The Gameweek 1 Roundup
Gameweek 1: De Cuyper top scored with 17; Haaland blanked for the 68% who own him.
The Scorers
The three highest points totals of the gameweek, and what made them up.
De Cuyper
17 points
De Cuyper scored 17 points — 1 goal, 1 assist, a clean sheet and 2 bonus points, from 77 minutes.
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 1
- Clean sheet
- Yes
- Bonus
- 2
- Owned
- 5.4%
Hinshelwood
16 points
Hinshelwood scored 16 points — 2 goals, a clean sheet and 3 bonus points, from 63 minutes.
- Goals
- 2
- Clean sheet
- Yes
- Bonus
- 3
- Owned
- 1.7%
Mendy
15 points
Mendy scored 15 points — 1 goal, a clean sheet and 1 bonus point, from 63 minutes.
- Goals
- 1
- Clean sheet
- Yes
- Bonus
- 1
- Owned
- 2.0%
The Blanks
Players enough managers own for it to have hurt, who played an hour or more and returned almost nothing. The expected-goal figure is the part that matters — it separates a bad week from a bad player.
Haaland
2 points
Haaland returned 2 points from 90 minutes, owned by 68.5% of managers. The underlying numbers were better than the score — 0.76 expected goal involvements.
- Owned
- 68.5%
- Minutes
- 90
- xGI
- 0.76
B.Fernandes
2 points
B.Fernandes returned 2 points from 90 minutes, owned by 49.7% of managers. The underlying numbers were better than the score — 0.34 expected goal involvements.
- Owned
- 49.7%
- Minutes
- 90
- xGI
- 0.34
Mbeumo
2 points
Mbeumo returned 2 points from 90 minutes, owned by 36.9% of managers. The underlying numbers were better than the score — 0.73 expected goal involvements.
- Owned
- 36.9%
- Minutes
- 90
- xGI
- 0.73
How the Model Did
The AI Best XI’s projection for this gameweek was frozen at the deadline and never recomputed. This is it against what the squad actually scored.
- Projected
- 60.2
- Actual
- 36
- Difference
- -24.2
Every gameweek’s record is on the AI teams page, including the ones it got wrong.