Gameweek 6 Hall of Shame: the blanks, the cameos, and the captain who cost you
The awards nobody wants from Gameweek 6, starting with B.Fernandes. Every one of them a real number, which is the problem.
The awards nobody wants
The serious write-up of Gameweek 6 is elsewhere on this desk. This is the other one: the same numbers, read for entertainment rather than instruction.
Every award below is a real lookup against the round's data. Nothing here is invented, which is the part that stings.
The Golden Blank
B.Fernandes cost £11.9m and returned 1 point from 90 minutes at home to TOT. 35% of managers watched all of it.
The Armband Tax
Haaland was the popular armband and returned 6 points, which the armband turned into 12. A rare week where the crowd and the scoreboard agreed.
The One You Did Not Own
Henderson (£4.9m) scored 18 while owned by 0.3% of managers. The other 99.7% are currently explaining to themselves that they would never have started him, which is true, and beside the point.
Cameo of the Week
2 minutes. 7 points. Hadjam did more after coming on than several people did all afternoon, most of them in your starting eleven.
Best Value on the Board
Henderson at £4.9m returned 18 — 3.7 points per million. Premium ownership is a lifestyle choice and this is the invoice.
Mugged by the Woodwork
Delap generated 1.07 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 58, the best score in the game was 131, and the gap between them was 73 points — roughly a captain, a bench and a small amount of luck.