This was week 29 of 30 in the regular season and 4 players have booked their places in the end of season play-offs. But more of that later.
Home wins were fairly easy this week, thanks to West Ham's win over Southampton, which was predicted by 14. ranger-boy got Crystal Palace's win over Leicester and kingfisher got Newcastle's win over Man Utd. Those who missed out were let down by Bristol City who only drew with Reading and Brighton who only drew with Brentford.
The away wins were harder. 6 had Man Utd to win at Newcastle (they lost), 5 had Fulham to win at Bournemouth (they also lost) and others went for Leicester, Wolves and Southampton. But the points went to jortja, LurkR, ranger-boy & stoatey who got Swansea's win at Cardiff and SydneyR who got Sheff Utd at Norwich.
So 3 points each for jortja, ranger-boy and SydneyR. And 1 point for most others.
Jalfrezi Rs remains at the top of the table with 39 points. jortja closes the gap in 2nd with 38. kensalr has 37 and LurkR 35. These 4 are guaranteed a play-off place.
The other 4 play-off places are still between 9 players mathematically. They are currently occupied by myself, MCM Hoop & ranger-boy on 34 points and CutePR on 33. jrperry1882 dropped out of the top 8 but is only 1 point back on 32. Ricardo Rangers and stoatey are on 31 and northwesthoop and jimjams still have a slim chance on 30.
Also settled next week will be the wooden spoon, which is now a 2 horse race between QPRBex and qprfcfromwhitecity.
Is this the first time all season jrperry1882 has been out of the top 8?
Not quite. He was 9th after week 21 and did not enter in week 1. Other than that jrperry1882 has been in the top 8 every week. Not the best week to choose to drop out!
On the other hand, MCM Hoop was 11th as recently as week 24 and has timed his run brilliantly.