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Educating Pork

Football. Fantasy. Questionable Management.

Educating Pork PL · Final GW08 · 2026/27

Mikel Arteta's Army

37Gross GW pointsNo points deducted
11 / 14League positionDown 1 place
426Season pointsOfficial league total

The Army retreats in reasonably good order

Mikel Arteta's Army recorded 37 gross points and 37 net points in GW08, finishing the week down 1 place in 11th place. The official season total is 426.

37Net GW points
49.1League net average
6,853,638Overall rank

Captaincy: Haaland · 8 × 2 = 16 counted points

Management: 0 transfers; 0-point hit. No chip.

Automatic substitutions: Diop replaced João Pedro.

Three things worth knowing

The league position

The team moved from 10th to 11th, a change of 1 place.

Beyond the armband

The leading supporting returns were Raya 7, Barcola 6, van Ewijk 2. The effective armband supplied 16 counted points.

The management ledger

GW08 transfers in: none. The unused bench held 9 points.

The useful takeaway

The recorded result is -12.1 points against the league net average. Captaincy, transfers, automatic substitutions and unused bench points are reconciled to the collector record.

Final collector metrics for GW08 · generated 26 October 2026 (Ontario). Gross points are before transfer hits; net points deduct hits. Unused bench points exclude players whose points entered the XI through automatic substitutions. Official standing and season total are from the finalized league record. Fixture records remain marked finished_provisional by the FPL API.