GW2 Update
This is your weekly EHU Business School Fantasy Football League update (arriving a little later than intended due to something called “annual leave”). I am writing this from an Avanti train currently making its way from Edinburgh to Preston, so apologies for any typos.
We now have 74 students, staff and alumni participating in our inaugural league. This is sure to grow once our new first year students rock-up to campus in October and add their team to our league.
You can still enter a team and join the league – though will only score points from GW3 onwards. For those who have a team, but haven’t added it to our league yet, you can still join (with all your points). In both cases, click this link to take part.
GW2 in Review
They say it’s a marathon, not a sprint. They say you shouldn’t make “rage transfers” on a Saturday afternoon when Guardiola chooses the wrong players and “Pep Roulette” plays havoc with your plans. But they also said that captaining Mo Salah in GW2 was a no-brainer.
52% of us did exactly that, handing the armband to the curly-haired, Kopite, penalty box menace. But he had a bad day at the office and returned a meagre 3pts, doubled to 6pts for those who thought they were playing it safe with the Captain Armband.
So what about the other 48%? The Salah-Dodgers? Well, most of us (including yours truly) opted for Manchester United’s Portuguese-points-machine, Bruno Fernandes. “It’s Southampton!!!” we grinned, our smugness inflating like a large balloon ready to be popped. And popped it was. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer started Martial upfront – a decision which forces us to ask whether or not OGS has ever seen Martial play or, indeed, whether he knows anything about the beautiful game at all.
Nevertheless, our GW1 League Leader, Joseph Waring is still Flying without Ings at the top of the league, with his 75pts in GW2 enough to keep him marginally ahead of the chasing pack. Our top scorers this week were Katie Alty (Izjaz) and Jack Arliss (PurpleReina), both scoring 82pts. This was enough for Jack Arliss to move into 2nd place, while Sam Dears’ team Murder on Zidane’s Floor climbed into 3rdwith 79pts in GW2.
At the foot of the table, there has been some movement. Damien Long scored 68pts this week and has rocketed six places up the table, while Rhys Cadwallader-Jones has plummeted eleven places to the bottom of the league. Rhys’ team C-J United is also this week’s Bench Warmer, having managed to leave both Bissouma and Raphina – and their 15pts - out of his starting line-up.
A special mention this week must go to our Dr Stephen Kelly, who managed to launch his team – Random Team Name – 28 places up the league table and into 21st place with an 80pts haul. The only change Dr. Kelly made this week was switching his back-up keeper from Henderson to Schmeichel. I think it is perhaps necessary here to wonder whether Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs played a role in Dr. Kelly’s strategizing – ruthlessly ejecting Covid-ravaged goalkeeper Dean Henderson to ensure the physiological needs and safety/ security of his squad were adequately met. Perhaps this move reassured all his other players? This, we might speculate, helped foster the warm embrace of belonging in the workplace so essential in boosting employee esteem and leading, inevitably, to self-actualizationwith those highly motivated players returning in the form of 80 lovely juicy fantasy football points.
Gameweek 3 kicks off on Saturday 28th August (yes, yes, that is happening as we speak) – before the dreaded and reviled early international break for World Cup Qualifiers. Also, the end of transfer window may mean a lot of us using Wildcards to update our teams – and I expect a significant number of Man Utd fans will be salivating at the prospect of getting CR7 in their teams from GW4 onwards.
While there will be an update for GW3, we’ll also look to fill any gaps in the season fixture schedule with a weekly update that links the game to our academic interests.
Best of luck and let’s hope that GW3 is better than GW2.
Mike Gow
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