Nobody beat two points in Gameweek 10.

FPG is simple: pick one Premier League team each round. If they win, you score points. Normally, win and you're up a point, lose and you're down one, draw and nothing moves. Round 10 was a Draw Means More round, where a draw is worth +2 instead of nothing, and the rules cover the rest.

1. Why a Win and a Draw Paid Exactly the Same

One hundred and twenty-four players picked. Sixty-seven won, 28 drew, and 52 of them finished on 2.

A winning pick was worth 2 once you count the head-to-head point: beat a team someone else backed and it's +1 more, lose to one and it's -1 more. A drawing pick was worth 2 because of the round's rule. Same number, two completely different afternoons.

Everton won 3-1 and 17 of their backers took that 2. Fulham drew 1-1 with Newcastle and 6 of theirs took exactly the same 2.

So the tight match with no obvious winner in it paid precisely what Everton's three goals did.

2. The Crowd Was Right, the Preview Was Right, and It Paid the Same

Everton were the most-picked team of the round — 19 of 124 picks, about one in seven — and they won 3-1 at home to Coventry.

The preview was not wrong either. Its verdict went to Arsenal at home to Hull City. Arsenal won 1-0, and four players were on them.

Both landed, and both topped out at 2 — the same as being on Fulham in a 1-1. Being clever earns you nothing extra when the ceiling is this low, which is most of the argument in safe pick versus differential.

3. Old Trafford's Eight-Goal Draw Was the Round's Best Advert for the Rule

Manchester United 4-4 Aston Villa, Sunday at 16:30, last match on the card. Seven players were on Manchester United and four on Aston Villa; three of the United picks and two of the Villa ones finished on 2, as good as anyone did all round.

Sky Sports reported that Patrick Dorgu "levels in the 96th minute" after United "come from two down TWICE", that the result "still leaves them in the relegation zone", and that "United still have not won a Premier League game since August" (Sky Sports, as of Sun 08 Nov).

A side without a league win since August, and the people who backed them scored as well as anybody in the game. That is the thing to file away: when a draw pays, a team's form stops mattering the moment you only need them not to lose.

4. One Point Separated Everyone Who Got It Right

Forty-three scores carried a dock this round. That is the only cost of missing the deadline: the team picked for you scores as normal, and a positive score loses a point. This round, that caught the drawn picks as well, because a draw was a positive score too.

You can see it in the spreads. All nine players on Nottingham Forest finished on 1, despite a 3-1 win over Manchester City, and the six on Sunderland did the same after a 1-0 against Chelsea. Liverpool won 3-1 at Crystal Palace and three of their four were on 1.

The draws took their share as well: three of Fulham's nine and four of the seven on Manchester United finished on 1 rather than 2.

The deadline was Fri 06 Nov at 20:00 UK, kick-off in Everton v Coventry. Round 11's is Sat 21 Nov at 12:30 UK, and in a round where everyone who gets it right lands on the same number, that single point is the entire gap between them.

5. Nothing Moved at the Top

The leader is on 23. The next player is on 20, three behind, and only two players in the whole table are within three points of the lead.

Three points is more than this round paid anybody. A week where the best available score is 2 cannot close a gap like that, whoever you are and however well you pick — it freezes the table, which suits exactly one player.

So what the chasing pack actually needs is a round that spreads out: one where a good pick beats a lucky one by more than a single point.

FAQ

What happened in FPG Gameweek 10? It was a Draw Means More round, so a draw paid +2 — the same as a win paid once the head-to-head point is counted. Fifty-two of the 124 players finished on 2, and nobody beat it.

Why did so many winning picks only score 1 in Gameweek 10? The dock, which only applies when the deadline went past and a team was picked for you. Forty-three scores carried one, and this round it took in the draws as well as the wins, because a draw was a positive score too.

When is the Gameweek 11 deadline? Sat 21 Nov at 12:30 UK — a Saturday lunchtime, not a Friday night.

Somebody in this league is three points clear and perfectly happy with how last week went. Round 11 is open, so go and make it harder for them: play FPG for free.

Written by Toby Gaskell, Founder of FPG