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Premier League // Championship // League One // League Two
Gameweek 29 // The Belyea // The Big One // Post Season Preview

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Team of the Week:
Goleta Hotspur (2nd time)
70 Points

Score of the Season:
Smash & Grab – 89 FPts (GW27)

Game of the Season:
Smash & Grab 89 – 68 Sporting Wicker Park (GW27)

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Premier League

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Only one positional change in the Premier League table this week – Route 57 move one place up, Gloopy drop one place down.
• Annoyingly for the Yarbles, Smash & Grab won their match with the same score. Smash’s 7th win in a row now gives them a 5-point cushion at the top and puts Wives Fave on the back foot.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Housewives Favourite -v- Gloopy Yarbles – 2nd -v- 4th
GW 2: 58 – 44 // GW 11: 25 – 18 // GW 20: 38 – 64
Hard to ignore this one with so much at stake. Gloopy Yarbles are fifth in the Best-ish rankings and over 100 FPts better off than Wives Fave. So a win this weekend would move them above the Championship champions and into the money places. A lot may depend on how well Wissa does compared to Morris. If Route 57 and/or Smash also slip up in their short-handed games then the top of the Premier will be even more interesting than it already is.

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Championship

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Hung Like a Bony, Fergi Time and All Star Gunners impressed and all deservedly move up the table.
• Spray prevented from fifth consecutive win by the top score in the league, a 62 registered by Cullen the herd who close the gap to six points. Next, Cullen are to play the only other team above them, the new league leaders, in the four-match gameweek this weekend.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Hung Like a Bony -v- Cullen the herd – 1st -v- 3rd
GW 2: 57 – 46 // GW 11: 32 – 31 // GW 20: 52 – 40
Both teams in good form and climbing the league. Both collected three wins in the last four and look at those scores last week! Both hit 60 and come into this game all guns blazing, keep an eye out for Watkins (Hung) and Ogbene (Cullen) on the scoresheets. But how will they navigate through the tricky gameweek, and beyond…?

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League One

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Uncle Monty end De Bruyne Trousers’ six-game win streak, and extend their own to seven!
• CG XI win midtable six-pointer over C&BS and steal fourth place. Onana and Aït-Nouri dealing the most damage.

🫣 The One to Watch:
De Bruyne Trousers -v- Chicken and Bane San – 2nd -v- 5th
GW 2: 54 – 22 // GW 11: 40 – 21 // GW 20: 54 – 59
C&BS won the last meeting in dramatic fashion, edging out DBT by 5FPts as the top-two-scoring teams in the league that week played out a 114-pt barnburner. A goal from Douglas Luis and two assists from Ollie Watkins beat Burnley and DBT in the process. This week – Watkins, Douggie Luiz, and Morris (who used to play for DBT), three of the top six highest-scoring players who are active this coming weekend, will go up against JWP, Kulusevski, and Diaby for second-placed DBT, plus Werner, Toney and Maupay who can also do some damage.

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League Two

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Boudi’s Crew have done it again – they beat the league leaders from tenth for the third time this season and make the league far, far more interesting.
• SkyPlayer finally grasp third place, stealing it directly out of Alleviate’s hands.
• Ole’s at the Wheel back in the thick of it with a handy win over Jaysokker.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Shams army -v- SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA – 9th -v- 3rd
GW 2: 68 – 29 // GW 11: 31 – 52 // GW 20: 59 – 40
Surprisingly, ninth-placed Shams army have taken two wins out of their three meetings with SkyPlayer. The latter, now third and flying, will be without Richarlison for another week, but will be pinning their hopes on the Brentford trio of Flekken, Wissa and, hopefully, Mbeumo. Meanwhile, Sham’s lot are holding on to an Ace card in Ivan Toney, to accompany a Luton trio of Doughty, Barkley and Woodrow. Keep your eyes fixed on these Saturday 3pm games.

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🌎 World Rankings 🌍

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Next Up:

Gameweek 29

BFFA Premier League	BFFA Championship
El Dude Bros -v- Boss 5th -v- 9th GW 2: 43 – 28 // GW 11: 66 – 18 // GW 20: 45 – 32 Housewives Favourite -v- Gloopy Yarbles 2nd -v- 4th GW 2: 58 – 44 // GW 11: 25 – 18 // GW 20: 38 – 64 Mighty fine feeling -v- Smash & Grab 8th -v- 1st GW 2: 17 – 49 // GW 11: 64 – 30 // GW 20: 27 – 46 Route 57 FC -v- Farkelife 3rd -v- 6th GW 2: 32 – 42 // GW 11: 27 – 53 // GW 20: 25 – 54 Sporting Wicker Park -v- Barons 7th -v- 10th GW 2: 49 – 38 // GW 11: 51 – 21 // GW 20: 36 – 28	Atletico Topo Chico -v- All Star Gunners 8th -v- 5th GW 2: 26 – 52 // GW 11: 30 – 40 // GW 20: 33 – 41 GoFysFC -v- A.F.C. Chester 7th -v- 10th GW 2: 50 – 28 // GW 11: 49 – 50 // GW 20: 37 – 34 Hung Like a Bony -v- Cullen the herd 1st -v- 3rd GW 2: 57 – 46 // GW 11: 32 – 31 // GW 20: 52 – 40 Vanishing Spray FC -v- Fergi Time 2nd -v- 4th GW 2: 49 – 35 // GW 11: 40 – 26 // GW 20: 34 – 32 Webuiltthis City -v- Allison Wonderland 6th -v- 9th GW 2: 22 – 39 // GW 11: 38 – 22 // GW 20: 45 – 42
BFFA League One	BFFA League Two
CG XI -v- Whiskey De Bruyne 4th -v- 3rd GW 2: 45 – 47 // GW 11: 31 – 39 // GW 20: 51 – 17 De Bruyne Trousers -v- Chicken and Bane San 2nd -v- 5th GW 2: 54 – 22 // GW 11: 40 – 21 // GW 20: 54 – 59 East Loop United -v- FC Santa Barbara 7th -v- 10th GW 2: 28 – 28 // GW 11: 53 – 10 // GW 20: 43 – 12 Peltier -v- Uncle Monty 6th -v- 1st GW 2: 31 – 48 // GW 11: 45 – 62 // GW 20: 33 – 46 StillluvQPR -v- BattleVAR Galactico 9th -v- 8th GW 2: 39 – 49 // GW 11: 47 – 31 // GW 20: 33 – 47	Alleviate the Tedium -v- The Phenoms 4th -v- 1st GW 2: 24 – 43 // GW 11: 32 – 46 // GW 20: 43 – 49 Boudi’s Crew -v- Jaysokker 10th -v- 5th GW 2: 22 – 45 // GW 11: 28 – 24 // GW 20: 39 – 48 Goleta Hotspur -v- Harambe Hotspur 2nd -v- 7th GW 2: 35 – 24 // GW 11: 28 – 29 // GW 20: 58 – 25 Ole’s at the wheel -v- Don’t Tripp on Silva 6th -v- 8th GW 2: 45 – 31 // GW 11: 48 – 46 // GW 20: 22 – 31 Shams army -v- SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA 9th -v- 3rd GW 2: 68 – 29 // GW 11: 31 – 52 // GW 20: 59 – 40

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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!

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Second-best score overall on the extended gameweek (just one fantasy point shy of topscore), this week’s escapees are a strong team and it’s a surprise that they’ve remained here this long. This week we say goodbye to Uncle Monty. Cheer-io!

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Week Twenty-Nine: 10 teams remain –
A.F.C. Chester, BattleVAR Galactico, Boudi’s Crew, FC Santa Barbara, Harambe Hotspur, Jaysokker, Ole’s at the wheel, Route 57 FC, The Phenoms, Whiskey de Bruyne.

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The Big One

On top of hosting a league for the BFFA faithful, we are also involving some unsuspecting stars of the game in our classic league. Last week, AFC Bournemouth’s Marcus Tavernier’s TeamTav. This week, just a day after the Cherries’ almighty comeback against Luton, relieved defender Chris Mepham. Chris is managing an FPL team called Ctrl Alt De Ligt, who are leading the Cherries Cup 🍒.

Post Season Preview

Over the next few gameweeks I will try to keep you updated here about how the postseason is shaping up and what to look out for. Here’s a brief overview of how the postseason will play out.

As it stands:

Playoffs:

Firstly, after the end of Gameweek 36, we will be able to confirm the final league positions of all the teams. All the top three teams will be awarded a payout.

The top two teams (Champ., Lge 1 & Lge 2) will get promotion and the bottom two teams will be doomed to relegation. We will then also have the fixtures for our three Play-offs:
⚽︎ 8th, Premier League -v- 3rd, Championship ⚽︎
⚽︎ 8th, Championship -v- 3rd, League One ⚽︎
⚽︎ 8th, League One -v- 3rd, League Two ⚽︎
Two legs, best aggregate score wins their place.

Postseason Tournaments

Secondly, all forty teams will be involved in one of the post-season tournaments in the final two weeks.
⚽︎ The Champions of each league, the BFFA Cup Winners and the Champions League Winners will take part in a Champion-of-Champions tournament.
⚽︎ The 4x Second-placed teams, the 4x Third-placed teams, the Champions League Runners-Up and the BFFA Cup Runners-Up will play in a ten-team Runners-Up pool. They will play to see who can get the best total out of the final two gameweeks.
⚽︎ The 4x Fourth-placed teams will play-off for two Champions League places.
⚽︎ The teams in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th will play in IML Qualifiers. One team from each League will play in next season’s Intramural League.
⚽︎ And the teams finishing the season in 9th and 10th will play in a Wooden Spoon pool. The worst two scores in GW37 will play in a GW38 head-to-head where the loser gets the wooden spoon.

Some teams will be involved in more than one competition (namely – the playoff teams and the Cup & the CL runners-up).

Champions League Entries

Thirdly, there will be sixteen teams qualifying for next season’s Champions League.

➣ The top three from each League,
➣ The Champions League Winners (Sporting Wicker Park),
➣ The BFFA Cup Winners (eight remain),
➣ 2x Champions League Qualifiers.

If the Champions League Winners (Sporting Wicker Park) and/or the BFFA Cup Winners finish in the top three in their league, the open place will go to the highest-scoring team(s) that finish below a top three place.
If the CL/Cup winners finish in fourth place then the highest-scoring fourth-placed team will get an automatic place in the 2024 Champions League.
Unless a CL/Cup winner finishes in fourth, then the 4x fourth-placed teams will be seeded by fantasy points total; #1 will play #4 over two legs and #2 faces #3.

Intramural League Qualifiers

For the 2024 Intramural League, each league hosts a mini-qualifying tournament to put one team forward.
GW37: 5th v 8th and 6th v 7th
GW38: Winner v Winner.
If the CL/Cup winner(s) finish in 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th, then the highest-placed remaining team gets a bye to their division’s IML qualifier final.

Finally, The Best-ish tournament will continue right until the end of Gameweek 38.