GW36 Review

GW Points: 52  ·  Overall Rank: 3,791,718  ·  Bench pts: 21  ·  Chip: —

52 points was a below-average return, with 21 unused bench points indicating poor differential selection between the active squad and reserves rather than bad luck on players fielded. The Calvert-Lewin captaincy delivered 7 points against an xPts of 4.02, so it outperformed its model expectation, but leaving 4 points on the table with Gabriel as the better in-squad option suggests the pick was defensible on pre-GW data rather than clearly wrong. All three top missed players were defenders — De Cuyper flagged as lucky, making it a genuine surprise, while Guéhi and Tarkowski both carried form signals pre-GW, meaning two of the three misses were at least partially predictable and point to a structural underweight on in-form defenders that week.