The Blissett Herald – FML gameword newspaper

The season is over and it’s time for the second and last report of our beloved SEFA qual 8 group. It’s been a great season; welcome to the Hoff report.

When all is said and done, our league looks a pretty much like this:

Comment: First of all, congratulations to strong finishers Flamengo for winning the group and breaking the 100 point limit in the sky – it’s a decent qual group to win, this! Graeme Allan and his 11 joins Rafael Lameirao in next season’s Premiership, while AC Meda and Iversen Town will be our representatives in the Championship.

Next season we will have all of 9 divisions in SEFA, but the qual 8 teams will be sent to a mere 8 (San Ivansburgo seems to have left us) as far as I can understand. Norwich Farmers will, in other words, be plaved in the 8th division in stead of 9th.

Read on for the stat kings of this season!

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Note: In some areas the fair thing to do would be doing the maths on who performs best in the minutes given to him. This will take too much of my time, I’m afraid, so the following will pretty much be based on stat rankings. Where the count of goals/assists/etc is dead alike, but one has had less games the one with less games will be ranked higher than the other.
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Top Scorers

1. Yoan Gouffran (Iversen Town) 27 in 40, Stephane Baudouin (Ever Winners FC) and Ezequiel Lavezzi (Flamengo) 27 in 48
2. Nikola Kalinic (Allan’s 11, sold to Hampton Youth FC after the season) 26 in 39
3. Johnny McDonagh (Flamengo) 22 in 38

A free scoring trio, all with 27 in the bag. Gouffran made his 27 in 40 games, making him most efficient. Baudouin and Lavezzi were not in the top when we were halfway, but in the end bot managed to pass Kalinic and Haynes, Lavezzi showing that he was an important part of Flamengo’s great finishing run.

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Most assists

1. Stewart Downing (Flamengo) 27 in 47
2. Sulley Muntari (Iversen Town) 23 in 47
3. Gaël Kakuta (Ever Winners) 17 in 47

Downing has passed Muntari in the last half of the season, much showing why Flamengo took home the top spot. Kakuta made a strong finish to get in this top 3 and has been an importan player for Ever Winners FC.

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Best Average Rating (half a season’s worth of games (24) or more)

1. Yann Mandanda (Ever Winners FC) 7.44 in 45 appearances
2. Stewart Downing (Flamengo) 7.35 in 47 appearances
3. Sulley Muntari (Iversen Town) 7.34 in 47 appearances

Mandanda actually raised the bar in the last half, upping his average with a decent 0.3 points. Downing made it into the top 3, being an extremely important performer with his group winning side, while Muntari followed the rest of his team going down a few notches.
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Clean Sheets (half a season’s worth of games (24) or more)

1. Marcelo Barovero (Flamengo): 22 in 48
2. Sergio Romero (Iversen Town): 21 in 47
3. Jean-Marc Humbert (AC Meda) and Matteo Andreoletti (Ever Winners FC): 21 in 48

What a finish from Flamengo! A whole team performing top notch gives Barovero a steady flow of clean sheets to make top goalie this season. Romero beating Humbert and Andreoletti on the average clean sheets per games rule, seeing as all three gets the same amount of clean sheets.
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Best 11 so far (based on average rating, 24 games minimum):

GK: Roberto Santamaria (GDGafanha)

DL: Ricardo Villarraga (Allan’s 11)
DC: Tomas Costa (Iversen Town)
DC: André (Ever Winners FC (sold to The FA after the season))
DR: Felipe Mattioni (AC Meda)

ML: Yann Mandanda (Ever Winners FC)
MC: Sulley Muntari (Iversen Town)
MC: Vitor Junior (Flamengo)
MR: Stewart Downing (Flamengo)

FC: Leonardo Pischulichi (Amsterdam Admirals (sold to A-team after the season))
FC: Alejandro Aguilar (AC Meda/A-Team)

Still making the list based on pure average ratings (I don’t like it, but I haven’t got time for anything else), but upping the required game count to 24 (and the games has of course have to be played in our group, effectively excluding names like Stephen Kelly on the right back). It’s not a shabby team!

That’s it for the Hoff report. May the Hoff be with you.