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 Vuskovic BHA DEF IPS (H) 5.8 £5.0m 8.7 32 3.7%
2 Emersonn IPS FWD bha (A) 5.0 £5.5m 5.3 26 3.5%
3 A.Becker LIV GKP TOT (H) 4.6 £5.5m 8.3 27 4.1%
4 Jacquet LIV DEF TOT (H) 4.5 £5.0m 6.7 24 3.5%
5 Dasilva COV DEF bou (A) 4.5 £4.0m 5.7 20 0.7%
6 Khalaili CRY DEF sun (A) 4.5 £5.0m 5.3 19 0.3%
7 Schuster BRE DEF NEW (H) 4.3 £4.5m 7.0 21 0.3%
8 E.Le Fée SUN MID CRY (H) 4.2 £5.7m 4.3 18 3.4%
9 Mykolenko EVE DEF nfo (A) 4.2 £4.6m 5.7 27 4.2%
10 Araujo LIV DEF TOT (H) 4.1 £5.4m 7.0 22 3.0%
11 Suzuki AVL GKP che (A) 4.0 £5.0m 4.0 16 1.9%
12 Yalcouyé BHA MID IPS (H) 3.9 £4.5m 3.7 20 4.0%
13 Leno FUL GKP lee (A) 3.9 £4.5m 4.3 18 3.4%
14 Murillo NFO DEF EVE (H) 3.9 £5.5m 6.0 23 2.1%
15 Giles HUL DEF mci (A) 3.8 £4.0m 4.0 24 2.9%
16 Enzo MCI MID HUL (H) 3.7 £6.9m 4.0 13 3.6%
17 Affengruber FUL DEF lee (A) 3.7 £4.5m 4.0 12 0.1%
18 Muharemović LEE DEF FUL (H) 3.7 £5.0m 5.7 27 4.3%
19 Bassey FUL DEF lee (A) 3.6 £4.5m 4.3 15 0.7%
20 Janelt BRE MID NEW (H) 3.5 £5.0m 6.0 28 2.5%
21 Rushworth COV GKP bou (A) 3.5 £4.5m 4.3 16 0.8%
22 Iwobi FUL MID lee (A) 3.5 £5.4m 3.3 14 0.7%
23 McGinn AVL MID che (A) 3.5 £5.4m 4.0 17 2.2%
24 Buendía AVL MID che (A) 3.5 £5.9m 4.8 21 1.0%
25 Kamada CRY MID sun (A) 3.5 £5.0m 5.3 21 0.5%

Available players owned by under 5.0% 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.