points

Bargain of the week – Trezeguet – Aston Villa – 16 points

Twat of the week – Caglar Soyuncu – Leicester City – -3 points

Goal of the week – Alexandre Lacazette. 4m09s

Gameweek 34+ results

1	FC Caligula Ajay Supeda	84	2117
2	Game of Stones Ryan Garoghan	51	2037
3	Nashton Villa Jaime Nash	83	2032
4	BASHAM’S ARRIVING! Tim Dodd	72	2030
5	Edgbaston Micheal Dinneen	74	2025
6	Locky Bauer Bowyer Paul Hawkins	76	2018
7	GingerFizz Noel Driver	98	2009
8	Stranger Mings Adam Burnett	91	1981
9	Kebab Eaters Utd Paul Howard	84	1974
10	Rip Roaring Reds Sean Whyton	82	1969

We may have our winner. As the chasing pack alternate between good gameweeks and bad gameweeks, Caligula only have good gameweeks. Another 80+ score sees them jump into the top 10k overall. And it may be five from the next six to take the runners up prizes. There’s another chasing pack of five or six teams all of whom are consistently posting 80 and 90+ scores but it’s proving to be not quite enough to claw back the gap to 6th place. Ginger Fizz have gone big again, almost hitting their third 100+ score of the season. The current Ginger Fizz tactic is score big, score 56, repeat to the end of the season. It might work.

The Fizz didn’t quite hit the century but The Islanders did. They incorporated their bench boost to accumulate 103 points and achieve the gameweek’s highest score. This included four double figure returns, one of whom was John Egan, the Sheffield United defender, who got double digits for the second consecutive week. Obviously, we’ll all be benching him next gameweek.

In Last Man Standing news – we’re down to our final nine. Six of our current top ten remain. Only Relegation Material, down in 25th, sit outside the top 12. We said goodbye to Sterling Silva in 2nd and Alisson Wonderland in 21st after this round of scores. Stranger Mings are the form team with an average of 86 points per gameweek since restart, closely followed by Caligula. Nashton and Rip Roaring Reds have the lowest average. But that average is 72 points. So, let’s just conclude that any one of these teams could win it, such is the high consistency of scoring.

Manager of the week – The Craggy Islanders – Adrian Roche – 103 points

Player of the week – Mohamed Salah – Liverpool -18 points

Bargain of the week -John Egan – Sheffield United – 15 points

Twat of the week – Federico Fernandez – Newcastle United -2 points

Goal of the week – Wilfred Zaha. 1m24s