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Premier League // Championship // League One // League Two
Gameweek 13 // The Belyea // The Big One
Team of the Week:
Webuiltthis City
67 Points
Score of the Season:
Hung Like a Bony – 87 FPts (GW7)
Game of the Season:
Smash & Grab 70 – 61 Gloopy Yarbles (GW6)
Premier League
😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Smash & Grab break away as leaders; Route 57 lose in 100-pt thriller.
• Farkelife prevent Wives Fave going second despite having four players scoring zero, put nine points between themselves and ninth.
Championship
😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Cullen the herd and Fergi Time both came from behind to win their games.
• The top three now locked together on 9 wins; only 33 FPts between them.
• Hung Like a Bony win the clash at the top, move up to first and set up another 1st-v-2nd for GW13.
Last meeting: Hung 20 – 46 City.
League One
😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Five of the top six win; just three points between the new top five. The top three level on points.
• Peltier with a big return win over BVAR who beat them 55-48 last time out. They play the league leaders in the next match; won the last encounter 56-42.
• Whiskey De Bruyne now on a 4-game winning streak. Face ELU next; lost 44-43 in the last meeting.
League Two
😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• For the second week in a row, Harambe Hotspur won by the narrowest of margins, and again, it was thanks to the substitutions bringing on that one pivotal point.
• After beating the team at the top, Harambe are now unbeaten in eight games and climbed from 9th to 2nd. GW13: vs. the last team to beat them – Alleviate the Tedium.
• Just one point separates the top three!
🌎 World Rankings 🌍
This week’s headlines:
World Rankings – Top 5 this week:
#1) Smash & Grab – 1919.27
#2) Mighty fine feeling – 1891.22
#3) Sporting Wicker Park – 1883.28
#4) Route 57 FC – 1811.55
#5) (▲2) Gloopy Yarbles – 1797.65
Biggest Win:
De Bruyne Trousers: +50.55 points
After beating Housewives Favourite #5
Most Places Climbed:
Harambe Hotspur: +5 places to 41st
Next week’s League highlights:
Biggest pairing:
Smash & Grab #1 vs. El Dude Bros #7
(Combined 3710.95 points)
Closest matchup:
Don’t Tripp on Silva #75 vs. Sham’s army #79
(8.77 points difference)
David vs Goliath Game of the Week:
GoFys FC #22 vs. Cullen the herd #6
(313.15 points difference)
Best Streaks:
Hung Like a Bony (6 Wins)
GW13: vs. Web City (WWW LWW -)
Harambe Hotspur (8 Unbeaten)
GW13: vs. Alleviate the Tedium (W4,L4 in last 8)
Next Up:
Gameweek 13
| BFFA Premier League | BFFA Championship |
| Barons -v- Housewives Favourite 9th v 3rd // GW4: 42 – 48 Farkelife -v- Mighty fine feeling 8th v 7th // GW4: 34 – 39 Gloopy Yarbles -v- Boss 5th v 10th // GW4: 49 – 49 Smash & Grab -v- El Dude Bros 1st v 6th // GW4: 35 – 31 Sporting Wicker Park -v- Route 57 FC 4th v 2nd // GW4: 41 – 47 | A.F.C. Chester -v- All Star Gunners 10th v 6th // GW4: 30 – 77 Allison Wonderland -v- Vanishing Spray FC 9th v 3rd // GW4: 36 – 45 Cullen the herd -v- GoFysFC 4th v 8th // GW4: 42 – 32 Fergi Time -v- Atletico Topo Chico 5th v 7th // GW4: 36 – 49 Hung Like a Bony -v- Webuiltthis City 1st v 2nd // GW4: 20 – 46 |
| BFFA League One | BFFA League Two |
| BattleVAR Galactico -v- FC Santa Barbara 8th v 10th // GW4: 36 – 10 Chicken and Bane San -v- StillluvQPR 2nd v 7th // GW4: 34 – 27 De Bruyne Trousers -v- Peltier 1st v 4th // GW4: 42 – 56 Uncle Monty BFF -v- CG XI 5th v 9th // GW4: 50 – 41 Whiskey De Bruyne -v- East Loop United 3rd v 6th // GW4: 43 – 44 | Don’t Tripp on Silva -v- Sham’s army 8th v 9th // GW4: 26 – 26 Harambe Hotspur -v- Alleviate the Tedium 2nd v 6th // GW4: 34 – 40 Jaysokker -v- Goleta Hotspur 1st v 5th // GW4: 49 – 49 Ole’s at the wheel -v- Boudi’s Crew 4th v 10th // GW4: 27 – 26 SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA -v- The Phenoms 7th v 3rd // GW4: 42 – 49 |
The Belyea Cup
Welcome back to The Belyea Memorial Cup, ‘Rewarding Excellence in Its Many Forms’, where everyone is a winner (except one).
The game is simple – if you get the best score of the remaining teams, you escape.
Each week at least one team gets out, sometimes more, because they are excellent!
▲ You get up to 38 gameweeks to remove yourself from consideration. ▲
▼🏆▼ The last team to be eliminated… gets the Belyea Cup. ▼🏆▼
If there’s more than one team left after the final gameweek then they all, you know, jointly receive this unique award!
After a dozen attempts, Webuiltthis City found four players that made double-figures and grabbed themselves a top score. Bonus.
In Week Thirteen: 26 teams – Barons, Boss, Farkelife, Gloopy Yarbles, Housewives Favourite, Mighty fine feeling, Route 57 FC, Sporting Wicker Park, AFC Chester, Allison Wonderland, Atletico Topo Chico, Fergi Time, GoFYS FC, Vanishing Spray FC, BattleVAR Galactico, CG XI, FC Santa Barbara, Peltier, Uncle Monty, Whiskey de Bruyne, Boudi’s Crew, Harambe Hotspur, Jaysokker, Ole’s at the wheel, SkyPlayerInFPL, The Phenoms.
The Big One
It’s the BFFA Big One. The tried and tested (albeit inferior) traditional form of English Fantasy Football that requires each manager to build a team with a budget of £150,000,000. These teams must have no more than three players from any PL club, excessive transfers are penalised by point deductions, and everyone gets a Haaland (if they want one). Every team also gets to pick a Captain and there are bonus chips to play across the season – Wildcards, a Bench Boost, a Free Hit and Triple Captain points. This is a classic-style fantasy league, open to all BFFA managers past and present.
Top scorers this week are declared Everton fans –
You Beto Believe It!
They have had four top-10k finishes in the FPL (the highest being #2,098 in 2016 [applause]) and they moved up over 900,000 places with their green arrow this week. That moved them up three places in The Big One and well within reach of the top four.
That top four however remain very competitive, all with 80+ scores, and Gloopy increase their lead at the top to twenty clear points. Now in second place is Smoky Bacon, closely followed by Peltier & the ever-present Ampadu-du-du just two points behind.
Also note the superb effort by BFFA newcomers De Bruyne Trousers, hitting 90 with a big push from Captain Salah & Tsimikas, and moving out of the bottom three.
On top of hosting a league for the BFFA faithful, we are also involving some unsuspecting stars of the game in our classic league. This week we are “inviting” in Newcastle United’s Anthony Gordon. The Liverpool-born left winger has put four shots away so far this season, including the only goal of the game against Arsenal last week and one of the fourteen that went past Wes Foderingham in September. Managing under his psuedonym Johnny Drama (and verified by Fplbot), AG is last in the NUFC players league (and falling behind). But at least he has put faith in Trippier and Longstaff!
Anthony Gordon made his debut for the England Under-21’s two years ago, scoring twice in seven minutes in a 3-1 win over Czech Rep. in a qualification match for the U21’s European Championship. England qualified as Group Winners (with Czechia in second) and played the tournament in June and July this summer. England won the Euros with a 1-0 win over Spain. Gordon scored two in the earlier stages and was announced Player of the Tournament.
Next weekend will be an international break, so we are moving our spotlight onto League One. Gordon, of course, came through the Everton ranks and before he won the Euros with England, he had won the U23’s Premier League with the junior Toffees in 2019, under the management of Everton legend David Unsworth. Also in that squad was a Northern Irish international, now playing in the third tier. This attacking midfielder has moved from Everton to Blackpool, via the scenic route of Falkirk to the north and Linfield to the west.
He has scored goals across Europe, from Derry to Qarabag. He has won two league titles in Northern Ireland, one NI Cup, once Player of the Season (2021) and once the NI Premier League’s Golden Boot (also 2021). More recently he scored a beautiful bar-rattler in the FA Cup last week (which we will link for you in the next write-up). Before we return though, Blackpool have fixtures against Morecambe, Shrewsbury and top-of-the-league Portsmouth, so hopefully he finds the net again at least once in the next three (hopefully more than once against Pompey…!🤞)
Have a nice break! 🥳
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