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Biddenham Mini-League · 2025/26

YOUR
SEASON,
WRAPPED.

38 gameweeks. 29 managers. One title race, one deserving champion, several emotional breakdowns. Let's relive it.

A data-verified, mildly judgmental review · tap, scroll or use → keys
Between all of you

Together you scored

59,139

points across the season. You also burned 154 chips, paid 280 points in transfer hits, and — deep breath — left 6,623 points rotting on your benches.

That's 6,623 points nobody will ever get back. Somewhere, a bench cried.

The one that mattered

Your champion led the table for

21 of 38 GWs

Will Finney spent more than half the season top of the pile and refused to give it back. Zero hits taken all year. No nerves shown. Closed it out as champion on 2,361 points.

Chris Beeden led 11 weeks and pushed it to the wire — but finished 67 points back. The kettle's on. The title's home.

The title race · week by week

Five men chased it. One ran away with it.

Cumulative true points (hits deducted) across all 38 gameweeks. Watch the gold line refuse to be caught.

Best armband in the league

Mark Horton's captain picks beat the field by

+58

The single best captaincy season anyone managed — and it still only got him a bronze medal, decided by a single point. Football is a cruel, cruel game, Mark.

...and at the other end

The captaincy graveyard

Amy Bliss−95
Georg Coakley−94
Callum Bowness−83

Points lost vs the field on captaincy alone. Three managers who picked the wrong horse, every single week.

Ride or die

The Loyalists

Phil Johnson → Bruno Fernandes×37
Amy Bliss → Mo Salah×36
George Foy → Erling Haaland×33
Callum Bowness → Iliman Ndiaye×31

Phil captained Bruno 37 weeks out of 38. That's not a strategy, that's a marriage.

Points left to die

David Bailey benched

362

points he could have used. A league-worst. That's an entire second squad sitting in the dugout, watching.

Chris Beeden left 272 on his bench and STILL finished 2nd. Imagine if he'd looked at his team.

Gameweek 33 · the chip frenzy

The week the whole league exploded

Mike Flynn 🏆 Bench Boost125
David Bailey124
Cathy Eckett-Brown119
olly barnes · Triple Captain118

GW33 averaged 80.5 points. Mike Flynn's 125 was the highest single score anyone posted all season.

Gameweek 34 · the hangover

Then the very next week, Dan Birkinshaw scored

4

Four. The lowest single gameweek of anyone, all season. The blank-GW carnage also claimed Louis Grimoldby (8) and a queue of others under 20.

From a league average of 80.5 in GW33 to 39.8 in GW34. The comedown was real.

Living dangerously

Paul Alexis donated to FPL

60

points in transfer hits, across 11 separate gameweeks. The most generous man in the league. The −4 button has never felt so loved.

Gameweek 6 · a moment of silence

Jamie Mitchell made seven transfers… and forgot to play his Free Hit

−28

The single biggest hit anyone took all season — for transfers that would have been completely free if he'd just clicked the chip. It was sitting right there, Jamie. Right. There.

He had a Free Hit in his back pocket the whole time. He played it 12 weeks later in GW18. The GW6 −28 will haunt him forever.

Saving for a rainy day

Georg Coakley sat on an average of

£5.5m

in the bank, all season long. While everyone else spent big, Georg was clearly saving up for something special. (He finished 22nd.)

The finest of margins

The bronze medal came down to

1 point

After 38 gameweeks and thousands of decisions, Mark Horton (2,276) pipped olly barnes (2,275) to third by a single, solitary point. One captain pick. One bench call. One anything.

Meanwhile the title was a comfier 67-point cushion. Some races are closer than others.

Final standings · true points (hits deducted)

Your top three

🥈
Chris Beeden
2,294
🏆
Will Finney
2,361 pts
🥉
Mark Horton
2,276

67 points separated 1st from 2nd — a champion with zero hits all season. Beeden's bench could tell you exactly where the gap went.

Nobody leaves empty-handed

The 2025/26 Awards

Every manager, picked out for exactly what they deserve.

That's a wrap · Champion: Will Finney 🏆

See you next
season. 👋

Same league. New excuses.

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