Asunto: Tactical game league - season 68

The good: Legia 5.80, Padstow 5.16, Anfield 6.19, CRAIOVA 6.47, Timisoara 5.57 and now the 2nd best score of the season, Blitzkrieg 7.99. Blitzkrieg have now the best 3 scores of the season, best is 8.12, 3rd best is 7.98.
The bad: Shakespeare -1.85, Boston -3.06, Universitatea -2.99, St.Paulie -1.96, Dunarea -1.74.

Schadenfreude are now the only team with only positive scores during this season, 15 out 15. Thamesmead registered the first negative tonight.

Schadenfreude and Stiffs are still fighting for the top position, Legia leads the challengers only 4 points behind.

Special mention for Rock Bottom, they're just about to climb into top 10! 3rd place is in sight.

Being 0.25 ahead of wdp is more important than 3rd.

Blitzkreig setup probably worth an in depth look as they are consistently competing and beating sides with 10 area better ratings. There's obviously only so much ground you can make up though.

I've watched them 3 or 4 times and I still don't know how they're doing it. They don't play like a team rating high 40's

I said this since the start, I realised that they play way above their means. And when teams struggle to get past 55 ratings, a good tactic can undo them. I've been there (for a long time).

Sayng that, tonight they won against a 59.2 rating. Even more impressive.
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They probably do what I do. Use the best quality of a each player all over the pitch, instead of trying to rely on a couple of players and just fill the rest of the team to have 11 lined up and just to pass the ball to those two.
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Round 16:

1 Stiffs 55.60
2 Blitzkrieg 52.87
3 Schadenfreude 52.87
4 C-R-A-I-O-V-A 51.53
5 Corvin 50.68
6 RTS 49.18
7 Kowal 47.72
8 Legia 47.08
9 Squeezers 46.53
10 Hajduk 43.78
11 Colne 39.15
12 Rock Bottom 38.42
13 Fenland 38.07
14 Cobra 37.66
15 Aubergine 37.11
16 Navua 36.72
17 Thamesmead 36.02
18 Elmstead 35.41
19 Forest Hill 33.45
20 Forest Res 29.96
21 Anfield 28.76
22 Eudaimonia 27.96
23 Northern Thistle 27.40
24 Polish Boston 27.02
25 Hunstnaton 24.82
26 Bramford 24.82
27 Swamp 24.16
28 Timisoara 24.05
29 Beer 23.85
30 CanOnly 23.25
31 Inter Row 23.12
32 Universitatea 23.01
33 Los Trios 21.63
34 Padstow 19.33
35 Man United 17.55
36 Internazionlle 17.09
37 Linkin Park 16.89
38 Barstable 14.24
39 Szolosgyorok 13.60
40 Bramley 13.16
41 Crows 13.14
42 Welling 13.00
43 Kendal 11.41
44 Shakespeare 2.18
45 Hurlanders 0.74
46 Cycle -0.79
47 Dunarea -5.65
48 St.Paulie -7.82

The good: Colne 5.23, Forest Hill 4.78, Swamp 5.75, Fenland 5.45, Blitzkrieg 4.95, Forest Res 5.67
The bad: Legia -1.28, Dunarea -1.65, Hunstnaton -2.48

Schadenfreude lost their game and got their first negative score of the season. Costly, because now the top 2 has been snubbed from them by the season's dark horse Blitzkrieg. Stiffs increased the gap and is leading.
No team has 100% positives now, best is 15 out of 16:
Fenland
Stiffs
Schadenfreude
Kowal
Corvin
Squeezers.

Interesting stat: only 3 teams (Anfield, Colne and Forest Hill) achieved less than 65 average rating in Premiership. With Forest Hill on 64.7. Only one team in all 3 Division 2 managed this, Rock Bottom.

10 teams in Division 2 (6 in 2.01, 2 in the other two) scored less than 52 average rating. 8 of them under 50.

Not a single 70+ that round either.

Think I could have been close to highest in England was it not for the subs lowering ratings a bit.

Probably.

It's not worthy though, play your reserves. Don't worry about this silly stat. You will have the chance next season, in Prem.

Round 17:

1 Stiffs 58.24
2 Corvin 54.17
3 Schadenfreude 53.07
4 RTS 52.09
5 Blitzkrieg 51.64
6 Squeezers 50.73
7 Kowal 50.70
8 C-R-A-I-O-V-A 50.30
9 Legia 47.22
10 Cobra 42.99
11 Hajduk 42.58
12 Aubergine 41.84
13 Fenland 40.34
14 Rock Bottom 40.27
15 Elmstead 40.27
16 Thamesmead 39.65
17 Colne 39.34
18 Navua 37.24
19 Forest Hill 33.46
20 Anfield 32.99
21 Polish Boston 31.24
22 Forest Res 30.43
23 Eudaimonia 30.24
24 Northern Thistle 27.58
25 CanOnly 26.75
26 Inter Row 26.60
27 Beer 26.12
28 Swamp 25.41
29 Universitatea 24.80
30 Hunstnaton 24.70
31 Bramford 24.66
32 Timisoara 24.30
33 Los Trios 22.68
34 Padstow 22.48
35 Man United 20.57
36 Barstable 16.30
37 Crows 16.01
38 Linkin Park 15.88
39 Bramley 15.60
40 Internazionlle 15.35
41 Welling 12.61
42 Szolosgyorok 12.41
43 Kendal 9.94
44 Shakespeare 6.12
45 Hurlanders 3.18
46 Cycle 0.48
47 Dunarea -7.13
48 St.Paulie -8.27

The good (above 4.75, which is a 5-0 win in a WO): Elmstead 4.86 and Cobra 5.34
The bad (under -1.25): Internazionlle -1.74, Dunarea -1.48, Kendal -1.47

Dunarea have now 7 consecutive negative scores and the fewest positives this season, only 5.

Stiffs maintain the good scoring and with Schadenfreude, Craiova and Blitzkrieg scoring low this round, they now go 4 points ahead. Corvin are now the chaser.

Only one negative score in the Premiership. It happened in round 6 too.

Last round the Premier had 6 negative scores!

Round 18:

1 Stiffs 58.84
2 Schadenfreude 58.54
3 RTS 56.59
4 Kowal 55.65
5 C-R-A-I-O-V-A 55.28
6 Blitzkrieg 54.09
7 Squeezers 53.93
8 Corvin 53.71
9 Cobra 46.73
10 Legia 45.66
11 Hajduk 44.87
12 Rock Bottom 44.45
13 Elmstead 43.85
14 Aubergine 43.08
15 Thamesmead 42.38
16 Fenland 40.86
17 Colne 40.66
18 Anfield 38.58
19 Navua 37.65
20 Forest Hill 35.91
21 Polish Boston 34.28
22 Northern Thistle 33.61
23 Eudaimonia 32.31
24 Forest Res 29.95
25 Universitatea 29.62
26 Beer 28.84
27 Hunstnaton 27.74
28 Timisoara 27.36
29 Swamp 27.02
30 CanOnly 26.69
31 Inter Row 25.91
32 Bramford 25.63
33 Man United 23.39
34 Los Trios 22.45
35 Crows 21.42
36 Padstow 20.34
37 Linkin Park 17.23
38 Barstable 16.36
39 Welling 15.94
40 Bramley 15.52
41 Internazionlle 14.82
42 Szolosgyorok 14.48
43 Kendal 11.46
44 Shakespeare 7.15
45 Hurlanders 4.27
46 Cycle 0.08
47 St.Paulie -8.68
48 Dunarea -9.07

The good: Northern 6.03, Anfield 5.59, Crows 5.41, Universitatea 4.82, Schadenfreude 5.47, Kowal 4.95, CRAIOVA 4.99
The bad: Legia -1.56, Padstow -2.14, Dunarea -1.94.

Stiffs defeat means that other teams were allowed to close the gap. Schadenfreude took the opportunity and they are now only 0.3 points behind.