Here’s the shortest of fantasy premier league GW21 captain choice articles as time is not my friend today. Here we look at a number of ways of assessing the best captain pick for the gameweek. We look at the fixtures, the bookies odds, the FPL advice site polls, the FFGeek contributor picks and the FFGeek choice.
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE GW21 CAPTAIN CHOICE
It is the shortest of posts this week as I’m rapidly running out of time. No analysis of favoured options or summary this week unfortunately
FIXTURES
Here’s the fixtures for GW21.
The bookies see 4 teams as favourites with the following win odds for £1 invested. It’s likely the fantasy premier league GW21 captain choice will come from one of those teams.
Chelsea £1.17– Hazard, Morata
Man City – £1.25 Aguero, Jesus, De Bruyne, Sterling
Man Utd – £1.36 Lukaku
Liverpool – Salah, Coutinho, Firmino, Mane
THE BOOKIES ODDS
Here we look at one of the bookies anytime goal scoring odds. I’ve tried to only put players in who have some gametime security although that doesn’t apply for Man City. It’s the return for £1 invested. Odds are as of Saturday Mid day and remember they assume the player starts and don’t count assist potential.
£1.53 – Morata
£1.60 – Aguero
£1.67 – Salah, Hazard
£1.70 – Jesus
£1.80 – Firmino
£1.85 – Lukaku, Sterling
£1.95 – Coutinho
£2.05 – Lacazette, Sanchez
THE FPL ADVICE SITE POLLS.
Thanks to everybody who voted in the FFGeek poll.
It’s also worth noting here that the FFGeek poll asks who you are going to appoint as captain to reflect the reality of the spread of captain choices. Others ask who is the best captain. Others just say captain poll and leave the question up to you.
Firstly here’s the FFGeek poll.
Here’s the summary of the other main advice polls. It’s worth noting that site 1 is the site with the most traffic and it asks who is the best captain. Site 2 asks who is the best captain. Site 3 doesn’t have a question
WHO ARE THE FFGEEK CONTRIBUTORS PICKING?
Blanks are where I haven’t had a team this week.
Contributor | Capt Pick |
Rob Reid | Salah |
Alex Ball | Salah |
FPL Word | Salah |
Mikael | Morata |
Cesspool | Morata |
Joe | Salah |
Daren | Lukaku |
Aashiket | Salah |
Keith | Hazard |
Neil | Morata |
Geek | Salah |
You can see their teams in the contributor teams articles part 1 and contributor teams part 2
THE FFGEEK CHOICE
Since I’ve had 2 Chelsea players I’ve generally stayed away from their assets as captain choice just because I believe I’ve enough exposure without adding the captaincy to it.
Saying all that Morata should be the most likely to start given his recent suspension. You can’t really say with 100% certainty Salah will start or Hazard.
Salah has been in the form of his life as have Liverpool recently. While Morata’s and Chelsea has been steady but less spectacular.
Defence though favours Morata and Hazard with Stoke hampered by injury and Zouma ineligibility. They have also been fairly questionable recently and are in the bottom 2 or 3 for away defensive stats even before the absences.
Leicester haven’t been exactly fantastic defensively away from home but are more bottom middle than bottom fishing like Stoke.
Salah is a shield ranking choice as I imagine he will be the highest picked captain and has the highest ownership.
Morata and Hazard are great swords if you are willing to take the ranking risk with Salah.
I did a fairly comprehensive stat analysis in this article on Morata vs Hazard if you’re thinking that way although it was based on who to sell but still has everything you need to make an assessment.
I will be staying with Salah
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