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So, Harry Kane scored a couple at Wembley in a league match at last – time to make him captain, then.  And that Lukaku, eh? What do you mean, Jose’ll park the bus?

5 players gone this week, 3 of them chose Kane as Captain, while the other 2 had Lukaku.  Neither scored, so both earned just 4 points.  And with the gap to safety anything between 5 and a single point, that becomes very important – particularly if the rest of your team are auditioning for West Ham.  Only one player goes because of transfer costs – I don’t check whether the transfers were themselves worth it, because while schadenfreude may well be enjoyable, there’s a point when it becomes unnecessarily unpleasant.

We do have 1 player who could’ve survived despite having made Kane captain, if he’d only picked the right goalkeeper – normally you’d take the keeper at home to Burnley, but when your other option is at home to Man Utd, hmm.
Still, it’s all good fun, which is easy for me say as I’m no longer involved, I didn’t go to Goodison and I haven’t watched MOTD2, yet.
And my home town team got thumped 6-0 at home in the FA Cup.  What a weekend.

So:

Week 11

Average Score: 45.13 (54 participants) – overall competition average 44

Highest Score: 67 – overall competition high score 120

Overall Competitors: 5,340,120 (an increase of 31,571 over last week – at what point do you think, “Nah, I’ll wait until next year”?)

Eliminated This Week:

With 25 points: Berko Hornets (Tim Buckingham)
Gameweek Rank: 5,124,346
Key Selections:
Captain – Kane (Spurs) : 2=4 – successful alternatives: 0
7 other players scored 10 between them.
Bench
Nothing would’ve helped.

With 25 points: The dragon slayer (Josh Morris)
Gameweek Rank: 5,160,279
Key Selections:
Captain – Kane (Spurs) : 2=4 – successful alternatives: 1 (on bench)
8 other players scored 13 between them
Bench
Playing Courtois (Chelsea) : 7 instead of Forster (Southampton) : 2 would’ve done it.

With 27 points: Happy Hornets (Nick Garvey)
Gameweek Rank: 5,004,467
Key Selections:
Captain – Lukaku (Man Utd) : 2=4 – successful alternatives: 2 (1 on bench)
9 other players scored 16 between them
Bench
Playing Daniels (Bournemouth) : 6 instead of any of those 9.

With 27 points: This Year’s Failure (Steve Temple)
Gameweek Rank: 5,004,467
Key Selections:
Captain – Lukaku (Man Utd) : 2=4 – successful alternatives: 1
8 other players scored 13 between them
Bench
Nothing would’ve helped.

With 29 points: Deeney in a Bottle (Joe Whitbread)
Gameweek Rank: 4,502,509 (based on gross score of 33)
Key Selections:
Transfer costs: -4
Captain – Kane (Spurs) : 2=4 – successful alternatives: 3
7 other players scored 12 between them
Bench
Nothing would’ve helped

Surviving this week:

Athacad (Tony Baines) : 30 (gross 34)
JanmaterOfLife&Death (Paul Harris) : 30
Colchester Hornets (Brad Flack) : 31
Bangkok Hornets (Clive Silver) : 32
Silva Machine (Russ Barker) : 32
The Watford (james Bratton) : 32

Top Scorers:

With 67 points : ABCDE FC (Ian Hayter)
Gameweek Rank: 173,482
Key Selections:
Morata (Chelsea) : (C) 8=16
Baines (bloody Everton) : 12
Mané (Liverpool) : 10

With 67 points : Dublin Over (Mark Carpenter)
Gameweek Rank: 173,482
Key Selections:
De Bruyne (Man City) : (C) 10=20
Salah (Liverpool) : 15
Mané (Liverpool) : 10

So we will are down to 49 players going into Week 12.

Here’s the sheet: WML_LMS_1718_WK11