Great British Fantasy Baseball Superleague: Week Five Review

After five weeks, three teams have accumulated more than 2000 points: Richard Davidson and Charlie Deeks, both in the NL Central, and Deep League Roto (aka me) in the Champions League.

Despite their huge points tallies, neither Richard nor Charlie are one of the six teams with an unblemished 5-0 record; they are Michael Garmston, Phil Stone, Ed Jefferies, Troy Hutchinson, Peter Ramsay, and Deep League Roto (aka me). You can see why I write these articles.

If you don’t want to read the rest of the GBfbs waffle, scroll straight down to the overall rankings at the bottom of the page.

Otherwise, don’t forget that you only need to finish in the top four in your division to make the playoffs, so EVERYONE is still in with a good chance of making it.

Richard Davidson, with 436 points, was the highest points scorer this week, although it could have been more as Jose Alvarado and Joe Musgrove both cost him points. Want to see how to score 400+ points in a week? This is how…

AL CENTRAL

Matthew Robinson (392 points) and Michael Garmston (353 points) led the way in the division in the division this week. Michael remains unbeaten on 5-0, just ahead of Matthew Robinson on 4-1. Jack Wain joins Michael and Matthew by breaking the 1800-point mark and is one of five teams on 3-2.

Pirates UK (Gareth) must count himself as unlucky as being the team that whose opponents have scored the most points.

AL EAST

Ed Jefferies is the only unbeaten team in the league and takes his 5-0 record into Week Six. Harry Broster is looking good at 4-1.

Dave Nicholson remains one the most unfortunate in the entire Great British Fantasy Baseball Superleague as he has a losing 2-3 record despite an enormous points tally of 1848.

Ash Day and Tim Bowman can also count themselves as unlucky as their opponents have scored more than 1800 points in matchups against them.

AL NORTH

Josh Salter (384 points) and Peter Ramsay (365 points) both enjoyed good weeks, but it is Peter who leads the way in the division with a 5-0 record. Chris Jones is also sitting pretty at 4-1.

The ball has been falling well for Andy Moore‘s opponents, who have racked up 1799 points in matchups against him. By comparison, unbeaten Peter Ramsay’s opponents have only scored 1413 points.

AL WEST

In the top of the table clash, Steve Jones got the win over previously unbeaten Martin Osborne, and both are tied 4-1 with Chris Deeley who had the best week in the division with 399 points,

There are no undefeated teams in this highly competitive division, but it is Martin who has a clear margin in the Points Scored tally with 1898.

Strength of schedule or just bad luck, but Alex Hudson‘s team has suffered by opponents scoring more points in those matchups than against any other team.

NL CENTRAL

It appears that Richard Davison (436 points) in the win over Tom Athene, and Charlie Deeks (401 points) in the victory over Kevin Orchard are playing a different game to the rest of us. Both Richard (2132 points) and Charlie (2008 points) are two of the top three scorers in the entire GBfbs.

With no undefeated teams and no winless teams, this is arguably the most competitive division in the Great British Fantasy Baseball Superleague.

Carl Taylor is impressing with his 2-3 record despite opponents amassing 1820 points in matchups against him – only three teams across the Superleague have had more points scored against them. And he was dreadfully unlucky to take the loss against Neil Littlewood. It’s not often you score 363 points and lose.

NL EAST

The Nick Chang team continued its amazing run to maintain the 4-1 record with a half-point win over Ben Jones.

Incredibly, Nick has scored 280 points fewer than another 4-1 team, Mark Finbow. With 1870 points, Mark is the most dominant team in the division

Once again, GB Official Artist (Andy Brown)‘s run of poor luck shows no sign of changing. Andy’s opponents have combined for over 1800 points in matchups against him.

NL NORTH

Shaun Barrett was the victor in the high-scoring matchup against Tom Drake. Shaun remains one of the top-scoring teams in the entire GBfbs with 1839 points.

However, it is Phil Stone (1856 points) and Troy Hutchinson (1768) who are the unbeaten teams in the division and take their 5-0 record into Week Six.

Got to feel sorry for East Mids Meetups (Matt) whose opponents have scored a staggering 1836 points in matchups against him.

Talk about not having your head in the game! I don’t know exactly when Four Bases (Joel) and Julia got engaged, but Joel is on a four-game losing streak.

NL WEST

The biggest shock of the week came when 0-4 Daniel Mara scored a massive 375 points to beat one of the division stars, Tom Lock.

Matthew Sutton was the highest point scoring in the division with 382 points, but it is Rob Kermode and Luke Kendrick who sit at the top of the competitive NL West, a division with no 5-0 or 0-5 records.

BASEMENT DIVISION

Fantastic win for Ash Smith with 355 points to beat the previously undefeated Mal Bamford, although Mal remains tied at the top of the division. There were also great wins for Tim Brown (363 points) and Jon Lansdown (359 points).

Got to feel sorry for Ross Arieta who has suffered by facing high-scoring opponents that have tallied over 1800 points in matchups against him.

Gareth Neale, who lost in Week One, is now tied at the top with Mal and Ash after his fourth straight win. This division looks very tight.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

What a matchup between two of the big hitters in the Champions League when RotoBrits’ Ryan Owen took the win by half a point over Baseball Prospectus’ Darius Austin.

Adam Nicholson, who actually scored the same number of points as Darius (347), won his matchup over LA Angels/MLB UK Community’s Nick Wright, taking him into second in the division. Since his initial Week One defeat, Adam has looked unstoppable.

With nine of the teams on 3-2 or 2-3, the battle for the Champions League will stay hot throughout the season.

There are 120 teams in the GBfbs, and six of those have suffered by facing hot-hitting opponents tallying over 1800 points in matchups against them. Birds with Balls are the least fortunate of the teams across all 10 divisions, having had 1888 points scored against them. Second on this list is RotoBrits (Ryan Owen), whose 2-3 record is rather incredible considering his opponents have scored 1846 points.

CURRENT RANKINGS

Pos		W	L	PTS F	PTS A	Division
1	Richard Davison	4	1	2132	1771	NL Central
2	Gav (Deep League Roto)	5	0	2019	1688	Championship
3	Charlie Deeks	4	1	2008	1619	NL Central
4	Martin Osborne	4	1	1898	1716	AL West
5	Bat Flips & Nerds	3	2	1884	1731	AL North
6	Michael Garmston	5	0	1883	1629	AL Central
7	Matthew Robinson	4	1	1874	1759	AL Central
8	Mark Finbow	4	1	1870	1578	NL East
9	Phil Stone	5	0	1856	1571	NL North
10	Bat Flips & Nerds	3	2	1851	1702	NL West
11	Manc Baseball	3	2	1846	1688	AL North
12	Shaun Barrett	3	2	1839	1651	NL North
13	Ed Jefferies	5	0	1816	1472	AL East
14	Dave Nicholson	2	3	1814	1671	AL East
15	Chris Deeley	4	1	1806	1630	AL West
16	Bat Flips & Nerds	4	1	1801	1682	AL East
17	Jack Wain	3	2	1801	1540	AL Central
18	Bat Flips & Nerds	4	1	1782	1612	NL North
19	Mal Bamford	4	1	1769	1482	Basement
20	Troy Hutchinson	5	0	1768	1500	NL North
21	Gareth Neale	4	1	1766	1639	Basement
22	Dan Roach	3	2	1759	1550	AL East
23	Harry Broster	4	1	1752	1519	AL East
24	Jason Toms	2	3	1751	1758	AL Central
25	Bat Flips & Nerds	3	2	1747	1613	AL Central
26	Callum Cockerill	3	2	1740	1515	NL Central
27	Peter Ramsay	5	0	1738	1413	AL North
28	Matthew Greig	3	2	1723	1607	NL East
29	Bat Flips & Nerds	3	2	1722	1502	AL West
30	Paul Dearnley	2	3	1716	1709	AL West
31	Adam Nicholson	4	1	1716	1538	Championship
32	Bat Flips & Nerds	4	1	1713	1525	Basement
33	James Poppleton	3	2	1711	1676	NL East
34	Andy Moore	2	3	1705	1799	AL North
35	Russell Eassom	3	2	1701	1567	Championship
36	Ash Smith	4	1	1701	1469	Basement
37	David Runciman	3	2	1700	1483	Championship
38	Carl Taylor	2	3	1699	1820	NL Central
39	Luke Kendrick	4	1	1689	1458	NL West
40	David McLaren	2	3	1686	1639	AL East
41	Rob Kermode	4	1	1684	1599	NL West
42	Euan Leith	2	3	1683	1779	Basement
43	Chris Jones	4	1	1683	1467	AL North
44	Scott MacGregor	3	2	1677	1577	AL North
45	Josh Salter	3	2	1665	1462	AL North
46	Matthew Sutton	2	3	1664	1669	NL West
47	Steve Pardoe	3	2	1662	1633	AL Central
48	Bat Flips & Nerds	4	1	1660	1460	NL East
49	Tim Brown	2	3	1659	1536	Basement
50	BaseballSoftballUK (Chris)	3	2	1658	1630	NL West
51	Ryan Owen (RotoBrits)	2	3	1657	1846	Championship
52	Tom Lock	3	2	1655	1721	NL West
53	Rob Whannel	3	2	1654	1750	AL Central
54	Mark Blakemore	2	3	1654	1581	Championship
55	Steve Jones	4	1	1649	1508	AL West
56	James Thorpe	2	3	1647	1715	NL West
57	Kevin Orchard	2	3	1646	1730	NL Central
58	Marc Collins	3	2	1646	1626	NL East
59	Adam Cockerill	3	2	1646	1614	NL Central
60	Jamie Steed (Rotoballer)	3	2	1645	1718	Championship
61	Jon Lansdown	2	3	1642	1560	Basement
62	Ben Jones	2	3	1633	1537	NL East
63	Neil Littlewood	3	2	1632	1733	NL Central
64	Darius Austin (Baseball Prospectus)	2	3	1626	1613	Championship
65	John Loftus	1	4	1619	1637	NL North
66	Michael Annison	3	2	1618	1529	AL East
67	Brent Bentley	3	2	1608	1609	NL Central
68	Callum Franklin	2	3	1604	1725	AL Central
69	Tom Hotchin	3	2	1603	1555	AL Central
70	Nick Howell	2	3	1603	1590	AL North
71	Tom Drake	2	3	1595	1661	NL North
72	Martin Wood	3	2	1595	1562	NL North
73	Charles Baldwin	3	2	1589	1615	AL West
74	Nick Chang	4	1	1588	1460	NL East
75	Paul Denyer	1	4	1587	1751	NL West
76	Baseball Brit (Joey)	1	4	1585	1677	AL East
77	Tom Athene	3	2	1583	1637	NL Central
78	East Mids Meetups (Matt)	1	4	1579	1836	NL North
79	Jonny Gould & James Holden	2	3	1575	1507	Championship
80	Nick Wright (MLB UK Community)	2	3	1569	1585	Championship
81	Daniel Mara	1	4	1565	1530	NL West
82	UK Brew Crew (Mark)	2	3	1563	1632	NL North
83	Bat Flips & Nerds	1	4	1561	1679	NL Central
84	Alex Hudson	0	5	1560	1767	AL West
85	Pirates UK (Gareth)	0	5	1554	1774	AL Central
86	Jonathan Oatley	2	3	1552	1743	AL West
87	Ross Bramley	2	3	1549	1692	AL North
88	British Baseball Podcast (Matt)	1	4	1544	1740	NL East
89	Nick Wilson-Smith	2	3	1539	1618	NL North
90	David Barnett	1	4	1537	1658	AL Central
91	Steve Merry	3	2	1535	1551	NL West
92	Jack Gallagher	3	2	1534	1501	NL East
93	Christopher Stone	2	3	1527	1535	AL West
94	Ollie Shore	2	3	1522	1592	Basement
95	Nathan Lewis	1	4	1520	1727	Basement
96	Ian Carter	2	3	1520	1520	AL West
97	Four Bases (Joel)	1	4	1519	1733	NL North
98	Ross Arieta	0	5	1519	1806	Basement
99	Bubba on Baseball (Jason)	2	3	1507	1605	NL East
100	Mark Varley	2	3	1490	1721	AL East
101	John Eccles	2	3	1482	1584	NL West
102	Timothy Burtt	1	4	1479	1723	NL North
103	Tim Brown	2	3	1473	1630	AL West
104	Lee Atkinson	1	4	1468	1698	NL Central
105	Rob Noverraz	2	3	1467	1670	Championship
106	British Baseball Federation (Tom)	2	3	1462	1541	AL East
107	Ben Salvi	1	4	1461	1752	AL North
108	Jamie Wyman	1	4	1456	1732	AL Central
109	Karl Cobane	2	3	1443	1611	AL North
110	GB Official Artist (Andy Brown)	0	5	1438	1801	NL East
111	Paul Hepburn	2	3	1422	1558	AL West
112	Patrick Davenport	3	2	1413	1573	Basement
113	Tim Bowman	1	4	1409	1765	AL East
114	Alan Ford	2	3	1401	1620	Basement
115	Kevin Stimson	2	3	1383	1489	NL West
116	Ash Day	1	4	1371	1795	AL East
117	Daniel Woodrow	1	4	1358	1622	NL East
118	Tracey (Birds with Balls)	0	5	1355	1888	Championship
119	Scotty Buchanan	1	4	1336	1635	NL Central
120	Ryan Ferguson	0	5	1300	1772	AL North

Featured image by Matthew Grimes Jr.