Welcome back to what is the first bonus point + DEFCON round up of the season! 👉🏻Ajer and Sangare kept their DEFCON. Kayode has lost a bonus point. 👉🏻Van Hecke gained a huge 3 DEFCON in the update, finishing just 1 away from the threshold on 9. Lewis-Potter gained a valuable successful dribble (+1bps), taking him above Kayode after their previous tie in the bps. Sangare also gained a successful dribble (+1bps) in the update, taking him even further ahead for 3 bonus. 👉🏻Iliman Ndiaye held onto his DEFCON and bonus point Ndiaye wouldn’t be anywhere near bonus point contention if this was last season! He was dispossessed a huge 7 times (-7 bps last year), but this season players are not penalised. Incidentally, Ndiaye was just 1 recovery away (+1bps) from tying with Barry for 2 bonus, who also benefited from this year’s rules with 4 dispossessions of his own unpenalised. 👉🏻Tarkowski and Canvot both failed to hit DEFCON in the update, and we also had no bonus point changes. 👉🏻 Despite a three way tie for 2 bonus, no bonus point changes occurred in the Leeds game! Anton Stach breezed to maximum bonus with his goal, even without any passing bonus. Along with his goal (+18 bps) + winning goal bonus (+3bps), he was fouled 4 times (+4 bps) and completed two successful tackles (+4 bps). Muharemovic was his single foul and one successful pass (+3bps) away from joining the cluster of players on 2 bonus. Sounds a lot but is still very fine margins! Whereas Jake Bijol was simply one failed pass away (-2bps) from dropping out of the bonus completely. More fine margins! If the game ended goalless, Murillo would have finished with 3 bonus (31bps) and Neco Williams would have had 2 bonus (29bps) - in theory. 👉🏻The award for most impressive bonus performance comes from Hull goalkeeper Konstantinos Tzolakis! Two Hull centre backs managed both a goal + clean sheet (+24 bps) and still finished below the goalkeeper in the bps scoring! Tzolakis accumulated a whopping 22 recoveries (+7bps)! He also made: • 3 saves inside the box (+9 bps) • 2 saves outside the box (+4bps) • Claimed an additional +1bps thanks to this season’s addition to reward a “big chance saved” 👉🏻 It looks like hardly anything at all changed in the United game! Only one or two things changed which is rare! But I’d say at this point we can assume no bonus changes occurred. 👉🏻 No bonus point or DEFCON changes occurred in the Sunderland game either. - Despite Dan Ballard gaining an additional DC, he still fell short of DEFCON by just one. 👉🏻On Friday evening Bobby Thomas hit DEFCON in the update, whilst no bonus point changes occurred. Calafiori was outscored by White in the bonus despite both achieving an assist + CS. The critical decider was the fact that White hit the maximum passing threshold of 90%+ accuracy (+6bps). Whereas Calafiori was just 6 passes away from being eligible for passing bonus (30 pass attempts needed). If last season’s bps scoring was in play, these would be the differences: Ajayi (+1 bonus) Barry (-1 bonus) Ndiaye (-1 bonus) Pickford (+ 2 bonus) M. Nunez (+ 1 bonus) Justin (-1 bonus) Trafford (-2 bonus) Kayode (+1 bonus) Janelt (+2 bonus) Not real changes to report but definitely a lot of interesting scores, especially when you factor the new adjustments! Thought I’d include those comparisons to show how even minor tweaks to the bps system can have a big impact! Hefty post so well done for reading the whole way! Hopefully this was an interesting read and I’ll be back again with another roundup after today’s games 😀