Gameweek 2 Hall of Shame: the blanks, the cameos, and the captain who cost you
The awards nobody wants from Gameweek 2, starting with Thiago. Every one of them a real number, which is the problem.
The awards nobody wants
Every gameweek produces a handful of moments that are only funny once they cannot hurt you any more. Gameweek 2 has finished, so here they are.
Every award below is a real lookup against the round's data. Nothing here is invented, which is the part that stings.
πͺ¦ The Golden Blank
Β£8.0m buys a lot of things. On this occasion it bought 90 minutes of Thiago and 2 points, which 13.6% of you had budgeted for rather differently.
π§’ The Armband Tax
Haaland was the popular armband and returned 13 points, which the armband turned into 26. A rare week where the crowd and the scoreboard agreed.
π The One You Did Not Own
12 points from Scott, owned by 2%. Somewhere a very small number of people are having their best Saturday of the season and telling absolutely everybody.
β±οΈ Cameo of the Week
18 minutes. 4 points. Diarra did more after coming on than several people did all afternoon, most of them in your starting eleven.
π° Best Value on the Board
DediΔ, Β£4.5m, 11 points, 2.4 per million. Quietly the most sensible thing that happened all weekend.
π― Mugged by the Woodwork
Barry generated 1.48 expected goal involvements and converted precisely none of them. The underlying numbers liked him a great deal more than the scoreboard did, which is either a buy signal or a warning depending on how your season is going.
For the record
The average manager scored 81, the best score in the game was 161, and the gap between them was 80 points β roughly a captain, a bench and a small amount of luck.