The Hindsight Department · Gameweek 8 · 2026-27
Gameweek 8 in hindsight: 241 FPL managers across 16 mini-leagues
Gameweek 8, 2026-27: 241 managers in 16 public mini-leagues covered by Fantasy Pundit averaged 45.5 points. The highest score was 71 and the leader changed in 5 of 16 leagues.
GW8: The average manager scored 45.5. Every one of them has a reason.
The scores
What the week was worth
- Average Gameweek score
- 45.5
- Median score
- 45.0
- Highest score
- 71
- Lowest score
- 21
The best week in the sample beat the worst by 50 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 16
- Weekly top scorer already led the league
- 6 of 16
- Biggest climb
- 12 places
- Biggest fall
- 10 places
Somewhere, a manager dropped 10 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
- 14.5 points
- Leagues led by 10 points or fewer
- 7 of 16
- Average top-to-bottom gap in a league
- 34.5 points
- Widest top-to-bottom gap
- 50 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
- 97 in 9 leagues
- Took a transfer hit
- 5 of 97 (5%)
- Points spent on hits
- 24
- Hit-takers’ average before deductions
- 44.4
- Hit-takers’ average after deductions
- 39.6
- Everyone else’s average
- 45.2
- Biggest week-on-week rise
- 19 points
- Biggest week-on-week drop
- 54 points
After paying for their transfers, hit-takers averaged 39.6 against 45.2 for everyone else. Patience remains annoyingly effective.
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