Week 11: Eight teams worse off

This season, we're eight teams worse off

And with the passing of Week 11 we find ourselves with a team on the 100 point mark.  Congratulations to our new leader, Russ Bielby and his Livercoolio.

Interestingly, at this stage of the season last year, 8 teams would have been ahead of Mr Bielby.  Yes, eight.

Eight.

14 points for the Pyeators sees this week's Manager of the Week Certificate go the way of the Dave [Clayton].  Congratulations Mr Clayton, this shoves you up three places into fifth with all your transfers still intact.

Scarily promising then.

In the meantime, we see Russ Bielby also claim Manager of the Month for October with his colleague, Rick Beecroft, only down in second due to a Points per Pound [PpP] valuation that doesn't really hold up to scrutiny when transfers are taken into account over the month so let's leave it there shall we lah-di-dah and all that innit.

Standings for the month of October.

   Team                         ££.£   Pts
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 1 Livercoolio                  54.8    45
 2 RS-TBOY                      55.0    45
 3 Not In Your Mum's Forest     54.7    42
 4 Blet Satters Mad Hatters     54.6    35
 5 Malcolmyouplaysobadly        54.8    35
 6 Pyeators                     55.0    35
 7 Johnny's Heroes              54.9    33
 8 Irishpool                    54.4    29
 9 Inter Milandrover            54.6    29
10 Which Team                   55.0    26

Week 09 & 10: Whingers and Losers

Wholly Moses

After watching Swansea Manager, Gary Monk, have a pop at both the match referee and a certain Stoke City player 'who brought back the tablets from Mount Sinai [allegedly] three and a half thousand years back', Studmarks HQ are reminded that there's a time and a place for a bloody good moan.

For Sarah Bingham, the time is not now and the place is not here.  She is this week's Manager of the Week.  Congratulations.  Her Not In Your Mum's Forest scored a flourishingly fecund 24 points - and that was without Sergio Aguero in her team.

This score also makes Ms Bingham the Highest Climber this week.  Indeed, breathtakingly whizzing past each other in the table is she and lowest descender Alex Blundell.  Proof that, and as is always the case, when goals are scored by one team they are, sadly, also conceded by the other.  In this case, the week's Premiership results have elevated Ms Bingbong up seven places and demoted Mr Blunbong seven places.

If the Chairman's personal call log is anything to go by, Mr Blundell has been desperately trying to get through to submit some verbal transfer requests in the hope of arresting his team's decline.  Too bad OMG Chairman has so many so many of his own Press Conferences to attend.  Either that or the Moanchester Manager just wants a bloody good moan.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot

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 1 Malcolmyouplaysobadly     Malcolm Pratt    54.8 19  91

 2 Livercoolio               Russ Bielby      54.8 19  89

 3 Inter Milandrover         Smasher          54.6  7  83

 4 RS-TBOY                   Rick Beecroft    55.0 19  83

 5 Which Team                Rachel Jones     55.0 10  80

 6 Radnorshire Tigers        Alun Edwards     53.2 -1  78

 7 Not In Your Mum's Forest  Sarah Bingham    54.7 24  76

 8 Pyeators                  Dave Clayton     55.0  7  74

 9 Irishpool                 Mike Smears      54.4 12  72

10 Blet Satters Mad Hatters  Gavin Ward       54.6 14  68

Week 08: Three

Magic  

In spite of modern day technology and billions of dollars being pumped into all sorts of research programmes around the globe, there remains no actual definitive evidence to clearly demonstrate without a doubt that Three is in fact the magic number.

Three is, however, the number of managers sharing this week's Manager of the Week Certificate.

Yes, aye and not no.

Indeed, Rick Beecroft, Jon King and Sarah Bielby all tear off a rough strip of a rough third of the mythical certificate.  Each manager scores a not-unique 17 points for their respective teams.

Lord Beeky McBeecroft also deserves a mention for his Manager of the Month achievement for September.  His RS-TBOY scored a total of 33 points throughout last month.

   Team                        Sept
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 1 RS-TBOY                      33
 2 Malcolmyouplaysobadly        30
 3 Radnorshire Tigers           28
 4 Which Team                   28
 5 Moanchester Disunited        28
 6 Inter Milandrover            27
 7 Botley Yellow                25
 8 Irishpool                    24
 9 Didcot Rovers                24
10 Livercoolio                  24
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And Lord Beeky ALSO deserves another mention for being the manager with fewest transfers remaining for the season so far.

This is not something to boast about.

Lge Team                     Manager        Transfers
Pos                                         Remaining
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 8 RS-TBOY                   Rick Beecroft      5
 1 Radnorshire Tigers        Alun Edwards       6
22 Couldn't be Hyppia        Nick Reed          6
11 Irishpool                 Mike Smears        7
 4 Livercoolio               Russ Bielby        8
 5 Which Team                Rachel Jones       9
15 Not In Your Mum's Forest  Sarah Bingham      9
23 It's A Snickers           Ashley Keeler      9
 2 Inter Milandrover         Smasher           10
14 The Flying Geese          Mandy Noble       10
18 Obi Wan - Kenobi Nil      Chris Walsh       10
20 A Bit Temperamintal       Minty Colquhoun   10
 9 Botley Yellow             Stanley Wilson    11
17 Didcot Rovers             Edgar Rayner      11
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This leaves three accolades for Mr Beecroft, all in one week's Studmarks.

At last: proof that Three is very much the magic number.

T h e   T a b l e

                                            Value Points

   Team                       Manager       (GBPm)Wk Tot

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 1 Radnorshire Tigers        Alun Edwards     52.7 15  79

 2 Inter Milandrover         Smasher          54.6 15  77

 3 Malcolmyouplaysobadly     Malcolm Pratt    54.8  8  72

 4 Livercoolio               Russ Bielby      54.8 15  70

 5 Which Team                Rachel Jones     55.0 11  70

 6 Moanchester Disunited     Alex Blundell    52.1  9  67

 7 Pyeators                  Dave Clayton     55.0 14  67

 8 RS-TBOY                   Rick Beecroft    55.0 17  64

 9 Botley Yellow             Stanley Wilson   49.5  3  62

10 Real Mcdrid               Craig McHugh     54.8 14  62