The 2021-22 Fantasy Premier League is here, and to help finish off those FPL teams we offer up our FPL Captain Picks GW1 & Stats.
This week and every week we have our own in-house way of choosing the best of the best to wear the armband for your Fantasy Premier League side.
Those double points prove vital to a top 10K finish, and so you should be armed with as much information as possible. We try to provide that.
Our Captain’s Table is based on a number of stats from the 20-21 season for now, and be refreshed with the new season stats as they come. So come back every game week for a fresh serve.
For now, help yourself to the FPL Captain Picks GW1 Captain’s Table.
FPL Captain Picks GW1 Captain’s Table
Here are the FPL Captain Picks GW1 results. A full explanation of the stats is provided at the end.
We show only the top ten, the entire data is determined by our selection of the top 30 potential captain choices.
FPL Captain Picks GW1 Analysis
So you’ve seen our Captain’s Table, and now it is time for a piece of our mind.
Bruno Fernandes tops our first Captain’s Table for the season and to little surprise. But there is a small doubt in one’s mind. He didn’t finish the season as well as earlier in the season, and didn’t do much at the Euros either. He looked exhausted and probably was given the marathon of football over the last season and a half. And does new signing Jadon Sancho hinder or help the Man Utd attacker? Of course we haven’t included Jadon Sancho in the above table due to a lack of stats from last season in the Premier League, but you can dive further into his stats with our analysis on Jadon Sancho in depth.
Raphinha as exciting as he is, who’d think he’d be right up the top of the Captain’s Table. Especially given in our FPL Cheapies Analysis we were questioning whether Harrison was the better choice for the FPL team. Raphinha is helped with a great record v Manchester United in his short Premier League career, but his other stats do stack up.
Liverpool’s Mo Salah and Sadio Mane open their season up against Norwich, and many FPL managers will be rubbing their hands together at the potential points fest in GW1. But while this exact fixture ended 4-1 to Liverpool in the opening match of the 19-20 season, Norwich are a slightly different team this time around bringing a much better defensive record from the Championship this time around. As we pointed out in our FPL Promoted Team Analysis.
Manchester City players on paper are always great FPL Captain picks, however there is always a rotation risk, and the pending arrival of Jack Grealish won’t make those decisions any easier. You can barely guarantee anyone other than Kevin De Bruyne a start so any Man City player as captain is a risk. Further consideration should be given to Man City’s record at Spurs recently. Their record is quite bad with the recent results being Spurs 2-0 (20-21) Spurs 2-0 (19-20) Spurs 1-0 (18-19) Man City 1-0 (18-19) Man City 3-1 (17-18) Spurs 2-0 (16-17) and Spurs 4-1 (15-16)
Chelsea players look interesting too with an easy-ish game on paper first up. Kai Havertz makes our Captain’s Table top ten, but like Man City there’s a worry of rotation. Perhaps maybe not Mason Mount, but then again…
For your consideration are the below key stats from last season’s FPL for the top ten players from our Captain’s Table.
FPL Captain Picks GW1 Final Say
HELLO – Meet the new season, same as the old season. Bruno Fernandes and Mo Salah appear to be the go to FPL Captain picks. Mo Salah for us as Norwich should be easier opposition than Leeds for Man Utd and there’s a small doubt over how new signing Jadon Sancho fits in and affects Fernandes. Although points are only a penalty away….
CALL ME MAYBE – While Raphinha, Kai Havertz, Sadio Mane are not the top billed stars their stats stack up for GW1. Havertz and Mane are playing opposition who are expected to be in the lower half of the table and both have great scoring records against this weekend’s opponent. Could be that differential to get the season off to a flyer.
GOODBYE – Harry Kane – well he may at least settle who he’s going to play for by playing for no one in GW1.
FPL Captain Picks GW1 – Other Stats
2020-21 SEASON BEST OF
Before one ventures into the new season, how about a review of the best of the stats from last season.
We’ve hand picked a few of our finest visuals from last season as a guide of this season.
Stay tuned for fresh updates from the 2021-22 Fantasy Premier League season.
CAPTAIN’S TABLE DATA
Goals and Assists v Opposition are compiled and compared to the best return per game for each player against this week’s opposition. The top return is awarded 30 points and points are reduced on a sliding scale from there.
FPL points per Minute is a measurement taking the overall FPL points scored by the minutes on the field. This is so injured players or mid season signings are disadvantaged. The top return is awarded 30 points and points are reduced on a sliding scale from there.
Key Stats per Game is our own in house combination of key FPL stats for each players, which is then compared to the top results and goes down on a sliding scale. The fields include Goals per Game, Shots per Game Assists per Game, Key Passesper Game, Shots On Target per Game, and Chances per Game.
FPL points per Million / Cost a temporary measure from last season until this season’s Current Form becomes available.
Match Rater – in addition to our Captain’s Table we have also devised our own Premier League Fixture Difficulty which we have included for a max 10 points. Because we think that game itself should be rated as well.
Multiplier – as per our Goal Scoring Trends Analysis, some players thrive against certain types of opposition and not. So we have added multipliers to the overall score based on each player’s record last season against top or bottom six, big clubs, small clubs, and home or away. Not the show, but locations of where the players score more.
Total all the scores are combined for an overall total.
