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 CRY (H) 6.3 £5.0m 8.7 32 3.7%
2 Enzo MCI MID IPS (H) 4.9 £6.9m 4.0 13 3.6%
3 A.Becker LIV GKP bre (A) 4.7 £5.5m 8.3 27 4.1%
4 Jacquet LIV DEF bre (A) 4.6 £5.0m 6.7 24 3.5%
5 Muharemović LEE DEF MUN (H) 4.6 £5.0m 5.7 27 4.3%
6 Schuster BRE DEF LIV (H) 4.5 £4.5m 7.0 21 0.3%
7 Van de Ven TOT DEF COV (H) 4.4 £5.0m 5.3 16 3.8%
8 Rúben MCI DEF IPS (H) 4.4 £5.5m 4.3 17 1.9%
9 Yalcouyé BHA MID CRY (H) 4.3 £4.5m 3.7 20 4.0%
10 Dasilva COV DEF tot (A) 4.3 £4.0m 5.7 20 0.7%
11 Araujo LIV DEF bre (A) 4.2 £5.4m 7.0 22 3.0%
12 Emersonn IPS FWD mci (A) 4.2 £5.5m 5.3 26 3.5%
13 Matheus N. MCI DEF IPS (H) 4.1 £5.9m 3.3 11 1.0%
14 Anderson MCI MID IPS (H) 4.1 £6.3m 3.3 15 4.0%
15 Leno FUL GKP HUL (H) 4.1 £4.5m 4.3 18 3.4%
16 Khalaili CRY DEF bha (A) 4.0 £5.0m 5.3 19 0.3%
17 E.Le Fée SUN MID bou (A) 3.9 £5.7m 4.3 18 3.4%
18 Bassey FUL DEF HUL (H) 3.9 £4.5m 4.3 15 0.7%
19 Mykolenko EVE DEF CHE (H) 3.8 £4.6m 5.7 27 4.2%
20 Affengruber FUL DEF HUL (H) 3.8 £4.5m 4.0 12 0.1%
21 Stach LEE MID MUN (H) 3.7 £6.0m 3.3 27 2.5%
22 Gomez BHA MID CRY (H) 3.7 £5.0m 4.3 24 4.0%
23 Suzuki AVL GKP new (A) 3.7 £5.0m 4.0 16 1.9%
24 Iwobi FUL MID HUL (H) 3.7 £5.4m 3.3 14 0.7%
25 Janelt BRE MID LIV (H) 3.7 £5.0m 6.0 28 2.5%

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.