Twenty of the 122 players who picked in Gameweek 6 went with Newcastle at Coventry. Coventry won 4-1. That is the round in one line.

FPG is simple: pick one Premier League team each round. If they win, you score points.

Gameweek 6 was a normal round. No Double Points, which multiplies every score in the round by two, and no Draw Means More, which makes a draw worth +2 instead of nothing. No derby matches in it either — in a derby, a draw costs you a point the same as a defeat. So the scoring was the plain stuff: +1 for a win, 0 for a draw, -1 for a loss, plus the head-to-head point you pick up when your team beats a team another player had backed. The deadline was Sat 10 Oct, 12:30 UK, and the full scoring lives in the rules.

The Picks That Paid Off

38 of the 122 players, just under a third, finished on a winning pick.

Arsenal were the sensible call that worked: 12 players backed them and they beat Leeds 2-1. Brighton did the same job on the road, 7 players on a 2-0 win at Sunderland. Chelsea's 5-1 over Bournemouth paid out for 4, Crystal Palace beating Nottingham Forest 3-1 paid out for 5, and Ipswich's 2-1 against Fulham paid out for 4.

The two best calls were the quiet ones. Coventry had 3 backers for that 4-1 over the most-picked team in the game. Manchester City had 3 for a 3-0 at Liverpool.

Top score of the round was 2 — the win plus the head-to-head point — and 21 players got there.

Nobody landed a lonely pick, the +1 you earn when you are the only player on a team and they win. Every one of the round's 20 teams was picked by somebody, and even the least popular, Leeds with 2, had company. If you want the long version, here is how a lonely pick works.

The Bankers That Bombed

Newcastle. 20 players, one in six of the field, and a 4-1 defeat at Coventry. That is the biggest single hit of the round by a distance.

Liverpool took 6 down with them, beaten 3-0 at home by Manchester City. Bournemouth took another 6 in that 5-1 at Chelsea. In total 45 players, 37% of the field, finished on a loss.

Then the draws, worth nothing at all in a normal round, and the biggest group of the three: 39 players. They split into three neat piles of 13. Hull City 2-2 Everton accounted for 13 of them (9 on Hull, 4 on Everton). Manchester United 1-1 Tottenham accounted for 13 more (8 and 5). Aston Villa 2-2 Brentford made it 13 again (5 and 8).

17 players had a point docked and finished on 1 instead of 2. That is FPG's one penalty for missing the deadline: if you don't pick, a team is picked for you, it scores as normal, and if that score is positive you lose a point. All 17 were on winning teams, which is the galling bit — the team won and the point still went.

Table Movers

A round where the best score anyone managed was 2 does not rearrange a season table, and it didn't. The leader is on 16 points after moving up this round, and four players sit together on 12, four points back, so the chase is a pack rather than a duel.

The spread across the 123 players in the table: 60 are on a positive total, 12 are on exactly zero, and 51 are in the red. Gameweek 6 pushed plenty of people the wrong way — more players lost than won — but a round this flat means nobody ran away with anything either.

FAQ

What happened in FPG Gameweek 6? Newcastle were the most-picked team with 20 of the 122 picks and lost 4-1 at Coventry. 38 players finished on a win, 39 on a draw and 45 on a loss, and 21 players shared the round's top score of 2.

What was the highest score in Gameweek 6? Two points: one for the win, one for the head-to-head point. 21 players managed it, and nobody scored more.

Why did some players finish on 1 point? Their pick was auto-assigned because they missed the deadline. The team still scored as normal, and because that score was positive they lost a point from it — one penalty, not two.

Were the popular picks the right ones in Gameweek 6? Not this time. The most-backed team lost 4-1 while two teams with 3 backers each won by three goals. That is the whole safe pick versus differential argument in one weekend.

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Written by Toby Gaskell, Founder of FPG