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 mun (A) 6.7 £15.6m 8.0 39 73.8%
2 Rogers CHE MID HUL (H) 6.4 £7.7m 5.3 29 40.5%
3 B.Fernandes MUN MID MCI (H) 6.2 £11.9m 2.0 31 38.5%
4 Saka ARS MID sun (A) 6.1 £9.5m 5.8 32 13.7%
5 Tavernier BOU MID BRE (H) 6.1 £6.1m 6.7 31 6.8%
6 Groß BHA MID cov (A) 5.7 £5.8m 10.7 47 28.8%
7 Gabriel ARS DEF sun (A) 5.5 £8.0m 5.0 25 22.7%
8 Yalcouyé BHA MID cov (A) 5.5 £4.5m 3.7 20 4.0%
9 Emersonn IPS FWD cry (A) 5.5 £5.5m 5.3 26 3.5%
10 Vuskovic BHA DEF cov (A) 5.4 £5.0m 8.7 32 3.7%
11 Tzolakis HUL GKP che (A) 5.4 £4.7m 4.7 34 12.8%
12 Raya ARS GKP sun (A) 5.4 £6.1m 6.0 30 42.3%
13 De Cuyper BHA DEF cov (A) 5.4 £5.0m 7.0 38 27.7%
14 Gibbs-White NFO MID avl (A) 5.2 £8.0m 4.3 28 15.7%
15 Schade BRE MID bou (A) 5.2 £6.2m 8.7 39 11.5%
16 Scott BOU MID BRE (H) 5.1 £6.1m 5.3 30 5.8%
17 Calafiori ARS DEF sun (A) 5.1 £5.8m 5.0 29 50.5%
18 Belloumi HUL MID che (A) 4.9 £5.1m 7.3 31 5.1%
19 Mbeumo MUN MID MCI (H) 4.9 £7.9m 4.0 25 20.6%
20 Davis IPS DEF cry (A) 4.9 £4.0m 5.7 25 6.9%
21 Maitland-Niles EVE DEF tot (A) 4.8 £4.5m 7.0 21 1.4%
22 Guéhi MCI DEF mun (A) 4.8 £6.0m 6.0 30 18.2%
23 Gvardiol MCI DEF mun (A) 4.8 £5.7m 7.7 37 26.8%
24 Khalaili CRY DEF IPS (H) 4.8 £5.0m 5.3 19 0.3%
25 Tarkowski EVE DEF tot (A) 4.8 £6.1m 8.3 43 16.5%

Every available player with at least one full match of minutes, ranked by expected points for gameweek 4. 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.