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Premier League // Championship // League One // League Two
Gameweek 34 // The Belyea // The Big One // Postseason Preview

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Team of the Week:
SkyPlayerInFPL (2nd time)
89 Points

Score of the Season:
Smash & Grab – 89 FPts (GW27)
SkyPlayerInFPL – 89 FPts (GW33)

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

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Premier League

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Housewives Favourite tie it up at the top with a win over the CL Champions.
• El Dude and Gloopy both move up a place (and three points closer to #1).
• Top 5 all within 7 points. 9 more points available.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Housewives Favourite -v- El Dude Bros – 2nd -v- 3rd
GW 7: 36 – 27 // GW 16: 30 – 37 // GW 25: 59 – 39
Quite simple this one – if Wives Fave win then the Premier League title will almost certainly go down to the final day. If El Dude wins then they’re still in with a shot at the title too, but if they lose then they’re out of the race.

😬 The Run-In ⏱️⏱️⏱️
League leaders Smash & Grab might have the easiest schedule in the league, all three remaining opponents in the bottom half of the table, but are vulnerable to being overtaken after slipping up last week.
Housewives Fave still to play El Dude and R57 before closing out against relegated Boss. The FPts differential against S&G is also not in their favour.
Route 57 face bottom side Barons next (have beaten Barons in all the last three), before facing two top-four teams.
Farkelife still have an outside chance at making fifth and getting a bye in the Intramural League Qualifications. Need to win all three final games.
Gloopy Yarbles are currently the top reserves for a potential open spot in next season’s Champions League. If Hung Like a Bony win the Cup and finish in the top three, the Yarbles could be in with a shot. Then again, if SkyPlayer drop out of League Two’s top three, that reserve spot could go elsewhere.

And with Sporting Wicker Park definitely ending up 6th, 7th or 8th now, whoever finishes 5th will get a bye to the PL’s IMLQ Final.

Pos	Team	Guaranteed Places
1st	Smash & Grab	Top 5
2nd	Housewives Fave	Top 5
3rd	El Dude Bros	Top 5
4th	Gloopy Yarbles	Top 5
5th	Route 57 FC	Top 6
6th	Farkelife	5th – 8th, Guaranteed IMLQ
7th	Mighty fine feeling	6th, 7th or 8th. Guaranteed IMLQ
8th	Sporting Wicker Park	6th, 7th or 8th. No IMLQ. Postseason: Champion of Champions tourney.
9th	Boss	9th, Relegated
10th	Barons	10th, Relegated

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Championship

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Cullen the herd and All Star Gunners couldn’t be separated in GW33. Level on points for third place, close on FPts too. Spray 5 points above in second.
• Cup-Finalists Hung Like a Bony open up a gap over Spray and own a dominating FPts lead, in the League and the Best-ish tournament too.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Vanishing Spray FC -v- All Star Gunners – 2nd -v- 4th
GW 7: 45 – 41 // GW 16: 26 – 40 // GW 25: 67 – 25
Both have an incredible need for these three points this week. Their rivals are in 1st and 3rd and both have much easier games (on paper).

😬 The Run-In ⏱️⏱️⏱️
The race for the title is still very much on. Both Hung and Spray have to face a determined, in-form ASG (WWWWWD) team in the next two weeks. Both also have Chester (10th) to look forward to.
All Star Gunners need to win at least one of those games if they are to keep hopes of top two alive. Cullen have the easier schedule against Fergi, City and Allison.

Pos	Team	Guaranteed Places
1st	Hung Like a Bony	Top 4 (CL or CLQ)
2nd	Vanishing Spray	Top 4 (CL or CLQ)
3rd	Cullen the herd	Top 6
4th	All Star Gunners	Top 6
5th	Fergi Time	3rd – 7th
6th	GoFys FC	3rd – 8th
7th	Webuiltthis City	5th – 8th, Guaranteed IMLQ
8th	Atletico Topo Chico	6th – 8th, Guaranteed IMLQ
9th	Allison Wonderland	9th – 10th, Relegated
10th	A.F.C. Chester	9th – 10th, Relegated

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League One

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Uncle Monty and StillluvQPR blow their opponents away with 70+ scores. The next best was ELU’s 44, who were unfortunate to find themselves up against the league leaders as they tried desperately to advance to an eight-game win streak.
• Peltier did well to improve their position this week. Now sitting in the Champions League Qualifier spot with an edge on CG XI’s FPts total.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Chicken and Bane San -v- Peltier – 7th -v- 4th
GW 7: 62 – 45 // GW 16: 32 – 42 // GW 25: 47 – 52
This is a match that could have big implications at both ends of the table. With third-placed Whiskey de Bruyne up against a team that they haven’t beaten all season and BattleVAR up against second-placed DBT, the winner of this game could take a massive step towards their objective.

😬 The Run-In ⏱️⏱️⏱️
The top two, Monty and De Bruyne Trousers, have apparently identical fixtures in the final three – WdB, BVar and FCSB. Monty have that one point advantage thanks to their GW18 draw against C&BS, but DBT have the better FPts total.
Peltier, CG XI and East Loop United are building towards a battle for the Champions League Qualifiers, but all three can also still reach third. ELU still have to face both of the two teams immediately above them once more.
BattleVAR have perhaps the toughest run-in with all the top four in the final four games. However, with adversity also comes the potential to become League One’s Kingmaker, especially after beating Whiskey.

Pos	Team	Guaranteed Places
1st	Uncle Monty	Top 3 & a 2024 Champions League place
2nd	De Bruyne Trousers	Top 3 & a 2024 Champions League place
3rd	Whiskey de Bruyne	Top 6
4th	Peltier	3rd – 9th
5th	CG XI	3rd – 9th
6th	East Loop United	3rd – 9th
7th	Chicken and Bane San	4th – 9th
8th	BattleVAR Galactico	4th – 9th
9th	StillluvQPR	4th – 9th
10th	FC Santa Barbara	10th, Relegated

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League Two

😲 Eye-Catching Stuff:
• Unlike poor ELU, Goleta Hotspur did make it to eight consecutive wins. No team has completed nine-in-a-row this season and they are the last team that can achieve it. The final hurdle is against the last team to beat them back in GW25, their closest rivals, the team in second – The Phenoms.
• SkyPlayer got the top score of the week and continue to challenge for Best-ish. Top total in the league will give them the advantage should Phenoms draw any of their final three.

🫣 The One to Watch:
Goleta Hotspur -v- The Phenoms – 1st -v- 2nd
GW 7: 64 – 53 // GW 16: 38 – 22 // GW 25: 50 – 60 // GW 30: 43 – 42 (Cup QF)

😬 The Run-In ⏱️⏱️⏱️
Goleta Hotspur could win the title next week if they can beat their closest rivals The Phenoms, however…
The Phenoms know that Goleta do not have an easy run of games and could recover their place at the top.
Also, there is still SkyPlayerInFPL to consider. Despite wallowing in the bottom half of the table for the first twenty-two gameweeks of their rookie season, they could still (mathematically) be crowned champions. First, they would need The Phenoms to win this weekend. They will also need six points from their games against Ole’s at the Wheel & Harambe, and finally the daunting task of going to Goleta needing points on the final day. They are D-L-L vs the league leaders so far.

Pos	Team	Guaranteed Places
1st	Goleta Hotspur	Top 3 & a 2024 Champions League place
2nd	The Phenoms	Top 5
3rd	SkyPlayerInFPL	Top 5
4th	Alleviate the Tedium	2nd – 6th
5th	Jaysokker	2nd – 7th
6th	Ole’s at the Wheel	4th – 8th (CLQ or IMLQ)
7th	Harambe Hotspur	5th – 9th
8th	Sham’s army	6th – 9th
9th	Don’t Tripp on Silva	7th – 9th
10th	Boudi’s Crew	10th

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🌎 World Rankings 🌍

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Next Up:

Gameweek 34

BFFA Premier League	BFFA Championship
Barons -v- Route 57 FC 10th -v- 5th GW 7: 28 – 53 // GW 16: 27 – 28 // GW 25: 36 – 49 Farkelife -v- Smash & Grab 6th -v- 1st GW 7: 28 – 50 // GW 16: 49 – 28 // GW 25: 58 – 83 Housewives Favourite -v- El Dude Bros 2nd -v- 3rd GW 7: 36 – 27 // GW 16: 30 – 37 // GW 25: 59 – 39 Mighty fine feeling -v- Boss 7th -v- 9th GW 7: 62 – 41 // GW 16: 23 – 57 // GW 25: 33 – 39 Sporting Wicker Park -v- Gloopy Yarbles 8th -v- 4th GW 7: 68 – 46 // GW 16: 17 – 57 // GW 25: 43 – 63	Allison Wonderland -v- Fergi Time 4th -v- 5th GW 7: 55 – 63 // GW 16: 42 – 35 // GW 25: 50 – 75 Cullen the herd -v- Webuiltthis City 3rd -v- 7th GW 7: 26 – 44 // GW 16: 47 – 22 // GW 25: 45 – 31 GoFYS FC -v- Atletico Topo Chico 6th -v- 8th GW 7: 32 – 30 // GW 16: 37 – 24 // GW 25: 60 – 41 Hung Like a Bony -v- A.F.C. Chester 1st -v- 10th GW 7: 87 – 18 // GW 16: 33 – 37 // GW 25: 81 – 55 Vanishing Spray FC -v- All Star Gunners 2nd -v- 9th GW 7: 45 – 41 // GW 16: 26 – 40 // GW 25: 67 – 25
BFFA League One	BFFA League Two
CG XI -v- FC Santa Barbara 5th -v- 10th GW 7: 56 – 17 // GW 16: 30 – 45 // GW 25: 41 – 40 Chicken and Bane San -v- Peltier 7th -v- 4th GW 7: 62 – 45 // GW 16: 32 – 42 // GW 25: 47 – 52 De Bruyne Trousers -v- BattleVAR Galactico 2nd -v- 8th GW 7: 47 – 44 // GW 16: 18 – 24 // GW 25: 66 – 46 StillluvQPR -v- East Loop United 9th -v- 6th GW 7: 54 – 44 // GW 16: 29 – 31 // GW 25: 68 – 42 Uncle Monty -v- Whiskey De Bruyne 1st -v- 3rd GW 7: 38 – 30 // GW 16: 44 – 21 // GW 25: 49 – 44	Don’t Tripp on Silva -v- Boudi’s Crew 9th -v- 10th GW 7: 54 – 37 // GW 16: 27 – 16 // GW 25: 45 – 51 Goleta Hotspur -v- The Phenoms 1st -v- 2nd GW 7: 64 – 53 // GW 16: 38 – 22 // GW 25: 50 – 60 Jaysokker -v- Harambe Hotspur 5th -v- 7th GW 7: 33 – 55 // GW 16: 38 – 30 // GW 25: 51 – 49 Ole’s at the wheel -v- SkyPlayerInFPL BFFA 6th -v- 3rd GW 7: 26 – 54 // GW 16: 29 – 32 // GW 25: 72 – 42 Shams army -v- Alleviate the Tedium 8th -v- 4th GW 7: 25 – 50 // GW 16: 32 – 45 // GW 25: 58 – 65

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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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The Phenoms have waited a loooong time for this. They’re a top-ten ranked team and running for automatic promotion out of League Two, but somehow have been held back by this. But fear no more, you Phenoms, with 48 points (seven points above the average) you are free.

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Week Thirty-Four – only 5 teams remain:
A.F.C. Chester, BattleVAR Galactico, Boudi’s Crew, Harambe Hotspur, Ole’s at the wheel

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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 was James Justin with his team Just In Time. This week we welcome Burnley’s Swedish centre-back Hjalmar Ekdal. This week, Ekdal finally registered some serious points. By leaving in the 67th minute with the game goalless, he earned himself a clean sheet and three bonus points for being named man of the match. Unfortunately, he didn’t put himself in his own team this week, but he did have Haaland and Palmer, so still scored pretty well.

HjalMardrid are top of the Burnley-friendly All Players Softness league by a clear 170 fantasy points. It’s going to take a lot for second-placed Scott Twine to catch up in the final five gameweeks. Scott, currently on loan from Burnley to Bristol City, will be our featured FPL player next week.

Postseason Preview

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

Postseason Tournaments

In the final two gameweeks, all forty teams will be involved in one of the postseason tournaments.
Click on the drop-downs to see more detail about each:

⚽︎ Champion of Champions

⚽︎ The Champions of each league, the BFFA Cup winners and the Champions League winners will take part in a Champion-of-Champions tournament.
This season, as there will be five or six teams in the CoC, the top two GW37 scores will qualify for the GW38 Grand Final.

⚽︎ Runners-Up Trophy

⚽︎ The 4x Second-placed teams, the 4x Third-placed teams, the Champions League Runners-Up (Gloopy Yarbles) and the BFFA Cup Runners-Up (assuming that they’re not also league champions) will play in a Runners-Up pool. They will play to see who can get the best total out of the final two gameweeks.

⚽︎ Champions League Qualifiers

⚽︎ The 4x Fourth-placed teams will play-off for two Champions League places.

The teams will be seeded by their Fantasy Points total.
#1 will play #4 over two legs, and #2 faces #3.

If, however, the BFFA Cup winners (TBD) finish in fourth place, then the topscoring fourth-placed team will automatically be entered into next season’s Champions League, and the other two will playoff (across GWs 37 & 38) for the remaining slot.

⚽︎ The Intramural League Qualifers

⚽︎ 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.

For the 2024 Intramural League, one team from each league goes forward to the IML QF’s. Essentially, GW37 is the First Round of next season’s IML competition.

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.

⚽︎ The Wooden Spoon

⚽︎ Every season needs an outright loser, right? 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 Last Place Trophy.

Some teams will be involved in more than one competition (for example, the Playoff teams will also be involved in the RUT or IMLQ’s).

In the graphic above, if the tables remain as they are at the end of GW36, the teams in yellow would be involved in the Champion of Champions tournament. This will also include the BFFA Cup winners. The remaining four teams in the Cup have a ‘(c)’ beside their name. Sporting Wicker Park will also be involved as CL Winners.

The teams in grey (including the CL runners-up Gloopy Yarbles) will be entered into the Runners-Up Trophy, and the teams finishing in the green positions will start next season early with the IML Preliminary Rounds.

And finally, the teams finishing in the purple positions (3rd and 8th) will also have a playoff game to contend…

Playoffs

After the end of Gameweek 36, we will be able to confirm the final league positions of all 40 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 the place.

The 2024 Champions League

There will be sixteen teams entered into next season’s Champions League:
⚽︎ The top three from each League,
⚽︎ 2x postseason qualifiers (from the fourth-placed finishers),
⚽︎ The current Champions League Winners (Sporting Wicker Park),
⚽︎ The BFFA Cup Winners (one of the two remaining – Hung Like a Bony or StillluvQPR).

If the BFFA Cup Winners finish in the top three in their league, then there will be an open place which will go to the highest-scoring team(s) that finish below a top three place (see the reserve list in the graphic above).

If the Cup winners finish in fourth place then the highest-scoring other fourth-placed team will get an automatic place in the 2024 Champions League.

The Best-ish Team of the Season

Finally, the Best-ish tournament will continue right until the end of Gameweek 38.
The team that finishes top of the leaderboard will win the prize money and have their names written down in history (by which we mean – on the Teams page here). Shiny.