🇫🇷 France win the Six Nations for a record 8th time
🥸 The Oval Office finished 12th, so we’re donating £2.75 £5 to Movember (share with your friends to boost these rookie numbers and help a great charity)
🏆 Conor wins the Oval Office league, coming first out of 64 participants!
💰 Try hards, well done, you’ve won £20 to go towards rugby merch.
Please reply to this email with a screenshot of your team within the league to claim your prizes!
✍️ Round 5 Results
Ireland 43 - 21 Scotland
⭐️ POTM: Caelan Doris (54pts)
👍 Other top performers: Rory Darge (48pts), Dan Sheehan (43pts) & Finn Russell (37pts).
Wales 31 - 17 Italy
⭐️ POTM: Aaron Wainwright (68pts)
👍 Other top performers: Tommaso Menoncello (44pts), Dan Edwards (35pts) & Paolo Garbisi (34pts).
France 48 - 46 England
⭐️ POTM: Louis Bielle-Biarrey (68pts)
👍 Other top performers: Ollie Chessum (53pts), Matthieu Jalibert (44pts) & Tommy Freeman (33pts).
The Final Table:
The Final Standings in The Oval Office League
🏆 Congrats to Conor who wins the league!
Huge thanks to everyone that has joined the league, read our emails and shared with friends.
What’s next?
We’re already working on an improved team builder for the Nations Championship, as well as new form metrics to add to Expected Points. We’ve also just launched a Head to Head player comparison tool so you can decide between 3 players for your next team.
💯 The theoretical maximum points total was 771 points.
©️ Louis Bielle-Biarrey & Aaron Wainwright were the best Captain picks: 68 → 136pts.
🚀 Darragh Murray was the best Super Sub: 26 → 78pts.
🏉 The Oval Office’s Round 5 Team
⭐️ We had 8/15 players in the R4 dream team.
The Good
©️ Louis Bielle-Biarrey was the best captain choice (with Wainwright).
🍀 Dan Sheehan scored again.
🏴 Rory Darge was a differential pick (dropping 🏴 Ben Earl) and it worked well.
🇮🇹 Tommaso Menoncello hauled 44 points.
The Bad
🇮🇹 Louis Lynagh only returned 10 points. 🏴 Tommy Freeman or 🏴 Darcy Graham ended up being the best picks alongside LBB.
🏴 Ollie Chessum was in our thinking, and we were wrong to go for 🏴 Dafydd Jenkins instead.
🍀 Caelan Doris outperformed Jack Conan with a MOTM performance - so the budget we saved on Conan was not worth it in the end!
🇫🇷 Super Sub Mickaël Guillard wasn’t bad, but only scored 10 points (→ 30pts).
How did we perform vs The Oval Office’s computer picks?
💻 The computer scored 432 vs an xP of 459.5 points.
✅ Our team scored 554 points (with an xP of 420.6).
Thanks for reading, and see you soon for the Nations Championship!