Fantasy Football Captain Picks
The Captain’s Picks article, which will be released every Wednesday, will endeavor to sort out one of the most challenging problems FPL managers face – namely pick the member of your side who will accrue the most points and earn huge double point tallies for your fantasy team. We will concentrate on the most obvious looking selections each particular game-week and have a look at some comparable stats to see who, on paper, the best options are.
FPL Captain Picks For Gameweek 12
FPL Captain Picks For Gameweek 12 Mason Mount Since Gameweek 8, the Chelsea midfielder has the seventh-best points output, which includes four attacking returns (two goals and two assists). His underlying data also offers encouragement: 0.6xGI per 90 with 2.93 shots in the box and 2.56 key passes. Against a leaky Brentford backline, Mount is predicted to do well, with a 49 per cent chance of returning. Leandro Trossard The Seagulls have been great this season, and under the stewardship of Roberto De Zerbi, Brighton will look to continue their fine start. Nottingham Forest are up next, ranked 19th for xG conceded, and Trossard is predicted to flourish with the third-highest predicted points of the round with a 57 per cent chance of a goal or an assist. Mohamed Salah It’s too soon to s...[Read More]
FPL Captain Picks For Gameweek 11
FPL Captain Picks For Gameweek 11 City face Liverpool, meaning Erling Haaland loses some of his appeal, providing options elsewhere. We now have back-to-back game weeks where managers within the community will diverge from one another regarding the armband. Gabriel Martinelli The in-form Arsenal winger is my favourite pick for this set of fixtures. Even at the tender age of 21, Martinelli has demonstrated his ability to deliver high-level performances consistently, and against Liverpool, the Brazilian was on fire. He comes into this match with fantastic form, making the Top 10 for xGI, having seven direct goal contributions (4 goals and three assists). Only Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden can better his FPL points tally in midfield (55), and at Elland Road, as part of the league’s sec...[Read More]
FPL Captain Picks For Gameweek 10
FPL Captain Picks For Gameweek 10 The way Erling Haaland has started his Premier League career gives us the same problem we experienced last season with Mohamed Salah: a perma captain, at least for now! Game week twelve should be fun as managers will be forced into a change, but for this weekend, the Norwegian tops the bill. Erling Haaland What can we say that hasn’t already been said? At his present rate, Haaland will score 71 goals if he plays every minute in the league, and he would hit three figures (102) across all competitions. Phenomenal stuff. But it does make things quite dull, and you wouldn’t back against Haaland breaking more records with his fourth consecutive hattrick at The Etihad versus a poor Southampton defence. He is top for predicted points and has the best ...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 9
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 9 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 9 (& Predicted Line-ups) It’s a redundant article they said Haaland has killed it they said They were probably right… But we’ve all been here before, read Ronaldo or Suarez. And yes they may look like ‘perma Capos’ but there’s always that week when they have a ‘tougher’ fixture and others have ones that look less so. This is Erling’s first real stab at one of those week’s. The problem this week is that our main, and realistic, alternatives don’t really have that obvious easy fixture. Kane and Jesus face off in the NLD, which to be fair could be anything ranging from 0-0 to 4-4, but most likely nearer the former, Mitro is bang in ...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 8
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 8 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 8 Mitrovic v Nottingham Forest (A), by Stone Frog The Fulham talisman has made a great start to the season with 6 goals in 6 games and has gained 7 bonus points along the way. It could have been more, but for a missed penalty against Wolves and if that had gone in, he would have returned in every game so far. The stats back-up his strong start, with most shots (27), equal most shots on target (15) and 2nd for expected goals. The Friday night opponents, Forest, have not made a strong start defensively, having conceded the most shots (104) and the 3rd most goals (14), including 3 to newly promoted Bournemouth last week. In the corresponding fixture last October, Fulham won 4-0 at the City Ground, inc...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 7
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 7 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 7. RIP The Queen These games may or may not now go ahead but we have cracked on regardless, in our usual optimistic fashion… Plus we’d written it all anyway. Sometimes you can have too much choice. Sometimes you can have too little. Other times, like this week, there is one option who is particularly popular on the back of his insane form. Nonetheless, we like to explore all possible options for those who do feel brave enough to go off-piste. Fortune favours the brave, and all that! So, get yourself a coffee, sit back and take in the captain choices that Jamesimmo, Kop, Ivan and Swirly have in store for you. There is, as always, the confessional, where the writers say, at the time of writing, who t...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 5
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 5 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 5. The writers for the week gone by had picked out three seemingly brilliant picks for the captaincy. Spoilt for choice we were. A week is a long time in politics – and an eternity in FPL! Frustration for one, sheer disbelief for the other! Erling Haaland (Swirly) was the clear and obvious winner – a huge 28 points better than Mohamed Salah (Rosco, second) and 32 better than Gabriel Jesus (Stone Frog, third) – so well done Swirly, we hope you picked him yourself?! (He didn’t….) The same names undoubtedly will reappear, so join us as we dust down and focus quickly on Tuesday, as we look at the best bets for Gameweek 5. GP – Mohamed Salah – vs Newcastle Unite...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 4
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 4 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 4 Perhaps we should all be a little more cavalier and start sticking our armband on whoever takes our fancy. If anyone was brave enough to go with Odegaard (32pts) then they have bigger you know what’s than yours truly, and whilst Rodrigo has been the form player thus far this season, few would have backed him to pick up 26pts let alone his teammate Harrison to go one (x2) better (28pts) against the visiting Chelsea. But we didn’t recommend any of those players, sadly. So how did our writers do? Well, we may have had to wait until the 81st minute of the final fixture but it was Stone Frog’s Salah pick (16pts) who came out on top. Maddison grabbed a solid 14pts (Swirly), Init backe...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 3
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 3 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 3 After GW1’s flurry of 20 odd fairly obvious Capo points to the fairly obvioys candidates it was a bit more down to earth in GW2 for our writers. With no mention of Jesus (just the 38 Capo points) we were left with a defender (Cancelo) top of our pile (22), Haaland (10) and Salah (4) lagging and our differential pick of Bowen flatlining again (4). But as ever hope springs eternal so let’s go see what they all reckon for GW3… Haaland v Newcastle (A) by Init Ah sh!t, City got 4 and Haaland came away with 1 solitary assist? What a load of old boll*cks! Oh sh!t, sorry for swearing, I didn’t know I was live! And so yes this may be a bit of a sweary piece, but forgive us, it’s on...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek GW2
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek GW2 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek GW2 GW1 proved almost predictable in terms of our picks, with Salah and Haaland off to a flier, Kane and Son proving ‘Spursy’, and Sterling finding that goals are always seemingly hard to come by for Chelsea forwards, past and present. Here’s how our writers fared: 1. GP — Haaland, 26 points. Two goals and all 3 bonus points. We have a feeling we may be typing that sentence an awful lot this season. 2. Rosco — Salah, 24 points. A goal, an assist and 2 bonus points. We have a feeling we may be typing that sentence an awful lot this season… 3. Kop — Son, 10 points. A solitary assist when Spurs scored 4. 4. OddDane — Sterling, 6 points. Just a clean sheet to show for his debu...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 1
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 1 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 1 Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more …. The first Captains Article of the new season and it’s a beauty. We have five superb picks which might make you think that it isn’t all ‘plain Salahing’. Admittedly Salah is up first (but that’s only because the teacher’s pet Rosco got into the article editing suite first) so please read right to the end because even if you are set on Mo, there might also be something which could sway you to (or from) owning the other four picks if you happen to be swithering right now. The correct answer for captaincy is of course Erling Haaland which might lead you to work out who wrote this intro …. Rosco –...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38 And there it was gone. And in all honesty, good riddance to it. (And yes I know you shouldn’t (really) begin sentences with ‘And’, especially not on an article that has pretty much all of your (sometimes pedantic) writing team featuring on it!). And I don’t care! But (yeah, I know…) back to that season… We pretty much all hoped it would be more of a ‘normal’ one but it proved itself to be anything but, once again. And in all honesty, it was a pain in the arse, again. Fixtures cancelled at the drop of a hat, GW’s re-arranged, games re-arranged, Covid protocols installed and taken the piss out advantage of. All in all, it was a bit of a mess a...[Read More]
