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Professor M's Numbers: Week 28 Best Team

I am sorry for the delay this week in this posting, but it has been a very busy week for me AND, in shocking news to all, Yahoo did something that meant that my spreadsheet was not calculating things correctly. Whatever it was, however, they have thankfully corrected it, so I can now (a little belatedly) present to you this week's Best Team

Best Team

This week you could have put together a team worth 234 points, and it would have only cost £138M pounds at retail going into the week. That is absolutely AMAZING considering that Suarez alone could have cost £31.41M.

Week 28
Player Pts Cost
A. Schürrle (F - CHE) 33 4.67
L. Suarez (F - LIV) 25 31.41
C. Benteke (F - AST) 22 10.87
J. De Guzmán (M - SWC) 17 13.98
M. Sissoko (M - NEW) 21 7.98
V. Anita (M - NEW) 15 7.6
S. Gerrard (M - LIV)/L. Bacuna (M - AST)* 14 12.3
C. Davies (D - HUL) 14 16.9
J. Flanagan (D - LIV)*/E. Fryers (D - TOT) 13 8.79
M. Skrtel (D - LIV)*/M. Dawson (D - TOT) 13 13.17
A. Begovic (G - STO) 14 10.33
Captain Points 33
total points 234 138
on the bench
J. Walters (F - STO) 17 6.35
L. Remy (F - NEW) 16 16.05
F. Torres (F - CHE) 14 7.5
S. Mignolet (G - LIV) 14 11.9
H. Lloris (G - TOT) 14 13.01
Top Yahoo Score 169 72.22%
* player used in calculating costs (if applicable)

There were several other players who scored 13 points but were not defenders. These included Hazard, Whelan, Soldado, and Hoolahan.

Keats & Yeats List of Multiple Appearances

Just as a reminder, we are now requiring three appearances in the Best XI to make the K&Y list (with 4 being John Terry's threshold for various reasons).

Appearances Player
8 L. Suárez (GWs 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 28)
5 A. Lallana (GWs 11, 17, 21, 23, 24)
3 Adrián (GWs 21, 23, 26)
3 D. de Gea (GWs 16, 19, 27)
3 D. Sturridge (GWs 23, 26, 27)
3 E. Adebayor (GWs 17, 22, 26)
3 E. Hazard (GWs 14, 18 24)
3 J. Puncheon (GWs 20, 22, 23)
3 J. Shelvey (GWs 12, 14, 23)
3 Jose Fonte (GWs 23, 24, 26)
3 K. Nolan (GWs 19, 24, 25)
3 P. Bardsley (GWs 11, 17, 24)
3 T. Walcott (GWs 16, 18, 20)
3 W. Szczesny (GWs 10, 13, 22)
3 Yaya Touré (GWs 10, 14, 27)
3 S. Gerrard (GWs 23, 26, 28)
3 M. Skrtel (GWs 11, 25, 28)

Changes this week are that Suarez raises his leading total to 8 appearances, and Gerrard and Skrtel join the list with 3 appearances each. Remember that I have only been calculating this since GW10, so the first 9 GWs do not appear.

Given how busy my week has been and continues, I am afraid that is all I can put up for this week. I am not even going to do my usual preview before publish so that I catch any writing errors (forgive, and think of this as a rough draft). It will be very interesting to see what kind of Best Team we will have next week with only 5 matches. Will it be the lowest Best Team total of all season? Tune in next week to find out.

Prof. M