Ladies and Gentlemen, this weekend will see the BFFA host its 5,000th game!
The BFFA has hosted 26 Leagues, 5 Champions Leagues, 8 BFFA Cups and will have its first Super Cup later this season. We have had 75 teams competing across seven seasons, scoring over 395,000 matchpoints and, so far, 17 different teams have been crowned Champions.
The 5,000th Game
There have been 4,987 matches up to this point. Reading down the fixture list, division by division (and alphabetically within), the golden game will be: Gloopy Yarbles versus Goleta Hotspur.
Gloopy Yarbles joined the BFFA in 2017. They came Third in League Two in their first season and were promoted to League One. The following season they played in the Champions League and came third in the Group of Death. All four sides had three wins and three losses. The Yarbles missed out on the Champions League Quarter-Finals by a matter of total matchpoints, but they did qualify for the Intramural League and made it as far as the Semi-Finals before losing to eventual winners FC Santa Barbara.
This match will be Gloopy’s 150th. They have won 81 of those and have never had a draw.
Goleta Hotspur are one of the nine legends that have featured in every season. They finished 6th in the DRF in our inaugural season and were one of the ten teams that formed the first Premier League. In 2018 they made the Quarter-Finals of the Champions League after topping their Group, where they went out to the team that won the tournament, All Star Gunners.
This will be Goleta’s 261st match. Their all-time record is W109, D6, L146 and they are just 116 fantasy points shy of hitting 10,000.
The two teams played each other for the first time in the sixth week of this season. Goleta walked out winners without even scoring a goal in the game. Four assists (two from Danny Ings) and a Hugo Lloris clean sheet away at Burnley was enough to out-muscle Gloopy Yarbles 34-29, despite goals from Phil Foden and Raul Jimenez for the home team at Orange Stadium. Goleta climbed a place to fourth that week and Gloopy dropped a place to second.
Nine matches later, the two met again at Goleta’s Hollister Avenue and the game had a very similar outcome. Goleta won 33-29 with both teams scoring a goal apiece; Anwar El Ghazi scoring against Palace for Goleta and Bruno Fernandes giving United a brief lead against Leicester for Yarbles. Hotspur managed to claim one assist more and one yellow card less than the Yarbles and won by four. Hotspur remained third and the Yarbles fourth, and there they remained until two weeks ago when Gloopy won 61-30 and leapfrogged them into the promotion places.
Gloopy Yarbles are currently third in League One, three points ahead of Goleta Hotspur but twelve points behind second. In the Best-ish table there is a wide gap between the pair; Gloopy are 4th and could still fight for the title while Goleta are 28th, 200FPts below their rivals. But that doesn’t matter here. With both teams fighting for third place and promotion to the Championship, the Association’s 5,000th game is going to be a real six-pointer!
Some BFFA Records
Highest Winning Score:
116 FPts – Mighty fine feeling vs. PSV Wide Open (116-74)
League Two, Gameweek 37, 2016/17 Season
Highest Losing Score:
81 FPts – The Money Team (81-85) FC Santa Barbara
Premier League, Gameweek 37, 2017/18 Season
Lowest Winning Score:
9 FPts – Goleta Hotspur vs. Thierryierre (9-3)
Championship, Gameweek 28, 2016/17 Season
Highest Scoring Match:
190 FPts – Mighty fine feeling 116-74 PSV Wide Open
League Two, Gameweek 37, 2016/17 Season
Lowest Scoring Match:
12 FPts – Goleta Hotspur 9-3 Thierryierre
Championship, Gameweek 28, 2016/17 Season
12 FPts – SB Town UAOB 11-1 The London 49ers
Premier League, Gameweek 28, 2016/17 Season
Biggest Score Draw:
126 FPts – Hung like a Bony 63-63 Route 57 FC
League Two, Gameweek 34, 2017/18 Season
Lowest Score Draw:
32 FPts – Mourinho-LO 16-16 The Globes FC
League Two, Gameweek 35, 2017/18 Season
Most Points in a Champions League Match:
82 FPts – All Star Gunners vs. AC Reykjavik BayCactus (82-52)
2018 Champions League Semi-Final
Highest Scoring Champions League Match:
134 FPts – All Star Gunners 82-52 AC Reykjavik BayCactus
2018 Champions League Semi-Final
Highest Scoring Champions League Final:
100 FPts – KH Granitza Sting 50-50 SB Town UAOB
2015 Champions League Final. KH Granitza won the tiebreaker on Goals Scored (2-1)
Biggest Champions League Score Draw:
112 FPts – Mighty fine feeling 56-56 Sporting Wicker Park
Group B, Matchday 5, 2017 Champions League
Most Points in a Cup Game:
81 FPts – Sporting Wicker Park vs. KH Granitza Sting (81-62)
Second Round, 2017 BFFA Cup
Highest Scoring Cup Game:
143 FPts – Sporting Wicker Park 81-62 KH Granitza Sting
Second Round, 2017 BFFA Cup
Highest Scoring Cup Final:
138 FPts – Smash & Grab 79-59 Wijnaldum Leviosa
2019 BFFA Cup Final
Biggest Cup Score Draw:
106 FPts – Mighty fine feeling 53-53 Goleta Hotspur
Third Round, 2017 BFFA Cup
Most Games Played:
1st: Vanishing Spray FC – 292 (W148, D7, L137, FPts: 11,660)
(League games – 241; Champions League – 36; BFFA Cup – 15)
2nd: Sporting Wicker Park – 290
3rd: SB Town UAOB – 286
Most Titles:
5: Tralfamadore Zoo – Best-ish (2020), Champions League (2019), BFFA Cup (2018), League One (2019), League Two (2018)
4: Bigo1: – Best-ish (2015 & 2018), Premier League (2018), DLF (2015)
4: Mighty fine feeling – Best-ish (2017 & 2019), Champions League (2017), League Two (2017)
4: SB Town UOAB – Champions League (2016), BFFA Cup (2015 & 2016), Premier League (2017)
3: Smash & Grab – Best-ish (2016), BFFA Cup (2019), Championship (2017)
Most Wins:
1st: Smash & Grab – 159 total wins
2nd: Bigo1 – 151 wins
3rd: SB Town UAOB – 150 wins
4th: Sporting Wicker Park – 149 wins
5th: Vanishing Spray FC – 148 wins
6th: GoFYS FC – 147 wins
Most Draws:
1st: Chicken and Bacon Sané – 14 draws in 249 games
Joint 2nd: Cornballers FC, East Loop United and SB Town – 11 draws
Best Win Percentage:
Tralfamadore Zoo – Won 65.0% of their games (104 wins from 160 games)
Most Fantasy Points Scored:
1st: Sporting Wicker Park – 12,448 FPts (from 290 games)
2nd: Bigo1 – 11,788 FPts (from 264 games)
3rd: SB Town UAOB – 11,757 FPts (from 286 games)
Nine other teams have also scored over 10,000 FPts:
AC Reykjavik BC (10,053), All Star Gunners (10,580), Bigger than Brolin (10,083), East Loop United (11,504), GoFYS FC (11,125), K.H. Granitza Sting FC (10,988), Smash & Grab (11,668), The Money Team (10,330) and Vanishing Spray FC (11,660).
And it’s also worth noting that four more teams are close to joining them this season – Cornballers FC (9,181) FC Santa Barbara (9,629), Goleta Hotspur (9,884) and Mighty fine feeling (9,680).
Most 1-Point Wins:
1st: 12 – Cornballers FC
2nd: 11 – FC Santa Barbara
3rd: 10 – All Star Gunners, East Loop United
Most 1-Point Losses:
1st: 12 – Smash & Grab
=2nd: 9 – Cabezazo Increíble FC, Cornballers FC, KH Granitza Sting, RelicFC, The Globes
Most League Points in a Season:
93 Points – Route 57 FC, 2018/19 (31 wins, 7 losses)
Most Fantasy Points in a Season:
2,087 FPts – Bigo1, 2017/18
Most League Matches Won:
1st: Smash & Grab – 130
2nd: Bigo1 – 129
3rd: GoFYS FC – 126
4th: SB Town, Sporting Wicker Park, Vanishing Spray – 123
Most League Fantasy Points:
1st: Sporting Wicker Park – 10,282 FPts
2nd: East Loop United – 10,002 FPts
3rd: Bigo1 – 9,829 FPts
4th: SB Town UAOB – 9,827 FPts
Most Champions League Matches Won:
1st: All Star Gunners – 24
2nd: Sporting Wicker Park – 19
=3rd: GoFYS FC, Mighty fine feeling, Vanishing Spray – 18
Most Champions League Fantasy Points:
1st: Sporting Wicker Park – 1,555 FPts
2nd: All Star Gunners – 1,545 FPts
3rd: KH Granitza Sting – 1,491 FPts
Most BFFA Cup Matches Won:
=1st: Smash & Grab, Wijnaldum Leviosa – 13
=3rd: SB Town UAOB, stilluvQPR – 12
Most BFFA Cup Fantasy Points:
1st: Smash & Grab – 977 FPts
2nd: Wijnaldum Leviosa – 922 FPts
3rd: SB Town UAOB – 744 FPts
4th: stilluvQPR – 736 FPts
Thanks to everybody who has joined in so far. Big thanks to everybody who helped to set this whole thing up seven years ago and to everyone who has contributed to it since.
Hope you all enjoy the rest of the season. All the best.
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