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 Khalaili CRY DEF IPS (H) 4.8 £5.0m 5.3 19 0.3%
2 Suzuki AVL GKP NFO (H) 4.2 £5.0m 4.0 16 1.9%
3 Neto CHE MID HUL (H) 4.1 £6.5m 2.0 14 1.4%
4 Kamada CRY MID IPS (H) 3.7 £5.0m 5.3 21 0.5%
5 Munoz LIV MID FUL (H) 3.6 £6.5m 1.7 15 0.9%
6 Lewis-Potter BRE MID bou (A) 3.6 £5.5m 2.0 22 1.7%
7 Enciso IPS MID cry (A) 3.5 £5.5m 1.7 15 0.8%
8 Yeremy CRY MID IPS (H) 3.4 £5.5m 2.7 14 0.3%
9 Silva BOU DEF BRE (H) 3.4 £5.0m 2.3 13 0.4%
10 Wharton CRY MID IPS (H) 3.3 £5.4m 2.0 12 0.7%
11 Rúben MCI DEF mun (A) 3.3 £5.5m 4.3 17 1.9%
12 Justin LEE DEF NEW (H) 3.3 £4.5m 4.7 26 1.4%
13 Horníček NEW GKP lee (A) 3.3 £5.0m 2.0 14 1.5%
14 Richards CRY DEF IPS (H) 3.3 £5.0m 3.7 14 0.6%
15 Matheus N. MCI DEF mun (A) 3.2 £5.9m 3.3 11 1.0%
16 Affengruber FUL DEF liv (A) 3.2 £4.5m 4.0 12 0.1%
17 Ayari BHA MID cov (A) 3.2 £5.4m 4.3 15 0.4%
18 F.Kadıoğlu BHA DEF cov (A) 3.2 £4.4m 4.3 13 1.6%
19 Gravenberch LIV MID FUL (H) 3.2 £5.8m 1.0 9 1.1%
20 Sels NFO GKP avl (A) 3.1 £5.0m 3.7 14 1.6%
21 Mukiele SUN DEF ARS (H) 3.1 £5.4m 1.3 13 1.9%
22 Rudoni COV MID BHA (H) 3.0 £4.9m 3.0 13 0.1%
23 Palacios FUL MID liv (A) 3.0 £5.4m 3.0 12 0.2%
24 Strand Larsen CRY FWD IPS (H) 3.0 £6.0m 3.7 14 0.7%
25 Garner EVE MID tot (A) 3.0 £6.0m 3.0 11 0.2%

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.