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Competition Update 17/11/2023
- Roberto Di Statteo
- Nov 17, 2023
- 4 min read
Apologies for the delay; been quite busy and the international break has afforded me some "me time" so I've not done a report in a while :D Plenty to talk about though...
Tablecast
Derek Schofield's third week in a row inside the top 10 sees him in 1st place for the first time. Lee Miller and Angie Stanger Leathes retain their top-10 status albeit falling off a little, while last GW's leader David Osguthorpe has plummeted to 21st. Mal Peary with a very impressive climb of 67 places makes him climber of the week, sitting in 5th position. Pete Charnock is one of only three non-movers, in 15th.
David Smith has fallen the farthest of any of last week's top 10; he's in 38th. John Waters and John Thompson have also dropped into the second quarter (well, 26% but who's counting) of the table. PK Currie's climb of 45 places makes him the second-highest climber of the week but still some way short of Peary's ascent. 8 of the 9 positions between 42 and 50 inclusive are climbers from the third quarter...
... so it stands to reason a fair few of the higher teams in the bottom half of the table are fallers (I say bottom half... technically Rory Shoemaker is in the bottom half because there are only 98 players. Sorry to point this out, but you know what I'm like with making sure things are accurate...). Stuart Latimer is the joint-biggest faller this week (-49, 69th) but only just falling further than Callum Wink (-48, 71st) and Stephen Renforth (-47, 75th).
Finally, the fourth quarter (well, 23.5% so technically Stephen Renforth would be in the fourth quarter... etc.) - Phil Evitt is the other joint-biggest faller (-49, 83rd) and my missus enjoys her equal highest position of the last 7 weeks, in 96th. Richard Rigg, who started promisingly by brushing the top 20 in his first two GWs, has been hovering between the low 80s and the bottom since GW3. He's propping up the table.
*** BREAKING *** Just as I was about to publish this, the news broke that Everton have been docked 10 points with immediate effect. The above table will stand as the status quo after GW12 but the short version is that David Miller has suddenly risen from 11th, into the top 10 for the first time, and right up to top-spot!
The live table can be seen by clicking the "Main Tablecast page" button at the top of this section, or just click the top 10 graphic below:
Scorecast
The final scores in the selected fixtures for Round 7 were:
Brentford 3-2 West Ham
Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal
Luton 1-1 Liverpool
Spurs 1-4 Chelsea
Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle
Man City 3-0 Young Boys
København 4-3 Man Utd
Arsenal 2-0 Sevilla
Suffice to say, it wasn't a particularly high-scoring round with a few shocks in there. Bill Wonders sits 3rd after a joint-top score of 11, whereas David Threadgill's nightmare 2 points see him unseated at the top by Yin Mo, who has occupied one of the top two places every round thus far. Round 7's biggest climber was Lee Miller, up 17 places to 17th.
Michael Hall is equal-farthest faller, dropping 16 places. Elsewhere, nothing higher than 8 until much lower in the table. Lyn Allman climbs 15 and Stevie Spowart drops by the same amount, to be 43rd and 44th respectively.
Anj Luzanycia-Hird (-16, 57th) and David Waters (-15, 58th) among the biggest fallers too. In contrast to the Tablecast table, it should be noted that Phil Evitt is technically in, and Ross Macdonald is on the cusp of, the top half. Geoffrey Selkirk scores (relatively) well with 9 points.
In the bottom... let's just say 'section', shall we?... we see Fantasy League admin Michael Hannard on the equal highest score - and he probably needed it more than Bill Wonders, as did Ian Garrett who's up to 82nd, the third and final person to hit double figures this round. Sorry to say that my missus is the only person in the bottom section who's actually played all 7 rounds... pretty dismal showing with only a point there, darling :S
Both of the top scorers (Bill and Michael) also got three bullseyes apiece, and it was the same three matches:
Newcastle 1-0 Arsenal
Man City 3-0 Young Boys
Arsenal 2-0 Sevilla
Their other results are all different though so it's not suss or anything 😂
Deadline for Round 8 is 25th November, just over a week away.
Fantasy League
GW 12 of the Fantasy League didn't feature any divisional fixtures, just Cup and Tournament.
Cup
I'm taking Lee Girdlestone to a replay that'll take place this GW but, either way, I won't be playing my dad in the last 16 as he's defeated by Enda McGuane. Ross Percy v Joshua Lian also goes to a replay next GW. The fixtures are:
Matthew Pike (NL4) vs David Osguthorpe (PL)
Tony Slater (L1) vs Robert Hutchinson (CH)
Sam Benton (NL2) vs Chris Abbott (L1)
Peter Thompson (L2) vs Graham Hall (PL)
Ross Macdonald (CH) vs John Davidson (L2)
Rob Waters (CH) or Lee Girdlestone (NL3) vs Enda McGuane (CH)
Ben Harper (NL2) vs Graham Clark (L1)
Ross Percy (NL1) or Joshua Lian (NL3) vs Alex Banks (NL2)
Congrats to the other 14 who are in and good luck to everyone who's got a replay, apart from Lee Girdlestone (lol jk)
Tournament
This was the order of the draw, with the players' divisions denoted in the three columns on the right-hand side.
... and here are the Round 2 Leg 1 results:
Nothing to separate Finn Nilsson and Lee Petty at the moment and it's also very close between Roy Parkinson and Ciaran O'Toole, Richard Harrison and Dean Hadfield, Jonathan Adamson and Ian Thirkeld, Ryan Jensen and Ross Macdonald, James Sheppard and Les Anderson, and Greg Surtees and Dan Potter. Meanwhile, David Munroe, Ben Harper, and Graham Clark are strong favourites to get through to Round 3 after big Leg 1 wins over James Crunkhorn, Jack Robson, and Ashley Birchall respectively.
The deadline for changes to your team before GW 13 is 11am on Saturday 25th November and you can get to the Fantasy Premier League official site via the buttons at the top of this section.
TTFN
Rob
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