So Cristiano Ronaldo was great after all, and with a firing Romelu Lukaku, there’s more need than ever for who to wear the armband for your Fantasy Premier League team, so our Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks GW5 are here to help.
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.
Usually it boils down to Salah v Bruno but not many anymore. Throw in a Lukaku or Ronaldo, and there’s still Harry Kane to be woken up.
Along with the Captain’s Table is a load of key stats for your Fantasy team.
For now, help yourself to a seat at the antasy Premier League Captain Picks GW5 Captain’s Table.
Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks GW5 Captain’s Table
Here are the FPL Captain Picks GW5 results. A full explanation of the stats and calculations are provided at the end.
We show only the top ten, the entire data is determined by our selection of the top 30 or so potential captain choices.
Stats are based up to GW4 except for scoring records.
FPL Captain Picks GW5 Analysis
Cristiano Ronaldo answered some critics last weekend with a sensational return to the Premier League, and he sits at the top of our Captain’s Table. Some may argue it was only against Newcastle, who have the worst expected points so far this season, but he has a pretty handy record against West Ham too. Throw in another goal in Champions League midweek and there’s plenty of reasons to give him the C this weekend.
Wondering where Bruno Fernandes is? Well he’s down in 15th with a quietish period since blowing everyone away in GW1. A return of just one assist in four games v West Ham doesn’t help. Mason Greenwood and Paul Pogba feature in our top ten, but you aren’t going to take them over Ronaldo surely.
Liverpool have plenty of great options and a game they like. Liverpool have won eight straight v Crystal Palace. They won the last three by a combined 13-0. Woof. But who do you pick. Sadio Mane had many shots last weekend, and on a different day may have scored plenty. Mo Salah looks as mo-gnificent as ever and must always be a candidate for captain. Look at his numbers v Crystal Palace – this week’s best return. Mane’s are good too, with over a goal + assist per game. But you can’t rule out the flying TAA aka Trent Alexander-Arnold. He is up to third on our Captain’s Table which is a decent achievement for a defender. But Crystal Palace have been good defensively at times this season, and coming off a superb 3-0 win over Spurs.
Romelu Lukaku is a less popular choice, and some may be turned off by the headline fixture v Spurs. But seeing how they went against Crystal Palace last weekend, who is to say that Chelsea can’t put at least three goals on against them too.
Gabriel Jesus and Riyah Mahrez are good outside choices given their game is at home to Southampton. Man City (W11 D1) are undefeated in their last 12 games at home to Southampton and for the Saints – no team conceded more than Southampton’s 22 goals in six games away to big six clubs last season. The only worry then is Pep.
Jamie Vardy also sneaks into the top ten, but Leicester are last for shots this season, and Brighton keep things pretty tight.
TOP TEN CAPTAIN PICKS STATS
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 GW4 Final Say
HELLO – Mo Salah – we hurt ourselves by taking Mo over Ronaldo last weekend, but look at that record v Crystal Palace. Hopefully he has those penalty misses out of his system.
CALL ME MAYBE – Romelu Lukaku – look past the fixture and into his form and stats. You might have him as captain with very few others.
GOODBYE – Harry Kane still building back into form we presume after a long off season, but hard to Spurs beating and can they score against Chelsea?
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Our Premier League Predictions for Week 5
FPL Captain Picks GW5 – Other Stats
2021-22 SEASON STATS SO FAR
Before one ventures into the new gameweek, how about a review of who is doing the best at the moment across a wide range of key stats.
We’ve hand picked the best of them from last weekend’s action.
CHANCES CREATED
TOUCHES
SHOTS
KEY PASSES
EXPECTED GOALS
2021-22 FPL Bonus Points
We do run through the Bonus Points for the 2021-22 season in greater detail here.
But here’s the total Bonus Points awarded so far.
CAPTAIN’S TABLE DATA EXPLAINED
If you’re after an explanation on the Captain’s Table data help yourself to the below.
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 20 points and points are reduced on a sliding scale from there.
Form taken straight from the Official FPL website. 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 20 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. Top Player get a maximum of 10 points and awarded on a sliding scale from there.
Bonus Points we tally up the Bonus Points throughout the 2021-22 season. Top Player get a maximum of 10 points and awarded on a sliding scale from there.
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 – we have taken each player’s record against big six clubs and Home/Away goalscoring trends and applied a multiplier based on positive or negative trend.
Total all the scores are combined for an overall total. Maximum is 100.
