Captains & Differentials

Who to captain, and the low-ownership punts that climb rank

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# Player Next xPts Price Form Pts Own %
1 Schuster BRE DEF bha (A) 4.3 £4.5m 7.0 21 0.3%
2 Khalaili CRY DEF LIV (H) 4.1 £5.0m 5.3 19 0.3%
3 Dasilva COV DEF eve (A) 4.1 £4.0m 5.7 20 0.7%
4 Justin LEE DEF TOT (H) 3.9 £4.5m 4.7 26 1.4%
5 Ampadu LEE MID TOT (H) 3.8 £5.4m 4.7 21 0.9%
6 Garner EVE MID COV (H) 3.7 £6.0m 3.0 11 0.2%
7 Rúben MCI DEF nfo (A) 3.6 £5.5m 4.3 17 1.9%
8 Suzuki AVL GKP mun (A) 3.6 £5.0m 4.0 16 1.9%
9 F.Kadıoğlu BHA DEF BRE (H) 3.6 £4.4m 4.3 13 1.6%
10 Affengruber FUL DEF NEW (H) 3.5 £4.5m 4.0 12 0.1%
11 Elvedi LEE DEF TOT (H) 3.5 £4.5m 4.0 13 0.1%
12 Gudmundsson LEE DEF TOT (H) 3.4 £4.5m 4.7 14 0.1%
13 Matheus N. MCI DEF nfo (A) 3.4 £5.9m 3.3 11 1.0%
14 Kamada CRY MID LIV (H) 3.4 £5.0m 5.3 21 0.5%
15 Okafor LEE MID TOT (H) 3.4 £5.8m 5.0 18 0.4%
16 Bassey FUL DEF NEW (H) 3.4 £4.5m 4.3 15 0.7%
17 Iwobi FUL MID NEW (H) 3.4 £5.4m 3.3 14 0.7%
18 Rushworth COV GKP eve (A) 3.3 £4.5m 4.3 16 0.8%
19 Silva BOU DEF ips (A) 3.2 £5.0m 2.3 13 0.4%
20 Ayari BHA MID BRE (H) 3.2 £5.4m 4.3 15 0.4%
21 Sels NFO GKP MCI (H) 3.2 £5.0m 3.7 14 1.6%
22 Anthony BRE MID bha (A) 3.2 £5.9m 4.0 15 0.1%
23 Enciso IPS MID BOU (H) 3.1 £5.5m 1.7 15 0.8%
24 Buendía AVL MID mun (A) 3.1 £5.9m 4.8 21 1.0%
25 Richards CRY DEF LIV (H) 3.1 £5.0m 3.7 14 0.6%

Available players owned by under 2.0% of managers, with at least two matches of minutes, ranked by expected points. A differential only helps if it returns — check the fixture before you jump.

How to read these tables

Captaincy is an expected-value decision, not a prediction. The armband doubles whatever happens, so the highest expected-points player is the right pick over a season even when it blanks in a given week.

Differentials trade certainty for rank movement. Owning what everyone else owns keeps your rank still; a low-ownership player who hauls moves it a long way. The lower the ownership, the bigger the swing in both directions.