Tottenham had won one of their previous 34 Premier League visits to Chelsea, according to Sky Sports (as of Sat 24 Oct). On Saturday teatime they went to Stamford Bridge and won 2-0.

Forty of FPG's 123 players had picked Chelsea. That is about one in three of the whole game, in Gameweek 8, which was a Double Points round: Double Points multiplies the round's score by two, losses included, and playing a doubled round is a skill of its own.

FPG is simple: pick one Premier League team each round. If they win, you score points. It is +1 for a win, 0 for a draw, -1 for a loss, with an extra +1 when your team beats a side another player picked, and an extra -1 when it loses to one.

Chelsea v Tottenham was also the round's only derby, and a derby adds +1 to a win and takes a point off a draw or a defeat (how derbies score in FPG).

Stack that up for a Chelsea pick: -1 for the result, -1 for the head-to-head, -1 for the derby, and then all of it doubled. Every one of those 40 picks came out on -6.

The four players on Tottenham were the best-paid group in the round, three of them on its top score of 6. Twelve points between the two ends of one match.

Where the Doubling Paid, and Who Was Brave Enough to Collect

Back to the four who took the other side of that derby. The fourth of them came out on 5, and the missing point is the dock: miss the deadline and a team is picked for you; it scores as normal, but if that score is positive you lose a point. It is also the one thing a doubled round leaves alone — a flat single point, whatever the multiplier is doing to everything else. It showed up on 17 scores. The rules spell the order out.

Last week's Form Guide called Arsenal at home to Everton, and spent a whole section telling you to stay out of Chelsea v Tottenham. Arsenal won 2-0. Five of the seven players on them banked 4, the other two 3. Dull, correct, and nothing like as good a night out as Stamford Bridge.

Everything else that paid did so in small groups. Six players had Newcastle, who won 2-0 at Crystal Palace. Four had Bournemouth, who won 3-0 at Manchester United, the widest win of the round. Four had Aston Villa, 2-1 winners over Manchester City, and four had Fulham, 1-0 winners at Coventry, both groups finishing in the black. Liverpool's three saw off Brighton 2-0 at Anfield.

The Rest of the Bill: Spent Picks, -4s and 27 Blanks

The bill does not stop at the round. Each team can be picked twice a season, and 30 players have now spent both of their Chelsea picks, with 46 more down to their last one. For those 30, the team this game reaches for more than any other is gone for the rest of the season.

Elsewhere, -4 was the going rate for a loss. Six players had Coventry, the other end of that Fulham win. Five had Crystal Palace. Four each had Brighton, Manchester City and Manchester United. And exactly one player had Everton, the round's only team with a single backer, who then lost 2-0 at Arsenal.

Then there were the 27 picks that drew, and a draw is the one result Double Points cannot help: two times nothing is still nothing. The goalless finish at Sunderland swallowed Leeds's seven backers and Sunderland's five. Hull City's four and Brentford's three shared a 1-1, as did Ipswich's four and Nottingham Forest's four.

What the Round Left Behind in the Table

Round 8 produced 64 losing picks out of 123. More than half the game went backwards in the one week where going backwards counted twice.

At the top, the leader is on 18 points and the next best on 15. Those two are the only players within three points of first place.

Across the whole table, 56 players are in positive numbers, four are level on zero and 63 are under water. The lowest total in the game is -14.

The crowd went where the drama was and paid double for the privilege. Round 9 is a chance to be boring about it.

FAQ

What happened in FPG Gameweek 8? Forty of the 123 players picked Chelsea, who lost 2-0 at home to Tottenham in the round's only derby. Because the round doubled, all 40 finished on -6, while three of the four players on Tottenham took the round's top score of 6.

Why did a Chelsea pick score -6? A defeat is -1, losing to a team another player backed is another -1, and a derby defeat costs one more. That is -3 before the round's multiplier, and the multiplier made it -6.

Does Double Points help a draw? No. Doubling a score of zero leaves zero, so the 27 players whose teams drew took nothing out of the round.

Which picks actually won round 8? Tottenham's four scored best, with Arsenal, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Aston Villa, Fulham and Liverpool all paying out to the handful of players who backed them.

Round 9 is already open, and its deadline is Sat 31 Oct, 12:30 UK. Pick your team at fpg-app.com before then.

Written by Toby Gaskell, Founder of FPG