The Hindsight Department · Gameweek 4 · 2026-27
Gameweek 4 in hindsight: 643 FPL managers across 24 mini-leagues
Gameweek 4, 2026-27: 643 managers in 24 public mini-leagues covered by Fantasy Pundit averaged 72.5 points. The highest score was 120 and the leader changed in 5 of 20 leagues.
GW4: 92 points spent on transfer hits. The patient won anyway, which is unbearable.
The scores
What the week was worth
- Average Gameweek score
- 72.5
- Median score
- 73.0
- Highest score
- 120
- Lowest score
- 20
The best week in the sample beat the worst by 100 points. Both managers will describe theirs as “process”.
The table
Who moved, and who merely talked about it
- Leagues with a new leader
- 5 of 20
- Weekly top scorer already led the league
- 9 of 24
- Biggest climb
- 102 places
- Biggest fall
- 146 places
Somewhere, a manager dropped 146 places in a single Gameweek and is now calling it a long-term project.
The gaps
How close it is at the top
- Median lead at the top
- 9.0 points
- Leagues led by 10 points or fewer
- 13 of 24
- Average top-to-bottom gap in a league
- 52.0 points
- Widest top-to-bottom gap
- 94 points
A ten-point lead is one captain decision. Nobody at the top is relaxed, whatever they say in the group chat.
Week on week
Transfer hits and form swings
- Managers with consecutive editions
- 289 in 20 leagues
- Took a transfer hit
- 23 of 289 (8%)
- Points spent on hits
- 92
- Hit-takers’ average before deductions
- 70.3
- Hit-takers’ average after deductions
- 66.3
- Everyone else’s average
- 72.9
- Biggest week-on-week rise
- 72 points
- Biggest week-on-week drop
- 31 points
After paying for their transfers, hit-takers averaged 66.3 against 72.9 for everyone else. Patience remains annoyingly effective.
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