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 Haaland MCI FWD TOT (H) 6.3 £15.6m 8.0 39 73.8%
2 Tarkowski EVE DEF lee (A) 5.9 £6.1m 8.3 43 16.5%
3 Groß BHA MID MUN (H) 5.9 £5.8m 10.7 47 28.9%
4 Vuskovic BHA DEF MUN (H) 5.8 £5.0m 8.7 32 3.7%
5 Belloumi HUL MID sun (A) 5.7 £5.1m 7.3 31 5.1%
6 B.Fernandes MUN MID bha (A) 5.6 £11.9m 2.0 31 38.5%
7 Maitland-Niles EVE DEF lee (A) 5.5 £4.5m 7.0 21 1.4%
8 Schade BRE MID CRY (H) 5.4 £6.2m 8.7 39 11.5%
9 Davis IPS DEF ars (A) 5.3 £4.0m 5.7 25 6.9%
10 Saka ARS MID IPS (H) 5.2 £9.5m 4.0 32 13.7%
11 Rogers CHE MID NEW (H) 5.2 £7.7m 5.3 29 40.5%
12 Raya ARS GKP IPS (H) 5.1 £6.1m 6.0 30 42.3%
13 Mbeumo MUN MID bha (A) 5.1 £7.9m 4.0 25 20.6%
14 Tzolakis HUL GKP sun (A) 5.0 £4.7m 4.7 34 12.8%
15 Emersonn IPS FWD ars (A) 5.0 £5.5m 5.3 26 3.5%
16 Gabriel ARS DEF IPS (H) 5.0 £8.0m 4.0 25 22.7%
17 Bogle LEE DEF EVE (H) 4.9 £4.6m 11.3 42 7.2%
18 Barnes NEW MID che (A) 4.8 £6.1m 7.7 28 5.7%
19 Tavernier BOU MID AVL (H) 4.8 £6.1m 6.7 31 6.8%
20 Mitchell CRY DEF bre (A) 4.8 £4.5m 7.7 24 6.1%
21 Gibbs-White NFO MID FUL (H) 4.7 £8.0m 4.3 28 15.7%
22 A.Becker LIV GKP COV (H) 4.6 £5.5m 8.3 27 4.1%
23 Cunha MUN MID bha (A) 4.6 £7.9m 5.0 26 5.8%
24 Jacquet LIV DEF COV (H) 4.5 £5.0m 6.7 24 3.5%
25 Guéhi MCI DEF TOT (H) 4.5 £6.0m 6.0 30 18.2%

Every available player with at least one full match of minutes, ranked by expected points for gameweek 19. Doubling the top name is the highest-expected-value captain choice.

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.