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 BHA (H) 7.1 £15.6m 8.0 39 73.8%
2 Belloumi HUL MID IPS (H) 6.3 £5.1m 7.3 31 5.1%
3 Schade BRE MID NFO (H) 6.0 £6.2m 8.7 39 11.5%
4 Bogle LEE DEF bou (A) 5.6 £4.6m 11.3 42 7.2%
5 Tzolakis HUL GKP IPS (H) 5.6 £4.7m 4.7 34 12.8%
6 Tavernier BOU MID LEE (H) 5.6 £6.1m 6.7 31 6.8%
7 Davis IPS DEF hul (A) 5.4 £4.0m 5.7 25 6.9%
8 Groß BHA MID mci (A) 5.4 £5.8m 10.7 47 28.8%
9 Guéhi MCI DEF BHA (H) 5.2 £6.0m 6.0 30 18.2%
10 Tarkowski EVE DEF new (A) 5.1 £6.1m 8.3 43 16.5%
11 Emersonn IPS FWD hul (A) 5.1 £5.5m 5.3 26 3.5%
12 Vuskovic BHA DEF mci (A) 5.0 £5.0m 8.7 32 3.7%
13 Maitland-Niles EVE DEF new (A) 5.0 £4.5m 7.0 21 1.4%
14 Rogers CHE MID MUN (H) 5.0 £7.7m 5.3 29 40.5%
15 Gvardiol MCI DEF BHA (H) 4.9 £5.7m 7.7 37 26.8%
16 Van Hecke TOT DEF CRY (H) 4.9 £4.9m 7.3 24 6.6%
17 Saka ARS MID liv (A) 4.8 £9.5m 5.8 32 13.7%
18 Barnes NEW MID EVE (H) 4.8 £6.1m 7.7 28 5.7%
19 Schuster BRE DEF NFO (H) 4.7 £4.5m 7.0 21 0.3%
20 Mitchell CRY DEF tot (A) 4.7 £4.5m 7.7 24 6.1%
21 Dasilva COV DEF SUN (H) 4.6 £4.0m 5.7 20 0.7%
22 A.Becker LIV GKP ARS (H) 4.6 £5.5m 8.3 27 4.1%
23 Gibbs-White NFO MID bre (A) 4.5 £8.0m 4.3 28 15.7%
24 B.Fernandes MUN MID che (A) 4.5 £11.9m 2.0 31 38.5%
25 Scott BOU MID LEE (H) 4.4 £6.1m 5.3 30 5.8%

Every available player with at least one full match of minutes, ranked by expected points for gameweek 9. 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.