Here’s a our fantasy premier league captain pick GW23 article. We look at the fixtures, the bookies odds, the FFGeek captain poll, the contributors picks and stats to seek out the best captain choice. There’s also the results of the transfer polls.
fantasy premier league captain pick GW23 – plus transfer poll results
The fixtures
Bookies team to win odds
Man City v C Palace £1.08 – Aguero, De Bruyne and Sterling
Liverpool v Man Utd £1.35 – Salah, Mane, Firmino
Newcastle v Chelsea £1.52 – Abraham
The bookies player odds
These are anytime goalscorer odds for £1 invested up to £2.40. They assume the player starts and ignores assist potential.
£1.40 – Aguero
£1.60 – Jesus
£1.70 – Abraham
£1.75 – Sterling
£1.80 – Vardy
£1.85 – Pukki
£1.91 – Maupay, Ings
£2.00 – Lacazette
£2.10 – Calvert-Lewin, Mane, Salah
£2.30 – Deeney
£2.37 – De Bruyne
The Captain Poll results
The FFGeek captain poll asks who will be your captain? Thanks for taking the time to vote
Other FPL polls
Here’s a selection of results from other polls:
Poll 1 is the highest traffic site and asks who is the best captain
There are 2 twitter polls which ask who your captain will be. Only 1 this week though
The last 1 is a low volume site poll where there is no question.
n/a means that player isn’t in the poll
The FFGeek contributor captain picks
Here’s the picks from the 13 so far.
Stats comparison
Vardy Away vs De Bruyne Home
Gametime
With their being midweek games both in theory could be rotated but the risk is always higher attached to a Man City player than a Leicester player due to the European competitions ahead.
Attacking stats
Vardy’s away stats
De Bruyne home stats
Defence comparison
It’s worth noting that Burnley have lost at home 0-3 to Liverpool, 2-4 to Chelsea and 1-4 to Man City.
Palace have lost away 0-4 to Spurs , 0-2 to Chelsea and drew 2-2 with Arsenal.
Summary
Gametime is hard to predict especially with Man City but I would be surprised if either didn’t start
The bookies for anytime goalscorer have for the main options as Aguero £1.40, Jesus £1.60, Abraham £1.70. Sterling £1.75 and Vardy at £1.80. De Bruyne is at £2.37.
The FFGeek poll asking who are you captaining favours De Bruyne at 40% and Vardy at 30%. The other polls are similar
Of the 13 FFGeek contributors the vote is tight with 38% for De Bruyne and 31% for Vardy.
On the stats side.
On the stats side you would say that Vardy has the advantage except in volume although Vardy is a goalscorer and De Bruyne an assister
Vardy has penalty duties. De Bruyne will have a decent share of set piece duties.
The defences have a reverse disparity between xG and goals conceded which maybe about how good Guaita has been and how poor Pope has been, Burnleys record at home against good attacking sides is terrible whereas Palace’s away isn’t nearly as bad.
The FFGeek view
Another difficult one. If I look at the stats I would probably edge towards Vardy but instinctively De Bruyne at home seems the better bet. If I had Aguero he would probably be my pick and just hope he starts. I will decide in my team article later tonight.
Good luck whoever you choose.
The Transfer Polls
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