Wildcard chaos, Pedro hauls and a new leader
Right, strap in — this gameweek actually separated the serious players from the daydreamers. Big hauls at the top, a brutal drop in standards for a few who got comfy. Chips flying everywhere, benches leaking points, and the table has a new boss.
🏆 Gameweek winners
🥇 Zlatí chlapci 2002: 89 points, up from 44 last week — steady, disciplined, no transfers, and the reward is top of the league and a 178,504 overall rank climb.
🥈 Al Kohol AFC: 94 points and a monster 837,222 jump in overall rank, with João Pedro captain on 24 and an improving trend from that shambles of 41 points in GW1 — fair play.
🥉 AFC Trava a ciary: 86 points, their best week of the season, climbing 2,071,770 spots overall and finally turning that “improving” tag into something real.
Last place – Raichester United: 62 points with a -4 hit and 4-point captain Isak, sitting rock bottom in the league and stuck on a -4 streak versus the average — that’s not good enough.
🎩 Captain Fantastic
Captained:
Palmer: 7
João Pedro: 4
Calafiori: 1
Isak: 1
Best captaincy call: The João Pedro armband was the adult choice, with 24 captain points dragging up Al Kohol AFC, CPS Podhradová, AC Chujheli and AFC Trava a ciary — that’s basics done properly.
Captaincy fail: Raichester United on 4-point Isak while their own João Pedro hit 12 and others were doubling him to 24 — you can’t defend that.
📈 Transfer masterclasses
Transfers overview: Most of you kept it clean with no hits, and the ones who did move early in the week either used chips or made simple upgrades, which is how you avoid turning transfers into self-sabotage.
Wildcard: Dfq’s machines and Bolešov United FC both popped the wildcard, landing on 76 and 77 respectively, but when you spend a chip and only beat the average by 1.1 and 2.1 points — you’ve basically just done your job, nothing more.
Hits: FC Buidosh and Raichester United each burned -4 for 62 points, and when you’re miles below the average like that it’s clear the hits are papering over bad structure, not solving it.
😴 Bench d'Or
Biggest bench leak: Bolešov United FC left 23 points rotting on the bench while only scoring 77 — that’s a third of your potential output wasted, a complete shambles in team selection.
Other cases: Dfq’s machines wildcarded and still benched 19 points, while Zlatí chlapci 2002 quietly parked 17 on theirs and got away with one thanks to a strong XI.
⬆️ Rank movement
Biggest green arrow: AFC Trava a ciary shot up 2,071,770 places overall with 86 points and their best week of the season, turning last gameweek’s 53-point slump into a proper response — that’s proper.
Biggest red arrow: AC Chujheli fell 437,923 spots overall and crashed four places in the mini-league to 7th with just 67 points and below-average performance — you’ve bottled it after a good start.
Conclusion: Standards are clear now — pick the right captain, stop gifting points to your bench, respect your chips, and if you’re chasing from the bottom like Raichester United and Nandes9, you fix the basics before anything else; we move on — Your FPL Roy