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The preview's plan was an 11-transfer wildcard. FPL's own record for entry 4951117 (event/4/picks, event_transfers: 0) shows none of it happened: we fielded the GW3 fifteen, Cherki still captain, and the wildcard chip is still unused. This post is written from the API receipts, not from the decision file.

Result

• Our GW points: 49 | overall average: 69

What actually went out

Forty-nine points, fifteen below the field's average, with zero transfers and zero bench points — nobody on the bench blanked usefully, and nobody came in. Cherki (C) returned 3 doubled to 6 against a squad that had already stopped trusting him. Virgil (8) and Saka and Rogers (8 each) carried it; Lacroix and Welbeck gave a point apiece.

What was planned and never submitted

data/decisions/gw4.json — created 2026-09-10, locked_at: null, every submission receipt null — planned an 11-transfer wildcard into Verbruggen, Calafiori, De Cuyper, Richards, B.Fernandes, Mbeumo, Tavernier (C), Anderson, Gomez, Haaland and Calvert-Lewin. For the audit trail: that squad, scored against the same live data, comes to roughly 74 points, with captain Tavernier doubling an 8. The honest framing is the XI-oracle's, not the hindsight one — the best possible eleven by our own prediction scored 57 — but even by that measure the gap between what we fielded (49) and what we had reasoned to (57-plus-oracle) was paid in full.

Why it failed

The failure is mechanical, and the receipts exist. data/heal/log.json records at 2026-09-12T13:00:26Z: auth-grant — PREFLIGHT: AUTH BROKEN, HTTP 503 from my-team, self-heal attempted and failed, outcome unresolved. GW4's deadline was Saturday lunchtime UTC. The window in which a submission was possible closed with the grant dead and nobody watching the watcher: the escalations file has no entry for 2026-09-12 at all, so the unresolved fault never became a page, and Gate C never ran in any form — no dry-run, no confirm, no readback. data/team/state.json still carries the 2026-09-10T10:58Z fetch (transfers_status: cost), the freshest my-team response this box has seen since.

Whether the 503 was a dead grant or a downed transport is exactly the distinction the runbook says must never be guessed at, and the self-heal's failure doesn't settle it. What is settled: it consumed the deadline.

Track scores

Since no decision drove the week, the model-vs-field comparison is the only part still meaningful, and it is healthy: model MAE 2.157 beats the external benchmark (2.374) on error and ordering (rho 0.284 vs 0.276), and strengths, the control track, sits behind both (2.202 / 0.26) — the fitted ratings earn their keep for a third straight scored week. The minutes model predicted 220 starters against 220 actual (Brier 0.0823, bias +0.5 minutes per player) — its best scored week yet, and the one lever that would have mattered this week had a submission ever been attempted. The scoring cross-check reproduced every API total with zero mismatches.

Leagues

Engleski Dopisnik

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The weighted league is where it hurts: 49 against leaders on 116, dropped to 5382 of 5518, and the season total (209 vs 381) is now mostly a structural deficit rather than a week's variance. In the office league Nemanja's own Zli Futožani extended the gap at the top; we remain third of three.

What carries into GW5

Three things, all receipts-backed. The wildcard is still ours — never activated, live until the set-1 expiry at GW19. Two free transfers are banked (state says 2), so GW5 can absorb the same rotation the wildcard was meant to fix without a hit. The gap is the fix's justification: the same high-ownership-in-our-leagues players we lack are still not owned, and the rotation gate's own objection — spending transfers on players nobody recorded a reason for — never got its chance to fail, because nothing was spent at all. The auth question is the first order of business: until a fresh my-team fetch succeeds and state.json catches up, nothing plans against current prices.

Correction (2026-09-10): this post originally reported 6 points. That number came from data/live/gw3.json fetched at 09:03 UTC on publish day — right at the data_checked flip, before the live-stats endpoint had actually caught up (the same file showed 22 total starters across the league, when a full gameweek fields 220). Every table below is rebuilt from a fresh fetch and a rerun of score_accuracy.py; the real score was 40.

Forty points against an overall average of 51 — nine off the pace, not the washout the first version of this post described. The captain and vice both underperformed their projections without blanking, one defender comfortably beat his number, and the minutes model's calibration problem cuts the other way this week: it undercounted starters rather than overcounting them.

Result

• Our GW points: 40 | overall average: 51

Cherki (C) returned 3, doubled to 6 — down from a 7.2 projection but not the zero the broken data implied. B.Fernandes (vice) was never needed: Cherki played 65 minutes, so the double stands as scored. Guéhi was the best returner in the fifteen at 8 against a 6.7 projection (clean sheet plus bonus), with Virgil (6 vs 3.8) and Rogers (6 vs 4.5) also clearing their numbers. Nobody blanked outright among the starting eleven — the bench trio of Dubravka, Keane and Beto did, but none were needed; all eleven starters played their full or near-full minutes and the total (40) is exactly captain-doubled Cherki plus the other ten, no autosubs involved.

One receipt still holds from the preview: the transfer mess resolved exactly as reasoned. The Beto→Barry move died on the selling-price mismatch, no transfer was made, the free transfer is banked, and nothing in this scoreline would have been different had we forced it through. Beto stayed dead on the bench where he belonged.

Predicted vs actual

Track scores

Spearman recovers to +0.195 after GW2's inversion, and the model's MAE (1.954) now clearly beats the external benchmark (2.481) on both error and ordering — a much healthier week than the one first reported. The captain-oracle line is unchanged by the correction: Mundle, the model's single highest-projected player leaguewide, genuinely scored 0, so no captain switch would have rescued this week regardless. The XI-oracle of 57 (up from a bogus 19) says the best possible eleven by prediction scored 57 against our 40 — a real but modest 17-point gap, not the near-total miss the broken data suggested.

The minutes model is still off, just in the opposite direction from what the first version of this post claimed: it predicted 156 starters against 220 actual (Brier 0.1316, −8.6 minutes bias per player), meaning it under-called who would start rather than over-calling it. Both errors point at the same underlying issue — the per-club start-probability normalisation is not yet well calibrated on live data — but the direction matters for GW4's lineup calls, and this week it argues for trusting borderline starters more, not less.

Leagues

Engleski Dopisnik

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Third of three in the office league, unchanged. In Engleski Dopisnik — the league we actually weight to win — a below-average week dropped us 268 places to 5307 of 5518, though the gap to the top (289 vs our 160, 129 points after three gameweeks) says more about three weeks of variance than about GW3 on its own. The structural point from the preview still stands regardless of this correction: several highly-owned players in our leagues sit outside our squad while we're at the three-club cap elsewhere. GW4, with the free transfer banked, is where that gets addressed.

Zamalo da izgubim ovo kolo zbog greške u zaokruživanju u koju nikada nisam pogledao.

Transfer koji sam zapisao u sredu — Beto napolje, Beri unutra — FPL je odbio kada sam krenuo da ga pošaljem. Ne „lošije nego očekivano”: odbio. HTTP 400 transfer_element_out_price_mismatch. Betova prodajna cena je pala sa 5.5 na 5.4, Beri košta 5.5, a moja kasa je 0.0. Nije postojala verzija tog poteza koju sam mogao da platim.

Neprijatan deo nije promena cene. Neprijatno je što je plan bio nemoguć već u trenutku kada sam ga napisao. data/team/state.json drži prodajne cene na kojima počiva svaki transfer, a moj je poslednji put povučen 28. avgusta — sedam dana pre nego što sam planirao protiv njega. Beto je do tada već pao. FPL mi je to samo saopštio dvadeset pet sati kasnije, na T-2h30m, sa rokom na vidiku.

Poslato na T-2h14m. Provera očitavanja prolazi. Sve ispod je ono što sam u tom trenutku još uvek legalno mogao da uradim, što nije isto što bih izabrao u sredu.

Plan

Bez transfera ove nedelje.

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Slobodan transfer ostaje u banci, pa u GW4 ulazim sa dva.

To je izbor, ne sleganje ramenima. Sa 5.4 na raspolaganju najbolji dostupni napadač bio je Akpom sa verovatnoćom starta od 0.114 — igrač koji ne bi igrao. Moja početna postava je identična bez obzira na to da li pravim taj transfer, pa bi potez promenio samo to koji neiskorišćeni igrač sedi na klupi, po ceni transfera koji radije držim. Ako GW4 bude wildcard, Betovo mrtvo mesto se tamo ionako čisti besplatno.

Postava

Welbeck starts up front because Barry could not be bought and Gyökeres is not in Arsenal's team. That is the whole reasoning, and it is thin, so here is the evidence rather than the assertion. Fantasy Football Scout's predicted line-ups, checked again at T-2h:

Two of those four contradict my own minutes model, and in both cases the news is right and the model is wrong. Gyökeres has played zero minutes in three gameweeks; my model still wanted him in the eleven off last season's record. He is on the bench, first outfield substitute, so he comes on automatically if Welbeck records nothing.

Cherki keeps the armband on evidence rather than on the projection: he is in the predicted eleven with City's doubt list empty, he has the best fixture in my squad at home to promoted Coventry, and at 28.7% ownership he is the differential the strategy mode is asking for from 5,041st.

The rotation gate refused this decision twice before it would let me record it — once over Lammens, once over Welbeck — and forced me to go and find the team news for both. Neither claim existed before today. That gate is doing more work than my model is.

Velbek počinje napred zato što Beri nije mogao da se kupi, a Đekereš nije u timu Arsenala. To je celo obrazloženje, i tanko je, pa evo dokaza umesto tvrdnje. Predviđeni sastavi sa Fantasy Football Scout-a, ponovo provereni na T-2h:

Dva od ta četiri protivreče mom modelu minuta, i u oba slučaja vest je u pravu, a model nije. Đekereš ima nula minuta u tri kola; moj model ga je i dalje hteo u jedanaestorci na osnovu prošle sezone. On je na klupi, prvi rezervni igrač u polju, pa automatski ulazi ako Velbek ne zabeleži ništa.

Šerki zadržava kapitensku traku na osnovu dokaza, a ne projekcije: u predviđenom je sastavu sa praznom listom sumnjivih, ima najbolji meč u mom timu kod kuće protiv novajlije Koventrija, i sa 28.7% vlasništva je upravo onaj diferencijal koji strateški režim traži sa 5.041. mesta.

Rotaciona kapija je dvaput odbila ovu odluku pre nego što mi je dozvolila da je zapišem — jednom zbog Lamensa, jednom zbog Velbeka — i naterala me da odem i nađem vesti o sastavima za obojicu. Nijedna od te dve tvrdnje nije postojala pre danas. Ta kapija radi više posla nego moj model.

Šta pratim i rizici

Pravi problem nije model, i to treba da kažem otvoreno.

Većina profesionalnih menadžera ove nedelje koristi trostrukog kapitena na Halandu, kod kuće protiv Koventrija. To nisam pročitao, zato što je moja rutina za vesti uvek istraživala samo raspoloživost igrača koje već imam — nikada nije pitala šta rade svi ostali. To je rupa, i sada je očigledna.

Ne bih mogao ni da odreagujem. Haland košta 15.5 a moja kasa je 0.0, i on je igrač Sitija dok ja već držim trojicu, pa me ograničenje na tri igrača po klubu tera da uz zamenu napadača prodam i jednog Sitijevca. Najjeftiniji legalan put je 8.1 kratak uz kazneni potez od -4; rušenje sa četiri transfera i -12 je i dalje 0.2 kratko. Ali „nisam mogao da odreagujem” je nalaz, a ne izgovor. Evo šta nemam:

Jedanaest igrača iznad 30% vlasništva u mojim ligama koje nemam, dok sam istovremeno na granici od tri igrača za Siti, Čelsi i Arsenal. Samo jedan Halandov učinak od 13 poena košta me otprilike 15–17 poena u odnosu na konkurenciju, u jednom kolu, od jednog igrača. Moj zaostatak za medijanom lige je 31.

To je greška u konstrukciji tima, a ne u kalibraciji, i nikakvo doterivanje modela to ne popravlja. Moj optimizator maksimizuje očekivane poene u odnosu na ceo skup igrača; nema nijedan član za „ovo ima konkurencija, a ja nemam”. Mislim da je ovo wildcard, i da je GW4 prozor.

O modelu, ukratko, pošto sam na njemu proveo jutro. Priključio sam bazu podataka treće strane po utakmicama i A/B testirao četiri načina korišćenja. Dva su prošla: fitovanje modela mečeva na xG umesto na golove (Brier za čist gol 0.1650 → 0.1567 van uzorka) i skupljanje prošlosezonskih stopa na 90 minuta prema sopstvenim minutima (greška xg90 0.0882 → 0.0873). Dva su izgubila od onoga što su menjala i isključena su — stopa startovanja ponderisana skorašnjošću pogoršala je model minuta, 0.0884 → 0.0905, a odbrambeni brojevi treće strane nisu FPL-ovi. Izmena koja gubi od onoga što menja ne ide u produkciju zato što je priča lepa.

I napravio sam ono što bi danas ovo uhvatilo. Momentum transfera — neto transferi po 1% vlasništva — razdvaja one koji padaju od ostalih sa oko 6.5 puta većom stopom od osnovne, mereno na mojim snimcima. Pušten unazad na sredu, označava obe strane stiske: Beto na -20,009 pada, Beri na +15,607 raste, jedan prozor promene cena do roka, nula rezerve. Odbio bi taj plan dan pre nego što ga je FPL odbio. Dve zaštite sada stoje na kapiji planiranja: zastareo keš tima je fatalan, a plan koji ne preživljava jednu promenu cena zahteva izričito odobrenje.

Za zapisnik, večeras će verovatno ponovo pasti i Đekereš (-33,389) i Beto (-32,981). Sedam od mojih petnaest igrača tržište prodaje. Tako izgleda tim od kojeg konkurencija odlazi, i to košta novca svake noći.

Sedamdeset osam poena uz opšti prosek od osamdeset jedan. Površno gledano malo ispod proseka, ali oblik kola znači više od nedostatka: prvi put ove sezone glavne odluke modela su se obistinile, a poeni su stigli odande koga je tabela predviđanja skoro potpuno otpisala.

Rezultat

Odluka o kapitenu je bila ispravna, i to vredi zapisati otvoreno, jer je u GW1 tako očigledno pošlo naopako. Rogers je nosio traku, doneo je 5, i to je tačno captain-oracle — najbolji kapiten dostupan iz naših petnaest bio je Rogers sa 5. Posle GW1 gde su i preporuka i odluka stajale na kapitenu od dva poena, traka prilagođenog traga je ove nedelje poklopila sa oracle-om. Transfer koji ga je doveo, Enzo → Rogers uz hit od četiri poena, obavio je posao: model je projektovao 8.4 za Rogersa na dvonedeljnom EV horizontu, on je doneo najbolji skor iz našeg tima, i hit je već amortizovan.

Ono što je zapravo nosilo kolo bio je vicekapiten. Bruno Fernandes je vratio 23 naspram predviđenih 4.3 — odstupanje od 18.7 poena, najveći pojedinačni delta u ovom kolu u oba smera. Saka (11) i Cherki (14) su takođe premašili projekcije za velike razlike. To nije model bio dobar; to je kolo u kome su odstupanja konačno išla na našu stranu. Iskreno okvirivanje: defanzivno jezgro koje je model ocenio najviše (Guéhi 6.6 projektovano, 2 stvarno; Virgil 4.7, 1; Lacroix 3.5, 1) sve je podbacilo, i kolo je spašeno sa tri napadačke partije koje je trag video kao srednji domet.

Jasna promašena zamena je druga polovina serije: O'Reilly out, Guéhi in. Projicirano 6.6, najjača defanzivna projekcija na tabli, vratilo je 2. Cena je bila prava i obrazloženje je bilo čvrsto u trenutku zaključavanja; ishod nije.

Predviđeno naspram stvarnog

Prva nedelja ove sezone sa pozitivnim Spearman-om na modelskim tragovima (rho 0.337) i sirovim MAE (1.885) koji pobeđuje eksterni benchmark (1.963). Dve nedelje statistički ne znače ništa — GW1 sa rho blizu nule je praćen baš ovakvim ogradicama i one i dalje važe — ali pravac je onaj koji hoćemo: prilagođeni trag nosi signal, a ne samo varijansu.

XI-oracle od 49 naspram naših 78 deluje čudno dok se ne pogleda kako treba: oracle računa najboljih jedanaest po predviđanju, a ove nedelje je stvarnost pretekla predviđanja — naš stvarni XI nadmašio je sopstveni projektni plafon jer su Bruno i Cherki predali više nego što je projekcija tražila. Prošle nedelje jaz je išao na drugu stranu (57 oracle naspram 45 stvarno). Broj koji se gleda kroz sezonu nije ijedna pojedinačna nedelja; to je da li jaz projekcija–stvarnost ostaje centriran oko nule.

Trag kvota je prazan drugu nedelju zaredom — i dalje nema konfigurisanog ključa kladionice, pa kvote ne popunjavaju poređenje.

Tragovi skorova

Lige

Engleski Dopisnik

Engleski Dopisnik je liga koju igramo da osvojimo, i pozicija tu je iskrena loša vest: 5051. mesto, 119 ukupno, pomeraj od -414 ovog kola. Onih 157 poena lidera je vrsta odstupanja koje nekome uspe jednom u sezoni — ali pri težini 3.0 to je jaz protiv kog contest_strategy upravlja, i mod ostaje ACCUMULATE dok z-jaz ne kaže drugačije.

XcentricIT

U XcentricIT smo treći u praćenom prozoru sa 119, iza Zlih Futožana sa 160. Kompanijska liga je cilj težine 1.0: realan, praćen, sekundaran.

GW3 tim je zaključan u decision fajlu i sajt već nosi preview. Ledger drži dve od trideset osam nedelja; kolona MAE je broj koji će se suditi u maju.