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 Belloumi HUL MID IPS (H) 6.3 £5.1m 7.3 31 5.1%
2 Bogle LEE DEF bou (A) 5.6 £4.6m 11.3 42 7.2%
3 Tavernier BOU MID LEE (H) 5.6 £6.1m 6.7 31 6.8%
4 Davis IPS DEF hul (A) 5.4 £4.0m 5.7 25 6.9%
5 Emersonn IPS FWD hul (A) 5.1 £5.5m 5.3 26 3.5%
6 Vuskovic BHA DEF mci (A) 5.0 £5.0m 8.7 32 3.7%
7 Van Hecke TOT DEF CRY (H) 4.9 £4.9m 7.3 24 6.6%
8 Barnes NEW MID EVE (H) 4.8 £6.1m 7.7 28 5.7%
9 Schuster BRE DEF NFO (H) 4.7 £4.5m 7.0 21 0.3%
10 Mitchell CRY DEF tot (A) 4.7 £4.5m 7.7 24 6.1%
11 Dasilva COV DEF SUN (H) 4.6 £4.0m 5.7 20 0.7%
12 A.Becker LIV GKP ARS (H) 4.6 £5.5m 8.3 27 4.1%
13 Scott BOU MID LEE (H) 4.4 £6.1m 5.3 30 5.8%
14 Jacquet LIV DEF ARS (H) 4.4 £5.0m 6.7 24 3.5%
15 Khalaili CRY DEF tot (A) 4.4 £5.0m 5.3 19 0.3%
16 E.Le Fée SUN MID cov (A) 4.4 £5.7m 4.3 18 3.4%
17 Muharemović LEE DEF bou (A) 4.3 £5.0m 5.7 27 4.3%
18 Donnarumma MCI GKP BHA (H) 4.3 £5.5m 5.3 19 7.6%
19 Giles HUL DEF IPS (H) 4.2 £4.0m 4.0 24 2.9%
20 Enzo MCI MID BHA (H) 4.2 £6.9m 4.0 13 3.6%
21 Suzuki AVL GKP FUL (H) 4.0 £5.0m 4.0 16 1.9%
22 Araujo LIV DEF ARS (H) 4.0 £5.4m 7.0 22 3.0%
23 Van de Ven TOT DEF CRY (H) 3.9 £5.0m 5.3 16 3.8%
24 Kelleher BRE GKP NFO (H) 3.9 £5.0m 3.7 20 6.1%
25 Cunha MUN MID che (A) 3.9 £7.9m 5.0 26 5.8%

Available players owned by under 8.0% 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.